7 THINGS THAT EPITOMIZED YOUR AWKWARD CHILDHOOD PHASE

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Growing up is hard, and unfortunately, you mostly just have to wait out the “awkward” phase. There’s no good way to predict how puberty will unfold for you, let alone rush yourself through it, so when your mom said you’d outgrow those problems eventually she was about right. Adolescent young animals are absolutely adorable, but sometimes things aren’t quite so pretty in humans. Admittedly, turning into an adult human is a little less straightforward than growing a different set of feathers or whatever.

Though you can definitely feel awkward about yourself at the time, much of this only becomes apparent in retrospect. By now, you’re likely well past your own awkward childhood-into-adolescence phase and at a safe temporal distance from which to reconsider it (what a relief). People’s childhoods unfold and end in different eras (I was a ’90s kid myself) and these have their own unique defining features (glitter everything, anyone?) At the same time, some general features of the twilight of childhood remain the same. If you’re ready to take a trip down (painful) memory lane, read these things that epitomized your awkward childhood phase and weep. Whatever the future brings, at least you’ll never have to go through that again.

Flip-Flopping Attitudes

Are you are a child or are you an adult today? Who knows! One minute, tween you was insisting she could be left alone at the mall until 9 p.m., and the next minute she was ordering plain buttered noodles and fries off the kids’ menu. Or maybe the dentist gave your kid sibling a toy, and you felt unexpectedly jealous. Even if you haven’t pitched a fit in public since you were 5, mom refusing to buy you those stretch jeans might set you off now. One foot in childhood and one foot in adulthood is emotionally exhausting.

Incongruous Body

Braces and breast buds? Acne, size 10 feet, and no hips? Eventually, your whole body will reach adulthood, but no guarantees as to which parts will get there when. Thirteen-year-old girls who look 25 and 20-year-old guys who look 12, we’re sorry for misjudging you.

Questionable Fashion

Too tight, too loose, just plain ugly — our late childhood fashion has it all. Shiny, printed polyester shirts, and actual bellbottom pants were staples of my late childhood wardrobe, and I topped it all off with poorly-applied, mismatched makeup nipped from my mom’s discard pile.

Miscellaneous Injuries

I’m not sure it’s been scientifically proven, but managing a growth spurt is no joke — and last time you had to deal with it, you were an innocent baby. Personally, during puberty, I managed to break my toe whacking it against a door jamb and to break my finger grabbing a friend’s pant leg during a yearbook signing period. Whoops.

Inauthentic Taste

Does anyone really like the celebrities marketed to us by record labels? It’s unclear. But when your friends like One Direction (or Jonathan Taylor Thomas), you swoon right in line. Or maybe you’re trying to have more “grown-up” taste by, for instance, drinking coffee from the hotel lobby on that family vacation. Tastes like chalk, bottoms up!

Fake Maturity

Awkward young people are able to observe and emulate adult behaviors long before they understand or internalize them. Learning by doing is rough, and becoming an adult involves mostly on-the-job training. I’m still embarrassed about the time I ostentatiously said “I beg to differ” to a waiter when it wasn’t the right phrase at all. Just think of all the fake mature moments you can’t remember because you didn’t even understand that they were happening. Ugh.

No Perspective

Little children pretty much live for the moment, but everyone expects them to. As soon as you hit a certain age, those expectations change, but you don’t always measure up right away. Seeing that movie with your friends seems like literally the most important thing ever, and the only inconceivable reason your mom and dad would say no is because they are actively attempting to ruin your life. And those zits seem like mountains rather than molehills. Thank goodness this total lack of perspective is only a phase (for most people), because it’s incredibly dramatic to live this way.

