Hey Everyone I hope all is well with you,
Yesterday was a good but weird day. I have been interviewing with one of my favorite companies and my third interview was at 1 yesterday. I contemplated waiting to go to the gym before the interview and normally wait on when Craig wakes up when he is off. He got up early so we were at the gym by 9ish. I ended up eating right before which is something I had not done in a year.
For the past year, I have been intermittent fasting and got very motivated by a former coworker and friend that is an omad. If you don't know what that is it is a person who fasts and eats one meal daily. I used to think that was crazy, but when I researched fasting the science was compelling. My friend did not lose any weight but her overall health improved. When I started my keto journey almost a year ago I had every intention to lose weight because it is a proven diet that has such a success rate keeping the weight off.
I am fit and back into smalls and extra smalls can start to see my abs and am getting shredded. Anyway back to fasting if you do not take anything from my story but fasting please do it and start tomorrow. I ate before around 9 am and was not hungry just ate because I wanted to before the gym. It was horrible and I was on the struggle bus at the gym working my back. I know that everyone is raised differently and there are some cultures and religions that fast and I listened to Dr Berg https://www.drberg.com/ talk about how there is virtually no cancer in the middle east. One of the main factors was fasting; I firmly believe in it. I am the proof at 50 years I look like I did in my mid-thirties. It has not just been keto I am at the gym getting it done.
Now I am changing my diet a bit which will go from fat first to protein first while maintaining a low-carb lifestyle. I am not missing any carbs anymore and feel great. As great as I can at my age. My recovery time is so much longer and I am trying to learn tennis. Which has been very hard for me because I have 0 hand-eye coordination. My poor husband is beyond patient in teaching me, and I do not plan to stop learning and growing. When I first started I pulled my left hamstring and tweaked my right knee. Almost every day something hurts especially after I am done working out so I started upping my collagen with every cup of coffee.
After a year of fasting, I plan to keep it going God willing for the rest of my life. I have been through the hard part of starting my journey and it works for me. It may not work for you but as I said before my goal is to encourage you to do something to improve your health. So many people including my own family tell me they could not ditch the carbs. That is because they are not satiating, addictive, and added to so many foods. Just like anything else in life, it is a choice that if you wanted to be completely ignorant about what goes in your body and just continue eating whatever you want then your body will reflect it. Maybe not today but at some point those bad food decisions will catch up to you. If your definition of a quality of life being fat and sick is ok then this blog may not be for you.
However, if you want to be inspired by an old lady that is reversing the bad choices made in the past stay tuned because I am just getting started. This last half of my life is going to be the fittest and best years to come so stay tuned and be blessed.
