I'm Cara from Health Home and Happiness and this is my sister-in-law Lori and
she is letting me interview her about her weight loss journey on the ketogenic
diet and Lori how much have you lost so far I've lost ninety four and a half
pounds anymore and a half pounds and I'm so excited for her because she's done
this when did you start I started July 1st of last year I
can't work out what does that work out to a week on average like exactly 2
pounds a week almost every single week even through the holidays so what made
you choose the ketogenic diet I saw friends that had amazing results of
weight loss and performance enhancements and I just figured with two kids and
working full-time I needed a change I was at my heaviest and I was very
unhappy with myself and so was there any particular event that spurred it or
you're just like it's summer I'm ready to go
I was just you know ready to just start my journey and get healthy yeah and how
old were your kids when you started my son was let's see July so he was 2 and
my daughter was a year oh yeah yeah did when you were you still breastfeeding
when you started? I was not. you weren't? no. okay so she didn't even have that
boost to help you on the initial weight so what did you think
were you gonna try it for a certain amount of time or were you just gonna
give it a shot um I was just gonna try it for a certain amount of time see if
it was something I can work into my busy schedule with the kids and work and see
if I got results I've done other weight loss programs
before and I saw results but definitely with the ketogenic diet I saw results
even faster. What other programs have you started or tried
before? I've tried the Herbalife shakes meal replacement shakes and I did
get results off out of that but definitely with the ketogenic diet I
yeah it was way way way more result like that initial like how much did you lose
you remember how much you lost like the first month or first couple weeks? the
first month I dropped good probably 15 pounds. yeah and doesn't make a huge
difference yeah like 15 pounds is like a couple clothing sizes yeah yeah it was
huge and for me it just pushed me even harder to just keep going yeah I mean I
in the first month I had a camping trip we had birthday parties so it was it was
hard it really tested my ability to even do it yeah what was the hardest part
about starting I'm just changing and adding you know cutting the carbs and
cutting the sugar I was a huge carb eater you know with my husband wanting to eat
pastas and pizzas and um for me I was just cutting all
that out it was it was hard yeah and did you make replacements like did you use
fat head dough or anything like that are you just kind of like... at first I didn't
because I just knew bare minimum I was like in the beginning of my research and
so I was you know instead of eating pasta I was eating salad instead of
eating the pizza I was eating just scraping the toppings off and not and
that was it like those were my dinners and now with you know being a little
over a year into it I've done more research and I've done you know cheese
crusts for a pizza and my actually my whole family has adapted yeah and so
does your whole family eat keto now... this is my brother's family... does your
whole family eat keto now no no but you've been able to stick with it I've
been able to stick with it we just I make sure that we have a the same
protein and I'll cook my own side and cook their sides different exactly what
would you say that does for how your kids eat I've noticed that my kids
definitely a lot healthier it's broaden their
you know probably vegetables that they eat and just the different foods that
they're willing to try yeah exactly I mean I found that because usually when
we've been on vacation for the past week here at the lake and usually when I go
out with someone it's like my kids eat something and then their kids eat pretty
much a card-based meal and it's really fun to see your kids like stealing
asparagus off of our plates and just like chowing down on Italian sausage and
so that's really it's exciting to see this not just my kids and like her
husband and my brother their dad I mean what does he eat oh he's don't like
full-blown carbs so he'll eat you know his pastas that he'll still eat pizza
he'll drink is beer and it doesn't matter what beer could be you know IPAs
or you know Coors Light he'll still drink it but he's still very carb
exactly and so I think that's really encouraging for everyone to see like
they're a normal two parent working family two little kids they're just over
a year apart purchase under a year part but two little kids and moms able to do
this kids are definitely benefiting from it I think yeah yeah it looks like it's
not a super stressful thing to you meal prep before you go to work I do not okay
you know perhaps eat I just go day by day I go day by day what do you
typically have like on a workday what's your typical breakfast my typical
breakfast will be a premier protein shake the chocolate flavored which is
two net carbs and then I will put it with 10 ounces of coffee and I will also
use the perfect keto MCT chocolate powder and then lunch you eat while
you're at work you eat your desk good you go out it depends on the day
