If you are married, or in committed relationship, you probably have had to endure or go along with your share odd ideas your spouse or partner comes up with just for the sake of it.
So, one night while we were fixing dinner my husband says something along the lines of, “I watched a Tedx Talk video today about reversing diabetes and eating fat, and it makes you lose weight.” Now, I’m not sure if my face sent the same message my brain was thinking, but I remember thinking to myself, “What did he just say?” My face must have given it away becausehe looked at me and said, “Yeah… apparently, you can eat fat and lose weight.”
…and I automatically think “Ok, he’s lost it!”
Not wanting to discourage his interest in dropping some weight, I asked him more about it. After the next few minutes of him telling me some of the things he learned, I begin to think… YEP! He’s totally lost it.
He went on for a while telling me about the Keto diet and some of the science behind it and I thought, if this is true, why don’t people know about this?! Seems too easy. Too simple. Can’t work. Can’t be true.
…Reduce Carbs + Increase Fat = Lose Weight ?! Um… no way!
If this simple equation was real, surely I would have heard about this by now right? Well, sometimes we get stuck in our own world of just believing what we know and dismissing new ideas and not really digging in and learning something new. Come on, we’ve all done it before…
After the normal routine of #ParentLife, and the kids were in bed, he showed me the TedTalk video he watched, and showed me some other information about the Keto Diet. At this point, I’m thinking… Oh wow! He’s Serious! This is really a thing that people do…
We (he mostly) spent the next few days learning more about Keto, eating FAT and keeping Carbs low. Honestly, I figured that if this was a fad diet or there was some catch to eating this way that he would find out soon and that would be that! Keto discussion done.
Nope. The more he read, the more research he did, the more he was convinced that this was something he could do to make a real impact on his health. He was seriously considering eating like this!
Ack!!! At this point, I was feeling a little panicked at his idea. If he was really going to eat like this, then I needed to support him. How was I going to support him putting Coconut Oil and butter in his coffee?! I mean SERIOUSLY… Come on!?!
I had just spent the last couple years cleaning up my diet and losing some weight by not eating fat!, and now he wants to eat fat… like on purpose!?
He’s going to have high cholesterol and then end up having a heart attack from the clogged arteries… all this is going through my mind…
Next thing I know, he’s printing recipes, stopping by the grocery store and he’s beginning to plan how to eat like this. He’s really going to try this!
Now becomes the rationalization part for me. Telling myself he’ll be ok. He won’t like all the fat, so he won’t do it for long.
Obviously, I still had major doubts about eating like this, but I still really wanted to be supportive of what he was trying to do. He had done his research and he was trying to lose weight and become healthy. How do you argue with that? I may have not agreed with the method at the time, but I was still determined to support him.
Not so sure I was actually going to eat a 100% Keto diet like he was, I figured I could follow along eating some of the things he was, help make sure he had the foods he needed in the pantry etc., and that would help support him. But, that became tough after just a couple days. Different meals for different people… not a super easy thing to do as some of you know.
I had learned a lot of the same things my husband had about Keto and I figured how could it hurt to just try it for a while WITH him? It would make cooking and shopping much easier. And if it didn’t work and I gained weight, I knew how to get it off again. So, what the hick! (as my daughter says-she won’t say heck lol) Let’s give it a try!
After all, if you aren’t doing anything to change your situation, then you aren’t doing anything to improve it either. You are just maintaining. And maintenance is for when you get to a point you are satisfied with, and want to stay there – Maintain. My husband, nor myself were at a point where we were satisfied with maintaining. We both still had weight to shed and he had some health issues to improve.
He was either going to keep doing what he was doing (which wasn’t changing anything) or he was going to find out that this Keto Thing was legit.
We were about to turn everything we ever knew, everything we have been taught about nutrition our entire lives up.side.down!
Here is the link to the Tedx Talk with Dr. Sarah Hallberg.
This will blow your mind… especially if you are a diabetic!
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