Send us a Text Message.This is Part 2 of a 2-part podcast with Neseret Bemient, a therapist with a difference. Part 1 was on podcast 36.  Are you on medications to help alleviate your mental health? Have you noticed a number of side effects that nobody warned you about? Did you know that suicidal thoughts are often directly linked with anti-depressants? If you believe that the current mental health system is designed to help people get over their mental illnesses, you will often be wrong. Once a person starts down the road of a medication, in many instances it can be almost impossible to stop, and often the side effects have not been fully discussed with the patient. That’s the comment from a therapist who has found herself on both sides of the “counter”. This episode 36 chats in detail about the mental health system, and most importantly, how people who go into it with an ambition to be made healthy again, generally stay in the system forever. Neseret Bemient has been a therapist for decades, but also found herself as a patient, also for decades. This is a very interesting, and often polarising, frank discussion about her own plight, and how she finally broke away, but not before falling into a deep dark hole that even included thoughts of suicide.  If you’d like to follow Neseret, she has a YouTube channel called “Confessions of a psych nurse” . Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/tbN_UpwKeEc?si=hOYh8Te293b7Ul9DYou can also follow her on X at @JourneyofHope4UPlease note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. This conversation is our opinions only and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician!Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Part 1 of a 2-part podcast with Therapist Neseret Bemient.Are you on medications to help alleviate your mental health? Have you noticed a list of side effects that nobody warned you about? Did you know that suicidal thoughts are often directly linked with anti-depressants? If you believe that the current mental health system is designed to help people get over their mental illnesses, you will often be wrong. Once a person starts down the road of medications, in many instances it can be almost impossible to stop, and often the side effects haven't been fully discussed with the patient. That’s the comment from a therapist who has found herself on both sides of the “counter”. This episode 36 chats in detail about the mental health system, and most importantly, how people who go into it with an ambition to be made healthy again, generally stay in the system forever. Neseret Bemient has been a therapist for decades, but also found herself as a patient, also for decades. This is a very interesting, and often polarising, frank discussion about her own plight, and how she finally broke away, but not before falling into a deep dark hole that even included thoughts of suicide.  If you’d like to follow Neseret, she has a YouTube channel called “Confessions of a psych nurse” . Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/tbN_UpwKeEc?si=hOYh8Te293b7Ul9DYou can also follow her on X at @JourneyofHope4UPlease note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. This conversation is our opinions only and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician!Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.What would you do if you had symptoms of an incurable disease, and after visiting 3 different specialist clinics you were told each time that you in fact had Parkinson’s? This is exactly the news that today’s guest was given. Did she roll over and accept her fate? Of course not! She fought it with every ounce of energy, but only after a lengthy and very difficult journey that included a stroke and a potentially lethal bacterial infection in her spine. This is Mimi’s story. It will give you the courage to fight when the odds are very much piling up against you. If you would like to comment on today’s show, please use the reply button below, and if you’d like to hear more stories like Mimi’s, then hit the Subscribe button!  If you’d like to follow Mimi, her Instagram address is mimimorgank, and her X address is @mimimorganPlease note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. Neither I nor my guest are medical experts. This conversation is our opinions only and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician!TIIBUmrnD5YXPwwhwbDVSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.This is Part 2 of the conversation with Harmony, so if you haven’t listened to Part 1 (Podcast 33) I strongly suggest you do so first, because this conversation won’t make much sense without it.  How would you cope if you were diagnosed early in your life with schizophrenia? This followed years of anxiety, hallucinations, and other serious mental illnesses to the extent that she was prescribed an assortment of drugs to help her cope. But the drugs had two major side effects; (a) they made her drowsy to the extent that the simplest of tasks became nearly impossible, and her memory was almost non-existent, and (b) the medications also made her seriously increase her weight.  