I was soooo over-the-moon happy to see this YouTube video come up in my feed of suggestions!!! It has two of my favorite influencers, Dr. Ben Bikman (a professor at my alma mater, BYU, who I’ve blogged about here) and Dr. Jordan Peterson talking about what makes us fat and sick: too many carbs. Yess!!!!

For decades, I ate too many carbs, even though they were “good” carbs, meaning whole foods. I ate LOTS of whole grains (brown rice, whole wheat sourdough bread, millet, quinoa, etc.), TONS of beans, lentils, fruits and veggies. I spent 7 years being vegan or vegetarian. I thought this was THE way to eat, and that if just exercised more, I would be fine.

After eating this way and having 7 babies, I ended up weighing more than 200 lbs when Baby #7 was two months old. I was not happy with this. I wanted to cry!!! Fortunately, I have lost the weight and feel much better in my skin.

I was insulin resistant from eating so many carbs, even though they were whole foods/”good” carbs, i.e. complex carbs, for so many years. The video above explains the physiology. Watch and learn.

One solution is the keto diet. Dr. Bikman has an office down the hall from one of my siblings. His suggestion to my sibling to try keto helped my sibling lose weight and eliminate this person’s headaches. Keto has helped me tremendously, too, along with intermittent fasting.

How do you know if you are insulin resistant? Check the image of symptoms above. They all come from insulin resistance, according to Dr. Bikman. If your insulin resistant symptom is too much weight, get my ebook over here to see how I lost 70 lbs without exercise. Read more of my story over here.

Read what else I’ve said about keto here.

Read about extreme keto, i.e. carnivore diet success stories here. I have the carnivore success story of Tammy Peterson, Dr. Peterson’s wife, here.

Here’s how I reconcile the carnivore diet with the Word of Wisdom.

Have hope for your health struggles! Diet can help, but it’s often not the kind of diet the media has led us to believe.