At the time of the 2025 mammogram, my husband and I had been eating a ketogenic diet for over one year. Following a Keto lifestyle includes high fats (healthy ones), super low carbs (no starches, grains, bread), and no sugar. He was diagnosed with type II diabetes the end of 2023, so Keto was not simply a temporary diet for us, rather a new way of eating to reverse his glucose and insulin levels. And it worked! Although my glucose and insulin levels were already great, I chose to mirror the Keto way of life to help him attain his health goal. Surprise, surprise – I lost 35 pounds that first year (2024). Because my bloodwork wasn’t at risk, I’d cheat sporadically with a little sugar or a tiny bit of bread. I’d have a piece of dark chocolate to “wash down” my melatonin before bed. Why not?
But once the biopsy was scheduled and cancer was a distinct possibility, the periodic cheats stopped. Things got very real, very quickly. As I lay on the table Feb 12th with a large needle extracting bits of flesh from my breast to determine if cancer lurked inside, my thoughts realigned about whether I needed a sweet treat. And that was before I heard the pathology results.
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” Francis Bacon, British author and statesman
My Next Steps 