#113 Harlan Kilstein – CompletelyKeto

Meet Harlan Kilstein

A former high school principal, Harlan Kilstein received his doctorate in education (Ed. D.) and did post-graduate work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Today, he is one of the foremost marketers, generating over 100 million dollars in sales over the past 20 years with clients running 7, 8, and 9 figure businesses. In 2017, Harlan went Keto and soon thereafter founded the Completely Keto website and Facebook group. Now, he has over 1 million followers on Facebook with hundreds of thousands devouring his Keto recipes each week. He is an expert in the Keto diet and lifestyle and has authored CompletelyKeto: Foods You Never Thought Could Be Keto, The CompletelyKeto Cheesecake Cookbook, and Speed Ketosis.

Utilizing his background in education, Harlan makes understanding Keto clear and simple for people interested in learning about the lifestyle change. Harlan is also the owner and publisher of the DogingtonPost: The Internet’s Newspaper for Dogs, which reaches approximately 2.5 million people every week.

Show Notes:

ABOUT HARLAN

• My background was in Education. I was a principal of different level schools – from elementary all the way to high school
• I love helping the kids, but I did not like the politics involved in schools
• I decided to leave education, and the next thing that I did is I opened up a weight loss clinic
• The weight loss clinic was very successful, but it was taken over by someone who franchises them
• He came in with the franchise philosophy and he said that we have to treat every person the same, but I told him that, that’s absurd because everyone’s unique
• I have this difference in philosophy in treating people uniquely and I realized that this isn’t for me
• I shut down my offices and said goodbye to my clients
• Somehow, along the way, I became a yoga fanatic
• Unfortunately, I hurt my self badly in yoga and the weight started piling on
• I did not realize at that time that I have developed metabolic syndrome
• I remember going into the doctor’s office, he diagnosed me and he said that I have a syndrome X, I asked what is it and he said I can google it but he told me the summary of it and said it’s impossible for me to lose weight
• So, it became my challenge. When someone tells me that there’s something I can’t do, that is the best for me because I am not going to take that
• I bounce from diet to diet and none of them worked
• I remember low-carb and I was devoted to it
• Then, I heard about keto. I found much to my sadness and surprise, my doctors did not know anything about keto
• I found a cardiologist who was sympathetic and the last straw with him was when he asked me to speak to his nutritionist
• Her idea of life is eating shakes and no-fat peanut butter powder and she mixed some in the office and told me that I can have it, and that’s when I realized that I need to do keto
  
• I started keto and started a Facebook group to help people and myself with keto
• That was about 4 or 5 years ago and now I have 4 or 5 different Facebook group with a million followers
• I came up with a keto plan that combines keto and intermittent fasting that not only works for me but also worked for about 70 thousand people
• I have more energy and I am finally getting my body back into the shape when I was doing yoga but without doing yoga
  
• When I did low-carb, they told me to cut out sugar, and so I did
• I remember that I was traveling and there was a market and somebody was selling fresh granola
• I told the seller that I can’t have sugar and he said that so is he because he is diabetic
• He told me that the granola has no sugar at all, so I took the granola and it was delicious
• And I went back and brought more, then I found out that sugar-free technically meant that it did not have sugar but it had hidden sugar
• Then, I realize that I have to become an expert in ingredients
• I went to see an endocrinologist and told me to write down what I ate for the past week and he looked at it he said that what I am doing is impossible and I should not be in this weight
• He said that he wants me to cut out diet soda and I started paying attention to every single ingredient that went into my mouth and things made a different
• The biggest change that came over me is that food had no longer any control over me
• Any diet can work for a period of time then your body can get used to what you’re doing and you’ll hit a really long plateau
  
• One of the people that I love in the weight loss/keto/intermittent fasting world is Dr. Fung
• He said that if you have metabolic syndrome, it’s going to take a long time to extremely to lose weight even with intermittent fasting
• I think the body can get used to anything including intermittent fasting
• Eventually, I made an entire program out of it and every week, it’s changing the fasts from extended to OMAD, to changing the times of your meals, and it made a difference

A DAY IN YOUR DIET

• The first thing that I do in the morning is have a cup of coffee with some MCT oil powder in it and a tiny bit of heavy whipped cream
• I perform really well in MCT oil and I think more clearly
• Sometimes, I’ll have some eggs in the morning and sometimes with a salad
• I usually do not do much of a lunch
• Dinner is a meat and some veggies
  
• My favorite is extended fast where I just have chicken broths
• The chicken broths are loaded with electrolytes and over time, I forget about food
• I typically do a 66-hour fast and I do that once every other week and I hardly even noticed that I am fasting
  
• A lot of people have difficulties with cravings
• And there is a simple killer that no matter what the craving is, this would work
• It is ice water with lemon juice in it
• It should be a real lemon juice and you squirt it in the roof of your mouth and your craving will be gone

ADVICE

• It really works
• Be patient with yourself
• Weight loss is not a sprint, it’s a matter of thought
• Keto is going to work
• One of the things that I want to caution people is that you have to become familiar with ingredients
• Just because has decided to make a buck, and put keto on the label, does not truly make it keto
  
• The first book I wrote was a recipe book
• When you do keto, the food should taste as good as non-keto food
• I started ketofying recipes
• Then, I came out with a program called speed keto and we have over 70 thousand people in there with incredible success and I added IF in there but a lot of people could not do intermittent fasting because some are type 1 diabetic, or are nursing
• So, I wrote a book called, Eating Speed Keto and followed subsequently by Completely Keto Goes Mexican, Completely Keto Soups, Completely Keto Goes Kosher
• You can find the book at speedketo.shop
• We have so many Facebook groups to help people
• We try and teach people that the answer is not food

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: completelyketo.com

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