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Our Keto Journey

The keto diet is hot! Read all about our keto journey in this series.

How To Use The MyFitnessPal App On Your Mobile Device

Published May 31, 2018 | Last Updated October 10, 2022 By Dr. John Bianchi 2 Comments

In a previous post, I showed you how to use the MyFitnessPal app to calculate your daily food consumption for a ketogenic diet. For Barbara and me, this app has been absolutely essential to our keto diet success story. However, shortly after publishing that post, I realized that most of our friends…

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Filed Under: Exercise, Keto, LOW CARB, Our Keto Journey, Paleo, Strength Training, Wellness

Our Keto Journey Part 5: Important Tweaks We Made For Keto Success

Published May 20, 2018 | Last Updated November 23, 2024 By Dr. John Bianchi 2 Comments

You’re now familiar with what a keto diet is and how ketosis affects your body. You’ve established why you want to go keto (e.g.. weight loss, help in treating a specific health condition, or enhanced physical performance). And you’ve solved the mystery of macro calculation. So now…

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Filed Under: Diet, Exercise, Keto, LOW CARB, Our Keto Journey, Paleo, Strength Training, Wellness

Our Keto Journey Part 4: How We Calculate Our Keto Diet Macros

Published May 9, 2018 | Last Updated July 10, 2021 By Dr. John Bianchi 2 Comments

In this fourth post in our series Our Ketogenic Diet Journey, I’ll give you a behind the curtains peek at how Barbara and I configured our ketogenic diet. The keto diet with its amazing health benefits is finally becoming mainstream. More and more people are turning to the diet as an effective…

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Filed Under: LOW CARB, Our Keto Journey, Strength Training, Wellness Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, epilepsy, How to calculate macros, insulin resistance, Keto, Ketogenic, Ketosis, low carb, Low-Carb Healthy Fat, MCT oil, obesity, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes, weight loss

Our Keto Journey Part 3: Defeating A Skinny Fat Body And Healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Published April 17, 2018 | Last Updated January 23, 2022 By Dr. John Bianchi 15 Comments

This is part 3 of our series Our Keto Journey. In John’s case, he wasn’t overweight, but he did have a metabolically dangerous fat issue that required he go keto. Surprisingly, there may be up to 30 million people in the United States with this same problem, but …

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Filed Under: AIP, Exercise, LOW CARB, Our Keto Journey, Special Diets, Strength Training, Wellness

Our Keto Journey Part 2: Getting Rid Of Stubborn Pounds And Guarding Against Alzheimer’s

Published March 24, 2018 | Last Updated November 23, 2024 By Barbara Bianchi 1 Comment

In the first post in this series, John presented a 5,000-foot view of what a ketogenic diet looks like. If you’re completely unfamiliar with a keto diet, we suggest you read that post first. In this post today, I’ll share why I went keto.

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Our Keto Journey Part 1: The Keto Diet Is Hot! Here’s Why

Published March 8, 2018 | Last Updated October 12, 2022 By Dr. John Bianchi 3 Comments

The keto diet is hot! Here's why. | Ketogenic diet | Low-Carb High Fat | LCHF | Let's take a 10,000-foot view of the ketogenic diet and examine what it is and how it affects disease, brain fog, and weight loss.

Barbara and I have been on a ketogenic diet for about six months, and we are absolutely amazed at the results. I’ve lost inches. She’s lost inches. And we’re both full of energy. To tell you the truth, the diet wasn’t even that difficult to configure or stay on. From our perspective, it wasn’t restrictive…

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Filed Under: Diet, LOW CARB, Our Keto Journey, Strength Training, Wellness

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