The journey began 4 weeks ago at 272 and today standing tall at 252 while eating keto pizza, bacon, sausage, butter and other fatty goodness. Diabetic blood sugars have been under control for the first time in years. Keto has been a savings grace!

Insulin Level Check

Woke up to normal routine, lemon water with pink himalayan and bulletproof coffee and checked my blood sugars and they were normal at 102. Bulletproof coffee nor nothing else spiked my insulin levels. I’ve been maintaining normal insulin levels even after my first meal.

Planning on doing another egg fast today, why? I don’t know really, maybe I just like eggs. Will only be consuming eggs and cheese for the next 3 to 5 days (gonna see if I can push 5 days this time) and I’ll keep y'all notified on results, I’m pretty curious myself. Today gonna go do some walking, hit the mall up and check out some clothes as well as stop at aldi for some cheese.

New Schedule Fast

Going to be doing a 48 hour fast every other day, so skipping today then will be eating Friday at noon and then skip Saturday and eat Sunday and so forth. Thinking I will work on this for a month and see how it goes. Just tested my blood sugar and it was at 106.

Won’t you be starving? Nope, I’m very well fat adapted and stay satiated with water, coffee and tea.

Today’s weigh in is at 242, 30 pounds lost since I started keto on October 20th 2018. I also went from a size 42 to a size 38 and now having to wear a belt because the 38’s are getting loose..

Starting The Keto Lifestyle

This is the way I did it.

I heard that the keto lifestyle was a great way to reverse diabetes and even cure it. The key to this is CONTINUED LIFESTYLE because if you do reverse your type two diabetes on a keto way of eating but then go back to the standard American diet you will have your diabetes back in no time, keto is a lifestyle, no quick fix or short term diet, sugar is bad, carbs are bad unless they come from whole foods vegetable.

Sugar and Carbs bye bye bye

First thing I did was box up my kitchen with all things not keto or that would be harmful to me, I learned more along the way. Grains and Oats were tossed, bread was tossed, all oils like vegetable oils, canola oils were tossed/thrown away.

I went shopping and bought whole natural foods with no carbs or sugar, sugar free bacon, chicken thighs with the skin, pork sausage, pork chops, cheese, eggs, 80/20 burger meat along with asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, kale, veggies low in carbs. I stayed away from fruits which are high in sugar like bananas, apples etc and just didn’t buy any. I bought a daily vitamin without MALTIDEXTRIN in it along with a magnesium supplement and fish oil supplement and also bought fenugreek for the fiber content.

Keto flu/avoid it.

In the beginning I got what is called the keto flu, all I needed was to stay hydrated and electrolytes.

Food

So, my normal morning meals were gone, no cereals, no oatmeal but now eggs with bacon or eggs with sausage. I began making eggs with spinach.

Lunch would be a burger without the bun/bread or ketchup because it has sugar. Ide throw some cheese or bacon on it and wrap it in lettuce.

Dinner would be chicken thigh with the skin along with some asparagus, a small salad with Bragg’s apple cider vinegar.

I downloaded the carb manager app and would begin tracking my macros, it serves as a guideline of what my needs were for the day.

I began learning that while insulin is raised (it raises when you eat and can take a few hours to go down) you don’t lose weight so I didn’t snack between meals.

I started with an A1C of 6.5 (type 2 diabetes) and after a month on keto it went down to a 6.2 (pre Diabetic ratio).

I began switching things up, I began having a bulletproof coffee for breakfast rather than eating a meal and just dinner and lunch until I just began eating only lunch.

I began learning about good and bad sugar alcohols, good sweeteners and bad. I began avoiding maltidextrin and maltitol as I began seeing it raise insulin, a lot of stevia mixes contain maltidextrin or even dextrose so I stay away from Splenda. Good sweeteners I’ve found were monk fruit, swerve, Truvia.

I track total carbs daily unless they come from vegetables, my usual total carbs daily is 10 or 15 with no sugar consumption.

I don’t cheat on keto or myself, I don’t snack and only eat 100% whole foods.

There are a few times a week that I will do a 36 hour liquid fast which will be tea, coffee, water.