Surrounding yourself with the colors, scents, textures, images and objects that make you happy and are beautiful to you will give you energy and will help lift your mood.  This in turn lowers your cortisol levels, and has actually has been shown to lower insulin (the fast storage hormone)! Read more....

I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying ‘if you fail to plan you plan to fail’… it may be a bit corny but it’s pretty accurate.  ‘Winging it’ and not being organized and prepared does more than sabotage our weight loss efforts. It can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!  Which is a double whammy because stress increases our cortisol levels, which increases our insulin. Insulin is the fat storage hormone and stops fat loss in its tracks! Read more... 

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about how I made my husband gain weight. My husband has always been super-supportive of my keto lifestyle, and eats whatever I cook for dinner. But pre-pandemic, he would have normal carby meals when he was out at work, because he didn’t really have to worry about his weight. So when I would load up our dinners with extra butter or coconut milk or whatever fat delivery method I chose for that particular meal, it was having a negative effect on him. You can’t do carbs and high fat without gaining weight!

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We all talk to ourselves (some of us do it out loud and that can cause some funny looks at the grocery store) but most of what we say to ourselves is internal.  If we are on our game, we may say ‘yes! I’m so proud of myself!’ or we may say ‘ya, you counted your macros today but you went over in calories.’  If we veered off our plan, it might be ‘why, why, why??? You always SAY you are going to do better but you always cheat!’

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Did you know that the brain is nearly 60% fat? When you look at it from that perspective, it’s not surprising that the ketogenic diet helps alleviate seizures for some people. Knowing that, I got to wondering how useful the ketogenic diet would be for brain health. Read more... 

Starting off any new year most people have the motivation of holiday bloat, a hangover or higher blood glucose to motivate them into declaring their New Year’s resolutions. Read more...

If you’ve done any kind of reading either on my blog or in my Facebook group, you know that I believe that keto is one of the keys to overall health. While keto is an incredible way to help your body lose weight, the benefits go far beyond weight loss. I want to take a look at using keto for auto-immune disorders.
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I have a little secret. I don’t like tracking my macros!  I absolutely know that tracking gives me much more success than not tracking; I know this logically.  Just because we know something, doesn’t mean we want to do it! Ha ha