Getting Healthy

McGarvey2017
McGarvey2017 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
I have been doing Keto for a few weeks and have dropped 20lbs. I’m eating clean and religious about it. Feel fantastic.

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  • stpetenative
    stpetenative Posts: 30 Member
    That is awesome! Simply by following
    Macros? Maybe I should rethink this 1200 cal diet, hmm.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    stpetenative wrote: »
    That is awesome! Simply by following Macros? Maybe I should rethink this 1200 cal diet, hmm.
    Keep this in mind:
    How fast you can lose, depends on how much fat you have on your body, how appropriately your calorie target is set, and how strictly you stick to that target.
    Going too low on calories does not make you lose fat faster, but it makes you hungry, hangry, lethargic, feeling deprived, prone to cheat, cave and give up.
    Calories are made up by the macro(nutrient)s fat, protein and carbohydrate. Keto is a way to reduce calorie intake - create a calorie deficit - by cutting carbohydrate intake extremely low.
    Any weightloss diet that provides a calorie deficit, works, as long as you stick to it.
    Eating in a way you don't really like, will make you resentful and feel deprived, prone to cheat, cave and give up.
    Feeling that you're doing something special, is fun, and excitement can make you ignore how much you hate what you're doing.
    The normal reaction after feeling deprived, is not to find a sensible new strategy, but to make up for lost time/pleasure, and then some.
    More people are normal than outliers, even though most people believe they are outliers.
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