Keto Diet

Akronite2025

What is the best keto diet for weight loss? im 34 years old 6'1 about 385 pounds and I also have a friend doing keto and she has had success so far.

malibu927

Keto is one diet out of hundreds. While you may lose more (water) weight in the beginning due to eating fewer carbs, it won't make you lose fat any quicker than any other diet. The best diet is the one that will help you stick to a calorie deficit.

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Akronite2025 wrote: »

What is the best keto diet for weight loss? im 34 years old 6'1 about 385 pounds and I also have a friend doing keto and she has had success so far.

The one that puts you in a caloric deficit...which is also the answer for any diet really.

nvmomketo

To be honest, I don't know the keto name brands very well beyond Atkins (phase 1 is keto).

Nutritional ketosis is mainly about keeping carbs low - below 20-50g (total or net) for most people - so you are in ketosis almost all of the time. Some with insulin resistance will need to go on the lower edge of that range, and very active healthy people may go higher if they time their carbs around exercise.

Most will keep their protein moderate which seems to be above the minimum RDA or 0.36g/lb body weight, and often up to three times higher than the minimum.

Fat fills in the rest.

Keeping that in mind you can just modify your menu. Instead of a potato with steak, eat more steak or have more of a side veggie. Instead of a sandwich, ditch the bread and eat the fillings only - like a cheeseburger patty with mayo, relish, bacon and a tomato slice. Instead of stirfry on rice, skip the rice.

Not making special foods can make it easier for some.

There are guides out there for those who want them though. I think Diet Doctor has one. Dr Fung has Obesity Code and his IDM website, which focuses on reducing insulin (and weight loss) for diabetics. I think there's the Wild Diet/Bulletproof/ whatever diet... I don't know what it's called.

FlyingMolly

Akronite2025 wrote: »

What is the best keto diet for weight loss? im 34 years old 6'1 about 385 pounds and I also have a friend doing keto and she has had success so far.

Eat less than you burn. Put your information into MFP (accurately—trying to “game” the site doesn’t go well), look at how many calories you can eat, then eat those. What they’re made up of is up to you, and that’s where keto can come into it, if you’re so inclined.

I eat keto, which means I get 1/10 of my calories from non-fiber carbs. Take total carbs, subtract the grams of fiber, multiply the result by 4, and compare that number to your total calories to get a sense of what that means. High-fiber or low-calorie fruits and veggies are my best friends: I eat a ton of arugula, avocados, raspberries, and cauliflower, for example. Most of my calories come from fat, because it tastes awesome and keeps me feeling full, and that’s where my energy comes from. Nuts and nut butters, coconut oil and milk, butter and cheese, meat, and, again, avocados, because avocados are basically keto gold.

I like it. It works for me. I’ve really struggled with overeating, snacking, binge-eating, eating mindlessly, and just....eating, I guess, all of my life, and keto gives me an entirely different relationship with food. I don’t binge on keto. I might go over my calories on a given day, but it’s always deliberate and controlled, and I have no guilt or shame associated with that decision. I’m smaller than I was on my wedding day, which I didn’t think was ever going to happen again.

With that said: it’s not magic. Some people find they “can’t” overeat on keto, but I certainly could if I wanted to. I still have to weigh my food and count my calories in order to lose weight. Keto also requires a lot of cooking and a lot of math. You can certainly eat in restaurants, but to-go food is sort of problematic. You can’t just pack a sandwich or pick up a slice of pizza; most prepared food is very high-carb. I borrow my son’s lunch containers all the time and drive around with, like, salami, macadamia nuts, and strawberries in them. It’s weird and inconvenient, but it’s working for me, so I make it work.

It would also work to eat whatever the heck I want for the same number of calories, except when I decide to do that I don’t actually follow though. So you need to figure out what allocation of your calories works best for you, and go from there.