Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Amy, talks about how she juggles her busy life as a pediatric intensive care physician with bringing up two toddlers.

Amy Chirico is a pediatric critical care medicine doctor in northern New Jersey where she lives with her husband and two toddler daughters. Her weight struggles began at an early age and she spent years yo-yo dieting and searching for a sustainable plan to lose and maintain her weight. She feels that keto, along with active work on her mindset and perspective, are the solutions for which she’s been searching all along and have benefited her in so many ways beyond weight loss. Her goals now include spreading the word about the benefits and myths about keto to her colleagues in the medical community, her patients and their families when possible, and anyone else who will listen, and providing support to others getting started or maintaining their keto way of eating. 

Podcasts Amy learned mind work from (neither advocate any specific diet plan):

Weight loss for busy physicians Katrina Ubell, MD

Primal Potential Elizabeth Benton

This week’s end quote is from Louise Hay…

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking then the problems fix themselves.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Sandra, talks about how she has overcome numerous chronic health issues with keto as well as helping her father do the same and steer her children through gastric health disorders.

Sandra Toll, also known as KetoCubana, is a wife and mother of two, who teaches Theatre at an urban arts high school in New Jersey. After a lifetime of struggling with weight, PCOS, infertility, insulin resistance, migraines, chronic fatigue, sleep apnea, and chronic pain, Sandra has found a new lease of life in a ketogenic dietary lifestyle. In Spring of 2016, she devoured the works of greats such as Mark Sisson, Nora Gedgaudas, Gary Taubes, Nina Teischolz, Maria Emmerich, Jimmy Moore, the 2KetoDudes and many more. Six months after starting keto, she had lost 60 pounds and had reversed many chronic health issues. Now keto for two and a half years, she has successfully coached friends and family members through a gentle and gradual transition from the S.A.D. to a low-carb/ketogenic approach, connecting them to resources for support.  This all primed her to address her children’s autoimmune and allergy issues through nutrition. As a teacher, Sandra’s strength is in sharing nutritional information with her community. She has discovered a growing passion and interest in the nutritional needs of children and nutrition for disease prevention. Sandra hopes to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner in order to further address the nutritional needs in her community.

You can find and follow Sandra on Instagram @ketocubana

This week’s end quote is from Burk Hudson…

Perfection is a road not a destination.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Evelyn, talks about her own experience of the menopause as well as what she has learnt working with her clients as a functional medicine nutritionist.

Evelyn is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist specializing in keto, fasting, weight loss resistance and positive mindset for women approaching or going through perimenopause and menopause.

Her website is evelynd.com

This week’s end quote quote is an old Chinese proverb…

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Annette, returns to finish her story and tell us what happened next – how she fought to keep her medical licence and beat felony charges.

Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Annette Bosworth, MD is an Internal Medicine
physician with over 19 years of experience helping patients overcome long-term, chronic
conditions through lifestyle adjustment, preventive medicine, and other therapeutic paths.
She's been mentioned in media outlets ranging from CNN, Time, US News & World Report, to Fox News.

In addition to medicine, she loves speaking at town halls, jails, churches and universities.
From politics to mission work, she lets her faith lead her to the next chapter of life-always
looking for teachable moments. Along with her husband, she savors the adventure of
raising three energetic, fast-growing sons through debate, wrestling, music, and theater.
She fights for the underdog and encourages patients with chronic health problems to
“Fight it ANYWAY YOU CAN. Ketones for Life.”

LINKS

Blog BozMD.com

YouTube Dr Boz [Annette Bosworth, MD]

Book Anyway you Can available as paperback, Kindle and audio book

Eating Guide MeToneLife.com

This week’s end quote is from Dame Judi Dench…
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Annette, shares her intriguing story and the tough battles she has fought along the way.

Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Annette Bosworth, MD is an Internal Medicine physician with over 19 years of experience helping patients overcome long-term, chronic conditions through lifestyle adjustment, preventive medicine, and other therapeutic paths. She’s been mentioned in media outlets ranging from CNN, Time, US News & World Report, to Fox News.

In addition to medicine, she loves speaking at town halls, jails, churches and universities. From politics to mission work, she lets her faith lead her to the next chapter of life-always looking for teachable moments. Along with her husband, she savors the adventure of raising three energetic, fast-growing sons through debate, wrestling, music, and theater. She fights for the underdog and encourages patients with chronic health problems to “Fight it ANYWAY YOU CAN. Ketones for Life.”

LINKS

• Blog BozMD.com
• YouTube Dr Boz [Annette Bosworth, MD]
• Book Anyway you Can available as paperback, Kindle and audio book
• Eating Guide MeToneLife.com

This week’s end quote is from Dame Judi Dench…

It takes courage to recognise the real as opposed to the convenient.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary women, Katie & Vicky, talk about what it’s like to be new to keto, what they have learned so far and the benefits they are already reaping.

Katie Kelleher is a 34 year old from California who works in a job that every nerd girl dreams of. She’s suffered from body positivity issues most of her life, but she’s trying to turn that around and has even started her Curvy Girl Complications blog to bring to light both the humorous and serious issues of being a Curvy Girl. 

A self-proclaimed, prior sugar fiend, she realized something had to be done when sugar and carbs were making her sick. She heard of keto from a fellow volunteer for GreySave Greyhound adoptions and hasn’t looked back since. She and her boyfriend have both been keto since the end of April 2018. She has been blogging about their experiences since day 1.  

