Hi, my name is Judith, I'm 53 and I live in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am the host of
the Intuitive Body Foodie Network and
today I'd like to talk to you about Kiss
My Keto MCT oil just because of how it's
changed my life, in particular the brain
food c8. I use this in a lot of my
recipes and I'd like to share my story.
My reason to go keto was a rather
intuitive one. I've never really
struggled with weight, although I've had
two very poignant times in my life when
I've really put on excess weight and had
to find strategies to get rid of that
The first time I was 26, I had just given
birth to my daughter and I'm sorry to
say but I went on the slimfast diet and
which is so anti-keto, right? I mean
it's a high sugar diet and I really
messed up my gut and it seems that since
then I have been trying to recover from
the damage of that and the damage of
antibiotics and a bunch of other things
I did lose the weight quite successfully
I was doing intermittent fasting at that
time as well and then the second time I
gained weight was around the time that I
was 50. I had been doing some energy
healing workshops and being incredibly
clairsentient I am an empath - I take on
everybody's energy. The problem is I
don't know what's mine and what's theirs
and so the way that that manifested in
my life is that I had a lot of people
around me that were hungry for food and
hungry for a lot of other things and I
was eating on their behalf.
I've been vegan-vegetarian for almost
30 years. I switched to eating meat in
the autumn of 2017 just due to chronic
anemia and prior to that, between the age
of 50 and 52, that's when the intuitive
keto came into my life. I had tried
keto about 6 years earlier and I ended
up gaining weight - I had no clue what I
was doing and there wasn't the
information out there that there is
today and if you haven't checked out the
instructional guides of how to do keto
and Kiss My Keto, I highly
recommend it. I learned a lot from it. Keto helped a lot as did the Omad and
intermittent fasting it just seems to go
so harmonious. I was doing the high fat
diet, moderate protein and all of my
carbs were fermented, so they have very
little sugar. I only recently - in the last
six months - reintroduced MCT oil back into
my diet. If you understand anything about
anemia, some of the symptoms are
forgetfulness; memory loss which kind of
goes with forgetfulness; lethargy but
it's not the kind of lethargy that goes
away after you have a nap or after
you've had something to pick you up. You
know to eat and it gives you energy
It's a lethargy that lingers. For me the
most debilitating part of anaemia was
the brain fog and the can't wake up
syndrome, so one of the things that I
recognized with that is I would have to
have I like coffee anyway but I would
have to
have my coffee in order to have mental
cognition. In order to be alert, to feel
awake. One of the things I would say to
my husband is, just because I'm up and
about walking around, don't think I'm
awake, because I.. there was just this
incredible brain fog and that was the
difference in my life with the MCT oil.
MCT oil wakes my brain in ways that I
can't even explain. it just gives me that
alertness and a wakefulness and has
really made a difference in my life.
Vastly made a difference I didn't really
have any hesitations this time around
with keto. I well.. well I shouldn't say
that I did have a small reservation that
I might regain the weight. What I
discovered from the first time I tried
keto, to this time.. the difference
when I gained the weight, to this time, is
that I was used to eating a certain
amount of food. When you change from your
regular diet to a keto diet, fat has a
lot of calories and that's what I was
not understanding and so I was still
eating a lot of food and I wasn't doing
a lot of intermittent fasting back then
So I was actually consuming more food or
calories, or energy, than my body actually
needed. That was a huge learning curve
for me and something that I now apply in
my daily life to make certain that..
although some people will say in the
keto community that calories
aren't important - to me they are.
The difference between when I started the
keto diet - to today - I'm approximately
25 pounds less
so keto works for me and I pretty much
I'm not gonna say I've done every diet.
But I've done a lot of different diets
I've done your typical standard American
diet, I've been vegan, a raw vegan, a
fruitarian, a pure vegetarian, just eating
dair,y a lacto-ovo vegetarian, a
pescetarian which eats fish and I don't
know what they call the vegetarian that eats
chicken, fish, dairy and eggs and just
doesn't eat red meat. Bbut I did that too,
so I've done a lot of different diets. I
did the slimfast. I've done zone .I've
done activist. I've done.. I've done a lot
of diets. The only one I think I haven't
done this Weight Watchers. For me diet
doesn't work, unless it becomes a
lifestyle and that is what keto is for me. It
is a lifestyle and as is the
intermittent fasting and the Omad, or
the - 2mad, which is two meals a
day ,as opposed to one. Yellow day and
sometimes doing long extended fasting
That is my lifestyle and keto was a
nice resonance to my lifestyle and I
think that's why it works so well for me
and if you haven't tried it or maybe if
you haven't tried it - try it, that's all
I'm gonna say
and if you are on a keto diet and - like
me - maybe you've gained weight even
though people say calories aren't
important, maybe do look at your portions
and the calories and how much are you
eating through the day, because in all
those diets that I.. and I think of diet
as just food, food for the body. In almost all
diets that I undertook went on, the one
common denominator was that I've learned
from my particular body, is if I eat too
much I gain weight, it's that simple.
It doesn't matter what diet it
is and if I eat less then I don't. I can
maintain and then if I reduce that's
when I see the weight loss and that's
part of it fasting the intermittent
fasting, is what keto is all about. It's about
reducing the full amount of calories
that you consume, so yeah I give keto
two thumbs up. The interesting thing is I think I
started the first 14 years of my life on keto and Omad, because growing
up we didn't have a lot of money. Well
my folks didn't, and we had one meal a
day and that was dinner and it was a
nice piece of meat. It was a cooled
potato and a little bit of vegetable and
fat was in the actual meat so yeah, I
mean it was almost an organic thing for
me. So I almost feel like I'm going back
to my roots by being on keto, that's how
it works for me. And the other product
that I have that I've only used once is
the ketone strips and.. do your research
on this is all I'm gonna say
They're a great tool, this is a great tool, I
didn't know what I was doing when I you
know because I'm intuitive I do
everything intuitively first I'm the
person that goes to Ikea buys the
product builds it and reads the
instructions. I would highly recommend
you read the instructions first and then
buy the product, so that you know how to
use it, because I didn't.. I didn't know
how to use this when I first got it.
Now I do and it's nice because I can.. if I've
decided.. so Thanksgiving or Christmas
came up, right, and I ate a little more
carbs than I normally would, so it was
nice to know to be able to measure that,
whether I was in ketosis
not.So thumbs up to Kiss My Keto for all
their support and for their incredible
products, because it really has made a
difference in my life. Thanks for watching!
