I’ll be honest, when I used to hear people say ‘you have to love your body right now before you’ll be able to lose weight and get the body you want!’, it used to drive me crazy. Simply because I found it really hard to love those rolls of flab around my waist when I…
If you are new to ketosis, you may find yourself somewhat puzzled by a couple of odd symptoms that can show up in the first few weeks. In short – the dreaded body odor and bad breath. Now, this can vary from person to person depending on what the state of your health is when…
I remember the moment where it clicked… Fat doesn’t make you fat! Fat doesn’t cause all these terrible things like obesity, heart disease and the like. The real culprit is sugar! When I was growing up my mother and father were strong advocates of the low-fat ‘healthy’ lifestyle. We ate low-fat margarine, low-fat yoghurts, and…
It’s taken me a long time to find a balance with food where I can eat functionally and healthily, but also truly enjoy my food at the same time. All through my younger years, I struggled with wanting to weigh less and eat more, (to sum it up in its simplest sense). I’ve always enjoyed…
As someone who has had trouble with acne all my life, the ketogenic diet has really been a Godsend. From around the age of 12 until a few months into my keto diet, I regularly got these big cyst like spots around my chin. (I know that doesn’t sound particularly nice – they don’t look…
When I first started exploring the ketogenic diet I quickly found out that there are a lot of different opinions on whether or not women should eat carbs. One side of the fence clearly states no. The other clearly states yes. And there’s a whole bunch of grey area in between that will tell you…
There is essentially no metabolic process in the entire body that does not require the use of fats. Fats, or lipids, are considered one of the big three ‘macro’ nutrients, being a group distinct from proteins or carbohydrates. What’s crazy right now, is despite increasing obesity levels there seems to be a epidemic of fat…
The western world is in the grip of a terrible malaise. Depression has been earmarked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the fastest growing health problem right now and expects it to be that way for many years to come. But why? What gives? Do they know something we don’t? Or is it, in…
Emotional eating or comfort eating or stress eating – whatever you want to call it, has always been a big issue for me as it is for many women. And when I say big for me, I mean this disordered way of eating was something I struggled with for decades. Switching to the high fat,…
I just wanted to talk a little bit about what you can expect when it comes to weight loss on a low-carb, high-fat diet. If you’re like me, when I first started reading about eating low carb, I got very excited about these stories of weight loss just seeming to happen as if by magic,…
There seems to be a fair bit of confusion around what difference there is between keto diets and carb cycling. The confusion happens because both of these ways of eating involve keto as a baseline, however, carb cycling means that at regular periods you will replenish your body’s glycogen stores by eating some carbohydrates. There…
