Maria Emmerich - Keto-Adapted: Your Guide to Accelerated Weight Loss and Healthy Healing

Keto Adapted

Your Guide to Accelerated Weight Loss and
Healthy Healing

Maria Emmerich

Keto Adapted

Copyright 2013 by Maria Emmerich

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the author.

ISBN

Published by Maria and Craig Emmerich, printed by Thomson Shore.

Dedication

I once heard someone say, If you want to hear God laugh, tell him what you have planned! That statement couldnt have been more true for the past few years of my life. I was totally a planner, and the more I tried to control how things happened, the more frustrated I got. My husband lost his job, my job as a rock-climbing guide didnt pay the bills and we struggled to start our family. All of these trials helped push me in the right direction to my nutrition business. Throughout this journey I have been able to befriend some amazing people that I need to thank.

Jamie Schultz: I remember when you first approached me, Maria, I love your book, but you need a new cover! Your photography is incredible! Thank you for the covers of all of my books! I also want to thank you for helping me start my blog; it helped me get up in the morning when I was going through the most difficult time in my life!

Kristen Demulling: To my beloved BodyPump instructor. I remember when you first started teaching class and you looked so young I thought you were freshly out of high school. When you started talking about your daughter in 4th grade my jaw hit the floor! I should have guessed you were a keto-adapted woman! You look wonderful! Thank you for helping with the content of the book.

Nicole Howard: Even though we live so far apart, I still feel so connected with you. I really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to proof read my chapters and ideas.

Emily Derr: You copy editing is truely amazing. Thank you for all your hard work.

Dr. William Davis: Thank you for taking the time to write my forward. Your work is amazing and you are a true role model for me. You have done more to help my family that I could have ever asked for. Thank you!

Dr. David Perlmutter: Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to write about my book. Your work is really leading science to new places for brain health.

Craig: To my love and best friend. Without your technical skills, patience, editing, encouragement and APPETITE, none of this would have happened. Thank you for never complaining when the kitchen is a disaster after a recipe photo shoot, or the dishwasher is stacked with dishes in a way they will never get clean, when the laundry isnt done or the kids need a bath because I am swamped with work. I am so lucky to have a husband like you who jumps into helping without any complaints. SHMILY.

Contents

Foreward

M aria Emmerich has done it again.

In her quest to help readers understand how to regain ideal health, wellness, and weight, Maria has developed a unique talent to deliver the nuts and bolts of a healthy nutrition program. In her newest effort, Keto Adapted, she clears up much of the confusion over the ultra low-carb lifestyle and why it is superior for overall health and weight.

For years, we were terrified of ketosis, the metabolic state generated when virtually no carbohydrates are available for energy. Metabolic ketosis was often confused with ketoacidosis, a dangerous condition that type 1 diabetics typically have before their condition is diagnosed because insulin is unavailable to allow glucose to enter the cells of the body. While both conditions do indeed involve ketone production, it came to be recognized that diabetic ketoacidosis involved orders of magnitude greater levels of ketones, far above the naturally adaptive levels of metabolic ketosis.

There have been observations made over the years that hinted at the advantages of metabolic ketosis. Weve known, for instance, that children with intractable seizures unresponsive to medicine, or even surgery, respond to a ketotic diet, often with dramatic relief. Weve also heard anecdotes of cancers disappearing with extended metabolic ketosis. After all, the method of PET scanning to detect cancer employs a radioactive form of glucose, reflecting the fact that cancers take up more glucose than normal tissues.

What has taken many of us by surprise more recently is that ketosis, i.e., this adaptive state that allows humans to survivethriveon a diet minus carbohydrates yet still extract energy from food, provides unexpected advantages in health outside of these unique situations. Not only does ketosis powerfully facilitate weight loss from visceral fat stores, it is also associated with heightened states of mental clarity, reversal of insulin and leptin resistance, and may indeed create a situation that essentially starves cancer cells of their preferred nutrient, glucose.

Marias Keto Adapted is an approachable, user-friendly discussion detailing how to put the concepts of metabolic ketosis into practice in the context of an overall program to regain and maintain ideal health.

Of course, nothing Maria produces wouldnt be complete without her signature beautiful and delicious grain-free, strict low-carb recipes! Maria is a genuine master of this art. The recipes she provides in Keto Adapted are those that help facilitate a lifestyle crafted to maintain this metabolic advantage.

Maria Emmerich has done an outstanding job creating a user friendly guide to the life changing ketogenic diet. This book will certainly change the lives of many in an incredibly positive way.

William Davis, MD

Author of New York Times Bestseller, Wheat Belly - Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health.

Maria Emmerich has done an outstanding job creating a user friendly guide to the life changing ketogenic diet. This book will certainly change the lives of many in an incredibly positive way.

David Perlmutter, MD

Author of New York Times Bestseller, Grain Brain - The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar, Your Brains Silent Killers.

Chapter 1

Throughout this book, I start my chapters with before-and-after photos and testimonial from a former client. These are to inspire you and to give you the motivation to succeed. Some of my clients dont show as much on the outside (weight loss), but their insides (moods, pain, gastrointestinal problems, etc.) are drastically improved. This is the miracle of eating a well-formulated keto-adapted diet: you heal on the inside and the outside, and feel better than ever. Make sure to take your before photo before you begin!

Below are my before-and-after photos. Before, I had IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), acid reflux, mood swings, low energy and much more. Now, I have never felt better or had more energy!

Maria

W hen my dog, Teva, started losing her hair in patches, the first thing my veterinarian asked me was, What are you feeding her? Yes! What a good question! But you know what? I have never been asked that question at the doctor. Not once. Not even when I was a teenager suffering from IBS and acid reflux. I was just given a prescription. Nothing frustrates me more than getting a Band-Aid for the symptoms and not addressing the underlying cause of my issues. The prescription doesnt fix what is causing the problem, it only covers up the symptoms. If you also want to start treating the cause of your health problems (not just the symptoms), this book is for you! I have written this book to help you understand where you may be going wrong with your grain- and sugar-free lifestyle. I have over ten years of experience addressing the causes of clients problems, and this book explains what works!