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 Did I celebrate the holidays and still stay in ketosis? I will answer that through out the blog, and it was and still is exciting to learn this lifestyle. Let's start with Thanksgiving, I normally really like hosting, but was not wanting to make the family eat keto or have Craig make extra food. Craig and Cambria have been very supportive and eat carbs. Making and getting food for them used to torture me, but I am in ketosis so it is all good. 

My approach to the holidays in general was to try, test, and make traditional favorite dishes keto. Some of these dishes like green-bean casserole and ham were easy.I had researched a lot of youtube and pintrest to gain inspiration and it did not disappoint because there are more and more people living a keto, Atkins, or lo carb lifestyle. Cranberry sauce and stuffing not so much. Some of the keto breads for stuffing were so expensive and horrible tasting that I gave up on them. I tried to make Cranberry sauce too and the second one I made turned out better, but was still not as good as the real one. 

The only time I got out of ketosis was ironically at a lunch date with my friend where I did not realize there where beans at the bottom of my burrito bowl even though I asked them to leave the beans & rice out. It took bites for me to realize it and was too late. I had been doing keto for about 4 months at that point and over came the keto flu to get there. I was so tired and felt like I took 5 steps back immediately. I came home and took a nap, and was ok the next day. The carbs and sugar are not worth the price to me anymore of being fat & sluggish and that was a harsh reminder that I have not repeated.

Now that my weight and fat-loss is noticeable I get asked what I am doing because the change has been pretty drastic at this point. There is way more to this experience for me than just loosing weight. I want change my quality of life as well as inform and inspire you to change yours. I let my self go to a certain extent and told my self that it is supposed to be this way. Actually I think society tells us that too, along with the connivence of processed foods, and the bulk of the food industry is filling our meals with sugar, inflammatory oils, and chemicals. Look all around you there are a lot more bigger people especially kids & for the first time in 50 years our life span has been reduced. 

Another resource that I had been evaluating is FlavCity he and his family do a paleo/keto lifestyle and he exposes the crap that is put into our food especially the processed convenient ones that are not even considered food in other countries. How do I know that because  I actually lived in Germany when I was stationed in the army. There were far less fast food places, the Germans ride their bikes everywhere, and a lot of them smoke. It will be very interesting when I go back to see if it is now the same as here. I makes me realize the trust that we have in our food industry, but a keto low carb diet will definitely change that. There is so much sugar in so many things that you have to be diligent especially in the beginning to understand what you are putting in your body. I learned all kinds of things and my hope is that you will go out and do your own research and make changes. 

Back to the holidays so this year Craig's birthday fell on Thursday the 22 and I finally got us reservations to Fogo De Cho and the family was going to join us so the day came and this was the beginning of the Arctic freeze. I will admit that this was pretty easy to stay on track because this amazing place is a Brazilian steak house and all of us got to experience this together. If you get a chance to do this go for it. Our holidays have been low key and at home for the past 4 years because Craig has worked. We did have the opportunity to go to a family members home, but I do not feel right going out on this day while my husband works.We made food and that really seems to be the trick with a healthy lifestyle. 

That is one of my goals this year is to make 90% of my food. I have noticed that people who pay attention to what is in their food and make the majority of their cleanish meals do have a healthy life style. I will say that keto lo carb has done more for me in 5 months over the past couple of years. I am not going to tell you that it is easy because it really isn't, but if you want to loose fat and weight then you should seriously give it a shot. Now that I covered the food for now, I will mention exercise in my next blog.