BACON IS FOR CLOSERS...

[goillini52]

And I heard it's legal in Illinois now, right?

Yep. I quit smoking. Eating the edibles..even though they aren't Keto.
It's different. $40 for a 100 mg milk chocolate bar.

 

[goillini52]

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I still drink coffee with heavy cream ... can't imagine putting sweetener or sugar in my coffee any longer. But coffee used to nothing other than excuse for me take a couple of teaspoons of sugar.

I use Stevia.

 

[DayTimer]

I use Stevia.

I don't miss sweet tastes at all really. The only food I really miss is Pizza, especially NY pizza. Followed by pasta.

 

[KOC Agent]

I don't miss sweet tastes at all really. The only food I really miss is Pizza, especially NY pizza. Followed by pasta.

Do you mean Sbarro's?

 

[DayTimer]

Do you mean Sbarro's?

Fvck no ... I mean pizza ... real pizza ... like Bronx, Ny pizza from Full Moon Pizzeria at 600 East 187th Street in the Arthur Avenue Little Italy section of the Bronx.

 

[vic120]

The headaches are the keto flu and it is the result of your body learning to do with less glucose.

The water pill is diuretic (removes water/makes you pee). The keto diet is also diuretic. You are likely dehydrating yourself. That being said, perhaps talk to your doctor before changing your medication. I would tell him/her that you decided to go on a no sugar diet. Don't use the phrase keto unless you know your doctor is on board with keto - otherwise you'll get a bunch of reactionary BS. No doctor should have a problem with a patient who cuts out processed sugars and carbs and sticks to meat and non-starchy veggies.
If your doctor does have a problem, I strongly suggest a new doctor.

I am sure the water pill will not be needed so long as you cut the sugar and processed carbs, but dammit, Vic, I'm and insurance salesman, not a doctor!



If weight loss is a goal and you are losing weight then you are fine. Many folks who tried keto and quit because it "didn't work" likely failed because they started drinking a ton of calories in the form of buttered coffee and coconut oil shakes.

Remember that when we eat, any calories not immediately needed will be stored as fat. What a keto diet does is then allow those calories to be released from the fat tissue and subsequently burned as energy, whereas a high sugar/carb diet leads to the body's inability to release energy from fat, thus causing one to need to eat even more, and thus store more and more fat. You can still gain weight on keto. The purpose of the keto diet is to reverse the metabolic damage and derangement that will allow your body to burn the fat you have accumulated. Once you lose that fat and get to goal weight, you will likely be able to eat sticks of butter dipper in your coffee and not gain an ounce. But if you are overweight, lay off the fat and let your body be its own fuel source.

Right now, you can actually eat a bit leaner meat than you will need a month or two or three from now because you want the fat for your current "high fat" diet to come from YOU!

I suggest you do not worry about chasing some magical protein:fat ratio. I started with and continue to drink two to three cups of coffee per day, each with a tablespoon or two of heavy cream. I tend to eat my steak and burgers grilled, my pork pan fried in bacon grease, and my chicken oven roasted. I add little to no fat: very little butter ever and sometimes some olive oil if I'm politely being forced to eat a salad.

Thank You for correcting me, I won't worry about upping my fat intake now this is good to know and I will adjust accordingly

 

[DayTimer]

Thank You for correcting me, I won't worry about upping my fat intake now this is good to know and I will adjust accordingly

And what @somarco said about electrolytes is also likely true. I've heard that dissolving a chicken or beef broth cube and drinking that once or twice a day can help or even prevent the headaches. I probably should have mentioned that sooner but I forgot.

 

[vic120]

holy got to check everything

Ate some great salmon with butter and a little garlic today, and later got some heartburn, so I thought thinking grabbed some tums smoothies 750

after like 4 thought, you know these things are sweet, went online (because there is no listing on the bottle ) to find 1.1 grams each, Total of 4.4 extra carbs unexpected

Trying to be as close to 0 as possible already had 5 grams, didn't expect another 4 and a half, Still Ill take the day I've been under 3-7 carbs a day except for the first day Friday

have to check meds like that But clearly I should have probably hidden carbs in lots of things you wouldn't think of

 

[vic120]

And what @somarco said about electrolytes is also likely true. I've heard that dissolving a chicken or beef broth cube and drinking that once or twice a day can help or even prevent the headaches. I probably should have mentioned that sooner but I forgot.

I've been taking extra potassium, magnesium as well and drinking lots of water

I cut my water pill in half tonight and still no swelling

water pill may be too much now, still blows my mind, I used to swell with a fraction of the sodium I have been taking in

It must be the carbs, I had been trying to eat healthy for a couple of years, and lost weight with it as first but went the other way for a while

I ate a lot of carbs black beans, whole wheat bread, whole wheat wraps and on and on maybe it wasn't as good for me as I thought

 

[Northeast Agent]

Should you cut out meat for your health?

As a cardiologist and professor of nutrition, I'd like to clear up some of the confusion with five myths and five facts about meat.

And too much heme iron, which gives red meat its color, may explain why red meat increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. Eating red meat often, and eating processed meat even occasionally, is also strongly linked to colorectal cancer.