normally and what I'll do is eat at my desk and then just a salad from a nearby
like you're kind of fast source if there isn't
you don't have a thought on it I can't get enough right
and then dinner like you get how much time you get home I'll normally get home
around a quarter to five five o'clock okay and then what time do you go sorry
I need dinner I try not to eat no later than 6:30 6:30 yeah and so you're
getting dinner like from the time you get in you're getting home with two kids
and you're getting dinner on the table and so you're able to even without meal
trapping grab Aikido yeah that's so good like it's so realistic that the average
family endure this we're very active and we love to be outside so it works for us
too in the morning just throw out a tri-tip or throw a bag of chicken that's
frozen and just throw it on the smoker throw it on the barbie when we get home
and let it go and then i have actually resource to using steamer bags over our
vegetables yes and so it's a quick five minutes and we got you know nice hot
vegetables right and I feel like like some people are not cool with
microwaving and plastic and all of that but I mean look at her results and look
how she's been able to stick with this and it's kind of when you don't have to
follow everything so rigidly and feel like you have to do it perfectly
obviously she's paying attention to detail like how much have you cheated in
the past year I have not cheated what she's not cheated at all and when have
you been most tempted to cheat um birthdays definitely when people are
snacking down on those cupcakes or cakes ice cream and I always told myself if
I'm gonna have one cheat day I'm gonna be after my year mark and what I'm gonna
have is a big frozen yogurt sundae and it's been a little over a year and I
still have not how to cheat day yeah because I'd like to ask you how you feel
when you cheat but I can't even ask you that yeah so what was the most
unexpected thing about keto for you the extreme difference in energy okay
once I was totally in ketosis and adopted the amount of energy I have I
noticed I play softball Tuesday nights on a co-ed league and I used to just
walk on the field walk-off doom bare minimum try to hit it
as far as I could so I could just jog to first base
now I'm hustling on off the field running as fast as I can to even try to
make it to second base and by the end of my game I'm not sweating I'm not tired
I'm ready to play another full game or go home and play with my kids and this
is after you've worked a full day yeah and you've gotten two kids ready for
daycare drop that off and pick them up and the other and all of that and that's
just so exciting how old are you 99 she's a baby so and this is this has
been kind of a long journey are you like you lost your pregnancy weight and then
you gained for another pregnancy and this is kind of kind of how it's gone
like up and down yeah with my son I actually lost weight just because I
didn't really have an appetite when I was eating was actually only fruit and
then the last month of course I put 10 pounds on I really never lost that
weight I kind of just maintained it and then I the next thing I knew I was
pregnant again and gained another ten pounds and by the time I had my daughter
and went back to work I realized this is such a better example for your kids like
we've been out hiking and fishing and rowing and just like all the energy to
not have to not with the kids and just to keep going then yeah every morning
I've walked this week yeah I walk a lot at work I do have a desk job that I am
able to get out walk around the dealership and I mean so on average I'll
walk anywhere from three to four miles
you know I did one week of elliptical I hadn't realized I was eating so much
muscle that I gained weight on the scale
and then in the year I have ran one 5k and that's it perfect no issues I think
is so exciting to see how realistic this can be can you tell us a little bit
we're almost done like what you eat on the go like fast food like do you have
any fast food burgers are definitely like our code - yeah and then use the
premier protein shake so that's portable and then she's also hasn't done nuts
which is kind of interesting because that's something that's really easy to
grab a handful and there's like 400 calories it's hard to lose weight when
you're just grabbing those nuts so she did youdid no nuts and no berries no
nuts and no berries I just figured with an ounce of nuts you know that could be
two to four carbs I decided I'd rather have that extra cup of cauliflower extra
cup of broccoli something larger with my dinner that would sustain me throughout
the night and this is something that prior to keto you thought you'd be
excited about an extra cup of broccoli no no definitely not I've always loved
vegetables but now just learning the different ways to cook them and what you
can add to you know it's just wrong like what I
will do like experiment with yeah and then seeing Tiffani her a little
one-year-old and go and steal cauliflower off her plate is just like
it's adorable and that's kind of what you want to see your kids doing and
modeling after you absolutely alright well thank you so much you're doing this
with me I hope it's really encouraging for everybody and thank you guys for
watching