She ended up morbidly obese, weighing 273 lb (124 kilograms, or 18 stone). She was so heavy that eventually both of her knees required surgery, and the vertebrae in her neck had also collapsed, so they needed surgery too. It was at this darkest time that Harmony had to make a serious decision; continue on her current path & accept a slow, debilitating, painful road to an imminent death, or fight back. This is the story of an incredibly brave woman who took matters into her own hands. Listen to Harmony as she explains her fight to win her life back. The entire conversation is 1 hour & 30 minutes so I have divided it into 2 parts. Part 1 is on Podcast 33, and Part 2 immediately follows on Podcast 34. I hope you enjoy Harmony’s story. I hope that it inspires you to take action, even when the chips are down & life is dealing you plenty of hard blows. If you are suffering like Harmony was, I hope her story will show you that there is light at the end of the tunnel, but you will have to reach out and grab it! Her story is not without sweat, tears and lots of hard work. The best time to start is today. Harmony’s story will inspire you to take that first step. By the way, you can follow Harmony on X (twitter) at @bright_har6612 Please note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. Neither I nor my guest are medical experts. This conversation is our opinions only, and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician! #schizophrenia #bipolar #obese #obesity #depression #keto #ketogenic #healthylifestyle #health #sugar #insulin #fattyliver #cholesterol #triglyceridesSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Part 1: How would you cope if you were diagnosed early in your life with schizophrenia? This followed years of anxiety, hallucinations, and other serious mental illnesses to the extent that she was prescribed an assortment of drugs to help her cope. But the drugs had two major side effects; (a) they made her drowsy to the extent that the simplest of tasks became nearly impossible, and her memory was almost non-existent, and (b) the meds also made her seriously increase her weight.  She ended up morbidly obese, weighing 273 lb (124kg, or 18 stone). She was so heavy that both of her knees required surgery, and the vertebrae in her neck had also collapsed, so they needed surgery too. It was at this darkest time that Harmony had to make a serious decision; continue on her current path & accept a slow, debilitating, painful road to an imminent death, or fight back. This is the story of an incredibly brave woman who took matters into her own hands. Listen to Harmony as she explains her fight to win her life back. The entire conversation is 1 hour & 30 minutes so I have divided it into 2 parts. Part 1 is on Podcast 33, and Part 2 immediately follows on Podcast 34. I hope you enjoy Harmony’s story. I hope that it inspires you to take action, even when the chips are down & life is dealing you plenty of hard blows. If you are suffering like Harmony was, I hope her story will show you that there is light at the end of the tunnel, but you will have to reach out and grab it! Her story is not without sweat, tears and lots of hard work. The best time to start is today. Harmony’s story will inspire you to take that first step.  Please note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. Neither I nor my guest are medical experts. This conversation is our opinions only, and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician!Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Imagine how you’d feel if you have been obese for 30 years, ever since being a teenager. Imagine then, being told by your doctor that on top of having metabolic syndrome, sleep apnoea, and fatty liver, that you now have an ovarian cyst!This is the story of a brilliant lady who, despite the odds, has fought back. This is Christine Trimpe's story!This is Part 2 of the conversation. If you haven’t listened to the first part on Podcast 31, the I strongly suggest you do so.  #sleepapnoea #metabolicsyndrome #obese #weightloss #loseweight #ovariancyst #fattyliver #ketogenic #ketodiet #keto #christinetrimpe Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.This is Part 1 of a 2-part conversation.Imagine how you’d feel if you have been obese for 30 years, ever since being a teenager. Imagine then, being told by your doctor that on top of having metabolic syndrome, sleep apnoea, and fatty liver, that you now have an ovarian cyst!This is the story of a brilliant lady who, despite the odds, has fought back. This is Christine Trimpe's story!I have broken our lengthy conversation into 2 podcasts (31 & 32), each approx. 45 minutes long. When I get onto an interesting subject it’s hard to stop! #sleepapnoea #metabolicsyndrome #obese #weightloss #loseweight #ovariancyst #fattyliver #ketogenic #ketodiet #keto #christinetrimpe Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Today I’m joined by my guest, who is a personal trainer from California. Alli Covington brings a great energy to this podcast, and we chat about all sorts of health & fitness related topics including gut health, food addictions, how some people need to change their relationship to food, and mental health in relation to food & exercise. One of her mottos is to Feel Sexy Naked! We chat about cardio fitness and workouts too. If you would like to follow Alli on X, her address is @allicovington, or you can visit her website on bodbyalli.com  #healthylifestyle #mentalhealth #foodaddiction Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to podcast 29; Part II of my