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Anonymous wrote:What makes you think that potato and broccoli won't work today?

Low fat or low carb pick one

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe people are eliminating fruits and vegetables due to carb content. Avoiding white flour/low quality grain, refined sugars, sure. But to not eat a carrot because of carbs is wacko

Unless you have a pre-disposal to or have already developed insulin resistance.

I wonder if those who are saying they could only lose weight by vigorously scrubbing their diet of carbs are really below their natural weight. I am 5'2, 125lbs, and my labs are good. I got here by reducing my intake of simple carbs; when I was just eating all the carbs in front of my face, I weighed 140. But I could get smaller than 125 by cutting out even more carbs, and if I wanted to be 105 it would probably be accurate to say I could only get there by cutting out almost all carbs.

No. I was obese and it was the carb cutting that worked for me. Might be different for other people. Like the poster below, I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand that different bodies might work in different ways.

Anonymous wrote:What makes you think that potato and broccoli won't work today?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you for those with helpful responses. There’s always gotta be one though 🙄

There’s been a lot of discussion in this board around low carb. So I was trying to figure out what most ppl meant. I feel like Keto is it’s own animal. But it sounds like a mix in the responses.

I find keto specifically hard to sustain because it’s so easy to get knocked out of ketosis. Having fats constantly be the most consumed macro - over protein - isn’t always the easiest. I had the pee strips too and would watch this happen.

And to the pp above - I never said the diet “didn’t work.” It for sure did. I lost weight. But I also like pineapple sometimes. So it’s not necessarily right for me. I also felt like Keto taught (me, personally) poor eating habits with it’s focus on high fats.

Kick started my diet reset with keto - under 25g of carbs for about 1 month and then slowly increased to under 50g for a couple of months….track everything and sure maybe carbs went over 50 once in a while but no higher than 75-80g. I don’t eat oatmeal, bread, pasta, potatoes - sweet or regular, sugar, honey, bananas, rice, quinoa, cereal, baked goods, crackers, pretzels, and limited very sweet fruits like mango and pineapple. I do eat lots of fresh organic vegetables, clean meats, fish, yogurt, cheese, nut butter and nuts. I also stopped drinking dairy skim milk and use almond/coconut creamer in my coffee. I feel much better, have lost 21 pounds and have tons of energy. This is totally sustainable- I don’t have cravings. Hope this helps…

I think a lot of people also do low carb and not really keto. I don’t track macros and can’t get enough fat unless I’m eating nut butter or something with mayo which isn’t everyday. I use olive oil or sesame oil and don’t really like butter. Low carb works for me.

It is really easy to get enough fat, honestly, even if you don't specifically set out to eat high fat.

I mean, look up how much fat salmon has in it.

Half a fillet:
412 calories
Fat: 27 grams
Sat fat: 6 grams
carbs: zero
fiber: zero
Proten 40 grams.

So already, you've had 27 grams of fat today (243 calories) and 40 grams of protein (160 calories).

Chicken is less fat

Chicken, one breast (140 grams ... I'm just using google here)
Calories: 231
Fat: 5 g
sat fat 1.4 g
protein: 43 g

An avocado (146 grams)
Calories:234
Fat: 21 grams
carbs: 12 g
fiber: 10 grams
protein 2.9 grams

I'm doing low carb and not adding any special fats to my diet.
Yesterday:
19% carb
54% fat
27% protein

Tuesday:
18% carbs
37% fat
45% protein

Monday
18% carbs
51% fat
31% protein

Sunday
30% carbs
50% fat
20% protein.

I'm just eating regular food, except avoiding grains and excess fruit.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe people are eliminating fruits and vegetables due to carb content. Avoiding white flour/low quality grain, refined sugars, sure. But to not eat a carrot because of carbs is wacko

I don’t see where anyone is doing that in this thread? OP asked about it. That’s it.

There are a lot of posters saying they don’t eat fruit.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you for those with helpful responses. There’s always gotta be one though 🙄

There’s been a lot of discussion in this board around low carb. So I was trying to figure out what most ppl meant. I feel like Keto is it’s own animal. But it sounds like a mix in the responses.

I find keto specifically hard to sustain because it’s so easy to get knocked out of ketosis. Having fats constantly be the most consumed macro - over protein - isn’t always the easiest. I had the pee strips too and would watch this happen.

And to the pp above - I never said the diet “didn’t work.” It for sure did. I lost weight. But I also like pineapple sometimes. So it’s not necessarily right for me. I also felt like Keto taught (me, personally) poor eating habits with it’s focus on high fats.

