I have been either on or between diets since I was 13. By the time I was in high school I was mixing Slim-fast in a tupperware tumbler (remember those?) and trying to pass it off as chocolate milk. For the record, not one person believed it was chocolate milk. 

Once I started college, the pressure to be thin and attractive intensified. I was doing pageants to make scholarship money for tuition and I was recklessly yo-yo dieting. I began to love feeling hungry. Empty. Thin. The restriction never lasted and eventually my primal instincts would kick in and those pounds I so diligently removed  would return. Eating, for me, was dangerous. 

I graduated from Michigan State University with a diet degree. That’s what it meant to me. My degree was an all access pass to everything weightloss related. It’s funny how no one questions your highly restrictive diet when you are a Nutritionist, except for other Nutritionists.  

Then six years ago, it happened. I  mentally broke. I couldn’t get the yo-yo to swing back from my “bad diet” eating and I fell into a deep depression. I tried all of my old tricks but I couldn’t make it more than a few days without binge eating. I was desperate. I turned to the internet searching for a quick fix and I found the ketogenic diet. It promised to fix binge eating behavior, rid you of sugar cravings, and cure inflammation. And with that, I was on board.