conversation with my guest Robyn Dobbins. If you haven’t listened to podcast 28 first, I strongly suggest you do; otherwise this episode won’t make much sense!Robyn has spent decades fighting her mental illness, including bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and then following the birth of her first child, post-partum depression. Robyn also suffered from Hashimoto’s disease, and auto-immune disease where the body attacks itself. This is a candid conversation about her struggles, and how she eventually found a way to control her mental illnesses through a ketogenic diet & lifestyle. This happened to also bring many of her Hashimoto’s disease symptoms into remission too. If you suffer from mental illness, Hashimoto’s or even “high cholesterol”, then you should find this podcast very interesting.  This is Part II of the conversation. Robyn can be followed on:X                                  @robynrdobbinsInstagram                robynrdobbinsFacebook                 robynrdobbins#bipolar #depression #anxiety #postpartum #cholesterol #ketogenictherapy #carnivore #hashimotos Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to podcast 28 with my guest Robyn Dobbins. Robyn has spent decades fighting her mental illness, including bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, OCD, and then following the birth of her first child, post-partum depression. Robyn also suffered from Hashimoto’s disease, and auto-immune disease where the body attacks itself. This is a candid conversation about her struggles, and how she eventually found a way to control her mental illnesses through a ketogenic diet & lifestyle. This happened to also bring many of her Hashimoto’s disease symptoms into remission too. If you suffer from mental illness, Hashimoto’s or even “high cholesterol”, then you should find this podcast very interesting. The entire conversation lasts for 1 hour & 40 minutes, so I have divided it into 2 x 50 minute podcasts (#28 & 29), so when you’re finished listening to this one, I hope you’ll join us to hear the rest of Robyn’s story in the follow-on podcast. You can contact Robyn on the following:X:                       @robynrdobbinsInstagram:    robynrdobbinsFacebook:     robynrdobbins#bipolar #depression #anxiety #postpartum #cholesterol #ketogenictherapy #carnivore #hashimotos Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.This is Part 2 of a 2 part conversation, so if you haven't heard podcast 26 then I strong urge you to listen to that first, because otherwise none of this podcast will make much sense!Can you imagine having a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, that makes you poop well over a dozen times a day. Imagine when it escalates to affecting your skin, your hair, your weight, and even your mental health. This is what most people who suffer from Crohn’s Disease go through all their lives. They might have good days, but a flare up makes even the simplest daily tasks impossible, and of course that’s not taking the pain into account. Many people who suffer from such a horrible illness also suffer equally from mental illness. It has been suggested that the two (physical & mental illness) could be far more closely related than we have thought. That’s a subject for another day, but today’s guest highlights this relationship. Today’s podcast welcomes Conor, a 28-year-old from Glasgow, Scotland. Conor was diagnosed with Crohn’s at the age of 12 and has suffered for all these years until 2 years ago when he stepped away from the norm, took matters into his own hands, ignored the advice of his doctors & dieticians, and tried something completely radical, which reflected his desperation.This is a podcast about an amazing person who has achieved what most people with Crohn’s disease can only dream of, remission!This conversation has been broken into 2 parts and this is PART 2 (Part 1 is on Podcast 26). I hope you enjoy it, & I hope it encourages you to step out of your comfort zone and challenge the norm!Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Can you imagine having a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, that makes you poop well over a dozen times a day. Imagine when it escalates to affect your skin, your hair, your weight, and even your mental health. This is what most people who suffer from Crohn’s Disease go through all their lives. They might have good days, but a flare-up makes even the simplest daily tasks impossible, and of course that’s not taking the pain into account. Many people who suffer from such a horrible illness also suffer equally from mental illness. It has been suggested that the two (physical & mental illness) could be far more closely related than we have thought. That’s a subject for another day, but today’s guest highlights this relationship, with serious depression & anxiety playing a major role throughout his life. Today’s podcast welcomes Conor, a 28-year-old from Glasgow in Scotland. Conor was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 12 and has suffered for all these years, until 2 years ago when he stepped away from the norm, took matters into his own hands, ignored the advice of his doctors & dieticians, and tried something completely radical, which reflected his desperation.This is a podcast about an amazing person who has achieved what most people with Crohn’s disease can only dream of, remission!This conversation has been broken into 2 parts (Part II is on Podcast 27). I hope you enjoy it, & I hope it encourages you to step out of your comfort zone and challenge the norm!Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Do you suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, binging, voices, or perhaps a combination of these? You’re not alone. Mental illness is the most prevalent illness in modern society. It has reached epidemic proportions. What would you be prepared to do to make it stop? If you aren’t personally afflicted, I bet you know somebody who is. Mental illness can affect every facet of your life, including your health, your relationships and your job.   Whereas it’s easy to consider mental illness as genetic, or the "luck of the draw", or perhaps a result of trauma, it turns out that there are ways to cure the symptoms without medications or therapy (caveat: if you are currently on medication, and you feel results from what is discussed in this podcast, please stay on it until your doctor has said you’re okay to cut back). Today’s podcast introduces my guest, Donika, who is the founder of a Meetup group called Keto for Mental Health. The non-profit group has over 600 members worldwide and helps people of all walks of life manage & repair their mental illness through something as simple as the food you eat. Don’t believe it? Sounds too simple? It is simple! And yet it works; it has worked for thousands of people & it can work for you too. It works because it alters your body at a metabolic level. Listen to this podcast to learn more. What will you get in return? A much more positive outlook on life, energy to burn, and your health will almost definitely take a leap forward too. If you're overweight, you will most likely shed loads of body fat. If you want more information on getting started with ketogenic therapy, listen to my podcasts #1 & 2 which talk about it in more detail. Please note that I do not make money from my podcasts; they are designed to help people overcome illnesses and become healthier. Donika’s group in Meetup, also, is a non-profit group. To join the Meetup group or find more out about it, go to Keto for Mental Health . Meetup is an international community of like-minded people in all sorts of subjects. For more information on Donika’s website, Transformation Evoked, go to www.transformationevoked.com. Donika is a mental health coach, so please feel free to check out her website. If you’d like to help me out (and help yourself out in the process), why not purchase my book? It’s also called See Your Toes Again. It’s available only on Amazon; it’s about 200 pages long & explains the ketogenic diet in detail, to get you going in the right direction. Although it says it’s for men, it’s equally relevant to everyone.  Good luck,  Pete RobinSee Your Toes AgainSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.If you haven’t listened to Parts 1 & 2 then I strongly suggest you do so. This is the story of the struggle of a person with chronic, debilitating anorexia that led to all sorts of other illnesses, and almost killed her. She endured this life for 40 years before literally finding her own way out of the dark hole. She talks candidly, and some of her stories are nothing short of horrific. In this final part of the story, Valerie discusses her cure, and how she changed her entire life simply from choosing what foods to eat. It sounds overly simplistic, but Valerie is testimony of the power of the foods we choose to eat… and choose to not eat!This is the true story of a woman who has spent 4 decades suffering from anorexia, OCD, self-harm, hair-pulling, cutting and schizoaffective disorder. She spent parts of her childhood locked away in a ward of the hospital as she withered away in her anorexic world she couldn’t escape from. As an adult, still anorexic, she developed chronic fatigue, osteoporosis, prolapsed organs & hypothyroid (to name a few chronic illnesses) from her lack of nutrition. At 30 years old she weighed 75 lb (34 kg or 5.3 stone). It’s easy for a healthy person to say that she should “just eat more”, but these illnesses are more than just physical; they are diseases of the mind, forcing the participant to watch helplessly as she falls apart from the inside out. This story will have you bewildered with what Valerie coped with for 4 decades of her life, and it’s a miracle she survived. But survive she did, and eventually she found her own way out of the dark hole, DESPITE all the drugs & rehabilitation that the medical & psychiatric establishments dealt to her over the years. I have divided our original conversation into 3 podcasts because it was 1 hour 35 minutes long, so now each of the 3 podcasts is about 35 minutes long. We delve deep into all her issues throughout her life, how they affected her, and how the current medical establishment’s methods just made her into a walking zombie. This story miraculously has a happy ending… but you’ll need to listen to hear it! There is light at the end of this tunnel! If you suffer from any of Valerie’s chronic mental or physical illnesses, these 3 podcasts offer you the chance to finally get your life back. I hope Valerie’s story can motivate other sufferers to climb their way out of their darkness! It’s a terrible world they exist in, where the only