Did you know that the type of food you eat can prevent you from experiencing the joys of becoming a mother? Through personal experience and entrepreneurship, my guest, Kendra Collins, a Houston health coach, shares how switching to a keto diet can improve fertility issues, along with mental health.
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Meet Kendra Collins
- Kendra Collins empowers women through her Houston-based health brand, Black Keto Girl. She helps others reclaim their health by changing mindsets, owning their mistakes, and embracing keto living.
- Her passion for breaking cycles and living with intention has helped over 10,000 people transform their lives, and over 500 women with PCOS, fibroids, and fertility issues.
- Kendra is here to share her knowledge and authenticity on the keto lifestyle, motherhood, and building a brand to help everyone who listens break through tough moments and keep moving forward.
What is Keto Living?
- Don’t think of keto as just a diet; it’s more than that. Switching to a keto diet becomes a lifestyle.
- Kendra shares her journey into keto living and explains what it exactly means. You’ll learn how to remove the bad ingredients from your food and mind to help you live a healthier life.
Body Image Affecting the Mindset
- Before starting her keto diet journey, Kendra describes how negatively she viewed herself due to body dysmorphia. She hated to look in the mirror, didn’t want anyone to take pictures of her, and kept herself covered.
- Kendra also realized that keto living included a focus on mental health. She utilized her resources to talk to a therapist and see what the root cause of her overeating was. Talking with her therapist, she discovered how important it is to treat your body like a temple.
Beating the Challenges in Starting a Keto Lifestyle
- Losing weight is a challenge on its own, especially when you have to give up all the foods that you’re accustomed to eating. Kendra says it’s best to start by choosing yourself. Give yourself 30 days to embrace a keto lifestyle.
- Next, you need to start utilizing your health insurance and getting a blood test done. This will let you know if you have diabetes or other conditions that are ailing you.
- Also, she shares how the keto diet helps everyone because of the types of food they eat.
Why It’s Important to Seek Help from a Keto Coach?
- What makes Kendra so passionate about helping her clients, and how she’s able to touch them so deeply is through her own experiences. She knows what it’s like to experience fertility issues due to poor eating habits.
- She understands why it’s so hard to lose weight even after changing your diet. This is why she advocates for those interested in keto living to seek help from a coach. They understand the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of pushing through the challenges to claim your health.
Deeper Issues in Losing Weight
- Sometimes it may not be your diet that keeps you from losing weight. Kendra found through her clients that the issues lie in PCOS, fibroids, other infertility issues, and mental health struggles.
- She shares her experience of how her past anger kept her from truly living a keto lifestyle. However, therapy helped her face the problems and create a healthier relationship with food.
Recognizing Food Addiction
- Cutting her sugar addiction wasn’t easy, especially in beverages. Sweetened and alcoholic drinks can easily keep you from being on a weight loss journey, especially when you use them to hide your pain.
- Kendra shares how she researched how excessive sugar can cause high blood pressure, skin tags, and hyperpigmentation. She noticed when she started her keto diet how everything started to change.
“It’s easier to sweep it under the rug. We don’t like to come face-to-face with our problems. It takes you to your last straw with yourself, to where you just give in spiritually.” – Kendra Collins.
Resources
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