Some 18 months ago – perhaps longer – I lost my blogging mojo. I had taken time away from a real working life was battling with a bakers cyst and a torn meniscus and monthly visits to specialists in an attempt to get me motivated and moving again after an enforced sedentary lifestyle encountered when I re-injured an already injured knee.

Im 44 years old and have suffered from degenerative osteoarthritis since I was 13 years old and it was palmed off as growing pains. Had I known that a lifestyle of avoiding fat and eating to dietary guidelines would add to this situation causing a lifetime of inflammation and weight gain – I would have shoved that low fat yoghurt back where it came from!

For the last almost 12 months I have tried unsuccessfully to stick to a sugar free diet. I started with the I Quit Sugar Programme – sadly it incorporates glutens and grains – and my body does not at all appreciate glutens and grains, they turn me into a human whoopee cushion! Im also finding that although a good tablespoon of double cream is excellent for an episode of reflux – that overdosing on it also causes gassy emissions. Which on a Keto lifestyle where in Ketosis you already have the smell of an unbathed hobo – you don’t need extra gas to push you along.

So this lifestyle – its about finding balance and foods that a whole and wholesome that suit your body and your needs. You can also have a day where you eat the “wrong thing” ( but in all honestly you don’t particularly feel like it. And its forgiving. By wrong thing – my indulgence is usually a Zambrero Taco Salad sans the tortilla – but I do have the beans and the corn and the jalepeno and the salsa verde… And its usually once in a blue moon. Not all the time. AND its still whole foods. I don’t want the cake, I don’t want the sweets. When even a small cube of 85% dark chocolate is too sweet for you – you know your body has adapted.

Now Ive had friends respectfully say that they can not follow my pages or blogs as I eat far too much fat for their liking. And its true – I eat the fat – because fat is flavour and fat is filling and fat is 99% of the time chemical free. Can I just say now – my body is thanking me for my fat intake ? I don’t use artificial sweeteners, I consume whole dairy when I consume dairy and I don’t remove the fats from my meats. I don’t eat a kilo of butter a week – but I do use butter.

What I don’t do is add unnecessary sugars and highly processed grains. I eat the way the body was intended to eat. I feast when required I fast when my body tells me and it works.

So dear friends you will find links to my carb reduced, refined sugar and grain free recipes on here that will link you up to Sugarblizters. And you will find on here – my personal journey of recovery and regeneration. Along with things I encounter and love along the way including fashion, renovating bargains and of course kitchen gadgets – without which life would be OH SO BORING!

So I hope you enjoy if you follow, I hope to inspire and delight you – and sometimes if Im blue you might even cry. But Mrs Cuppy – she’s back!

Love … L xoxo