escape is while they sleep. Valerie’s journey leads the way to a truly remarkable, completely natural healing process. Valerie’s social media name is @ValerieAnne1970 In the coming weeks I will have other guests chatting about both mental & physical chronic illnesses; experts in their fields, so if you are interested, or you think it might help others, then please subscribe to this podcast; See Your Toes Again. This is a non-profit podcast, and I aim to help people get healthier, both emotionally & physically; you’ll be surprised with how similar both results (mental & physical health) are, and how simple the recipe to better health is! Thank you, Pete RobinSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.If you haven’t listened to Part 1 then I strongly suggest you do so. This is the story of the struggle of a person with chronic, debilitating anorexia that led to all sorts of other illnesses, and almost killed her. She endured this life for 40 years before literally finding her own way out of the dark hole. She talks candidly, and some of her stories are nothing short of horrific. This is the true story of a woman who has spent 4 decades suffering from anorexia, OCD, self-harm, hair-pulling, cutting and schizo-affective disorder. She spent parts of her childhood locked away in a ward of the hospital as she withered away in her anorexic world she couldn’t escape from. As an adult, still anorexic, she developed chronic fatigue, osteoporosis, prolapsed organs & hypothyroid (to name a few chronic illnesses) from her lack of nutrition. At 30 years old she weighed 75 lb (34 kg or 5.3 stone). It’s easy for a healthy person to say that she should “just eat more”, but these illnesses are more than just physical; they are diseases of the mind, forcing the participant to watch helplessly as she falls apart from the inside out. This story will have you bewildered with what Valerie coped with for 4 decades of her life, and it’s a miracle she survived. But survive she did, and eventually she found her own way out of the dark hole, DESPITE all the drugs & rehabilitation that the medical & psychiatric establishments dealt to her over the years. I have divided our original conversation into 3 podcasts because it was 1 hour 35 minutes long, so now each of the 3 podcasts is about 35 minutes long. We delve deep into all her issues throughout her life, how they affected her, and how the current medical establishment’s methods just made her into a walking zombie. This story miraculously has a happy ending… but you’ll need to listen to hear it! There is light at the end of this tunnel! If you suffer from any of Valerie’s chronic mental or physical illnesses, these 3 podcasts offer you the chance to finally get your life back. I hope Valerie’s story can motivate other sufferers to climb their way out of their darkness! It’s a terrible world they exist in, where the only escape is while they sleep. Valerie’s journey leads the way to a truly remarkable, completely natural healing process.  In the coming weeks I will have other guests chatting about both mental & physical chronic illnesses; experts in their fields, so if you are interested, or you think it might help others, then please subscribe to this podcast; See Your Toes Again. This is a non-profit podcast, and I aim to help people get healthier, both emotionally & physically; you’ll be surprised with how similar both results (mental & physical health) are, and how simple the recipe to better health is! Thank you, Pete RobinSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Part 1 of 3 parts: Imagine a life where, ever since you were a child, you struggled to eat; where you encountered hateful screaming voices in your head, where you starved yourself because your voices told you that you’re obese. This is the true story of a woman who has spent 4 decades suffering from anorexia, OCD, self-harm, hair-pulling, cutting and schizoaffective disorder. She spent parts of her childhood locked away in a ward of the hospital as she withered away in her anorexic world she couldn’t escape from. As an adult, still anorexic, she developed chronic fatigue, osteoporosis, prolapsed organs & hypothyroid (to name a few chronic illnesses) from her lack of nutrition. At 30 years old she weighed 75 lb (34 kg or 5.3 stone). It’s easy for a healthy person to say that she should “just eat more”, but these illnesses are more than just physical; they are diseases of the mind, forcing the participant to watch helplessly as she falls apart from the inside out. This story will have you bewildered with what Valerie coped with for 4 decades of her life, and it’s a miracle she survived. But survive she did, and eventually she found her own way out of the dark hole, DESPITE all the drugs & rehabilitation that the medical & psychiatric establishments dealt to her over the years. I have divided our original conversation into 3 podcasts because it was 1 hour 35 minutes long, so now each of the 3 podcasts is about 35 minutes long. We delve deep into all her issues throughout her life, how they affected her, and how the current medical establishment’s methods just made her into a walking zombie. This story miraculously has a happy ending… but you’ll need to listen to hear it! There is light at the end of this tunnel! If you suffer from any of Valerie’s chronic mental or physical illnesses, these 3 podcasts offer you the chance to finally get your life back. I hope Valerie’s story can motivate other sufferers to climb their way out of their darkness! It’s a terrible world they exist in, where the only escape is while they sleep. Valerie’s journey leads the way to a truly remarkable, completely natural healing process.  