Today I will begin to transfer my content from my Sparkpage from Sparkpeople because they are closing down the site on Aug. 17, 2021 and everything on there will be deleted.
Hello and thank you for stopping by my page. My name is Teresa, I am 55yrs old and I live in Lancaster, CA. I have 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren. I work as a Para Professional with the school district and I love working with children. I started my journey with Sparkpeople back in 2006 and have yo-yoed up until March 2018. I have finally found what works for me and I am not ever going to give up not even when I reach my goal.This I found is not something that you do and then stop, it's a lifestyle change. My daughter, Jamie (j_mcc_85) was told by her doctor last year (2017) that she is type 2 diabetic and was put on medication. I knew I needed to do something to help her along with myself. She topped the scale at 301 12/2016 and in 1/2018 she was 297. Today she is 256 and the weight is basically melting off. For myself it has been a little slower however it's going down and not coming back up (ever). So in March we started implementing the deletion of sugar, flour, rice, potatoes, starches, all non-healthy and high carb fruits and within a week we began to see, feel and notice a change in our bodies. It was amazing! Inflammation -gone, swelling - gone, hunger - gone and cravings - gone. However our minds can play a little trick on us especially during the time of the month when we think we have to have CHOCOLATE but keto bombs are there to save the day.
I have to admit that we do have our cheat days when we just want some pizza (with crust) and our favorite Parmesan potatoes from Vince's Pasta & Pizza. However now we order a personal size pizza and small order of potatoes to share and we eat one slice of pizza after we top it with the toppings from the other slices and dip everything in ranch.
I have done a lot of research on the Ketogenic diet and I strive to stay as honest to it as I can. You have to make sure you keep up your electrolytes and you can do that by using Himalayan salt (pink salt). It doesn't affect high blood pressure like table salt and it is extremely good for you.
Also neither one of us have done any extra exercise than getting our 10,000+ steps a day and you can simply do this by getting up out of your seat and stepping in place, watch a Walking with Leslie or just go for a stroll. We will be implementing other exercises as we get our weight down.
If you would like to learn more about what we are doing please feel free to leave me a commit, add me as a friend (and my daughter j_mcc_85), read and subscribe to my blog.
Also if you are following a low carb/keto lifestyle please share with me your tricks and inspirations along your healthy lifestyle.
God bless you!
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