Vicky Brown is a 39 year old Canadian married mother of one living in Japan. As an elementary school teacher she needs as much energy as possible to keep up with her very energetic kids, not to mention her own 2 year old. 

After years of dieting, weight loss groups (such as Weight Watchers), vegetarian, finding out about slow carb, paleo, then primal which led her to hearing about low carb, she finally started “lazy” keto in April of 2018 together with intermittent fasting. 

She has lost about 5 kg, but regained 3 when she went back to America to visit family. Usually she gains much than 3 kilos so this is a bit of a NSV!

Her goals for starting keto are health related. She is currently fighting off a future type 2 diabetes diagnosis but losing weight is a nice bonus. 

BOOKS

Gary Taubes Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

Lily Nichols Real Food for Gestational Diabetes: An Alternative to the Conventional Nutritional Approach

Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth

RESOURCES & LINKS

• Jason Fung YouTube channel
• Books
• Diet Doctor
• Prof Tim Noakes
• 2 Keto Dudes
• Ketogenic Forums
• Katie’s Blog curvygirlcomplications.com

greysave.org

You can find Katie and Vicky on Facebook @twoketonewbies

This week’s end quote is from C Joybell C…

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Karen, talks about life in Costa Rica and her and Mark Miller’s new podcast Keto Families.

Karen Mangiacotti is the co-host of the Keto Families and Keto kids podcast with her husband, Mark Miller. Karen and Mark met through Carl Franklin on a podcast they all did together a decade or so ago. Mark, Karen, and Carl all began Keto together after a scary cancer diagnosis for Mark (who is now cancer free!!!) – and the rest is Keto history.

Karen is a writer/speaker/troublemaker whose blogging and vlogging can found at:

DangerSnax.com

Keto Families Podcast

Mondays podcast

DangerSnax on YouTube

This week’s end quote is from Nadia Bolz-Weber…

Many of us are tormented by our idea self versus our actual self. Between our ideal income and our actual income. Our ideal personality and our actual personality. Our ideal weight and our actual weight.

But here’s the thing.

No one’s ever become their idea self. It’s a moving target. It’s this mirage of water in a desert. You spend all your energy trying to get to it – and that just creates more thirst.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Miriam, talks about her keto experience as an older woman and her new venture Granny Keto which she hopes to use to help many others like her.

Miriam Hatoum, also known as “Granny Keto, is a wife, mother, and grandmother of two – and also a lifelong dieter. For years she was scolded by doctors and was never believed when she said she was following dietary advice – a horrible cycle that started when she was just 13 years old!  Listening to Gary Taubes’ Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It was her lightbulb moment when, for the first time, she realized that the food itself was keeping her fat all these years and that it was not her fault. She began Keto that day and never looked back. As a certified nutritional coach, she addresses the needs and concerns of older women who are either doing Keto or are working on steps towards Keto. Both through her website and personal coaching, she offers these women help to navigate the waters of this new season in their lives.

She believes in KISS – Keep it Simple Sweetheart, and whether this new season brings you to cooking just for yourself or cooking for an entire extended family, Miriam and her husband have created easy, Keto, family-friendly recipes which you can find at Granny’s Table on her website, GrannyKeto.com.

Website

Facebook

YouTube

Instagram

This week’s end quote is from Angela Bassett…

I love my age. Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care. Experienced enough to do it right.

Join Daisy and Amy who recorded live in front of an audience at Ketofest 2018 and answered some of their questions.

Amy Berger, MS, CNS, NTP, is a USAF veteran, Certified Nutrition Specialist and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who specializes in using low-carbohydrate nutrition to help people reclaim their vitality through eating delicious foods. She loves showing people that getting and staying well doesn’t require starvation, deprivation, or living at the gym. Her motto is, “Real people need real food!” She blogs at www.tuitnutrition.com, where she writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, metabolism, weight loss, thyroid function, and more. She is the author of The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline.

LINKS

You can now order Rebel ice cream directly from their website at RebelCreamery.com

If you fancy trying one of Carrie Brown’s 52 delicious ice creams you can order her book here.

Check out what Moons Grove Farms are up to and when their candied ginger will be ready for sale on their Facebook page.

Keep up to date with upcoming Ketofest plans at ketofest.com.

This week’s end quote is from Richard Morris

Ketofest – where you meet old friends for the first time.

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Georgia, discusses the importance of nutrition for optimizing brain function and mental health.

Georgia Ede M.D. is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition and college mental health and was the first psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services to offer nutrition consultation as an alternative to medication management.  Dr. Ede speaks internationally on a wide range of nutrition topics, including Alzheimer’s prevention, the nutritional differences between plant and animal foods, and dietary strategies to optimize brain health. She writes about food and the brain for PsychologyToday.com and about all aspects of food and health on her own website DiagnosisDiet.com.

LINKS

Georgia’s blog on Psychology Today

Website

Low Carb Breckenridge video “Our Descent Into Madness: Modern Diets and the Global Mental Health Crisis.”

Articles

Saturated fat and PTSD (Loma Linda/Seventh Day Adventist study)

Risks to brain of plant-based diets

World Health Organization report on meat and cancer

Ketogenic Diets and Psychiatric Disorders

This week’s end quote is from Trudi Canavan…

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.