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 Karen Gaul says:

I’m 71 years old & have been dieting since the age of 9! Yes 9 years old…hard to believe but true.

My mum had taken me to our family GP with concerns about my development as I was somewhat bigger than my peer group. If more thought had been given then both mum & the GP would perhaps have realised I was at the start of puberty…earlier than most but true.

My early puberty resulted in decades of see-saw dieting following in the footsteps of my mum who was a serial dieter…I hadn’t known anything other than mum on a diet! Like so many I have a hundred & one reasons to diet & can probably tell you my weight at different stages of my life.

However my dad dying with Alzheimer’s in 2012 was a huge factor in my decision to not be in the same situation in my older years…at this stage I was almost 60!

It was time to make changes in all aspects of my life including sleep nutrition movement & mindset. A lower carb way of life was part of those changes & today I feel amazing. But a diagnosis of cancer last year made me realise if I hadn’t worked so hard my recovery post hysterectomy & subsequent treatment would have had a different outcome.

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Sixty Plus Wellness Positivity and Longevity

Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle – Gin Stevens

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 Tracey McBeath – The Health & Healing Coach lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is a mum of 5, author, health coach and coach mentor, a Nutrition Network lecturer, qualified personal trainer, public speaker, and the founder of the Low Carb Lifestyle Hub. 

Tracey has been working full time as a health coach in the low carb space for over 7 years, after being propelled to totally change her lifestyle at 40 after a fatty liver and pre diabetes diagnosis. 

Now at nearly 50 she has never been leaner, healthier and full of as much energy. 

As an insight based coach, Tracey shows people the path towards real, sustained change. She runs two long term membership programs, one for anyone and one for coaches looking for mentoring, support and insight on how to have more impact with their clients.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/218

You Have Today: 100 Insights That Will Change Your Life – Tracey McBeath

The Daily Insight Companion: A Step by Step Guide to Health, Healing & Happiness – Tracey McBeath

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing – Bronnie Ware

PROTEIN POWER: The high protein/low carbohydrate way to lose weight, feel fit, and boost your health  – Dr Michael R Eades and Dr Mary Dan Eades

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living – Dr Jeff S Volek and Dr Stephen D Phinney

Tracey’s TED Talk

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 Robert Cywes M.D., PhD is a clinically practicing doctor and surgeon in Florida and Idaho. His mission is educating the public about a carbohydrate addiction approach to treating obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Understanding the importance of replacing carbs in your diet with real food while simultaneously replacing carbs as a toxic, harmful response to emotional tension with a more effective diverse healthy set of emotion management tools for lifelong sustainability of mental and physical health, happiness and well-being. 

Converting people from toxic sugar burners to healthy fat (keto) burners while addressing the cause of addiction to carbs from an emotion management perspective. 

Sometimes using obesity surgery and devices as tools along the way, and helping people who have had bariatric surgery stay healthy and not relapse

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/217

Glycaemic Index – David Jenkins 

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Website Details:

https://Obesityunderstood.com

To find help with a certified sugar therapist

https://www.bittensaddiction.com/en/patients/help-available/

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 Bitten is a Registered Nurse since 1973, worked with addiction medicine since 1987 and sugar addiction since 1993. Developed a Holistic Addiction Treatment model, worked with group treatment for many years. She has been teaching and training professionals since 2012. 

Bitten is a recovering alcoholic and her understanding of addiction has been a 26 year journey. She started to learn about addiction in the 70s when she commenced her recovery from alcohol addiction. She fell in love with addiction medicine. She learnt that those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction who also smoke and eat junk food have a higher risk of relapsing.

After this ‘light bulb’ moment, she promptly quit smoking but would treat herself with chocolate and ice cream. She gained a lot of weight but she was also very tired. She was told she was a food addict and set out to learn more.

She started a group in 1995 and helped those with food addiction deal with the addiction. The low carb movement started in 2005 in Sweden. Bitten was told she was mentioned in a book.

