Ke-toned!

I considered doing a YouTube video for this post, but sometimes my emotions come across very subdued. I frequently tell people that I react like a British person so I guessed I probably wouldn't be very expressive when it comes to sharing my feelings on a video. Hopefully that wasn't some sort of stereotype...But all the same, I want to share how ketones are changing my life at twenty-two. And before you go clicking off, no, this is not a promotion post, I just felt the need (and the want!) to share this. Also, apart from the fact that I like it, I promise there's a reason for the guacamole picture.

I'll try to be as brief as possible with the pretext. Before I even started, I wasn't sure about exogenous ketones. As a recent college graduate and a serious penny pincher, I like to know that whatever I'm going to invest in will be worth the money and my time and effort, especially the money. I did a lot of my own research before I even asked my friend Jill any questions, but after I did, I'm thrilled to say I was opening the door to a whole new world (Aladdin pun intended) and my life became split into "before exogenous ketones" and the moment when my brain and body began experiencing them fully.

After taking them for some time and seeing little but water weight fall off, I decided to make one simple switch that would change the course of my exogenous ketones journey. I switched my lunches from an assortment of foods to guacamole and hummus with pita chips. I knew that guacamole was a healthy fat, but I discovered later that guacamole (and spinach) are good for bodily nourishment on ketones. The moment I switched to burning healthy fats was when I started seeing a decline in my weight.

Over the next few weeks, a few friends told me I looked skinnier and one said she didn't even recognize me until I turned and she saw my face. Not a week later I was out thrift shopping with two of my amigas and I went to try on this strapless dress that was actually my dress size, a 13. It was strapless, a style that I usually avoid, and I blame my wide shoulders for larger dress sizes, but to my surprise, and my friends can attest to this, it did not fit. It was too big!

As the week went on, I tracked my weight and BMI daily, continually convincing myself not to be disappointed if my BMI went up because of what I might've eaten the previous day. But my BMI/weight got consistently lower and lower. Still, I kept telling myself not to be disappointed if the numbers suddenly shot up again, but it wasn't until August 8th that the realization of what ketones were doing for me really hit me. I reached a weight of 155 lbs. or, for me and my height, not overweight.

I’ve said in previous posts, I don’t trust the accuracy of WiiFit all the time but seeing those numbers made me ecstatic! I told my parents and my younger sister and I was so excited that I started dancing around the house. But I saved the news for this blog post because it is now 2 months ago to the day of June 18th that I made my very first drink of exogenous ketones.

Now, I don't want this to become a post all about my weight either. I still haven't reached my ultimate weight-loss goal. But small steps amount to big leaps over time. I still feel energized every time I drink ketones and I can go longer without food when I'm on them which helps me avoid overeating as well. I'm proud of the progress I've made with them. I'm encouraged that I am slowly but surely taking steps to better my bodily health.

At a certain point though I really did accept the fact that it’s not about weight loss, it’s about fat loss and once I changed that perspective, it was as if my mind was opened to the reality of it all. I saw everything I'd been striving for in a whole new light. My goals have shifted to encompass more than just one a weight-loss goal. It's become a search for the betterment of my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and I’m elated to declare here and now that I believe I’ve found a major part of the fix for which I’ve been searching.

Before After