Keto Friendly Month
Back in April one of my main intentions was to eat more keto friendly. I say “friendly” because on the weekends if I wanted crispy tacos with rice from Chipotle or a gluten free pizza every other week I was going to eat it, but during the week I really did watch my carb and sugar intake.
The first week and a half was absolutely TERRIBLE. I had a building migraine that would start when I’d wake up every morning and I’d be at the point of tears come the end of the day. I hear that the “keto flu” can be a thing and I think it got me. On day 4 I was so miserable my boss (who’s AMAZING) let me go home on the spot, so I could rest and recover. I slept probably 3 hours, then woke up and went back to bed for the night 3 hours later and slept for 12.
Starting in the middle of week 2 I started to feel much better, but I honestly feel it was solely because I didn’t have a headache anymore, but my energy levels weren’t super high or anything. I did find that I wasn’t near as hungry as I know I could be an I wasn’t eating much for dinner at all, so about halfway through I asked Michael if we could plan to not cook anything for week 3 and see how it’d go and I was more snacky come dinner time and would either eat something like bacon and eggs or a phat bomb or two, but a full blown dinner would have gone to waste because I just wasn’t hungry in the evenings. One thing about me is that before keto I’d come home HANGRY for anything sugar every single day, so the fact that I my blood sugar was still fine made me really happy. I started sleeping better, any acid reflux I had before went away, I wasn’t bloated or gassy and my mood was super stable vs up and down depending on what’d I’d eat like in the past and the very last week was probably my best week because I’d wake up every morning ready to go and I’d have energy all day long and instead of feeling up or down or left or right I just felt in the middle and calm all day long which for me is great because pre-keto I felt easily scattered.
I’ll go ahead and share my breakfast, lunch and dinner just in case anyone is wondering who reads this.
For breakfast I’d have my typical BP coffee and fab4 smoothie.
Recipe #1:
Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee
1 tsp MCT oil
1 tbsp ghee
1 scoop collagen peptides
2 tsp monkfruit
2 tsp maple syrup (I found one that is sweetened with monkfruit)
sprinkle of cinnamon or pumpkin spice
Recipe #2:
1.5 cups almond milk
1 tbsp almond butter
1/4 frozen berries
1/2 cup frozen zucchini
1 scoop vegan vanilla protein powder
2 cups spinach
Michael made some strawberry cheesecake and chocolate chip cookie dough phat bombs one week. They were amazingggggg and both keto friendly.
I also made some phat fudge and homemade cool whip. NOM.
This sweet potato bread isn’t keto, but is made with real foods, minimal sugar and is DELICIOUS. I got it off @shutthekaleup IG page. Go follow her. She’s amazing.
For lunch there was one week where I made some roasted veggies, cauliflower rice and 2 scrambled eggs and then about halfway through the month I really wasn’t feeling cooked foods I’d have to warm up and then eat 3 day old mush, so I decided to try out some deli meat, cheese bars, bone broth, an avocado, hard boiled eggs and phat bombs and I’d eat part of it for lunch and the other part on my last break at work a few hours later and this REALLY worked for me.
For dinner we tried out a few different recipes that were either a hit or miss, but a few that stuck were lettuce boat tacos, chicken salad, there were maybe 2 nights that entire month I had a gluten free pizza, a few Friday’s we would go to Chipotle, and bacon and eggs were really a thing for dinner too.
Once or twice a week I’d do intermittent fasting and I’d have my BP coffee around 5:30 a.m., a keto packet around 7:30 a.m. and then I’d drink my smoothie around 11 or 12 and the only other thing I’d eat all day was maybe a phat bomb or 2 if I needed a little something around 3 p.m. and I’d always have bone broth on hand and I’d drink that either around 10 a.m. or 2 p.m. and outside of that I’d drink about a gallon of water and I honestly the BEST on days where I ate this way and when I’d get home I was still fine and wouldn’t go and binge because you’d thing I’d be starving after not really eating all day, but I felt the most stable and calm on these days and going forward I’ll continue having a day or 2 like this during the week. It really gives your digestive system a break too, so instead of using all your energy to digest what you’d be eating you get to keep it and use it.
This picture is from 4/2/18 as I was starting keto and Morgan Tyler’s ab'asanas e-book.
And this picture is from 5/2/18!! SUPER PROUD MOMENT. Keto and ab'asanas kicked my ASS, but I also think I kicked it’s ass too, lmao.
All in all I’m glad I tried out keto and going forward I will still remain low carb and low sugar as much as I can. I feel like it helps make me a better human not being pumped with sugar 24/7. Our bodies don’t need it, it really is all in the mind.
I didn’t weigh myself pre any of this, but we did buy a scale towards the end of the month and last summer would have been the last time I weighed myself and I remember being between 145-150lbs and when I stepped on the scale I was 138lbs, so in the last year I’ve lost around 10lbs without trying to. I’ve just slowly and consciously changed my way of eating and it’s all paid off.
I’m excited to see how I’ll look and feel as time goes on because I do have hearts desire to have super visible abs and I feel I’m well on my way there to achieve it. Some may think it’s great, some may thing I’m vain, but I don’t really care either way. HA.
That’s all I have for now.
Until next time. :)
- Sarah xo