The low carb sentiment is that if you stay low carb you can be healthy but it doesn’t take into consideration that some are “Food Addicts”, who can stop eating the problematic foods but can’t stay stopped.

Drawing on her understanding of addiction, she was able to translate this to food and food addictions.  Similarly to alcohol, social users of food can have a small piece of chocolate and then stop. Whereas harmful users of food are emotional eaters, comfort eaters. Food addicts have a different brain, they are biochemically unique. They don’t respond biochemically the same way as social users and harmful users. They are the most sensitive people.

Bitten developed a tool to differentiate between a harmful user and an addict. How much you eat and how often is not a criteria for addiction.  She teaches, trains and certifies them in the sugar instrument. 

Understanding  that addiction is chronic, progressive re-lapsable and deadly illness if you don’t arrest it. You don’t have a chance if you don’t embrace that. First you have to understand the illness, then you have to rewire the brain.  This is through eating the right types of food – such as the keto way of eating, with clean products, good foods, good fats and you have to figure out the fuel mix.  

Eating the right types of food minimises the chemical release in the brain.  These brain chemicals, particularly those that release dopamine is important.  Increasing tolerance to dopamine is built up over time with the types and amount of food that is eaten.  You eat more and more even though you feel miserable. It gives an initial high then it makes you depressed, moody, sad, unpleasant, tired, nothing is fun and you lose all your energy. You are not clinically depressed, you have lost energy on a cellular level.  

Bitten says get the addiction under control first for at least two years before doing any therapy. Changing the way she eats, she has become less swollen and able to move more. She has increased her energy and feels better now she is 67 than in her fifties. Bitten is like a Ferrari, she has to fuel up. Food is her medicine and fuel. She makes sure she gets her nutritional needs met. 

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/216

Sockerbomben – i din hjärna : bli fri från ditt sockerberoende – Bitten Jonsson

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Dr Annika Dahlqvist

Dr Andreas Eenfeldt 

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To find help with a certified sugar therapist

https://www.bittensaddiction.com/en/patients/help-available/

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 Nicola Lock was a medical secretary in the NHS for 15 years, primarily in Mental Health Services, and after having her children set up as a freelance medical transcriptionist which she has been doing for the last 20 years, mainly in private healthcare.

Her interest in low carb began about 9 years ago after discovering Michael Mosley’s 8 week blood sugar diet. Over the years she had made several attempts at losing weight by following the recommended low fat, eat less/move more model, which either failed or, if she succeeded initially, she then put the weight back on and was back to square one.

In the New Year of 2019 she decided to try a low carb/real food lifestyle in an attempt to lose the weight that she had once again put on over the Christmas period, and six months later had effortlessly lost about 2 stone (28 lb / 12.5 kg), which she has pretty much maintained since that time.  Although she had no health issues that she was aware of, after becoming low carb she has noticed improvement in her skin as well as improved energy and mental wellbeing.

Nicola has discovered an enthusiasm for learning more about this way of life and has been a member of Nutrition Network since July 2020.  She has completed several of their courses including Nutrition Network Advisor, Obesity: Risks & Reversal, Ethics, Neurology and LCHF for Nurses.  She is currently studying Metabolism and the Mind. 

Nicola has been an ambassador for the Public Health Collaboration since October 2020 and since June 2023 has been a health coach for The Lifestyle Club, which is an online programme providing education to empower people diagnosed with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes to potentially put their condition into remission through a real food lifestyle approach.  And recently Nicola has become involved with another PHC project, Liberate, which is a programme designed to help people who feel addicted to ultra processed foods.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/215

Both Nicola and Jackie agreed – go to conferences. Meet other people who think like you and you can talk to without fear of being shunned.

