We are where we are in life as a result of the choices we make📌
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🔹There are plenty of things in life that aren’t within your control
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🔹You can’t control certain health problems, other people, or how the world around you operates🌎
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🔑But the ONE thing you can control is your ATTITUDE.
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🔹Everyone faces obstacles, hardships and heartache. That’s just part of life.
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🔹No matter how bad things are, you always have a choice when it comes to how you react to the obstacles and circumstances in your life
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⚠️When things don’t go your way, you can choose to allow it to define you, or you can choose to make it a defining moment⚠️
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🔑When life pushes you down, you can choose to get back up.
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🔑Don’t waste your time wishing things were different or complaining life isn’t fair.
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🔑Life can be unfair and no one ever promised it would be easy.
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👀I know it sounds cliche and you’ve likely heard it before, but the fact is, many of life’s obstacles that are thrown at us, simply make us stronger‼️
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⚠️When you experience problems or adversity, YOU get to choose how you want to respond⚠️
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💯This is the greatest gift we have – our ability to choose
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We’re not going to get it right 💯% of the time, but we can choose to learn from our mistakes🚫and that will always be a good choice‼️
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Meet Judy
Many have a misconception that exogenous Ketones are JUST for athletes or people looking to lose weight! I want you to meet Judy. Her story is one that you may be able to relate to 🙂
I have been dedicated my whole life to being active and living a healthy lifestyle. I don’t know how it happened but I just celebrated my 64th birthday!
I am still active and try to eat well. In the last years I’ve noticed my body is changing and not for the better. I was starting to feel my age. It was becoming harder to stay fit and feel healthy. I was getting arthritis especially in my right wrist. I had a painful lump of inflammation on it. It prevented me from doing some actions and activities.
For about 3 months I have been on a product called Ketones. I’m happy to say the inflammation in my body has improved especially in my wrist. Some might find this odd but I am excited I can do burpees and push-ups again! (Yeah). I enjoy doing more yoga moves. I feel I am stronger. My mind is clearer and most nights I sleep like a baby. Though I didn’t need to lose weight I have lost belly fat and have gained muscle tone.
I have more energy. Recently on a trip to Florida I was able to run around the island the first day without feeling exhausted or overheated. It used to take me several days to build up to that. Long story short, I’m grateful I found this wonderful drink! I’m not getting any younger according to the calendar, but I love how great I feel since I started drinking this stuff and I’m excited to continue being healthy and active for many years to come!
Want to know MORE about how this product might be able to help YOU? Reach out! Happy to answer your questions and share information!
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Carnivore – Yes, still going! Why?
Hello, hello, hello!! Were you wondering where I disappeared to? Probably not, but that’s cool! Life is CRAZY and yes, this page has been put on the back-burner for a bit. HOWEVER, I haven’t stopped researching and my self-experimentation to share MORE with you all!
Carnivore diet continues!! “Why would you even WANT to do that?” and “that can’t be good for you!” are things I’ve heard multiple times. My vegetarian mom (don’t even get me started on THAT) has been working on her own research to inform me of any anti-carnivore trash on the internet. So, why have I stuck with it for more than 2 MONTHS?? Because I feel really good! I have not experienced ANY bloating, gas or ANY digestive issues since day 1! (other than the cupcake I decided to eat on my girl’s birthday that haunted me with crazy sugar cravings for the next 2-3 days! That’s how powerful sugar is for me!) I’ve been Keto for the last 2 years and drinking ketones daily which has changed my life in many ways too, but I’m the kind of person who is often looking for more, and I was getting into bad habits again with keto-friendly treats that were showing up far more often that I knew they should. Stress is a jerk and I was using that as an excuse. Carnivore was a new mission for me that helped get back on track.
Want more reasons why my carnivore experiment soldiers on? Watch THIS video below, to the end to hear some of the great reasons behind this way of eating!
