I did a 69 hour liquid fast and came off entering a three day egg fast and get back to my normal intermittent fasting schedule today which I fast for 23 hours with a one our eating window (lunch). I’m very well fat adapted which means I really only eat when hungry which is easy to keep a one meal a day (OMAD) schedule. Once I get closer to my goals I will most likely go to 2 or maybe even three meals a day, just going to see. Morning starts off with water with pink himalayan salt, bulletproof coffee, vitamins and then my meal (OMAD) and then throughout the rest of the day water. Blood sugars have been steady, Dr approved.

All For One

I saw my Dr yesterday and told him about my new keto journey and shared my results with him and he said he’s on board with it. No medication changes yet (metformin 1000mg a day) but did say that once my blood sugars start dipping low 60s/70s to notify him and he would change something’s. I hit 249 today! So long 250s!

48ish hour fast

I thought I would do a 48 hour fast which would end today at noon but thinking I may stretch it to a 72 hour fast. I’m doing it for health reasons and a body reset. I’ll slip in to a 3 day egg fast at the end of this fast so it gives my body a chance to get acquainted with food again. I’ll see my Dr tomorrow and break my new keto lifestyle with him. I’m down 20 pounds since the beginning of this keto journey that started on October 20th, 2018. I feel great, alert and motivated with no hunger pains at the moment which is awesome.

first Stove Top Keto Calzone

13 net carbs

1 & ½ cup of cups mozzarella cheeses (shredded)

½ cup of Rao’s Marinara Sauce

Pepperoni slices

Sliced onions

½ tea spoon garlic powder

½ tea spoon of Italian seasoning

I added ricotta cheese to mine, you can do without it.

Warm up the pepperoni, onions or other toppings first and then sit aside. Add your 1 & ½ cup cheese to pan ( add the seasonings) and wait till the rounded edges of the cheese begin to golden and then add in the pepperoni, onions or other toppings and can add some sauce or have it on the side and then flip one side over and plate it and enjoy.

Took a walk around the mall today, I’m not that much in to crowds and it was pretty busy so left early.

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!

Blood Sugar Pizza

Blood sugar before keto pizza was 98 and one hour later with just a slight spike of 114 its in not normal range.

first homemade keto flat bread pepperoni, onion and cheese pizza. Delicious and very filling!

4 net carbs per slice

Crust ingredients:

3 cups of mozzarella shredded

1.5 cups of almond flour

4 tablespoons of cream cheese

Two eggs

Took a walk around the mall tonight and returned fallout, wasn’t feeling it. Feeling good today. Planning on making keto pizza tomorrow, we’ll see.

Blood sugar check

So before lunch my blood sugar was 102 and after three eggs, one ounce of cheese, coffee and water with pink himalayan salt my blood sugar was 99, perfect.

Just some good cheeses you can get at Also, they have a lot more!

Walked the mall and because I’m fallout geek I picked up their new release while I was there. Brrr, chilly outside. Now it’s on to Adli to get cheese and then lunch.

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.

Picked this up at the library yesterday, digging into it today, so far a very good read.

Before my almighty bulletproof coffee every morning

There’s strict keto, lazy keto and dirty keto and they all do work of course but there’s a healthier approach to keto, a clean natural way. I don’t touch keto products such as slim fast keto or Atkins products because they all have an insane amount of carbs (I only track total carbs) but even if you track net carbs they also contain soy which is highly gmo and or bad sugar alcohols like maltitol. That’s not keto “to me” but it does work out for others, I only prefer whole natural foods and besides I don’t snack. I can be super anal about ingredients but it’s just my own lifestyle, it works for me. Many forms of keto work, choose what’s best for you.

Been reading this, I highly recommend it

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..

Well Poop

I went from carbs and sugar to a high fat, low carb and moderate protein lifestyle and my body was like wait what the hell!?!?

The first few days on keto my bowel movements were gassy and runny but then it turn into help I’m friggin constipated!!!

What I’ve learned.

The switch from the standard American diet to keto can cause gassy and diarrhea because of the new fats but that eventually goes away.

Constipation

On the standard American diet your body runs on a dirty fuel system of carbs and sugar so there will be a lot of waste, pooping everyday and even sometimes several times a day while on keto it’s a cleaner more efficient fuel system to where your body now begins using all the nutrients you put into your body, less waste to where you’ll think your constipated but you’re not, your just now more healthy.

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.

Getting There

I started keto on October 20, 2018 with the intent of reversing my type two diabetes and listed January as a goal month - I’m getting there! Yesterday I began cutting my diabetic medication in half of what I was taking (1000mg Metformin so now 500mg). I’m making some awesome improvements on my Keto lifestyle with only 7 weeks in, weight loss in check and diabetes drifting away.

Went to the mall again today and got some lab work done, going to jump on the stationary bike for awhile!

Keeping it in the back pocket…I took a stroll in the mall today and racked up a few miles, I’ve done this before but my phone didn’t track it cause it was in my front pocket, didn’t know until then that it’s best to track steps with it in your back pocket.

I usually wake up around 6 am and stay hydrated until noon/eat and be done by 12:30 and asleep by 10:30 and repeat the following days. I started off with three meals a day and then two and now one. This image is basic intermittent fasting simplified.

Got a new air fryer today! Adli’s had these marked down from $50 to $25 so it was a steal! First thing made in it was hot wings with the slap ya mama spice, they were kicking!

Pre Diabetic

I started keto October 20th 2018 as a diabetic with an A1C of 6.5 and have had labs done last week and learned that my A1C went down to a 6.2. My lab paper work came in today and it says that with all my lab results including cholesterol is perfect and am now listed as pre diabetic, OMG I’m literally on top of the moon - Keto has been saving my life!!!! My next labs will be done in March, I’m sooooo looking forward to those results then. I learned about Keto a few years ago but did nothing, I wish I did but am now living the bacon and butter dream!

Took a stroll at the mall today, going to be doing a two day liquid fast and looking forward to Friday to where I plan to make keto cauliflower Mac and cheese for the first time!

Went for a walk at the mall, it wasn’t busy at first but then began picking up.

Fantastic Flipping News

When I started this Keto lifestyle on October 20th, 2018 my A1C was 6.5 and now with little over a month into it it I just got a call from my nurse telling me my A1C is now 6.2!!!!! My next labs will be in 4 months to where I believe I will be Diabetes free!!!!!

Last night’s dinner, keto turkey meatloaf with cauliflower mashed with cheese and bacon!