all right let's get this thing rolling hi my name's chip brewster you can call me chip and i
am going to attempt 60 days on the ketogenic diet before we get to the diet though i want you to get
to know me and some of the preparations i've taken so a little about me first i consider myself a
regular everyday guy i'm not really a fitness buff i honestly haven't worked out since march haven't
been to a gym since march in fact in october my full-time job turned a bit sedentary so not only
have i not been working out i haven't really been moving at all i ate fairly healthy but it's not
like i track what i eat you know we we buy fairly healthy and then i just pick and go from there i
will say this though we have a 16 month old and as of late i have been finishing pretty much every
single one for meals whether i was really hungry or not i just i hate wasting food and i'm pretty
sure that that in addition to the sedentary in addition to the stop working out has led to the
weight gain that i've experienced over the last few months i am at the heaviest i've ever been
and i i know what you're saying like well you're not that heavy and you're right but it's still
not something that i'm particularly happy about my biggest problem is that i can't self motivate
to to work out i was doing crossfit before covet came in and i was paying that to do that because
that was motivating me the the community the people the workouts i could make it happen i've
got gear at home i've got a wife who works out but i just cannot get my lazy butt off the couch
to break a sweat so if i can't get myself to move i wanted to try something in the eating department
and i have lots of friends and i've heard lots of stories who have done the ketogenic or keto
diet and so i figured why not let's give it a try so what is keto for those not familiar
with the diet a brief overview ketogenic diet is about getting your body into a metabolic state of
ketosis where instead of using glucose which is a sugar that your body creates from carbohydrates
instead you use ketones which your liver creates from accessing the fat stores in your body so
essentially it is a diet that turns your energy burning system from carbs to fat the whole premise
is low carb and there are a lot of low carb diets out there i'm sure you've heard of us some of them
the south beach diet the atkins diet eating paleo tends to be low carb the difference though between
a keto and one of those is this is the most restrictive carbohydrate diet it has a daily
calorie intake breakdown five percent comes from carbohydrates 25 from protein 70 of your calories
from fat so yeah fat is the focus of this thing for those that will be following along at home
are maybe interested in this diet the key here of course is the carbs and you count your carbs
you do something called net carbs where you take total carbohydrates and subtract fiber and certain
sugar alcohols because they aren't processed the same way as the other carbs and that's what gets
your body into that state of ketosis the real tricky part about this diet as if counting carbs
to that degree wasn't enough is it takes like four to five days to have your body actually get
into that state and if you eat too many carbs you leave that state so not only do i have to
be carb restricted for at least five days to get there i then have to maintain that i cannot break
that otherwise it's another five days of this just to get into this ketosis state so why keto versus
some of the other diets out there just watching what i eat honestly it's mostly just curiosity
i've heard about this diet as i mentioned i have friends and army buddies who have done it and
praise it family members who have done it and we with the covid thing and working at home have
really put ourselves into this situation where we can experiment like this all the food we're eating
is at home we're not going out to eat so it's a much easier thing to control exactly what i am
consuming because the only options i have are the ones that i am allowing myself to have so between
the lack of fitness the current environment that i'm living in and the whole goal of slimming down
the fatty midsection a little bit keto just seemed like the right move i'm not going to get into
research on the diet because that's not what this is all about and i am not a scientist like i said
i really feel like i'm an everyday guy but there is plenty out there for those that are curious
it's called google and you type in k-e-t-o and stuff is gonna pop up that said real quick some
pros and cons that i had read about prose it's a focused fat loss system it forces you to pay close
attention to what you eat you learn about what is in food so if you've never done a diet before
you're just getting an education out of trying to do this one and though restricted calories does
lead to weight loss fat and protein make you feel fuller longer and thus you may not even have to
count calories only the carbs some of the cons on the other hand there's this thing called the keto
flu it is what happens to you when your body goes through the transition from using glucose
for energy to ketones some of the side effects i've read about fuzzy brain headache fatigue
dizziness irritability most of which can be attributed to losing excess fluid i guess a
high carb diet causes us to retain water and so it's essentially becoming dehydrated and lacking
salts and minerals i also don't think that this is a long-term sustainable diet there are people
out there that will argue with me but just me personally i do look forward to eating carbs again
in about 60 days supposedly there may be some constipation as well i guess i'll find out when
i get there but i guess a lot of fiber is found in those carb heavy foods and so a decrease in fiber
may lead to constipation honestly i read the exact opposite somewhere else so
uh i'll keep you informed without too much detail i promise and then the possibility of a nutrient
deficiency when you limit your choices and you cut out fruits and a good number of vegetables
you just don't have as much opportunity to get the things that your body needs now this is my
day 0 prepping for the keto diet video so i want to talk through some of the things that i've done
getting ready to switch to this little to no carb diet first and foremost we went grocery shopping
and we got a ton of stuff the different snacks a lot of meats some of the things we'd even read
about like this keto ice cream and anything left in the house got put into the garage along those
lines i made a couple of printouts put them up on the fridge just some quick and easy references as
to the things i should focus on when i'm eating also downloaded an app that i've read about a
whole bunch and when i made a facebook live about going keto this app got brought up a whole ton too
and just from perusing through and doing a couple of test entries i feel like this thing is going
to save me if my whole goal is counting carbs this little baby's doing it for me and then i
also made a spreadsheet because i am doing a daily video and it's really a big experiment for myself
i wanted to track as much data as i could so i'm going to update this thing every day you're going
to see that as a part of the videos and then we'll get this cool little synopsis at the end of how it
all went down speaking of those daily videos let me give you a little run down what you can expect
first we begin with those body measurements i've got a scale that claims to tell me my body fat
percentage my water percentage my muscle weight and of course my overall weight i don't know how
scientifically accurate the thing is but i do know it's measuring something and so we're gonna find
out if those somethings are decreasing increasing not changing what have you as this diet goes along
i'll also be giving you video and breakdown of every single thing that i eat i'm talking
about the macros in the meals and the snacks the calories even the cost that i'm tracking
and then on top of all of that how i'm feeling each day a little morning feel a little recap of
the evening and then once a week a weekly synopsis on top of the daily videos i'm going to be doing
some extra measurements and photos if all goes to plan i'm gonna have some really cool stuff to show
you at the very end of all this and i'm hoping it involves a skinnier chip couple of final things
for you to end this preparation video i want everyone to know that nothing is sponsored in this
video series i'm making these really for myself not only to document the journey but also because
i love video production it has been my career for the last decade and so this is fun for me so when
you see things mentioned like the carb manager app or me eating certain types of foods or products
those are my genuine choices there are links in the descriptions of videos that go to like an
amazon affiliate store that if you click through and buy something i'll get a little financial
benefit but i'm not here to push those i'm just including them because if this video takes off and
i can make ten dollars i'll take the ten dollars and finally i am on other social media platforms
so if you look for chip brewster on facebook or instagram you'll find me there and then of course
the typical youtube pitch like comment subscribe share all that stuff it's whatever youtuber i've
ever seen says at the end of their video and who knows maybe this video series will do more
than just entertain me for a little bit maybe it'll give someone some genuine information that
they've been looking for i wish this regular guy some luck let's get this diet started