My Amazing Results from the Keto Diet Are The Reason I’ll Never Go Back

But I did learn a couple of useful lessons

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Fact: Keto gave me the body I had always wanted. But when I got it I realised I didn’t want it that much. Very much like the devil asking you to sell your soul in exchange for eternal beauty, Keto asks:

How much are you willing to sacrifice to look hot?

I’ve always been naturally thin, a comfortable US size 6. But of course I always wanted to be skinnier. I blame spending the majority of my life exposed to supposedly desirable images of starving women.

Those size zero Victoria Secrets models strutting down the catwalk with knobbly hip bones and thighs that sunk in at the middle. Stick skinny celebs balancing oversized glasses on gaunt faces, frail arms poking out of baggy t- shirts with twig like wrists about to snap under the weight of their watch and Starbucks cup.

And let’s not forget all those awful magazine cover shots of cellulite and gosh she’s put on weight that we had to pretend we didn’t want to look at in the dentist surgery.

I’ve had to try to unlearn all of that. But of course it’s almost impossible to truly stop believing that your self worth is tied to how thin your legs are, when…