all right let's get this thing rolling hi my
name's chip brewster you can call me chip and i am going to attempt 60 days on the ketogenic diet
before we get to the diet though i want you to get to know me and some of the preparations i've taken
so a little about me first i consider myself a regular everyday guy i'm not really a fitness buff
i honestly haven't worked out since march haven't been to a gym since march in fact in october my
full-time job turned a bit sedentary so not only have i not been working out i haven't really been
moving at all i ate fairly healthy but it's not like i track what i eat you know we we buy fairly
healthy and then i just pick and go from there i will say this though we have a 16 month old and
as of late i have been finishing pretty much every single one for meals whether i was really hungry
or not i just i hate wasting food and i'm pretty sure that that in addition to the sedentary in
addition to the stop working out has led to the weight gain that i've experienced over the last
few months i am at the heaviest i've ever been and i i know what you're saying like well you're
not that heavy and you're right but it's still not something that i'm particularly happy about
my biggest problem is that i can't self motivate to to work out i was doing crossfit before covet
came in and i was paying that to do that because that was motivating me the the community the
people the workouts i could make it happen i've got gear at home i've got a wife who works out
but i just cannot get my lazy butt off the couch to break a sweat so if i can't get myself to move
i wanted to try something in the eating department and i have lots of friends and i've heard lots
of stories who have done the ketogenic or keto diet and so i figured why not let's give it
a try so what is keto for those not familiar with the diet a brief overview ketogenic diet is
about getting your body into a metabolic state of ketosis where instead of using glucose which is
a sugar that your body creates from carbohydrates instead you use ketones which your liver creates
from accessing the fat stores in your body so essentially it is a diet that turns your energy
burning system from carbs to fat the whole premise is low carb and there are a lot of low carb diets
out there i'm sure you've heard of us some of them the south beach diet the atkins diet eating paleo
tends to be low carb the difference though between a keto and one of those is this is the most
restrictive carbohydrate diet it has a daily calorie intake breakdown five percent comes from
carbohydrates 25 from protein 70 of your calories from fat so yeah fat is the focus of this thing
for those that will be following along at home are maybe interested in this diet the key here
of course is the carbs and you count your carbs you do something called net carbs where you take
total carbohydrates and subtract fiber and certain sugar alcohols because they aren't processed the
same way as the other carbs and that's what gets your body into that state of ketosis the real
tricky part about this diet as if counting carbs to that degree wasn't enough is it takes like
four to five days to have your body actually get into that state and if you eat too many carbs
you leave that state so not only do i have to be carb restricted for at least five days to get
there i then have to maintain that i cannot break that otherwise it's another five days of this just
to get into this ketosis state so why keto versus some of the other diets out there just watching
what i eat honestly it's mostly just curiosity i've heard about this diet as i mentioned i have
friends and army buddies who have done it and praise it family members who have done it and
we with the covid thing and working at home have really put ourselves into this situation where we
can experiment like this all the food we're eating is at home we're not going out to eat so it's a
much easier thing to control exactly what i am consuming because the only options i have are the
ones that i am allowing myself to have so between the lack of fitness the current environment that
i'm living in and the whole goal of slimming down the fatty midsection a little bit keto just seemed
like the right move i'm not going to get into research on the diet because that's not what this
is all about and i am not a scientist like i said i really feel like i'm an everyday guy but there
is plenty out there for those that are curious it's called google and you type in k-e-t-o and
stuff is gonna pop up that said real quick some pros and cons that i had read about prose it's a
focused fat loss system it forces you to pay close attention to what you eat you learn about what
is in food so if you've never done a diet before you're just getting an education out of trying to
do this one and though restricted calories does lead to weight loss fat and protein make you feel
fuller longer and thus you may not even have to count calories only the carbs some of the cons on
the other hand there's this thing called the keto flu it is what happens to you when your body
goes through the transition from using glucose for energy to ketones some of the side effects
i've read about fuzzy brain headache fatigue dizziness irritability most of which can be
attributed to losing excess fluid i guess a high carb diet causes us to retain water and so
it's essentially becoming dehydrated and lacking salts and minerals i also don't think that this
is a long-term sustainable diet there are people out there that will argue with me but just me
personally i do look forward to eating carbs again in about 60 days supposedly there may be some
constipation as well i guess i'll find out when i get there but i guess a lot of fiber is found in
those carb heavy foods and so a decrease in fiber may lead to constipation honestly i read
the exact opposite somewhere else so uh i'll keep you informed without too much detail
i promise and then the possibility of a nutrient deficiency when you limit your choices and you
cut out fruits and a good number of vegetables you just don't have as much opportunity to get
the things that your body needs now this is my day 0 prepping for the keto diet video so i want
to talk through some of the things that i've done getting ready to switch to this little to no carb
diet first and foremost we went grocery shopping and we got a ton of stuff the different snacks
a lot of meats some of the things we'd even read about like this keto ice cream and anything left
in the house got put into the garage along those lines i made a couple of printouts put them up on
the fridge just some quick and easy references as to the things i should focus on when i'm eating
also downloaded an app that i've read about a whole bunch and when i made a facebook live about
going keto this app got brought up a whole ton too and just from perusing through and doing a couple
of test entries i feel like this thing is going to save me if my whole goal is counting carbs
this little baby's doing it for me and then i also made a spreadsheet because i am doing a daily
video and it's really a big experiment for myself i wanted to track as much data as i could so i'm
going to update this thing every day you're going to see that as a part of the videos and then we'll
get this cool little synopsis at the end of how it all went down speaking of those daily videos let
me give you a little run down what you can expect first we begin with those body measurements i've
got a scale that claims to tell me my body fat percentage my water percentage my muscle weight
and of course my overall weight i don't know how scientifically accurate the thing is but i do know
it's measuring something and so we're gonna find out if those somethings are decreasing increasing
not changing what have you as this diet goes along i'll also be giving you video and breakdown
of every single thing that i eat i'm talking about the macros in the meals and the snacks
the calories even the cost that i'm tracking and then on top of all of that how i'm feeling
each day a little morning feel a little recap of the evening and then once a week a weekly synopsis
on top of the daily videos i'm going to be doing some extra measurements and photos if all goes to
plan i'm gonna have some really cool stuff to show you at the very end of all this and i'm hoping it
involves a skinnier chip couple of final things for you to end this preparation video i want
everyone to know that nothing is sponsored in this video series i'm making these really for myself
not only to document the journey but also because i love video production it has been my career for
the last decade and so this is fun for me so when you see things mentioned like the carb manager app
or me eating certain types of foods or products those are my genuine choices there are links in
the descriptions of videos that go to like an amazon affiliate store that if you click through
and buy something i'll get a little financial benefit but i'm not here to push those i'm just
including them because if this video takes off and i can make ten dollars i'll take the ten dollars
and finally i am on other social media platforms so if you look for chip brewster on facebook or
instagram you'll find me there and then of course the typical youtube pitch like comment subscribe
share all that stuff it's whatever youtuber i've ever seen says at the end of their video and
who knows maybe this video series will do more than just entertain me for a little bit maybe
it'll give someone some genuine information that they've been looking for i wish this regular
guy some luck let's get this diet started