In the coming weeks I will have other guests chatting about both mental & physical chronic illnesses; experts in their fields, so if you are interested, or you think it might help others, then please subscribe to this podcast; See Your Toes Again. This is a non-profit podcast, and I aim to help people get healthier, both emotionally & physically; you’ll be surprised with how similar both results (mental & physical health) are, and how simple the recipe to better health is! Thank you, Pete Robin Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.What would it be like to be a young woman growing up in an obese body? Can you imagine her emotional struggles, let alone her physical hurdles? It’s easy for thin people to say that a large person should just “eat less and exercise more”, but what if you were literally addicted to food? In today’s world, highly calorific foods, void of any nutritional value, are everywhere. Is this like asking an alcoholic to work in a liquor store? But that liquor store is literally every food shop in the country!Today’s podcast guest used to be obese (22 stone; 308 lb, 138 kg) until she was given a gastric bypass. Carlie talks about how this changed the direction of her life, but she also discusses the mental tortures associated with her food addiction, and her continual battles to eat healthy food, lose body fat and regain her health. Carlie’s story is truly inspirational. I hope you enjoy listening to her energy, and if you are struggling with your weight, I hope you find inspiration in this podcast. #bariatric #obese #loseweight # depression #sugar #gastricbypass #foodaddict #foodaddiction Support the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to Podcast 20. This week I’m interviewing Chrstine from Idaho. Christine has had quite a roller coaster of a life regarding health. This podcast discusses her journey, which includes her struggles with obesity, and a decade of suffering from the debilitating auto-immune disease called Lupus, which attacked her body from the inside out.  Christine discusses her lifelong addiction to sugar & processed foods, and how overcoming this resulted in finally getting her life back on track, including putting her Lupus into remission! If you suffer from an auto immune disorder, obesity, or an addiction to sugar, this podcast would be well worth the listen. If you’d like to follow Christine’s story further, you can find her on X (formerly Twitter) as SHESANERD .  #lupus #autoimmune #sugaraddiction #sugaraddict #keto #ketogenic #carnivore #lowcarb #healthyfood #healthyfats #hearthealth #bloodsugar #metabolicsyndrome #depression #anxiety #bipolar #LCHF #statins #cholesterolSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to Podcast 19. This week I’m interviewing my friend AJ Rockatansky, who has overcome years of debilitating sleep apnea and a whole bunch of other illnesses by switching to the carnivore diet. We chat about sleep apnea, weight loss, magnesium, bowel movements and even fungal toenails! It’s a great chat & I hope you enjoy it while getting some worthwhile snippets that might help you stay on track with your health journey. #sleepapnea #apnea #keto #ketogenic #carnivore #lowcarb #healthyfood #healthyfats #diabetes #hearthealth #saturatedfats #bloodsugar #heartdisease #heartattack #metabolicsyndrome #depression #hypertension #anxiety #bipolar #LCHF #statins #cholesterolSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023

Send us a Text Message.Does you body seem to be great at putting weight on, but you really struggle to shed it back off? It could be because your body is not Metabolically Flexible. So what does that mean? Your body should have the ability to utilize carbohydrates (like sugars) and also utilize fats for energy. Whereas a thousand years ago that would have been normal, these days there’s every chance you are not metabolically flexible, which is why you struggle to shed fat. This podcast chats about why you might be metabolically inflexible, and how you can rectify it, so you can burn your body fat for energy. In doing so you'll lose fat, sort your hormones out, and become a whole lot healthier! The are no calorie restrictions involved, no magic pills, and no chickens need to be sacrificed either.  Phew!This method will help prevent, or reverse, several chronic diseases too, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, gout, Alzheimer’s, depression, hypertension and metabolic syndrome to name a few. #keto #ketogenic #lowcarb #healthyfood #healthyfats #diabetes #hearthealth #saturatedfats #bloodsugar #heartdisease #heartattack #metabolicsyndrome #depression #hypertension #anxiety #bipolar #LCHF #statins #cholesterolSupport the Show.For more information go to www.seeyourtoesagain.com, or visit me on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube on "See Your Toes Again". Feel free to leave a message, especially if you have questions relating to weight loss, muscle gain, or the ketogenic diet. You can follow me on X (twitter) at @ketopete2023