What got you to this website? I am guessing a desire to lose weight and be healthier.
If you are here, reading this I want you to know that our goal is to make it easier for you to lose weight and keep it off.
First question is: Why do you want to lose weight? Seems like a stupid question, but it’s important. The reason behind the answer to this question determines the psychology behind your desire. The psychology determines the strength of your desire.
Is this desire a choice, a need, or someone else’s edict? A combination of more than one idea or something exclusive? How did you get to this point? Did you plan on being overweight? More than likely not. Did you just over indulge? or did you choose the wrong foods? Did you eat too much because of stress or from habits of your childhood? It’s important to understand how you got to the point where you are now determined to lose weight.
You need to be in a position that this is your choice. Not something other people want for you. If losing weight is not your goal then do not waste your time reading this book, because our goal here is to help people who have a strong desire to lose weight. Until it’s your desire, your choice and your drive it won’t work. It has to come from you.
What is motivating your desire to lose weight? Why do you believe you have put on extra pounds? This motivation has to come from you or it will not work, so those questions are important.
One of the best things you can do is keep track of what you are doing in writing. Get a journal and start with where you are right at this moment. How much do you weigh, what are your measurements, even what are your health factors at present such as blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar? Are you diabetic or pre diabetic?
It’s also important to right down the reasons you are at this point. What caused you to be overweight and be completely honest because you need to understand the reasons behind it or you cannot correct the problem. Write it down as part of your starting point and be completely honest. This is the point where you become honest with yourself and create a starting point from which you will measure all your progress. Without an honest starting point there is no way to create a path to success and judge how far along that path you have traveled.
From this point one of the best things you can do to help yourself is to journal. Creating a record of what you are doing and how it is working does several things to help. One is just actually making you conscious of what you are eating and another is giving you a way to keep track of what’s working and what’s not. Write down what you eat and note whether or not you liked it. Make it a point to note what your favorite foods are and what the macros are for those foods and as you go along you will be able to go back and make better choices based on what you like and how it made you feel as well as the results.
You need an honest starting point and the next step is to set goals. Notice I did not say set a goal, I said goals, multiple as in more than one. You need an end goal, but you need plateaus between now and the end goal. A path to follow that makes the end goal seem more possible more plausible and easier to achieve.
You need to take this a step at a time to make it easier to follow. Celebrate each plateau as a step in the path, a move upward toward that final goal and a better and happier life. You want to make the intermediate goals to help you realize the end goal is possible.
Desmond Tutu once said that “There is only one way to eat an elephant, “A bite at a time.” What he meant by that was that no matter how intimidating something may be, if you break it down into individual factors. It seems much less daunting and more easily accomplished, when it can be seen as a step by step procedure.
You may wish you could peel off the weight like an overcoat, but you need to understand and work with this as a step by step solution to a problem that occurred over time, step by step, and will take time to alleviate. You did not gain all the weight in one day and the safest and healthiest way to lose it is to lose it in the same framework you gained it, a little at a time, step by step. Otherwise you will not break the habits that created it and you will just gain it back. This is a lifestyle change not a just a change in diet. We are creating an eating plan, a lifestyle change plan, not a diet.
I will give more details about BMI and other false measurements of conditioning and fat in the back end of the site, but for here let me say this: The ridiculous and outdated concept of BMI and how misleading it can be based on my own stats. It’s not how much you weigh that determines your fitness, but what kind of condition you are in that needs to be taken into account. BMI Was developed in the 1830’s and by that calculation alone is massively out of date with reality.
I was a world class athlete, not bragging, just a statement of fact. BMI is based on people who are out of shape. My BMI in 1964, when I was 18 years old, was 31.8 which classified me as obese. I was just under 5’11”, and weighed 225 pounds. I had a 46” chest a 28“ waist and each thigh was slightly larger than my waist with 17” calves and biceps. I was put in a tank which checked for specific gravity and it showed my body fat content under 3%. Not in the least fat, much less obese, which is what BMI classified me as.
KETO 2.0 PLUS – Keto 2.0 and Way Beyond
The Key to Better Weight, Better Sleep and a Healthier Life
Live beyond the limits you thought you had!
Life is a series of choices and it’s up to us whether or not we make good choices or bad choices. It’s our choices that create our lives. and whether we are happy or not.
The life we all have is finite, we are only here on earth in body and soul for a time, no matter what we believe about life after death, there is a death. Life is not timeless, no matter what happens after we die. Your time on earth and how you live it is up to you. You choose what you eat, how you prepare it and whether or not you exercise and so much else.
