#103 Jessica Tye – Keto As A Family

Meet Jessica Tye:

Jessica Tye is a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, host of the wellness podcast “Keto Lifestyle” and a true farm girl.  She is passionate about helping people achieve positive results through nutrition and creating wellness habits.  She is from Cincinnati, Ohio and has been happily married to her husband Derek since 1996.  They have 5 children and a barnyard full of farm animals ranging from chickens to alpacas.  Her obsession for health and helping others live the best life possible has led her to the area of nutritional & lifestyle coaching and education that includes teaching about homesteading. She believes that educating the next generation about where real food comes from and why the nutrient density in that food is imperative to our health can help to point our country, and ultimately our world, in the right direction for our overall well-being.

Show Notes:

ABOUT JESSICA

• I am a mom and a wife
• I am a nutritional therapist, I am a certified therapy practitioner and I have a practice office here in Ohio
• We have a farm we raised. We have about 55 or 60 animals at any given time on our farm and we are very busy with that
• I am also a podcast host and I just love getting the message out to people
• I just kind of demystifying a little bit of all the stuff that I feel like people kind of get the weight quote syndrome where they think that if the doctor is not telling them something, they should not listen to it
• Or the opposite into that is if the doctor in the white quote tells them something that it must be the gospel and there’s no other way
• So, I like getting out more information out there so that people can understand that maybe their doctor does not know everything
• While doctors are great, in our allopathic medical system, maybe they aren’t looking to necessarily get you off to medications and they don’t know how to help you to live your day to day life in a preventative way and a healthful way
• There’re other ways to go about living out there and it doesn’t have to be just a pill for everything
• I love educating and I love it when people are asking questions
• I know not all doctors are forward-thinking and understands that
• I don’t want to say brainwashed but it kind of is, where they just listen to everything they are told and they don’t seek any outside information
• I am 100% not slamming doctors, they go into it with the desire to help
• But once they get in there, a lot of them are very disheartened and dissolution because they are learning what drug to prescribe to people, what interaction those drugs with each other and how long they can keep somebody with that drug and what drug they need to get on next, and that is there education
• They are not learning preventive care and nutrition
• The very little nutrition they get is based on the USDA guidelines which we see how gigantic experiment has turned
• If you are going to a doctor and sits down with you for two minutes, listens to what’s wrong with and the first thing he does is grabs that prescription pad, run
• I do not have an extraordinary story, it was kind of a bunch of things throughout my life
• I grew up like most girls in the 70’s and ’80s, the generation where the package pack was really big
• My mom was a working mom and like most women in the 70’s and ’80s, she’s buying these frozen and packaged foods and those make life easier
• We grew up from cereals and pop tarts and through my life growing up, I have battled wanting to be thin like the girls in the magazine
• I never really dealt with weight issues, I was very blessed with that, but I ate horribly
• We ate low-fat and stayed away with fat because my mom taught me that we eat carbohydrates and make sure to stay away from fat and so, I did that
• As I got older, got married and start having babies, things started changing
• I had 3 pregnancies and all 3 of them are horrible
• Looking back, finally, my diet and the way I was living was catching up to me
• I have gained 65 lbs. with each child, took it all off after them but through very unhealthy means
• I was a vegan for a while and I dragged my poor family through that
• I was a runner and a volleyball player and things started breaking down
• At this time, I was going to the physical therapist because I had horrible hip flexor issues
• And I was just a casual runner just to keep in shape, is what I thought I was doing it for
• It was bad enough that I could not sleep at night
• When I was dealing this, one of my kid who was about 8 years old and was having all kinds of digesting issues
• Shortly after a couple of years later, we were bringing home our daughter from China as a toddler and she has special needs
• As all of these things are coming together, I needed to figure out what was going on
• I started researching more and we went into the Paleo route from veganism
• I was cutting out gluten and I realized that once I cut out gluten out of my daughter’s diet, all the rashes going away
• I ended up getting my son for testing and figured out that he is very gluten sensitive and he needed to cut it out too
• Realizing that I wanted to learn more is kind of what lead me to become an NTP and help people
• After changing over to Paleo, all of the things that I was dealing with personally started getting better because I had skin issues as well
• At the beginning of 2017 is when I started Keto
• When I started doing that, I was no longer going to the physical therapist and no more skin issues
• My daughter was diagnosed with epileptic at that time, so I started her on a Ketogenic diet to help control the seizure which worked amazingly
• A lot of people asked me why do I have a farm with me being a nutritionist
• For me, it actually goes hand in hand
• With my philosophy on nutrition, health, wellness, and the entire lifestyle, the farm is a huge part of that
• We currently have 40 chickens, and we collect eggs every day and give a dozen eggs to our guests that stay in our cabin
• We also have alpaca, goats, cow, a couple of horses, sheep, ducks, and turkeys
• I love to cook so, I do love to make meals for my family
• The way that I do and the way that I talk to my clients about is that, don’t think you have to do everything all the time
• As moms, we have all these things and I totally get that
• For me, personally, one of the important things that I can do is taking care of these kids
• Hopefully, I am raising them as strong as I can
• I want them to have a good microbiome, good and strong healthy muscles, bones, gut, and brain
• In order to achieve that, I know that that means that I probably could not feed them fast food and meals in a box all the time
• I have got to get some real nutrition in them and that is super important
• That does not mean that you have to be in the kitchen making meals every single day, but I do think it means that you are going to have to make sure that whatever meals they are eating, it has to be mostly made from you
• I am also a busy mom and one of the ways I do that is, I will make multiple meals at one time
• I just double and triple every recipe that I make
• It doesn’t have to be making recipes either
• A meal can be a protein and veggies
• One really good thing to be able to get good foods into your kids is hiding it
• I love hiding organ meats into different dishes and it is so easy to do
• When you those kinds of stuff, it so nutrient-dense that it just lights everything up
• When we are getting all of that stuff and we are getting that more frequently, and that tends to be the majority of our diet especially for our kids, their little bodies are craving for that nutrients, we need them
• Every cell in our body needs the micronutrients, minerals, and vitamins, and we can’t get them on a packaged food
• Obesity is linked to all kinds of diseases and it’s really horrible, and children are prone to it because their little bodies are growing
• One of the most important nutrients they should have is protein and fat
• If these little kids are not getting all the fat that they need, they are not going to grow
  right
• It’s not your fault why you want to eat all the time
• You have to change what you’re giving your body so that your body will turn those hormones off
• You cannot out will biology

WORDS OF WISDOM

• The biggest thing that I would like for people to know is to really focus on whole foods
• Get back to the basics and not making things complicated
• It is different for everybody, but once you figure it out, it is going to be easy

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: jessicatye.com
• Instagram: @thatketoblonde
• Facebook: @jessicatyenutrition

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