Intro

Hi, my name is Kate.  I'm a veterinary technician in my mid-thirties living in Raleigh, NC.  Over the last few years I've noticed my weight creeping up on me, so I decided to make a lifestyle change to a ketogenic diet.  Full disclosure coming up: I'm 5'8" and I weighed 144 pounds.  That's the most I ever weighed.  I know, it's not very dramatic.  I know I wasn't obese, but I was overweight for my frame and I wanted to get back to the weight that I was happiest, which was around 130.  So far it's been six weeks and I've lost 6 pounds.  I try to do a good cardio workout at least twice a week, which is usually a run for me but any kind of calorie-burning exercise will do to help you with weight loss.

Here are a couple of resources I've been using to help me on my journey:

Ketogenic Diet Resource: http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/
This site is great for understanding the basics of what the ketogenic diet is, how it works, and some good tables of carb counts.

Ruled.Me calculator: http://www.ruled.me/keto-calculator/
A blog about keto, including a nice calculator in which you plug in info about your body measurements and exercise levels to figure out your "macros" (carbs, protein, and fat grams) allowances per day.

At the start of this diet I ran into some problems, since I'm a pescatarian.  For those of you who don't know what that means, I am a vegetarian most of the time but I do eat wild caught all-natural fish and seafood.  Most of the recipes I was finding that followed the Keto principles involved meat, most commonly bacon.  It seems that bacon is the solution to many of life's problems, but not for me!  Or for you, if you're reading this to get veggie keto recipes.  So I thought it would be nice to have a place to keep all of the recipes I have used that keep the carbs low and the fat high, and a place that other people could come to find vegetarian ketogenic recipes.  I'll be listing my recipes here with counts of carbs, fat, and protein, and including as many pictures as I remember to take.  I hope it helps people out there to find a way to be healthier and happier.