Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Jackie, talks about her eventful and often stressful life and how keto has helped her considerably with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and PTSD.

Jacquelyn Graham is a convert to the Keto lifestyle with no intention of ever turning back.  She has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome – hypermobility-type – and the benefits she’s received from minimising inflammation in her body alone would be enough to make her eat this way for the rest of her life, but the additional beneficial effects to her mental clarity, assisting in lessening her PTSD symptoms, as well as losing weight and keeping it off are all equally welcome.

Her life has taken her all over the world and into Supreme Courts, and she’s gratefully received all the gifts that came to her from those difficult experiences, including being found by her biological family as a direct result.  She has spoken at events for DV LEAP (Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Program), the Washington DC Women’s Bar Association, and Senate hearings – to share her experiences with the Hague Convention in hopes of helping those who are currently experiencing the same struggle she went through for more than a decade.

LINKS

• DV LEAP (Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment & Appeals Program) website
• Psycopath Free on Facebook is a good support group for women and men who are trying to escape an abuser or have already escaped and are healing.
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome website

The quote Jackie mentioned – “You deserve better than the worse you can stand” – was from Robin Norwood’s book Women Who Love Too Much.

Jackie’s top tip was a quote from Richard Rohr –

If you don’t transform your pain you will almost certainly transmit it.

The end quote from the show was from Jeanne C Stein –

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

Daisy and regular guest Taffiny chat about Christmas culinary traditions and Taffiny shares some recipes.

Taffiny Elrod is a professional chef and culinary instructor located in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley. With over 15 years of professional culinary experience, she has cooked and taught many culinary styles with a special interest in food for health and culinary traditions. Most recently, she taught professional cooking for veterans returning to the work force in New York City before opening a small restaurant with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Inspired by her success with her own ketogenic/Low Carb High Fat diet, she launched a cooking website called Keto Cooking School where she shares recipes and techniques, and plans to explore the connection between traditional, classical and the ketogenic way of eating.

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Taffiny’s Yorkshire Pudding

Preheat oven to 425F (220C)

• • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons melted fat or butter
  • 1/2 cup unflavoured whey protein powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • Additional 1/2 cup hot fat – preferable beef drippings

• Mix wet ingredients then stir in dry ingredients or mix briefly in blender.

Heat beef fat in a pan or muffin tins in preheated oven.

Add batter and bake at 425F (220C) until puffed and brown.

You can replace the whey powder with egg white powder but use a little less – 1/4 to 1/3 cup.

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Taffiny’s website is www.ketocookingschool.com

If you want to get in touch with Taffiny, her contact details are:-

Email classiccookery@gmail.com
Twitter @ketocookschool
Instagram @ketocookingschool

The quote that Taffiny mentioned during the show – “Hunger is the best sauce” – is actually a very old proverb with no known specific provenance. This article talks about the proverb in some detail.

This week’s end quote is from Virginia Woolf –

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Daisy talks to the show’s first extraordinary man, Austin, who talks about his extremely exciting keto ice cream Kickstarter campaign.

Austin and his wife Courtney grew up on the East Coast and met in college.

Austin has an MBA with a background in venture capital and analytics and Courtney has a degree in broadcasting.

They live in Midway, Utah with their four children: two girls and two boys between the ages of 1 and 7. They started a ketogenic way of eating in early 2017 and grew frustrated with commercial ice creams that were low fat, contained added sugar and/or other non-keto ingredients.

They founded Rebel Creamery to develop the first high fat, low carb, no sugar added ice cream using only keto-friendly ingredients. They also hope to use their ice cream to entice others to learn about and try a ketogenic lifestyle.

For a chance to win 4 pints of yummy Rebel ice cream, comment #RebelIceCream on any of the daily posts for this week’s show on the Keto Woman podcast’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages. Anybody can play along but the lucky recipient has to live in the US.

If you don’t want to leave it to chance then you can order your own at the Kickstarter campaign

This week’s quote is from Ginger Rogers and is a sentiment I share entirely.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!

Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Kim, talks about her passion for Keto and living a life fuelled by pleasure and ketones.

Kim Howerton struggled with her relationship with food from the time she was 8. As the years went by and her health problems mounted, she felt at the mercy of her body and out of control with her weight. A dedicated seeker of pleasure, she realised that life in a body that was always in pain was no way to live; that a pleasurable life starts by living in a body that feels good.

Enter Keto – a life that has brought together her love of satisfying, delicious foods in a way that makes her actually feel good. She now shares her love of all things Keto though group coaching as well as running a very large Facebook group about Keto called Completely Keto.

You can find Kim’s blog and coaching at theketonist.com

and her FB page at CompletelyKeto

This week’s quote is by J M Barrie and comes from his book Peter Pan –

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Daisy talks to her latest extraordinary woman, Joie Vawter, who discusses her busy life juggling many roles – dance teacher, prayer minister, wedding officiator and nutrition coach.

Joie Vawter is a native of Michigan.  She Ioves her life, her husband, two kids and two puppies.  Joie is an innately curious person. She has honed many skills over the years that interest her. She’s a life-time learner an that is her main hobby. For her sanity, Joie teaches dance to kids, has a ministry for prayer, and officiates weddings. Joie recently added nutrition coach to her list as well.  Joie lets off steam lifting weights and dancing Ballroom & Latin socially.

You can find Joie on her Facebook pages…

Let’s Eat for REAL with Joie!

Joie Vawter Ministries

The end quote on the show is from a Quote Investigator article.

Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching,
and live like it’s heaven on earth.

Daisy talks to her latest extraordinary woman, Carolina Cartier, who shares her incredible story from being told she would never conceive to becoming pregnant with twins.

