A
little over a year ago, my boyfriend and I decided to go on the
Ketogenic diet. I had never heard of it until doing some research on
diabetes while on a work placement. I can get quite caught up on my
ideas and after a bit of research we started our Keto adventure.
Unfortunately it lasted about a month. I lost about half a stone and
my boyfriend lost a stone. I’m not much of a sweet treat eater but
once you’re not allowed any it gets hard. Cutting out carbs was so
difficult at first but I did end up enjoying the diet. I think it
went bad due to being so unprepared and not living in our own flat at
the time made me feel uncomfortable making so much mess in the
kitchen!!
THIS
TIME, I have spent real time planning. I have found so much more
information than I did last time, and have found so many more recipes
that should make my life easier. I thought it might be helpful to
write a little blog on our Keto journey. So to get things started I
thought I would let you in on some of the preparations I have made
this time that I never had last time.
1 MAGNESIUM
I
expected Keto flu but when I woke up in the night with the worst aces
I ever felt I didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t like the normal
aches and pains you get when you've been working out, it felt like my
bones were aching. I discovered that I may be losing magnesium so I
quickly bought a supplement and the pains went away in a few days.
This time I am ready prepared with my supplements and have also done
some research and plan on making bone broth to drink to help replace
some of the vitamins we lose!
2 SWEET
FOOD
As
I said before sweet food isn’t exactly something I crave. Going
into this diet the first time I wasn’t worried at all about the
sweet food, it was the carbs that I was worried about. However
knowing I wasn't allowed anything with sugar in made me want sugar. I
looked up some keto deserts and using the wrong kind of sweetener is
where it all began to go wrong. The weight-loss stopped and we both
lost our drive. This time I have discovered fat bombs and have bought
a natural sweetener that hopefully we will not use very much. One of
my boyfriends biggest problems is he loves sweet food, especially
chocolate, so like a good girlfriend I have found a great chocolate
mouse recipe that should hopefully help his cravings!
3 VARIETY
When
we first started Keto I had all of these recipes to try and it was
great. However not all were easy and we ended up eating the same
simple meat and veg every day. I have found so many sources this time
that I have no idea where I was looking last time!! I've bought a
black board for planning meals a week ahead so I know everything I
will need.
4. PACKED
LUNCHES!!
This
was a big problem last time. More for my boyfriend than me. He works
12 hour shifts and gets very hungry in the day, a simple salad is
just not enough. This time I’ve looked for specific lunch recipes,
cauliflower 'cous cous' is one of them. Having a few recipes I can
cook in advance and just put in a box when I need to will help with
that. Having a variety will help a lot as It's so hard to be good
when you’re stuck with a boring salad every day!
I'm
sure there are many things that happened last time that I don't
remember, but I’ll fill you in if I think of any! Boyfriend is just
back off a trip so we are diving straight in. The cupboards have been
sectioned so we can only get to what we are allowed to eat and the
fridge full of everything good. No temptations! …. apart from the
leftover ice cream in the freezer eek!
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