if you're curious and would like to know what a keto diet is so you look it up on the internet
even the most positive looking article uses language that is clearly intended to scare people
away from the diet for example a ketogenic diet involves drastically cutting the carbohydrates
from your diet now when you're on a standard diet that seems really scary because if you're
figuring this out yet carbohydrates are vegetables carbohydrates are grains carbohydrates are the
bulk of what most people eat on a standard diet and even though most articles will acknowledge
that on a keto diet you will lose a good amount of weight they go out of their way to make it sound
like it's dangerous to lose that weight and that it's impossible to do a ketogenic diet forever
which of course brings up this sense of failure reminding us of the times we've tried to lose
weight and then regained it and lost weight and like that yo-yo dieting thing we've done in the
past but can I point out that when I found keto my weight was on top of mind as a matter of fact
when they were talking about all the negatives that you could possibly get from doing a keto
diet I couldn't have cared less because I had a hip pain that was actually stopping me from
being able to walk so the only thing I wanted to know was will this diet take my carbohydrates
down low enough to stop the inflammation that I was being told was happening in my right hip
seemed like it would I was on board when you're desperate you'll do anything to solve
your problem in this particular case I happen to stumble on something that not only worked
was healthy but because I stumbled on it it was like a keto internship I was learning
everything on the go as I was eating figuring out what's good to eat what's not good to eat
what should I continue what should I stop it was a continual exercise in putting things in
an app looking at the numbers and figuring it out and learning it as I lived it resulted in
no more hip pain and 70 pounds lost it was really like finding a treasure that was hidden in plain
sight right everybody was walking around it and I'm the one that picked it up because I got
to eat meats that I love and I was eating them anyway alongside low carb vegetables that's it
I didn't believe that it could really be that easy to lose weight and feel great and yet that's what
I was living well actually I wasn't the only one that didn't believe it so many people asked me
Violet what are you doing to lose the weight of violet how did you lose so much weight so quickly
I saw you three months ago and now I'm saying what the heck is going on Violet what are you doing and
when I told them what I was doing I fully expected to get the response wow that's amazing I'm gonna
do the same thing but instead what I typically got was you got to eat vegetables it's not healthy to
not eat vegetables you're going to get sick you should be eating your vegetables apparently you
can't just throw away a whole food group and think you're going to be healthy that isn't a thing
now part of my frustration confusion was that I actually took the time to clearly state that I was
eating healthy meat with low carb vegetables and then I would go on to name I eat cabbage broccoli
cauliflower kale all the "leafies" and I eat a lot of salad and I eat avocado and olives can I point
out that I was actually kind of proud of myself because on the standard American diet that's not
what I was eating I was not getting anywhere near the amount of vegetables on the standard diet that
I was getting on this keto diet on the standard diet most of my vegetables well actually all of
my vegetables was potatoes which normally I had as French fries and carrots which I had very rarely
because I don't like them and I was eating them because I should be eating something other than
potatoes what's troubling is that some of the people who are telling me that you can't just
cut a whole food group out of your diet watched me eating hardly any veg knew that I didn't eat
any fruit and still were saying that what I was doing with this increased number of vegetables I
was eating couldn't possibly be healthy and here's the big butt somehow it's okay to be vegetarian or
to be vegan and to absolutely eliminate meat from your diet and if you're vegan all animal products
somehow that's healthy no fish no eggs that's healthy why isn't veganism met with the same
rejection about the eliminating a whole food group idea that keto is even though on keto you haven't
eliminated a food group let's let that one sink in for a moment you tell your doctor that's your
vegetarian problem you tell your doctor that's your keto or heaven forbid actually carnivore
you are a heart attack waiting to happen why is that I have a video about my experience with my
doctor that you can watch right there Wellness Warrior don't let someone else's fear about
letting go of fruits and vegetables stop you from doing what's healthier for you in fact 20 grams of
carb from Veg if you choose the right vegetables is quite a bit of veg my meals were not small