Kick started my diet reset with keto - under 25g of carbs for about 1 month and then slowly increased to under 50g for a couple of months….track everything and sure maybe carbs went over 50 once in a while but no higher than 75-80g. I don’t eat oatmeal, bread, pasta, potatoes - sweet or regular, sugar, honey, bananas, rice, quinoa, cereal, baked goods, crackers, pretzels, and limited very sweet fruits like mango and pineapple. I do eat lots of fresh organic vegetables, clean meats, fish, yogurt, cheese, nut butter and nuts. I also stopped drinking dairy skim milk and use almond/coconut creamer in my coffee. I feel much better, have lost 21 pounds and have tons of energy. This is totally sustainable- I don’t have cravings. Hope this helps…

I think a lot of people also do low carb and not really keto. I don’t track macros and can’t get enough fat unless I’m eating nut butter or something with mayo which isn’t everyday. I use olive oil or sesame oil and don’t really like butter. Low carb works for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you for those with helpful responses. There’s always gotta be one though 🙄

There’s been a lot of discussion in this board around low carb. So I was trying to figure out what most ppl meant. I feel like Keto is it’s own animal. But it sounds like a mix in the responses.

I find keto specifically hard to sustain because it’s so easy to get knocked out of ketosis. Having fats constantly be the most consumed macro - over protein - isn’t always the easiest. I had the pee strips too and would watch this happen.

And to the pp above - I never said the diet “didn’t work.” It for sure did. I lost weight. But I also like pineapple sometimes. So it’s not necessarily right for me. I also felt like Keto taught (me, personally) poor eating habits with it’s focus on high fats.

Kick started my diet reset with keto - under 25g of carbs for about 1 month and then slowly increased to under 50g for a couple of months….track everything and sure maybe carbs went over 50 once in a while but no higher than 75-80g. I don’t eat oatmeal, bread, pasta, potatoes - sweet or regular, sugar, honey, bananas, rice, quinoa, cereal, baked goods, crackers, pretzels, and limited very sweet fruits like mango and pineapple. I do eat lots of fresh organic vegetables, clean meats, fish, yogurt, cheese, nut butter and nuts. I also stopped drinking dairy skim milk and use almond/coconut creamer in my coffee. I feel much better, have lost 21 pounds and have tons of energy. This is totally sustainable- I don’t have cravings. Hope this helps…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you for those with helpful responses. There’s always gotta be one though 🙄

There’s been a lot of discussion in this board around low carb. So I was trying to figure out what most ppl meant. I feel like Keto is it’s own animal. But it sounds like a mix in the responses.

I find keto specifically hard to sustain because it’s so easy to get knocked out of ketosis. Having fats constantly be the most consumed macro - over protein - isn’t always the easiest. I had the pee strips too and would watch this happen.

And to the pp above - I never said the diet “didn’t work.” It for sure did. I lost weight. But I also like pineapple sometimes. So it’s not necessarily right for me. I also felt like Keto taught (me, personally) poor eating habits with it’s focus on high fats.

Kick started my diet reset with keto - under 25g of carbs for about 1 month and then slowly increased to under 50g for a couple of months….track everything and sure maybe carbs went over 50 once in a while but no higher than 75-80g. I don’t eat oatmeal, bread, pasta, potatoes - sweet or regular, sugar, honey, bananas, rice, quinoa, cereal, baked goods, crackers, pretzels, and limited very sweet fruits like mango and pineapple. I do eat lots of fresh organic vegetables, clean meats, fish, yogurt, cheese, nut butter and nuts. I also stopped drinking dairy skim milk and use almond/coconut creamer in my coffee. I feel much better, have lost 21 pounds and have tons of energy. This is totally sustainable- I don’t have cravings. Hope this helps…

Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you for those with helpful responses. There’s always gotta be one though 🙄

There’s been a lot of discussion in this board around low carb. So I was trying to figure out what most ppl meant. I feel like Keto is it’s own animal. But it sounds like a mix in the responses.

I find keto specifically hard to sustain because it’s so easy to get knocked out of ketosis. Having fats constantly be the most consumed macro - over protein - isn’t always the easiest. I had the pee strips too and would watch this happen.

And to the pp above - I never said the diet “didn’t work.” It for sure did. I lost weight. But I also like pineapple sometimes. So it’s not necessarily right for me. I also felt like Keto taught (me, personally) poor eating habits with it’s focus on high fats.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe people are eliminating fruits and vegetables due to carb content. Avoiding white flour/low quality grain, refined sugars, sure. But to not eat a carrot because of carbs is wacko

I don’t see where anyone is doing that in this thread? OP asked about it. That’s it.

Anonymous wrote:I have a very large extended in law family. Across all the women over 50 they basically fall into three categories. Normal BMI - thin to normal who eat like birds and have always eaten like birds, Normal BMI - thin to normal who don’t eat carbs but eat a normal volume of food, and Obese BMI - maybe over 30 into the next category but nothing like what you see in some of the midwestern states. The obese ones are not bing eating or eating massive amounts but they do eat carb heavy foods.

Carbs seem to have a very bad impact on women over 40-50.

Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe people are eliminating fruits and vegetables due to carb content. Avoiding white flour/low quality grain, refined sugars, sure. But to not eat a carrot because of carbs is wacko