If change is ever going to be had, it has to start from inside you. You can't expect to change your environment if you yourself are out of balance with nature.
The ketogenic lifestyle is your ticket to finding your inner equilibrium. Without the hormonal trigger of leptin via the absence of carbs, you will be hungry and will hence fall out blood sugar balance. You will then become hungry causing excess glycogen to be stored as fat. You will thus be overweight which is a catalyst for disease and sickness. Basically unbalanced.
When I said ketogenic lifestyle in the title, I didn't mean to say ketogenic diet. A diet has connotations of starving yourself, weakness, and cloudiness of the mind. Contrary to that, the ketogenic lifestyle keeps you alert, strong and focused. A diet in terms of caloric restriction causes a weight loss sometimes. The ketogenic lifestyle has the same goal but the weight loss is more significant and consistent. Unlike a diet where you basically go hungry, the ketogenic lifestyle allows for nourishment through a high fat moderate protein ultra low carb.
When on the ketogenic lifestyle, there are feedback signals from your hormonal system that will be completely new to you. You have to learn them. If your heart beats rapidly and if you've had excessive bouts of urination and you're developing muscle aches and headaches, then it's probably caused by an electrolyte imbalance and you probably should go pour a one and a half teaspoons of Lite Salt into a glass of water and drink it. Then drink another glass of plain water. Your rapid heart beat and headache should subside. If you've eaten enough protein and you feel sluggish, you may need to supplement with a 500mg pill of magnesium. You should feel your energy levels normalize.
To start off my day, I eat enough fat and protein to sustain me until dinner or a mid afternoon snack and then dinner. For breakfast, I'll take a half stick of butter and melt it and pour it over some chicken breasts. Then I'll tear pieces of chicken and dip them into melted bacon fat or a flavored sour cream dip that has 1 gram of sugar per serving. I'll also flavor the dip with Lite Salt to up my potassium intake. Also I'll get my micronutrients out of the way with a magnesium pill, a 1200 mg calcium pill, and a multivitamin that has iron and vitamins. For lunch and dinner it'll be just like breakfast -- high fat moderate protein ultra low carb no more than five grams of carbs per meal. Also I might eat a spinach salad at dinner and drizzle it with oil or melted animal fat. No dressing because it has way to many carbs that will knock you out of ketosis.
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