The Reason I Am Going Keto

It has been quite the journey so far since the beginning of the year. It started with working out and exercising, but after a month of exercising I realized that I wasn’t able to fully see all of my progress from all of the extremely hard work I was putting in to the workouts, so I realized I had to figure out the diet. Then I got hit with some new information pertaining to the most recent longevity research and through that I learned how beneficial fasting was to living a lot longer and being a lot more healthy when you are older in years. So I decided to start fasting and only eating one meal a day and working out on top of that. But the hunger was unreal and I realized that I needed to do something about the hunger because I still knew that fasting had to be a lifetime practice and I needed to figure out how to kill my hunger in order to make fasting as sustainable as possible. So on my YouTube feed I kept seeing intermittent fasting pop up because intermittent fasting is very close to what I was doing, which was one meal a day. I wasn’t too interested in intermittent fasting but what is also tied to intermittent fasting is the Keto diet. So I am dealing with all this hunger and starting to realize how much of a problem the hunger is going to be and I knew that carbs were probably the reason for my hunger but I didn’t know what to do about it. After watching a bunch of keto videos I started to learn that fat, healthy fat that is, actually is extremely good at making you feel full and satiated. I also started to learn that the Keto diet’s main focus is getting in as much fat as possible, with protein being secondary and carbs hardly at all. So after I did a week of fasting, I completely went crazy and dove right back into my old eating habits. During this time I kept wondering if it wasn’t the carbs that I was eating during my one meal a day that were causing a hunger hangover by the next day and making me crave more carbs and essentially processed sugar. So after a weekend of loading up on any carb I could get my hands on and a shit load of candy and desserts, I decided I was going to do the one meal a day thing again today but this time eat only Keto friendly foods. The game completely changed! I made fat bombs tonight, which are pretty much little balls of nothing but fat and realized just how filling pure healthy fat can be. This was a game changer for the fasting. I knew I had to figure out how to fast, because my long life depended upon it, but I had to fast without feeling hungry all the time and I think I have found the answer! This podcast contains so many of my current insights into what I have experienced today. This may be the first time in my life I have found a healthy sustainable way to lose weight and live longer. I will no longer have to spend endless nights and days researching diets and all of that. The key is the fat and that’s why I am so dumbfounded as this is exactly the OPPOSITE of what my schools and conventional wisdom has been teaching me my whole life.