Carolina was diagnosed with precocious puberty at only 3
years old and then PCOS at 13. Her weight climbed to 380
pounds (172 kg) at its highest point. Working as a financial
analyst, she was constantly tired, foggy headed, short-
tempered and just downright miserable. She discovered the
ketogenic diet in 2014 and lost 120 pounds (54 kg) over two
years.

Even more surprising, after 19 years of no ovulation
or cycles due to PCOS, she started cycling after only four
months on keto. She is currently pregnant with
spontaneous twin boys.

Carolina’s top tip was a quote from Karen Lamb –

A year from now you will wish you
had started today

You can find out about the upcoming boot camp Carolina talked about at her Revo
Wellness website and touch base with Carolina on her Facebook page.

You can find further information about Polycystic Ovary syndrome on the PCOS foundation’s website

This week Daisy welcomes extraordinary woman Erin MacFarland, a mother of two, who discusses her recovery from anorexia nervosa and exercise bulimia.

Erin is a 36 year old mother of two who works part time for a local food co op, and studied sociology in college. She was diagnosed in March of this year with anorexia and exercise bulimia  and began recovery six months ago. Erin is especially keen to share what it has been like to have this disease later in life whilst raising a family. She started keto in 2015 after reading about its ability to improve athletic performance. She had taken up running after her second child was born, which she now realises was actually a symptom of her already-thriving eating disorder. She is keen to share how her eating disorder progressed and why keto affected her body in a negative way at the time but also how it addressed some health issues that had been bothering her for ages. Once she realised how easily she lost weight while eating keto, Erin had to change her approach to eating this way and manages now to eat a modified version of keto.

Websites and podcasts that Erin found useful in her research:-

Keto

• The Ketogenic Forums
• Break Nutrition
• Amy Berger – Tuit Nutrition
• Chris Masterjohn PhD

Eating Disorders and Body Positivity

• The Eating Disorder Institute
• Life. Unrestricted
• Summer Innanen – Fearless Rebelle Radio
• Emily Troscianko
• Tabitha Farrar – The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
• Shan Guisinger – Adapted to Flee Famine
• Matt Stone – 180 Degree Health
• The Weston A Price Foundation

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Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

Taffiny Elrod, a professional chef and culinary instructor, shares her passion for fusing traditional, classical and ketogenic ways of eating.

Taffiny Elrod is a professional chef and culinary instructor located in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley. With over 15 years of professional culinary experience, she has cooked and taught many culinary styles with a special interest in food for health and culinary traditions. Most recently, she taught professional cooking for veterans returning to the work force in New York City before opening a small restaurant with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Inspired by her success with her own ketogenic/Low Carb High Fat diet, she launched a cooking website called Keto Cooking School where she shares recipes and techniques, and plans to explore the connection between traditional, classical and the ketogenic way of eating.

The quote that inspired Taffiny’s top tip was from Werner Erhard;

“Create from your future not your past”

The recipes for Buffalo Wings and Argentinian Chimichurri Sauce can be found on Taffiny’s website www.ketocookingschool.com

If you want to get in touch with Taffiny, her contact details are:-

• Email classiccookery@gmail.com
• Twitter @ketocookschool
• Instagram @ketocookingschool

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” – Anaïs Nin

This week, Daisy talks to her latest extraordinary woman, Jessica Shotwell Walker, who discusses her recovery from PCOS and T2D plus how she rediscovered her inner warrior through dragon boating and now coaches others to do the same.

Jessica is a housewife and mother of two from Atlanta. She empowered herself by starting the ketogenic way of eating over 10 years ago and has since recovered from type 2 diabetes, PCOS and debilitating plantar fasciitis. Jessica has continued to maintain her 65lb weight loss and no longer takes diabetes medications. In her 50th year she is the energetic athlete she always wanted to be. Jessica loves tennis almost as much as dragon boat racing and plays in two leagues – USTA and ALTA. She and her USTA doubles team have earned her a spot at the USTA Georgia State Championships for the second year in a row.

She continues to be an inspirational role model in her community and was named Rotarian of the year 2016-2017 for the Rotary Club of Peachtree City Georgia for her outstanding work with her dragon boat teams. She coaches people from all walks of life (her favourite students being the absolute beginners) to work as a team in dragon boats and then go on to race. You can see photos and videos of Jessica in action training on the Rotary Club of Peachtree City Dragon Boat Festival Facebook page.

Links

• International Dragon Boat Federation
• The Rotary Club
• The book Jessica mentioned was Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron
• You can find Jessica on Facebook and also on her website Momentum Wellness LLC

This week, Daisy talks to her first extraordinary woman, Louise Reynolds, who talks about the importance of her psychological development before and after weight loss surgery.

Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three teen boys. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. She is an admin on the Ketogenic Forums, having addressed a number of her own and her family health issues with lower carb and now Keto since late 2015. In her spare time, Louise is strength training at the gym, planning overseas travel and preparing delicious tasty (#boringketo) ‘recipppppesss’.

LINKS

• Gretchen Rubin
• The books mentioned were:
  • The Happiness Project
  • Better Than Before
  • The Four Tendencies
• The therapy methods discussed were:
  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
  • Templates and worksheets
  • The “mental scan” that Louise talked about is really an assessment of where in your body you are feeling stress. This mind map by Paul Foreman is a nice illustration of this idea and where it can take you.
  • This body scan meditation is a practical “how to”.
• A basic description from the NHS of what a DEXA scan is and what it is generally used for – specifically in the LC community to calculate LBM and BF{fb00496d80bda9dbb64fc97c692e11314ab624bd34a4858080ccad1e40fefcae}.