The idea behind this site came to me after I lost over 50 pounds in four months before writing my first Keto book. Technically, it came to me during the time when I first started that eating plan. I realized there was an entire life to be lived after loosing the weight which had to be addressed and problems solved that the original book never even touched on.
It’s been almost a year since I finished that program and close to that long since I wrote and published that Keto 2.0 book. This incorporates all I have have learned in that time and it’s important to note that the Keto 2.0 Plus way of life completely changed me.
I have not put any of that weight back on. If anything, it’s been a struggle to not lose more, as I now find indulging in Carbohydrate loaded food is not even enjoyable anymore. Some of the side benefits to the Keto eating plan were that it pretty much eliminated any problems with gas, and allowed me to sleep better, while nearly eliminating any problems I had with arthritis in my joints. Which I discovered when I started eating carbs again. Hadn’t realized I had been months without gas or that my fingers were more mobil and less painful and that all my joints felt better as well.
After all the research it took to write that book I found myself wanting to learn so much more because I was left with what do I do the rest of my life to take advantage of that weight loss and the shift in my thinking process about food. I knew that not only did I need answers to those questions, but so did other people as well and I decided then and there to delve deeper into this mystery of how to create a better, longer and healthier life.
I knew that I never wanted to be in the position of having to lose weight again, because truly there is no reason to allow that. If you change your lifestyle you can very reasonably maintain your goal weight with very little if any struggle and be much healthier, as well as happier, at the same time.
One of the most frustrating aspects of this is that so many people around me both desire and need to lose weight and yet their doctors are almost without fail pointing them in the same direction that has created the weight problem in this country all along, stating that they need to eat more vegetables and less fat and not passing on any ideas about lowering carbs, which are the true enemy. Eating low fat food is what has made this country as fat as it is today (over 80% of our population is overweight and over 50% of that 80% is obese) and the definition of insanity, according to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I found substitutes for the foods I was missing, that I had consumed before, and still eat those substitutes today instead of what I ate before the Keto eating plan and the weight loss. I was never hungry during the weight loss and the only time I have any cravings or feel hungry are when I decide to eat carbs again. Once I eat sugar several things happen (none of them good). First I get hungry for more sugar, because it is addictive and second my arthritis kicks into high gear, while third I sleep less soundly and have to get up with leg cramps.
I went to a friends 90th birthday party, right as I was nearing my final goal weight. Spent the night the night before, the party and started the day with carbs for breakfast. Made Peanut Brittle and had a bunch of that, hard core carbs . Ate home made Chicken Noodle soup for the first time in my life. Never realized until I saw the noodles being made from scratch that they are practically all flour (Carbs). Had pie and two kinds of cake. The next day I could hardly move my thumb and could not bend my index finger on my left hand and they both hurt like crazy. Could not open bottles, even hurt to drive the car. First time I had ever connected sugar to that problem. Before that day it was always just something I thought occurred at strange times and had never made the connection. Thought it just came with old age. Have experimented a few times since and it happens every time I eat a bunch of carbs.
This book is for all the people who feel they either have to lose weight or want to lose weight. For those who’s doctors have said they need to lose weight or die and for those who just feel like they would love life a little bit more if there were a little bit less of them.
I did not quite fit into any of those categories. I knew I needed to lose weight because I was about to have to move up to size 40 paints and I had never and was sure I never wanted to have to wear paints that size. 38” had for a long time been the last notch I was willing to go to. When the idea that 40” pants was not far off came about, I knew was and had been for a long time as far as I was willing to go. So there are several categories beyond the first two I mentioned, but those two will allow for space for all the other reasons. I now comfortably were 36” waist pants and could actually do 34”. I intend to start working out more and drop that back to hopefully between 32” and 34”. Not only do my clothes fit comfortably, but I feel lighter, move more easily, do not get as winded and sleep much better. There is one thing more important than weight and that is the condition you are in. Fat weighs less per square inch than muscle does, so being overweight and out of shape is way worse than being overweight alone.
If you lose weight, that’s great, but losing inches and getting in shape is even more important than just losing weight. I am willing to lose pounds, but I would much rather lose inches. The second part of our plan here at Keto 2.0 Plus, the plus part is to make you not only lighter, but healthier as well. Being the right weight is only the first step in the right direction. After you lose the weight, or even better, as you lose the weight our plan is to generate a healthier you by eating better and getting all the proper nutrients.
It’s easier to lose the weight than it is to lose th inches and losing the inches and the pounds safely and in a healthy manner is our main goal here.