Hello! My name is Dakota, and I’m a natural bodybuilder. I’m also a recovering food and sugar addict. At my heaviest, I weighed over 275 lbs. I started a ketogenic way of eating in Jan of 2019, and have lost a total of 110 lbs.
After a member of the family was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, I realized I had to do something to change the way I was eating. I spent years yo-yo dieting and “bro” dieting. In the end, I just kept slowly gaining weight and could never figure out why. My mother-in-law and her sister found a diet called Code Red. We figured we would give it a shot, and so my journey began.
After a few months, Code Red evolved into a lazy keto diet, and then into a whole-food ketogenic lifestyle. Today, I love the way I feel. I realized you never really know how crappy you feel until you stop feeling that way.
After two years of healthy weight loss, I chose to compete in an INBF amateur bodybuilding show followed by an NPC Natural show one month later. Health has become a central part of my life, second to being a good father to my son and growing family. My goal is to help others learn to love their bodies and in turn themselves again. Over the past 4 years, I have completely changed my life. I would like to help you do the same.
My name is Alyssa, I have struggled with eating disorders my entire life. I have tried almost every “fad” diet out there. Yeah, I’d lose a few pounds here and there but my relationship with food was so toxic I’d gain every pound lost and then some back within a few months.
As a young adult, I was told I’d most likely never have children. My biggest dream in life was to be a mom, and that door was seemingly slammed in my face. Fast forward to January 2019. My dad was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. My aunt and mom found a program called Code Red that approached everything with a low-carb, whole-food approach. The entire family jumped in with both feet.
My fiancé and I were a mere 9 months away from our wedding day, and we faced every challenge head-on. By April I was down 40 pounds which was mind-boggling. I have never had that kind of success eating real food. While on our Code Red journey we found the ketogenic diet, which made an even bigger impact. I was eating more calories than ever before while continuing to shed pounds. Of course, there were plateaus and struggles along the way, but I stuck with it. By our wedding day, I had gone from 233 pounds to 163 pounds. That’s a total of 70 pounds lost in just 9 months.
After getting healthy and slowly healing my relationship with food, my husband and I were blessed with our first baby in November of 2021. I stayed with the low-carb, keto lifestyle throughout my pregnancy, and my son was born at 8lbs 11oz - as a very healthy keto kiddo. I would love to help women and other mommas out there heal their relationships with food and get to a healthy sustainable lifestyle.