BACON IS FOR CLOSERS...

[Tahoe Ray]

And number 2 the hunger is much more controllable

I just don't get hungry at all on Keto which to me is the best bonus. It's 3:45 here and I just at my first meal.

However I have been on this Keto since jan of last year, I have lost 125 LBS so far and I am in total control I was 360 now 235

Holy shit! That's awesome. Congrats.

I am joking there are a lot of foods I love I can eat never feel deprived past the first month on occasion I might miss Pizza but I have some Italian recipes that fit that and I have Chinese and mex food recipes too

I miss pizza the most, then cookies and beer.

For Italian, you can try Palmini pasta (made from hearts of palm). It's never going to be like fresh pasta but as a low carb option, it's the best I've found. And if you're too lazy to make your own sauce, Rao's has almost no sugar and is awesome. Like most things keto, neither are cheap.

 

[DayTimer]

"If bread is something Arnold feels he overindulges in and has a tough time controlling, then cutting it out may be helpful, but it's not magic."

A young athletic guy who used to have a Youtube channel called "
Smash the Fat" (I think that was the name) did an n=1 experiment where he ate 5000 calories per day for a week? 30 days? For the first 30 days he ate 5000 calories of a high fat, moderate protein, low carb diet. He lost weight, cut body fat, and increased his lean muscle mass.

Found him - his name is Sam Felton, and here is a Youtube page with his 5000 calorie experiment videos:

https://www.youtube.com/c/smashthefat/search?query=5000

The next week or 30 days or whatever it was he at high carb, moderate protein, low fat. He gained weight, grew a bear belly, lost muscle mass and increased his BMI.

Dieticians and traditional medicine doctors really do seem to have this wrong.

There is a great book by Gary Taubes called Good Calorie, Bad Calorie, and another great book by Nina Techolz called The Big Fat Lie: Both show that throughout much of human history, doctors and regular folks knew that carbs, especially sugar and processed flour (bread) is what caused overweight, and not fat. An ambitious professor named Ancel Keys is almost single handedly responsible for the vilification of fat and the the rise of the high sugar/high starch diet.

Interestingly, Professor Keys did not practice what he preached: He lived to a ripe old age eating what we now call a Mediterranean diet, high in fat, nuts, seeds and non-starchy vegetables and low in sugars in starches.

He lived to be 100.

 

[DayTimer]

However I have been on this Keto since jan of last year, I have lost 125 LBS so far and I am in total control I was 360 now 235

Vic that is AWESOME!

Congrats, buddy!

I am so happy for you!

 

[DayTimer]

I hadn't read Vic's post before I posted my response to @Northeast Agent's post. Wow! Vic! That really is what this thread is about. You nailed it, my friend.

 

[vic120]

I hadn't read Vic's post before I posted my response to @Northeast Agent's post. Wow! Vic! That really is what this thread is about. You nailed it, my friend.

This thread started it all and YOU were a big part in me starting this path getting me the basics

I am so glad in the beginning I took your advice and got near 0 carbs for the first month this broke the addiction before going up in carbs to near 20

I belive that made a big dif

 

[Life Hawk]

I take pills for is D

Wife the other day showed me a video where someone was explaining that the low D count in folks leads to a lower immune system and mostly effects folks in the north during fall and winter months. D is readily available from the sun and therefore is in deficit to those in areas where the sun wanes through the winter months. D is also responsible for warding off and helping us cope with depression.

I took note of that, as I have seasonal depression disorder that can get out of had if I do not remain active and on a good diet during winter months.

 

[vic120]

Wife the other day showed me a video where someone was explaining that the low D count in folks leads to a lower immune system and mostly effects folks in the north during fall and winter months. D is readily available from the sun and therefore is in deficit to those in areas where the sun wanes through the winter months. D is also responsible for warding off and helping us cope with depression.

I took note of that, as I have seasonal depression disorder that can get out of had if I do not remain active and on a good diet during winter months.

That with me I have worked from home since 2011 so I don't get as much sun as I should I do on weekends though

 

[DayTimer]

I am so glad in the beginning I took your advice and got near 0 carbs for the first month this broke the addiction before going up in carbs to near 20

You aren't the first person to tell me that. I believe many of the failed keot attempts out there are the result of not understanding how potent an addiction to carbohydrate is for most Americans.

I was fortunate that when I started this all I had was a couple of Dr Atkins original books and the "keto craze" was still a year or two away from breaking wide open on the internet.

I wish @goillini52 would come back for this thread if for nothing else

 

[vic120]

You aren't the first person to tell me that. I believe many of the failed keot attempts out there are the result of not understanding how potent an addiction to carbohydrate is for most Americans.

I was fortunate that when I started this all I had was a couple of Dr Atkins original books and the "keto craze" was still a year or two away from breaking wide open on the internet.

I wish @goillini52 would come back for this thread if for nothing else

Yes the Monkey is missed

 

[vic120]

You aren't the first person to tell me that. I believe many of the failed keot attempts out there are the result of not understanding how potent an addiction to carbohydrate is for most Americans.

I was fortunate that when I started this all I had was a couple of Dr Atkins original books and the "keto craze" was still a year or two away from breaking wide open on the internet.

I wish @goillini52 would come back for this thread if for nothing else

You know I want to add this about the 0 carb in the first month

Because I wouldn't have thought I was addicted to sugar because I wasn't a cake or icecream guy ever but I did love beads pasta I did grab snacks during the day crakers or whatever carby thing that didn't seem surgery but it was still carby

When I was in the first month I noticed that I ate for other reasons than hunger this is where the addiction showed whenever tired or anxious depressed and the dreaded aftyernonn drop in energy

I noticed when I was in first month I would get anxious or whatever trigger and I would grab something like bacon or olives and it would not scratch the itch I would be hungry anymore but clearly the body was searching for something after a month I was free of that

also the energy was much more even no high highs or low lows