Update…

Good morning! So just wanted to share a little update regarding my previous post. I had last mentioned that I would be looking into some diets and deciding on what I felt would be a good choice for me.

So with that said, I have decided to start a Keto diet. My main reason for picking this diet is that I’ve always been a firm believer in, “I need my carbs to fuel my running.” Well, that would be legit “IF” in fact I was running enough to need the excess carbs.

Carbs turn into sugar if not used fast enough, and as we know sugar especially refined sugars are not good for us, so rather then using sugar/carbs as a fuel source, since it only provides a short burst of energy life, we replace the carbs/sugars with FATS and begin to use “fat” as our fuel source. Any person knows that when doing cardio or having a good workout, that the first 20 minutes of that workout is burning off the “junk” or the sugars/carbs before we even get into the FAT-BURNING phase, so why not switch our bodies fuel source to fat so that we can maximize our efforts? Only makes since to me.

My family history also played a part in my choosing of a Keto Diet. We have history of Heart attacks (mom has had 2) both my parents have high blood pressure, my father has Type 2 Diabetes (Not from sweets, but from Carbs that turned to sugar). So this has given me incentive to be the best me I can be. I can’t predict that I’ll live the longest or be the most healthy of my family, but I’d rather not ignore the possible road signs and just “see what happens”.

So having written a couple weeks back, I am now bringing my update.

Later in that week, I had decided I would do the Keto, and I attempted to start, but I quickly discovered that I had literally NO healthy low carb options in my household! So I had to plan out some meals and snacks and prepare. So last Monday I went grocery shopping, and then I spent about 2+ hours meal prepping for the week. It was a long process but SO worth it when morning came and I had to fix 4 lunches! So that was a huge step in the right direction. My mistake was not properly reading some things for this diet and I kind of sabotaged myself in the 1st week, though I STILL was way under my usual Carb/Sugar intake…so thankfully I was still able to lose 3.3 lbs!

I am fixing to do some meal prepping and planning, and mapping out this next week for lunches and dinners. I’m also excited to say, my husband said he’d like to join me! So that’s always helpful when your SO is in full support.

I will weigh in again either Tuesday or Wednesday and then I’ll give another update next Monday. Until then…✌