Carnivore continues… and Some Exciting Discoveries
So, if you were just assuming I’d given up on my carnivore challenge, you’d be wrong 😉 I’ve lost track of what day it is, but I do know it’s been more than 2 weeks. Ok… my goal was NOT weight loss, and I don’t really care about the number on the scale as much as how my body feels and how my clothes fit. That being said my work jeans, which have been snug for the last little while around my strong crossfit thighs were actually feeling a quite a lit looser last week so I stepped on the scale. In 11 days I was down 11 lbs! Much of which is likely less inflammation, but still pretty interesting in my opinion. Especially for someone who has followed a keto diet for nearly 2 years!
I went back to crossfit yesterday after nearly 2 months of focusing on yoga while a foot injury healed. Almost 2 months and I was impressed with how good squat cleans, push-ups and air squats felt! The workout was a good one, so I added a second serving of ketones to my day to help with recovery and feel not too bad today considering! Usually I’d be walking funny and terrified of stairs…
I still enjoy drinking ketones every day. They have made such a huge difference in eliminating the annoying brain fog I used to deal with, and improved my mood and energy to the point I have no plan to stop. A friend of mine was at the Metabolic Health Summit this week and heard some incredible information from doctors, scientists and top researchers in the benefits of ketones in the body for a wide range of metabolic conditions as well as performance on many levels.
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Your life can change in 40 days! I talk to everyone about this stuff because I’m so grateful that a friend talked to ME about them nearly 2 years ago. Fat loss is what 90% of the population seem to be after, but once you try this stuff you’ll quickly understand that it’s so much more than that. Better energy, mental clarity and sleep were HUGE for me!! They also came with a better mood. I’m not bitchy or grumpy anymore and I no longer battle depression. I could ramble on forever because this product has changed my life and so many people I know. I promise you, I would NOT stand behind anything I didn’t truly believe in, and I stand behind this 110%!
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If you’re still the skeptic, I hear you. I was too! I had tried SO MANY things and been disappointed in myself too many times when I got my hopes up only to feel like a failure… UNTIL NOW! Get off the fence. It’s not a lifelong commitment, it’s 40 days 😉 and the easiest change you could make. There’s nothing to lose, and oh so much to gain!
Carnivore diet – What I EAT in a day
Why do you care? Cause there really isn’t that much information online with this way of eating yet, so I thought I’d share. Yes, it varies. On days where I don’t have to get out the door to work or school, I typically don’t eat breakfast and just listen to my body and eat when I’m hungry. Do you know all the benefits associated with Intermittent fasting? Here, this is a quick summary:
That’s just an additional fun fact lol! We have been trained and conditioned since childhood that we NEED to eat at specific times of the day, but if you really think about it, that couldn’t be farther from how our ancestors would have lived! What you eat definitely matters too, but when you eat can also play a very important role as well!
Anyways, I’m rambling a bit! When I DO eat breakfast, it has been 2-3 eggs + either ground beef or naked pulled pork + generous pink salt. Lunch is either steak or a beef burger patty, possibly grass fed butter, definitely more pink salt. Dinner is the lunch option I didn’t eat, or salmon, or some chicken with skin on.
Long story short – eggs, ground beef, pork shoulder, salmon/trout, chicken (w/skin), butter, salt, water and Ketones. THAT’S IT!! It’s a short list, but very filling and satisfying. The strict version of the carnivore diet is JUST beef, salt and water, but although I’m pretty dedicated when I decide to do something, I’m not sure I’ll get to the point of that strict of limitation.
p.s… I lost 9lbs in 8 days! My yoga pants are getting loose!
