Keto? Isn’t that the Adkin’s diet that they just renamed? I heard you can get gout from only eating meat. They say you lose the weight really fast but then gain it all back and even more the very second you eat a carb again! Did you hear about the keto flu? It’s so much harder to lose weight when you’re older. You’re body is preparing to go into menopause. The only real way to lose weight is to eat less calories than you expend and to exercise – anything else is a scam.
There are more than just these thoughts that go through my head. I can assure you that I’m an expert at convincing myself either not to do something, or to do something, depending on the effort and outcome. I remember hearing several years ago someone say, “You’ll change when it hurts enough”. I’ve never forgotten that. Every time I’ve been approached to change something about myself I say, “It doesn’t hurt enough yet”. I keep going to the doctor and handed a bill of health. I can still find clothes to wear. I can still fit in a plane seat without an extender. Ok, maybe I was removed from that one Harry Potter ride at Universal because they couldn’t get the bar to lock over me. And I do wake up quite a bit at night with numb arms because of the weight laying on top of them. I have ripped a hole in the thigh-crotch of most of my jeans. But wait, wait – I’m supposed to love myself no matter what – I’m supposed to support the big beautiful woman culture… It doesn’t hurt enough yet.
What if it’s not about waiting until it hurts enough. What if this isn’t about not supporting big beautiful women – but about supporting health and whatever your body looks like through and because of that process. What if it isn’t about being able to wear jeans without starting a fire between my legs – maybe this isn’t about fixing what’s broken. Maybe I need to turn the cube just a little and see this from another perspective. Maybe what I really want to do is start over, and build something better.
Join me, for as long as I have the passion, as I begin to build something better through a journey towards health.
The Ke-To Living 