DOCTOR PERFECT LAUNCHES FIRST TIME FREE 7 DAY KETO MEAL PLAN FOR WEIGHT LOSS

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The ketogenic diet is a low carb, moderate protein, and high fat diet that research suggests may be effective in preventing epileptic seizures, treating diabetes, and promoting weight loss. Unlike, say, the Atkins diet, a ketogenic or “keto” diet doesn’t depend on a list of allowed or forbidden foods, nor does it advise increasing the amount of carbs you consume from one stage to another. Instead, it focuses on finding the ideal ratio of macronutrients to create ketosis in the body, and to maintain this ketosis to manage disease and control weight.

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Since a ketogenic diet can be beneficial for those looking to lose weight, we have put together a 7 day ketogenic meal plan for weight loss to make it a little easier to get started (or to keep going!) In case you’re new to keto, though, let me give you a brief explanation of how it works.

What is ketosis?

During digestion, carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, the usual source of energy for the brain and central nervous system. When there is not enough glucose available due to low carbohydrate consumption, the body must find an alternative energy source and breaks down fat for energy instead. This process produces molecules called “ketones” which serve as the body’s new fuel. “Ketosis” is the name given to the state in which the body has an increased level of ketones in the blood.

How many carbs on a ketogenic diet?

A ketogenic diet often has the following macronutrient breakdown: 60-75% calories from fat, 15-30% calories from protein, and 5-10% calories from carbs. Typically, consuming less than 50 grams of carbohydrates per day is enough to achieve ketosis, but some studies on the effectiveness of ketogenic diets have further limited daily carbohydrate consumption to less than 20 grams of carbs daily.

Some keto followers take the Atkins approach and concentrate on net carbohydrates, that is, grams of total carbohydrate minus grams of fiber. This is a somewhat controversial approach, since the term “net carbs” is happily used (and likely abused) by food manufacturers to create an array of products rich in total carbohydrates, but low in net carbs. If you avoid such processed foods, though, net carbs could be a good solution for you. (Note: we have nothing against the occasional convenience food. Quest bars? My guilty pleasure.)

Our Keto Meal Plan

For our ketogenic diet meal plan, we do not exceed 20 grams of net carbs per day, and total carbohydrate ranges from 23-36 grams.

The calorie counts are on the low side, between 1300-1700 calories per day. Though this could be effective for a keto meal plan for weight loss, you can always increase your portions if you need more calories, so long as you stay in ketosis by monitoring your macronutrient ratio and especially your total carbohydrate intake.

To see this reflected in your spoonacular meal planner, simply duplicate the item you are eating more of, assuming you plan on eating two servings instead of one. If you are just increasing the amount slightly, you can always upload the recipe yourself with the exact amounts you used to get the new nutritional information.

If you know you can tolerate a higher carbohydrate intake and stay in ketosis, you are also welcome to add the occasional glass of dry red wine or 85-90% dark chocolate.

This meal plan features keto recipes from several websites and blogs. To give you an idea what to expect, here are the dinners for the week:

Monday	Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts from Jan’s Sushi Bar
Tuesday	Zucchini Boats Stuffed with Pork from My Zucchini Recipes
Wednesday	Easy Skillet Feta Chicken from Kraft Recipes
Thursday	Sauteed Gulf Shrimp with Feta Cheese and Lemon Butter Sauce from Running with Tweezers
Friday	Roast Chicken with Arugula Tomato Salad from MyRecipes/Sunset
Saturday	Grilled Steak with Spicy Chimichurri Sauce from Fork Knife Swoon
Sunday	Grain-Free Meatloaf with Tomatoes, Fennel, and Flax Seed from Kalyn’s Kitchen

To see the complete keto meal plan, scroll down.

We also tried to use ingredients more than once to keep your shopping list from getting out of control and to minimize food waste. For example, some of the leftover cream cheese from the stuffed chicken breasts will be used later in the week for cream cheese pancakes. The crab salad stuffed avocados come up twice, so you aren’t stuck with leftover crab salad or a half of an avocado (in case you’re cooking for one.) We haven’t managed this for every ingredient, so we recommend using our recipe search engine to help you find keto recipes with your leftover ingredients, such as keto recipes with fresh cilantro, for the following week.

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