So I wanted to chat about why I stopped doing Keto. A lot of you guys have been asking me to follow up with that, if you didn’t know, I did keto for about eight weeks, leading up to my wedding.
That decision was driven by trying to lose the last ten pounds before my wedding, I had a goal weight in mind and what I’ve been before a long time ago, and I’m just trying to get back to that. So I heard about keto, I heard all over the internet, everyone’s talking about it I saw all these youtubers doing it. I’m like oh, my gosh. This is obviously the answer. I’ll try it for myself. I got the carb manager app and I was 20 net carbs a day.
Let’s do this, 20 net carbs a day is no joke. I mean your key foods are bacon eggs, avocado, nuts, really high fat foods and, like 0-2, like very little carbs is what you’re eating all day. So I sustain that for about eight weeks before my wedding and I will say the positive parts about that.
First, I did hit my goal weight for that. I did lose the last bit that I was hoping to. I had an insane amount of mental clarity, which I didn’t actually hear a lot of people talking about, the clarity, the mental clarity part of it was actually kind of crazy, like I could think so clearly I was very in touch with my thoughts. It was actually really wild. That was probably one of the best parts about it. I just felt very focused, and I liked that a lot about it – and that I dropped all that weight that I really wanted.
I was like whoa this worked, but there were also some parts about keto for me that just didn’t feel very natural. I mean one being like having fruit would almost go against the keto diet. Just to give you guys some context and just as an example eating one banana in your day.
That would kick you out of ketosis, like it’s a dodge trick. I think that started to make me feel a little deprived in the sense I didn’t feel like I had a lot of freedom of choice, in terms of food. I’m sure a lot of people can argue there’s tons of recipes but I didn’t feel like the things I loved, the foods I really appreciate in life, really did not sit well with keto diet, so it was hard for me to not feel a little deprived.
I felt satiated, but I did also feel deprived in terms of choice going out to restaurants and things. Yes, you can make things keto, but it wasn’t like so. If I’m gonna go out to eat and it’s a treat, I don’t want to have the same foods that I have at home.
I got a little tired of it. That was a big factor. Another one was the amount of hair loss I had. I noticed in the shower. My hair was falling out, like really alarming amounts falling out when I put my hand through my hair and just looked down and clearing out the drain, it was so like so much more frequent than I ever had before that was actually freaking me out And I know that’s an invite to a deficiency since once you go really low-carbo, it’s supposed to be a side effect, so you’re supposed to start taking more magnesium and electrolytes to supplement it, and I just didn’t.
It didn’t feel natural to me to do that and to like, go and replenish it with supplements , so that I didn’t like that.
I’ve, never felt so energetic in my life. The flip side to that was that it completely affected my sleeping cycle.
I wasn’t sleeping at night, like I was like staring at the ceiling I felt like I could work out at 3am. It was really neat at first. I was like you know, working at night and just doing stuff saying busy, but it just again, didn’t feel natural to not sleep.
I love sleep. I wanted to sleep, like my mind, it wanted to, but my body wasn’t going to let me – and it was just weird I almost felt like I was having an out-of-body experience, because I’m not the type of person who never sleeps.
I’m like a bear. I can sleep the night away and sleep in, and I wasn’t doing that, so everything just started to feel unnatural and different to where it kind of almost like freaked me out a little bit.
It really gave me the short-term goal of what I wanted, which was to lose that last little bit of weight, and then I thought okay, this is cool, you know, trying something different in my diet, but that’s.
The thing I think it felt too much like a diet and not a lifestyle, and again I was in the headspace right before a wedding. So I was thinking about my wedding and wanting to look and feel my best. But then I go on my honeymoon and I was not going to be on Keto.
On my honeymoon, I mean let’s be real. Like you guys haven’t seen it. I did post a gaining weight on vacation video, which feel free to check out. I’ve, just been really wanting to be open with you guys about all this stuff that I will put the cards on the table here that I enjoyed myself on vacation, and there was no regrets about that, and I am so much happier now, especially as there is a lot of pressure going into a wedding which maybe you guys can relate to, but wanting to look and feel your best and putting that pressure of looking a certain way.
So I went on my honeymoon and I enjoyed it. So much and I definitely went on the opposite side of extreme of like enjoying myself, which I don’t, think is good to do all the time. But if you’re on vacation, you’re gonna do that!
So when I came home. I was okay. I need a middle of the ground road of all this between the two like I can’t. You know I just need to figure out my happy place like what makes me feel good.
What motivates me to go to the gym? What I need to find this, that sweet spot, which I feel like I have right now so now, what I’m doing is still tracking. I’m doing a nut low-carb, but I’m having carbs that are just like normal, like I would say, like 150 grams a day.
I am satiated, I feel like. I have freedom of choice like I’m eating fruit. Again, I do those things and I don’t feel bad and I need the carbs too, because I do a lot of high-intensity workout, Orangetheory and, like it just nourishes me and like fuels me for my workouts, and I you know I just I love it and if you guys are having trouble losing weight, you’re lowering your calories, but you’re confused on why you’re not losing weight, track your macros, that’s a huge thing. So I’ve been doing that and just doing a general low carb, but nothing like 20 net carbs that was just so hard for me.
It might come naturally for you. If you don’t create bread or anything like that, I love bread, I’m not going as far as keto it’s just so hard and the side effects started to freak me out and just not feel natural.
So you have to do what feels right for you and with you what your doctor recommends would work for some people could be working for you if you’re reading this so don’t take this as a criticism on keto.
Keto just personally did not sit well with me and also just I felt like I was depriving myself and I didn’t like that. It did feel like a diet for me and not a lifestyle. I think when you make that recognition for yourself of what’s, a diet versus what’s, sustainable for you and your lifestyle, and I’m not saying eating a cheeseburger every day should be the lifestyle, but I mean finding just that, guilt-free, happy, working hard, motivated that sweet spot, it’s, really just finding that sweet spot.
I’m in that right now and I just feel happier than ever in my skin, and I want that for you guys too, whether that is doing keto as a lifestyle or not doing keto as a lifestyle. I just wanted to be honest with you guys about it.
I’m not a health expert. I just wanted to share my personal journey with you guys.
