Learning all about keto

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on keto now for 2 weeks. Lost 7lbs first week and only one since. I am on a big calorie deficit. I didn’t have any of the so called keto fly. It is NOT a high protein diet, I often have to be careful because it is easy to eat too much proteins. I LOVE how I feel. I don’t mind the food at all, I just add the fats I was used to skipping and everything tastes so much better. I just ate sea bass on spinach. I eat most of my carbs through veggies, so I eat quite a few, especially greens that have low carbs. Wow, mayo in my tuna salad! Lox wirh capers and cream cheese! I don’t miss the carbs. I start exercising this weekend so I hope the weighty starts coming to come off. I have 60 lbs to lose and.

FYI you did not lose 7 pounds the first week. You lost 6lbs water bloat, and perhaps 1lb of fat loss.

Keto/Atkins is not sustainable for large weight loss.

Keto and Atkins are not remotely the same. The fact that there are so many posts conflating the two indicates how poorly many people understand nutrition. Ketogenesis is when your body burns fat for fuel. It can only be achieved when you eat a high fat diet, very low carbs, and low/mod protein. Atkins is the opposite of ketogenesis. Protein, which people on Atkins eat a fair amount of, prevents ketogenesis. It's like any other "American" diet, your body burns glucose. You are just switching to more protein than carbs. Protein and carbs both provide the body with glucose as its fuel source.

I read a lot of scientific papers about the ketogenic diets and they show very promising results for a wide variety of illnesses. It's been well documented as a great treatment for epilepsy for decades. There's quite a bit of research being done on their positive impacts on a wide range of autoimmune, metabolic, mental health and even cancers. In the past they used to feed people massive amounts of mayonnaise (vomit). Now, most people do what's also called nutritional ketosis. Lots and lots of veggies, lots of ghee and coconut milk, with a very regimented portion of protein each day.

I think biologically we are probably suited to cycle in and out of ketogenesis. The great think about diets is that you could block a 1-2 month period out of your life and try it and see how it works for you.

Thank you. So much misunderstanding around here.

keto ! = Atkins
keto ! = low carb + high protein
keto = very low carb + moderate protein + high fat

The whole idea is to adapt your body to primarily and efficiently burn fat, not just sugar. Most people (like 99.9% of Americans) can ONLY efficiently burn sugar. That's why you see fat people who are constantly hungry. They overeat the carbs, the excess is turned to fat immediately, and once they burn through their immediate carb stores, they're hungry again. rinse. repeat.

People on keto are fat adapted. That means that your body can burn body fat efficiently.

Also the keto diet doesn't tell you to eat an unlimited amount of pork rinds. Wtf is wrong with people.
It simply tells you what your macros should be.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever diet you choose, add exercise to it. #1 way to lose weight

Absolutely not true. You can't exercise away a bad diet. You can't. Read "Why We Get Fat"
By Gary Taubes.

NP. Although I agree that a good diet is essential to good health, I think it is so, so, so, so important for people to understand that exercise is extraordinarily valuable to both are physical and mental health. Especially as we age. Keeping up cardiovascular health and minimizing the muscle atrophy that picks up as we age keeps people happy and mobile as they grow old.

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Anonymous wrote:Plus usually when people eliminate carbs they drop ~5 lbs of water weight from lowered glycogen stores. This has literally nothing to do with fat loss, and is essentially meaningless, but makes people feel good when they step in the scale.

Dropping 5 pounds of excess water weight is not insignificant. Excess carbohydrate consumption leads to massive unnecessary water weight which is a huge contributor to high blood pressure. Literally a week after starting keto, I was able to eliminate all of my blood pressure meds and I've never needed them since. It makes me incandescent with rage and frustration that so many doctors don't prescribe this as a first line treatment. I'm lucky to have a cardiologist who does. I've never been healthier and I'm so frustrated I spent so many years sick, and sicker from med side effects, when changing my diet was so simple. I'm not saying it was easy as I was a huge carb addict, but it is simple. The science is clear.

On top of that, when you adapt from primarily carb burning to fat burning, your body depletes its glycogen stores (form of energy storage). 1 gram of glycogen carries 3 grams of water. So when people say you lose water on keto, they mean you burn through your glycogen stores which in turn retain water.