Start Keto Diet ASAP

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  • Ket0Mermaid
    Ket0Mermaid Posts: 9 Member
    I am beginning the keto diet this coming week, weaning myself from carbs and sugar!
  • robs_ready
    robs_ready Posts: 1,488 Member
    Please can people stop referring to sugar and carbs as the same thing. This is one of my absolutely pet hates. Sugar is a carbohydrate, how your body deals with sugar is very different to most carbohydrates. Cutting sugar does not require keto.
  • willia123
    willia123 Posts: 60 Member
    edited May 2016
    Keto for life. 18 months ago I made the change and I've never looked back!
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    critterbug15 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    cecsav1 wrote: »
    Carbs are inessential nutrients.

    Unless you want to do something like cycle or hike long distances. :)

    It is strange, but there are some suggestions that keto diets actually have benefits for longer duration, lower intensity activity. The idea is that a body adapted to using free fatty acids for fuel has an available energy source once glycogen is depleted (so there is no bonk two hours in) and that also means it doesn't reach for protein from muscle or other lean tissue so it's lean mass sparing.

    So true. The fat oxidation rates of fat adapted endurance athlets is shockingly high, because of that they never hit the wall.
  • happymsnappy
    happymsnappy Posts: 9 Member
    Post-op week 8.... :) I'm week 1.5 into my keto diet and have lost 6 lbs. I have been on the keto diet before and did well and lost 50lbs. This time will be different, as time goes, and I lose about 20-30 lbs, I will slowly incorporate complex carbs. I'm very active and can't sustain on low carbs after a while. When I'm at my goal weight, I do very well with a sensible diet and everyday physical activity. ;) Looking forward to getting back where I was before my surgery!
  • lauraesh0384
    lauraesh0384 Posts: 463 Member
    Been there, done that and won't do it again. I was downright miserable. I hated constantly thinking "well that sucks I can't have (insert food here) again". I refuse to torture myself in order to lose weight. No food is off limits to me and I couldn't be happier.

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