WOW!!! 40 days friends! It is the last day of this blog and WOW! How my life has changed is absolutely AMAZING!!!
Ok, so recap about the past 40 days... no, it wasn't easy AT ALL at the beginning and the answer is simple π
I used to eat SOOOO many carbs and sugar; not that I had bad sugars but I did LOOOVE pastries, desserts... and well who doesn't... and fruits... remember I grew up in a fruit farm besides in the capital of PerΓΊ? ... but i never really considered what the carbs and sugars were doing to my body. My thought process was π " I can eat WHATEVER I want if I work out and burn those calories."
Yup! That was my life for the past 33 years! Yes I am 33! Lol but these past 40 days made me realize how important it is to take care of our physical bodies and how important is to know how what we eat affects it. So... that being said, let me share something.
During the first weeks, although what I cooked was delicious, my body was confused as eff! ππ it was SOO used to burn carbohydrates and sugars to use it as calories, so all the fat intake was like ... shit... wtf is happening?!?! Where are my carbs? And my sugars?
I did noticed that during the first week my physical body was fine, then I started feeling kinda sick. Some days I truly couldn't do anything. I didn't have the strength to work out or practice yoga, which I do pretty much every day! I felt SOO out of energy and sickly. Once I started feeling better, I noticed my body kinda blew up! Hahaha ok it sounds worse than what it was, but because it was absorbing so much fat, something it had never done before, the fat was being stored in places where I hold the weight whenever I gain some kilos or pounds, which are the love handles. It made me very uncomfortable at the beginning, but there was nothing I could do about it.
I was still kind with my physical body even though I wanted to work out like crazy and go back to my "normal" weight. The issues I had as a child, teenage years and most of my adult life (anorexia and bulimia), were triggered by the fact that I had gained weight, I felt "chubby" and I couldn't do much about it because I knew I was in a transition period and I knew I had to let my physical body adjust and not kill it with over exercising... which I've done before MANY MANY times.
My moon cycle (aka period) even got affected. Last month, the month of November, it only lasted for 2 days and it was late. I didn't know what was happening until D did more research and read that is common for that to happen for some women at the beginning. The thing is that is not that I was kinda trying to be full PB Keto, I WAS, we WERE and still are FULL Keto, so of course my being was gonna freak out looking for carbs and sugars within to burn and be confused as fuck about all the fat intake! π
Once I passed that period, I started to feel WAY better than ever! I began to go to the gym and practice yoga. The results were coming even faster than before and my body was feeling GREAT! I felt my mind and ego relaxing about the triggers this way of living had created and at the same time, I was truly grateful because it made me work on them, understand them and fully release them! π
These past 40 days were the trial to see how I felt about the Keto was of living and to be completely and absolutely honest, I LOOOVE it. Soo... this is our new life style. Lucky for me and D, I LOOVE cooking and making things for scratch; it's a way for me to Express and explore my creativity. However, in the near, super near future, we are having an oven! Because not being able to make my own bread, cookies and cakes was kinda making insane! π
Alright! Let's talk about the meals on this 40th day of Plant Based Keto! Shall we? π€
First things first: D's famous Bulletproof CafΓ©!!! πππ Mmmm πππ