Let’s face it – you’re going to need to eat out sometimes. Life is hectic and you might find yourself speeding from work to soccer practice with no time to cook dinner. You’re keto, though, and so that means no pizza, no Olive Garden, no Aunt Witchy’s House of Gingerbread (that would be an awesome […]

Sometimes people cheat. Whether you’re unplugging your boyfriend’s controller at Mario Kart or writing your test answers on your water bottle, it happens. Even though anyone following the keto diet knows that it’s healthy for reasons beyond weight loss, sometimes you fall off the wagon. That’s perfectly fine – a diet that is 80% keto […]

Should you eat mushrooms on keto? Absolutely! Mushrooms are perfectly ketogenic, mostly fibrous and loaded with vitamin D. Since most people are woefully deficient in vitamin D, these little guys are a great way to get more in your diet. There are dozens of different edible mushrooms that are commercially available, and about as many […]

I hate supplements but love candy: a novella If you’ve been in keto for enough time that you stare longingly at candy bars, you’ve probably considered keto protein bars. There used to be like 2 – Quest and Atkins. There may have been more but those were the most accessible ones when I started keto […]

Keto is great! So how do I start? Ketosis is the state in which your body is out of glucose for fuel so it starts to break down fat into ketones for fuel. This process can take anywhere from 48 hours to a week or more if you’re pokey about dropping carbs from your diet. […]

Butter? In MY coffee?     The concept of adding fat to coffee gets a lot of blogger treatment as though it’s some insane notion. Cracked even did an article a few years ago about “weird health trends that are wrong”, and it included “butter coffee”. Their consensus was that it was bad, spoiler alert […]

Valentine’s Day is rough Let’s start by stating the obvious; you’re either into V-Day or you’re not. I’ve always thought it was a made-up holiday, designed to sell greeting cards and candy, like how Arbor day was invented to sell trees or Mother’s day to sell mothers. Everybody gets chocolate and sometimes flowers and it’s […]

You’re starting keto? Oh but you’ll die! 2019 seems to be the year of ketosis. There are a million different supplements, recipe books, plans, and “gurus” trying to persuade you that keto is the right way to eat. Unfortunately they try and elaborate on their claims by selling you useless garbage that you don’t need, […]