we see people on YouTube who are not experts talking about health and keto myself included we
get excited about the idea that a regular person like you and me can transform their body and get
their health back i want to talk about how to safely gather information that will help you
improve your health and how to avoid information that's going to send you down that rabbit hole
where you're doing things that are honestly against your health and stopping you from
living the life that you really want to live on my journey i've watched many people who
gave bad information incorrect information sometimes even terrible information about keto
talking about adding fat to everything wrap bacon around everything just just really bad information
i've watched educational videos about how to do keto that talked about the benefits
and the issues with the keto diet and of course multiple people giving multiple opinions and ideas
about whether or not we should even be doing the keto diet some of them i watched for months at the
start of my journey knowing that the information was just frankly garbage and a lot of people would
ask why why did you watch those videos and it's because we can learn from the mistakes of others
it helped me to see someone making excuses it helped me to see someone making replacement foods
and struggling with their family um events and and family members not being on board with what
they're doing and other issues that i hadn't lived yet but that could be coming my way if i continued
on this path this is something called vicarious learning and our children do it all the time
right if i watch my big brother or my little sister do something that my
parents don't like or or something that my parents do like it helps me to understand what kind of
behavior i should do if i want to be in favor with my parents so this is not new and i think
it was something that was really beneficial for me to do because on my journey i watched many
people who ate keto processed foods and keto friendly desserts and snacks and i saw them
lose weight so guess what happened on my journey i started making those keto friendly desserts
and one thing that it did do is it helped me to get over the hump of not eating chips and cookies
and ice cream and all that stuff however it also introduced me to this world of keto junk food
that still wasn't helping me right so i had to learn the hard way that letting any kind of junk
food into my life is still letting junk food into my life and it will have a repercussion on
how my health is going the more you educate yourself the longer you work
on your health and the more results you're gonna live because you're working on yourself and you're
you're working on your health the better your understanding of what works and what causes issues
is going to be the reason that you are doing this keto diet or whatever diet you're doing
matters because it's going to determine the kind of actions that you're taking right so the reason
for my behavior determines the actions that i take keto is so simple eat 20 grams of carbs or less
every day healthy protein healthy fat the right amount of protein for your body for your goal
weight and your health and your weight will improve and depending on what channel i watched
i saw people with different goals and therefore i saw people with very different ways of eating keto
one of the first channels that i found was a lady that had
like significant weight to lose but seemed to be very focused on finding keto replacement
for all the fun things that she used to eat and especially was focused on keto replacement
like candies like so so sugar-free candies and she did a lot of reviews about those foods and even
received like products for free for her efforts and i did find it interesting
to see that there at the very beginning that there was a way that you could make
so you start learning about uh what do you call the thing sugar replacements right because if you
put artificial sweeteners in things or even natural but different sweeteners and things
you can get away with not having that spike of um blood sugar right but what i kind of
realize is that the focus on keeping the fun foods in her life as i watched along with her journey
led to her no longer doing keto and saying how unsustainable it was and say
and it was interesting to me because it was unsustainable because you were trying to keep
all these fun foods in your life with just meant that you over eat over ate those fun foods which
is what was happening and so he said uncertain another channel that i watched for a long time
was a bodybuilder and doing keto bodybuilding and what i found interesting in this person's channel
was that there was again this focus on processed foods so protein powders and meal replacement
shakes and bars and things and mct oils and pills and just this focus on how to enhance
their physically fitness so and can i just point out the person looked amazing but they were still
trying to even more enhance this amazing physique and i noticed that no matter what
was happening he was constantly looking for the next best thing which meant that occasionally
he wasn't doing keto because he was trying some other bulking method
to try to get better gains and through watching this channel it helped me to really investigate
the idea that what i'm doing is about so is it the question is it about doing what's biologically
best for my body or chemically creating the story where i look my best am i willing to eat processed
foods to try to trick my body into a state that isn't natural something that we were doing when
we were trying to lose weight on a standard diet right we would drink the shakes and take the
meal replacements and we would starve ourselves we would do whatever it took
in this pursuit of weight loss and now i'm doing keto and am i willing to do that
what am i doing today being thin is not the be-all and end-all of life for me looking like
a supermodel isn't the thing that i'm trying to accomplish and what i've realized is most
importantly for me i want to have good flexibility i want to have good energy i want to be strong
i have good internal health and the mental clarity to think well and do the things
that i want to do in life and i think that if i have all of these things it's going to let me
live life the way that i feel like it so that i'll be able to do my sports and activities and try
new things i'm on YouTube talking about keto and encouraging you to take care of your mental health
take care of your physical health wellness warrior i'm also asking you to be a good student and a
good student asks questions and seeks answers that make sense at some point i had to ask if i really
believed that eating replacement cakes and cookies was actually helping me to focus on the health of
my body sure it got me through the hump between eating real carbage and then these replacement
foods but was it helping me to create the healthy body that i wanted i had to ask myself if the time
that i was investing in making these keto cookies keto donuts keto bread keto what are the things
i made keto cakes um replacement spaghetti and like all these things that i was making
i had to ask myself the time that i was putting in was worse the fact that once i made these treats
i had to restrain myself from eating them all because they did taste good or the fact that if
i did overeat them i was then upset with myself i was angry i was annoyed i was frustrated because
what's the difference if i overeat regular garbage or i overeat too many carbs in this stuff because
there's still carbs in those foods right almond flour has carbs and then i find out later that
almond flour also has oxalates and just things that i don't need in my body the truth was
i had seen with my own eyes that both of those keto advocates eventually stopped doing keto
because they allowed goals other than health to get in the way wellness worker what is
your goal how do you take a moment and really think about what you are trying to accomplish
do you want long-term health that is accompanied by weight loss or do you want a quick fix
loopholes and workarounds that means that you will struggle with your weight for the rest of your
life as tempting as it might be to have someone tell you that you can lose belly fat in your sleep
you know just drink this or eat that that you can lose fat 20 30 pounds with zero effort
the truth is just like happiness good health takes work good relationships
everything in in life that's worth having takes work you need to work out to be strong you need
to eat an appropriate diet to be healthy and if you want to be sure that you can eat correctly so
that you can make that decision reliably i want to suggest that you watch who controls when you eat
it's a video that i have is going to help you to really make these decisions the right way