re: Anyone had success with the keto diet?

Keto diet works if you have discipline. Of course, every diet would work with discipline. But keto allows people to eat meat and butter and heavy foods so for people without a sweet tooth it should be easier to stick with.

Yeah it will work but why do all that shite? Just lower your carbs. I don’t see the need to be all anal about being “keto”. Keep it simple stupid.

It definitely delivers results, but bringing your body to extremes is hardly ever a good process to follow

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I'm convinced that it will lead to huge spikes in heart disease and some of these people in about 20 years

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Yeah because staying morbidly obese for 20 years is better for your health

Did it for 6 months and my blood pressure and all cholesterol improved. Just started back again on the 1st. I would recommend it and have seen no data that suggests it will cause long term cardio issues.

I am a big proponent of keto and have had lots of success with it, I had similar concerns about heart problems and cholesterol, but you’d be surprised at the results of blood work after a month. I highly recommend the keto subreddit for information. I’m currently a week in after splurging during the holidays and I’ve lost 5 pounds. Here are my quick tips:

1) drink a shitload of water throughout, when you think you’ve had enough, have more
2) learn recipes and snacks you like, snacking can be a killer on diets so finding keto friendly snacks is helpful.
3) creating variety in the diet can be challenging, look up as many easy to make recipes and try them out, saving the ones you like. Have backups in case you don’t feel like cooking (for instance, have a keto friendly pot of chili in the fridge for an easy meal)
4) while you should keep an eye on your calories, you want to make sure you’re getting the allotted amount each day, or you may feel sick.
5) you use NET CARBS, not simply carbs, this means carbs less fiber. Instead of calculating this yourself, download the keto diet app and use their scan function, they have most anything logged in there and everything’s calculated for you

Can’t recommend it enough and it doesn’t necessarily require working out to slim down, although it is suggested.

Edit to add: my favorite keto foods are giant fricking ribeye steaks, Wright brand bacon, Purnells old folks country sausage, pork chops, Tuscan chicken, and roasted cauliflower. For snacks I like beef jerky and cheese and hard boiled eggs.

I also use the pee strips for testing if I’m in ketosis but it’s mainly because I am trying to eat as much as possible and I don’t want to do that if I’m not even going to be in ketosis so it just gives me peace of mind. Not a necessity tho, if you stay under your carbs you’re good. I’m happy to answer any more question

TL;DR - do it, if you’re skeptical, try it for one week and just check your results, you will be more than pleasantly surprised

You don't necessarily have to do keto. A good guideline for an adult male is 130 grams of carbs a day. Cut out sugar and white flour and limit the amount of white rice and potatoes. What helped me was writing down how many carbs a day I was eating.

Yogurt, cottage cheese, lower carb vegetables like cabbage, spouts, broccoli, and cauliflower are all good. Eat lots of nuts like almonds and peanuts and for snacks.

Stick away from food that comes in a box unless it's wholegrain cereals. Frozen vegetables and canned veggies like green beans and peas are fine. Plums are good also. Limit citrus and apples in favor of berries. Eggs are fine as is butter. Eat eggs for breakfast a lot and on other days whole grain cereals.

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I tried it last year. It made me realllllyyy sick. I’m talking 104° fever. I went to the doctor and got a piss test. They said I was so low on electrolytes that if I didn’t eat some carbs in the next couple of hours that I could possibly go into a coma. That ended real fast

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None of this happened and piss tests aren’t for electrolytes. Did you see a naturopath?

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The cons are limited choices for eating.

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And long-term sustainability