If you’re interested in learning more, email me anytime! katemcdowell@mac.com
Blood sugar and a 1 Ingredient Recipe lol
Happy Wednesday! Today is day 7 of my Carnivore experiment. I’ll stop talking about what day it is soon I’m sure 😉 I’m not even sure where it will go, but I feel fantastic and I’m not past the adaptation period that kinda sucked, so why stop? On that topic, NOW I get what the Keto flu thing is about I think. I didn’t have that at all when I transitioned from Paleo to Keto and I have no idea why I had it now, but my sympathies will be greater for others in the future. 💕
This will probably sound totally lame, but one of the very few things I DON’T like about this is I LOVE taking pictures of food (ask my wife!) and it’s really challenging to make a plate of meat look pretty 😜 I also don’t get to share amazing recipes or be creative cause who’s going to look at my site if I pitch you Tasty Crockpot Pork. Ingredients- 1 pork shoulde. Directions- put in crockpot, turn on. 🤷🏻♀️
This is kind of interesting… last Wednesday I went for blood work for my functional medicine doctor (if you have metabolic or autoimmune issues, find one of these!!) My fasting glucose was 4.5 and my A1C was 5.4 which freaks me out a little since I had been following Keto for almost 2 years, my grandfather had diabetes, and I’ve heard it skips a generation 😳 Today I had lunch, waited about 15-20 minutes and tested my glucose (for fun, cause I’m weird like that) and got a reading of 4.0 👍 I can’t be certain, but 6 1/2 days of a very low glycemic load diet probably had something to do with it 😉
Last note, I’ve rambled enough. Ever heard of a healing crisis? I’ll touch on that tomorrow! 😊
The Brain NEEDS fuel 24 hours a day!
I realized this morning that I totally should have taken before pics. I’m generally somewhat against the practice of before and after pics for my own reasons, but even my yoga tights were kinda baggy this morning so I admitted my error to myself. I DID take day 6 pics 😉
I don’t have a whole lot new to share today although I did test my blood ketones 😁 and I learned something pretty cool yesterday that could benefit everyone…
Two questions for you:
Do you wake up in the middle of the night? 😳
Did you know your BRAIN needs fuel, even while you’re sleeping? 🧠 ⛽️ 😴
Your brain performs some pretty important tasks while you’re asleep!
Creates and consolidates memories – While you’re asleep, the brain is busy forming new memories, consolidating older ones, and linking more recent with earlier memories, during both REM and non-REM sleep. Lack of rest could have a significant affect the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory creation and consolidation.
Clears out toxins – If we’re not getting enough sleep, our brains don’t have adequate time to clear out toxins, which could potentially have the effect of accelerating neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Learns and remembers how to perform physical tasks – The brain stores information into long-term memory through something known as sleep spindles. This process can be particularly helpful for storing information related to motor tasks, like driving, swinging a tennis racquet or practicing a new dance move, so that these tasks become automatic. What happens during REM sleep is that the brain transfers short-term memories stored in the motor cortex to the temporal lobe, where they become long-term memories.
Make more sense why your brain still needs energy while you’re asleep?
Drinking Ketones is one way to “preserve” fuel for your brain during your sleeping hours! This is one of the reasons drinking this stuff is helping SO many people actually get a good night’s sleep after years of restless nights! Another way is to either eat something small right before bed, or when you wake up, take 1-2 bites of food before trying to head back to dreamland.
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Blood ketone tests. I wanted to compare two stimuli, but I had a blonde moment this morning and didn’t take a picture 🤦🏻♀️ Thankfully I had one from a previous test with the same result 😉 The first image was a test done in the middle of the day. I had consumed Ketones that day, although about 5 hours before. The second test was taken first thing this morning on an empty stomach. 😊 Ketosis baby!! Do you know all the AMAZING things that happen when your body is in this state? 💪
Carnivore Diet – WITH Ketones
Carnivore Diet – WITHOUT Ketones
The experiment continues…
Carnivore experiment – day 3
Ok, when I heard “you really just won’t be hungry” I thought “pfffft! Do you know me?” but it’s the truth. Although, I don’t know if it’s more that I know I can’t have something sweet or comforting and the thought of eating more steak or trout/salmon has little appeal at the moment? 🤷🏻♀️ I checked my ketones last night (yes I know the pee strips aren’t the most accurate test, but still fun) and got a quite high ketone level. Actually around the same as what I’ve seen during a 60 hour Keto reboot. Interesting…
I will note, I don’t sleep more than 6-6 1/2hours each night but that’s no anything new at all. HOWEVER, the last few nights I’ve been getting more deep sleep and REM according to my Fitbit 😊 I did wake up very alert and with energy this morning, but pretty shaky. Yoga will be an interesting test lol! Tree pose could be beyond my capabilities, but we’ll see 😜
Thriving Keto 