So now I’m being told Keto is the only effective way to lose weight?
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mikew4242
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That is so far from true.
ANY diet will work, it's all about how many calories you take in.
Pick a diet that you can turn into a lifestyle and stay with.28 -
Whoever told you that is wrong.
This site if full of people who are successfully hitting their weight, fitness and health goals using all sorts of plans. There's also a large group of successful long term maintainers here as well, using different strategies as part of their weight management plan.
For weight loss it comes down to being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight loss goals. You can eat however you want within that-keto, high carb, straight calorie counting/ignoring macros etc etc.
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Who told you that?
You can lose weight with keto.
You can lose weight with vegan.
It's all about how much you eat, not what you eat.11 -
Weight loss equals eating/drinking less calories than your body burns. Fact.14
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I haven’t done Keto and I’ve lost nearly 60. I stay within the calorie limits set by my dietician, and I excercise regularly. I think you’ll find hundreds of others here who would confirm, including many who’ve stayed within their calorie range, not excercised, and still lost. I’d rather eat normal, “healthy”, readily available foods I don’t have to think so hard about than be roped in to some arcane or trendy plan with funky rules. Sounds too much like work to me, lol. I need this to be as simple, liveable, and maintainable as possible.18
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missysippy930 wrote: »Weight loss equals eating less calories than your body burns. Fact.
QFT - this is the ONLY thing that matters for weight loss (regardless of how you achieve the calorie reduction).10 -
springlering62 wrote: »I haven’t done Keto and I’ve lost nearly 60. I stay within the calorie limits set by my dietician, and I excercise regularly. I think you’ll find hundreds of others here who would confirm, including many who’ve stayed within their calorie range, not excercised, and still lost. I’d rather eat normal, “healthy”, readily available foods I don’t have to think so hard about than be roped in to some arcane or trendy plan with funky rules. Sounds too much like work to me, lol. I need this to be as simple, liveable, and maintainable as possible.
This 1000%13 -
Who's telling you this? Keto is a way of eating that can be helpful in weight management for people who prefer to eat that way.4
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I don't blame you for thinking that because Keto is the hot new fad now that is being pushed in everyone's face constantly when it comes to weight loss. People have been losing weight for thousands of years before anyone heard of a ketogenesis. It is no way necessary and not any more beneficial than any other way of eating that you eat at a deficit.9
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You can lose weight eating pizza, burgers, mac and cheese and drinking beer too. I lost 50 pounds using only portion control (i eat what i like) with exercise. Do what works for you!21
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Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.10 -
My 100+ pounds lost are an illusion
I consistently eat 250 grams of carbs, so yeah.
ETA: joking aside, the best way to lose weight is the way that allows you to sustain a caloric deficit over time consistently. This could be keto for some, but it could be any other way of eating, or even the random "whatever you feel like having today" that I do.13 -
butdidyoudie911 wrote: »You can lose weight eating pizza, burgers, mac and cheese and drinking beer too. I lost 50 pounds using only portion control (i eat what i like) with exercise. Do what works for you!
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Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.
This is the big problem with Keto and other restrictive diets. If someone is not going to eat Keto for life, then it is not a very effective long term weight loss solicitation. There are a lot of stories of people losing on Keto, but almost as many of people gaining it back when they stop doing it. So I think for most people, unless they genuinely like the Ketogenic way of eating and feel like they could continue with it long term, it is better to just moderate intake of the foods you like to eat, so you can sustain it better once you lose the weight.12 -
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Keto is all over the place right now so it makes sense that there's so many posts about it. I was standing in the check-out lane at the grocery store yesterday and I kid you not-there were 6 magazine covers advertising keto. It's the new 'paleo' which was really big a few years ago.
As more people try it and then drop it (already starting to see an uptick of these kinds of threads here), it will fade away and some other fad diet will take its place.
The dieting industry is a mult-billion dollar industry in large part because of these fads-keto will be milked for as long as it can make money and then it will be discarded for the next thing that will make money.6
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