Find your tribe

Nicola Lock

Ben Hunt

Heather Foley

Zoe Harcombe

Rich Smith

Dr Rachel Brown

Dr Anthony Chaffee

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 Marisa Matos is a registered nutritional therapist and a dedicated advocate for root cause medicine, empowering individuals to reclaim control over their health and well-being. As the founder of UltiVita Health, she specialises in working with complex chronic illness and mystery illness.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Genetics and extensive training in nutritional therapy, nutrigenomics, and functional blood chemistry analysis, Marisa employs a science-based approach to restore metabolic imbalances, often utilising ketogenic metabolic therapy. 

She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree, focusing on the therapeutic benefits of the ketogenic diet as part of her naturopathic nutritional therapy protocols in clinic for Long Covid.

In addition to her clinical work, Marisa serves as a lecturer in Nutrition Science and contributes as a freelance nutrition writer. Her passion for promoting holistic health shines through in her commitment to advancing knowledge and empowering individuals to live their healthiest lives.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/214

Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones – Dr Mindy Pelz

Hunter and Gather

Ape Nutrition

Sarah Myhill

Moira Newiss

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 Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs! “

Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs. He pioneered a new approach using his scientific knowledge, clinical expertise and new technology which resulted in the ProLongevity service. 

The ProLongevity programme helps people who want to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid/reverse diabetes, by using new technology to monitor real-time blood sugar  levels.  We provide personalised advice based on your data to help you make changes to your diet and lifestyle. We avoid traditional approaches that treat symptoms after the damage has been done.  Prevention is better than cure.

Graham has two sons, one is also a pharmacist and the other a corporate lawyer. He lives with his partner, Karen (a GP also passionate about lifestyle medicine) in North London.

Like Jackie,  Graham is also an ambassador for the Public Health Collaboration. He believes that the world has become dominated by Big Food on the one hand (makes you sick) and  Big Pharma on the other (makes you 10% better). In the end science must prevail.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/213

Summarised in a phrase “Eat real food”

The Big Fat Surprise – Nina Teicholz

Chris Knobbe

PHC UK

Tucker Goodrich

Nina and Mark Hyman 

Weston A. Price Foundation 

Ivor Cummings with Tucker Goodrich 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8pq8GwLVo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM

Website Details: Prolongevity 

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 In this episode Louise Reynolds and Jackie celebrate the 4th anniversary of The Fabulously Keto Podcast.

In this special episode we discuss our recent experiences with Megan Ellam’s Megg fast program.

We share our personal results, including weight loss, improved glucose control, better sleep and enhanced mental clarity. 

Louise emphasises the importance of planning, electrolytes and meal preparation for success in the Meggfast program. Whilst Jackie has more of fly by the seat of your pants approach.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/212

For more details of the 30 day Megg Fast Challenge go to https://fabulouslyketo.com/megg

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 Lierre Keith is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” 

She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. 

She is the founder of WoLF (Women’s Liberation Front), a nonprofit which is suing the state of California on behalf of women forced to share prison cells with men. She lives in the redwoods with an enormous pack of enormous dogs.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/211

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability

Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet 

The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environment Revolution

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It – Lierre Keith

Earth at Risk – Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen

Conditions of War

Skyler Gabriel

Weston Price

4 H

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 Megan Ellam is the award-winning author, photographer, and recipe developer behind the Mad Creations blog, cookbooks, and keto product range.

A self-confessed foodie, Megan’s passion lies in creating amazingly delicious low carb and keto recipes.

Her approach to recipes is through a love of fresh, tasty and easy to prepare meals.

Megan found her love of everything keto when she was diagnosed with insulin resistance and lost 45 kgs changing to a low carb lifestyle.

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/210

Keto Loco

Simply Delicious

Keto Mojo

Slow Cook Keto

Healthy Family

Every Day Keto

Lunch Time Keto

Fed Up Fast 4.0

Megg Fast 3.1

Take a look through Megan’s books

https://madcreationshub.com/shop/

Electrolytes are included the Keto Mojo book

Megan’s Gummies

Megan’s Previous Podcast

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/meganellam

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lowcarbmixers/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganellam

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Website Details:

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