I tried Protein Cheerios and it worked for me!

Have you ever seen a movie that made you want to do something you wouldn’t normally do?

Well, I got one of these “wild hair” urges while watching the movie, Get Out.

(Keep thinking Cheerios) …

I love this movie Get Out because the plot is psychologically creepy, as well as intelligent and unique. Plus, the movie has one of my favorite actresses: Allison Wilson, who makes a great villain … in fact, in Get Out she played perfectly the part of a serious, dyed in the wool psychopath (dun, dun, dun.)

So, this one scene in the movie totally fascinated me, and I think I even watched the whole movie again just to absorb all of the meaning behind this supposedly uneventful scene. Honestly, it was almost a place holder, but for some reason it made me feel hypnotized, and I never forgot it.

In this scene, Rose Armitage (Wilson) is looking at a computer and eating what appears to be … get this … cereal.  

I found myself mesmerized as the hand of Rose Armitage painstakingly swung down to the cereal bowl and up to her mouth and back again … over and over. And I thought, “Now that’s the way to eat cereal!” It was ideal … You got to eat the cereal, but by eating cereal pieces individually and ever so slowly, you prevented that tendency to overindulge in its sweet, delicious crunchiness

I simply could not get that cereal-eating scene out of my mind, and I knew I wanted to be like her – not the psychopath part – but I wanted to be eating cereal out of a bowl just the way she did. What a great idea to eat cereal that way!

Unfortunately, there were several problems with realizing my dream.

You see, at the time when I first saw the movie Get Out, I had built my whole life around the Keto diet which meant that I had basically given up cereal. So, I couldn’t figure out why this scene about cereal fascinated me so much, and I even wondered if there had been subliminal advertising involved!

To be completely honest with you, the urge to recreate that scene hung with me for a long time, and for several years I found myself trying to imagine how I could master the art of eating cereal without cereal …

Eventually, I decided to take a break from Keto and considered dipping a toe into the cereal box. And at this point, I realized that my years on Keto had changed me, so that every cereal I tried made me feel icky and over-sugared. Defeated about this, I began to consider Protein Cheerios.

Pondering the pros and cons or Protein Cheerios brought to mind this commercial l saw a long time ago. Broadcast on community access TV. It was a homemade video featuring a group of middle school cheerleaders, and this group of girls was yelling the cheer: “Protein is the enemy of sugar!”

And then I realized that Protein Cheerios appear to be made according to the concepts in that cheer. So, if they put a bunch of protein in a certain cereal … along with a splash of sugar … is it possible for these two things to even each other out, reducing the negative effects of the sugar?

I’m pleased to report that I have gained some new insights into this matter. In the first place, I have learned that eating a small bowl of Protein Cheerios is okay for me, and it rarely causes me to feel sick due to sugar. And secondly, it’s incredibly difficult to sit at a computer and eat cereal one piece at a time, over and over and over …  

And in fact, when I tried to recreate the cereal-eating scene from the movie Get Out, I found that slow-movement-cereal-eating actually made me feel stressed-out and anxious … I even felt sorry for the actress. (No wonder the character, Rose Armitage, was so crazy … eating fruit loops that way can make you loopy!)

Actually, I have decided that it is much more sane and soothing to instead pick up two or three Cheerios at a time from your snacking bowl, which is what I do now. So, I hope you learn from my mistakes!

It’s also nice to add some Stevia chocolate chips to dry Protein Cheerios (Milk Chocolate Stevia chips rule.)

(Stevia chips are your best Keto friend!)

This article was written by Vanna Silverwood, medical writer and outspoken advocate for natural medicine: see more at: Simplynaturalmedicine.com Encouraging stability, helping you clarify your health goals … we are always “For humans, by humans.“