Happy Holidays to all you beautiful people!!

Did you know that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years?

No wonder the most popular New Years resolution is “Lose Weight”.

Well, this year can be different, because you my friend are not average!!

This guide will help you maintain your healthy ketogenic lifestyle from Thanksgiving right into the New Year!

You’ll have room on your resolution list for something fun like read more, or learn to hula dance!!

Keto All The Way will help you slide into the New Year’s Eve feeling energized, fat fueled, and accomplished!

This guide is filled with tips from how to survive Happy Hour, to saving room for dessert! MMMMMM Dessert!

Remember, I am here for you if you need support!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate! I am thankful for you, and for you allowing me to be a part of journey!

Peace, Love, Avocado, and of course TURKEY!!

XOXO ~ Cat

You can use this all new Pantry guide to transform you pantry and your life!

Believe that you can, and you’re half way there.

If you think back can you count up how many different diets you’ve tried? I’ve tried pretty much everything. In fact I once gave my husband an anniversary card that listed out the different life journeys we’ve taken together. This included ALL the diet we’ve tried together.

How LAME is that? Dieting has been such a huge part of our life that it made its way into what was supposed to be a romantic card. More on that another time.

One of the most difficult things for me to do as a lifelong chronic dieter was my switch to the ketogenic lifestyle.

Physically it was delicious. Mentally it was tedious.

My first diet started in my tweens. I took my mother’s Richard Simons Deal a Meal.

I was 11 years old.

I have been on a diet of some sort (aside from during pregnancy) since then.

That’s until I found keto.

I will admit the most difficult part was eating these foods that were demonized for my entire adult life. I burned more calories doing the mental acrobatics than anything else. HAHA!

So how did I make the switch?

1. I gave my self a time frame for “trying” this.  

   • The time was going to pass anyway. If it didn’t work I could always go back to any of the other dozens if ‘diets’ I’ve tried.

2. I went shopping!!

   • I bought any and all things keto. My shopping cart NEVER before looked the way it did that day.

3. I didn’t restrict anything but my carbs.

   • Eat your green veggies. Leave the processed carbs at the store.

4. I read and studied as much as I could about the benefits of a ketogenic lifestyle.

   • I needed to educate myself to overcome the mental hurdles I was putting up.

5. I indulged in all the foods I restricted for 30+  years.

   • This was rough. I hadn’t had full-fat dressing or real butter in I don’t even know how many years.

6. I recruited my husband (who is down to try anything with me).

   • Any type of support system will increase your success rate. I can help!!

7. Take it one meal at a time.

   • Focus on what CAN have, not what you’re avoiding.

   • Enjoy the foods you’re been limiting over the years of managing your weight.

   • Think about the health benefits of the ketogenic lifestyle that are not scale related.

8. If you mess up, start over.

9. Reach out to someone who has done what you’re trying to do for support.

10. Keep what you’re doing to a few close supportive friends and family.

    • When we’re trying something new our brains look for any excuse to stay comfortable. The negative (often uneducated) opinions of others will give you just that excuse.

I will be that support for you. Find me on FB.

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I will gladly accept your friend request. You don’t have to be my coaching client to get a positive word from me. I give my encouragement freely. I share my recipes, ideas, tips, failures, and successes with all of my friends. I truly just want true and lasting health for you!

I am proud of you for even taking the time to learn more about becoming fat fueled through the ketogenic lifestyle.  

I look forward to meeting up with you on Facebook and helping you through the beginning of your journey!

Keto Simple Swaps

As adults we know when we have to surrender something in order to change our path whether it’s TV time for gym time, or a cocktail for water.  It’s difficult but we know what needs to be done in order to achieve a particular goal. The same goes for when we change our style of eating to obtain optimal health, and weight loss.

One of the things that makes it easier is results! Eating a ketogenic diet can offer results right away and that makes sticking to it just a little easier.

Here are some simple, tasty swaps that can make your transition a little smoother!

I don’t recommend “keto bread” while in the losing phase but there are things you can do to make eating some of your favorite foods delicious and easy!

Bread/buns/wraps: Instead of the basic buns, and bread you can use lettuce wraps, mushroom caps. Think of making little beef sliders with sauteed mushrooms as the bun.

Chips, Crisps, crackers: Forget the bland old crackers. Keto versions are so much yummier!!!  Cucumber slices, pepperoni, and salami chips, cheese whisps and crisps, pork rinds, bacon pieces, celery. Visit www.eatcraveketo for the easiest, yummiest cheese cracker recipe in the world. 2 ingredients!! TWO!

Got Milk? NOPE! Unsweetened coconut or almond milk. Heavy whipping cream.

Bread Crumbs: Crushed pork rinds, and parmesan cheese, with seasoning of your choice.

Sugar: Erythritol, or stevia. I personally use swerve. You can get it here.

Pasta: Spaghetti squash. I buy a bunch of these when it is on sale because it can get pretty pricey in the fall/winter. I cook it up and freeze it in one cup portions. Zoodles Don’t have a spiralizer? You can get it here. Cauliflower, zucchini planks for lasagna!

Flour: Blanched almond flour,  coconut flour, flaxseed meal, psyllium husk, unflavored protein powder.

Potatoes: Cauliflower mash for mashed potatoes. Radishes for roasted potatoes (trust me on this).

While some of these swaps might not be exactly like what you’ve been used to all these years they are a wonderful vehicle to get your favorite flavors into your mouth!

Remember to check back for the easiest cheese cracker recipe ever!

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If you have any questions regarding how best to utilize the ketogenic lifestyle I would be happy to help! You can reach out to me anytime using my contact form!