Better Nutrition March 2019

GUIDE
My body weight has been
the same since I was 20—
never changes,” says Laurie
Steelsmith, ND, a naturopath in
Hawaii and author of Growing
Younger Every Day. She decided to
go on a keto diet not to lose weight,
but to experience its effects. “After
about 3 weeks, I felt fantastic, I had
so much energy, and kept going,”
she says. After following the diet
for two months, Steelsmith started
modifying it in a way that maintains
improvements.
“I no longer have low blood
sugar—ever,” which had been
a problem before keto, says
Steelsmith. “My tendency was not
to eat because I get busy, so I got
‘hangry,’ and then I got irritable, and
then I felt crummy,” she recalls. But
that cycle is gone. One day after
breakfast, she went on a six-hour
hike up a mountain. Afterward,
she knew it was time to eat but
wasn’t very hungry, still had plenty
of energy, and mentally felt on top
of her game. Before keto, she would
have been hungry, and likely hangry,
long before the end of the hike.
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