Changing to Keto- changing the daily nutritional requirements on my fitness pal

seniletendencies

Can anyone tell me how to change the daily nutrition requirements to keto requirements please? I have had to change over to Keto. Also , if you have any tips for me.

KrissFlavored

Why did you have to change?

Portionled

You can alter the percentages by going to the Goals setting and moving the Nutrition numbers to suit you.

KrissFlavored

For those hitting disagree lol thinking I must just be asking to be nosey and rude lol

I am asking because there may be another solution to help her besides going keto, for all we know, some random keto person could of just suggested it as a fix and in reality it's not needed. I'd rather see someone do something they can stick to, then struggle with a diet to fix a health issue that could be fixed in a more easier way.

seniletendencies

I have been eating reduced calories , drinking heaps of water and exercising for the past month and managed to put on weight (1.5 kgs and very little change in my measurements). I have just been diagnosed as borderline diabetic. I have done a lot of reading and it appears that this might be the best for insulin resistance maybe. Either way, I will give it a go at least until I get my weight down a bit. I dont have a huge amount of weight to loose but I do need to loose about 8 kilos to remove the pre diabetes. 20 kilos all up.

PAV8888

seniletendencies wrote: »

I have been eating reduced calories , drinking heaps of water and exercising for the past month and managed to put on weight (1.5 kgs and very little change in my measurements). I have just been diagnosed as borderline diabetic. I have done a lot of reading and it appears that this might be the best for insulin resistance maybe. Either way, I will give it a go at least until I get my weight down a bit. I dont have a huge amount of weight to loose but I do need to loose about 8 kilos to remove the pre diabetes. 20 kilos all up.

Many (dare I say MOST) people who are obese/extremely overweight and lose a lot of weight while increasing their activity level seem to show a remission / reduction in diebetic markers.

Regardless of how they achieve it.

For people who are insulin resistant, there is some evidence that keto may produce better results initially (I note that by better results initially I am not referring to the initial additional non-fat water weight that is lost during keto induction, and regained whenever people increase their carbs post keto).

However, we should not confuse water weight with energy (fat) reserves. Energy (fat) reserves shift because of caloric imbalance. Water weight shifts for many more reasons and much more rapidly than fat levels do,

How, for the sake of all the **baby kittens** in the world, can you possibly know ahead of time that 8 kilos will remove pre-diabetes? Have we now moved to a definition of pre-diabetes that is based on weight as opposed to blood work? Instead of blood=work we label pre-diabetics based on a table of risk factors? WHAT THE **KITTENS**? Is this a new insurance risk assessment?

While MOST people who lose weight and increase activity show improvement to their bloodwork and remission of diabetes / prediabetic markers, NOT EVERYONE DOES. So how would you "remove" anything based on the weight reduction. (I am not saying the weight reduction would be bad, or would not decrease a potential risk factor, I am just objecting to someone being labelled as having a condition when they have a collection of pre-conditions that could, potentially, lead to a condition. Anyway: maybe I am just having *kittens*.

Are you exceeding WHO recommendations for basic exercise? 150+ minutes a week of moderate cardio + 2 strength training sessions? Especially on the moderate cardio (for which a moderate 100 step a minute type of walk would qualify), exceeding the recommendation has a high degree of probability of helping markers improve.

All in all: lose weight sustainable for you. Improve your markers. reduce your risks. Don't magnify or ignore risk levels... but respond appropriately.

1.5kg increase while attempting to lose weight over a month sounds, to me, as if it has a high probability of a measurement problem as opposed to a pure "weight loss" problem.

You may want to discuss current weight / height /approximate age, activity level, how is food intake measured and recorded, attempted size of deficit, exactly how and how often are weight measurements taken. are you using a weight trend application or web site or otherwise averaging your weight trend, etc.

KrissFlavored

seniletendencies wrote: »

I have been eating reduced calories , drinking heaps of water and exercising for the past month and managed to put on weight (1.5 kgs and very little change in my measurements). I have just been diagnosed as borderline diabetic. I have done a lot of reading and it appears that this might be the best for insulin resistance maybe. Either way, I will give it a go at least until I get my weight down a bit. I dont have a huge amount of weight to loose but I do need to loose about 8 kilos to remove the pre diabetes. 20 kilos all up.

Okay well, there are a lot of people who start on myfitnesspal who end up doing it the incorrect way.. they spend a month believing they are eating at a reduced calorie rate and are actually logging things incorrectly and just eating more and potentially burning less then they think they are.

Keto, while significantly low on carbs is extremely calorie dense, and it worries me that if you cant lose following a calorie goal and eating at that deficit, what's going to happen when you start eating keto foods that make a big impact on calories for smaller amounts of food?

As pav said above, losing weight is not a gaurantee that diabetes will be removed as an issue, weight can often be a big factor but there are plenty of normal weight people with insulin resistance and diabetes.

Before starting keto, you need to make sure that you are logging and tracking correctly. Otherwise you could put on weight instead of losing it.

seniletendencies

After an 8 kilo loss is when I head back to the doctor to be re-tested. Not a guarantee that I am no longer pre diabetic. She just referred to 10% of my body weight. I was referring to type 2 diabetes not type 1. There is a reference that anything over a 90 cm belly will be more pre-disposed to getting type 2 diabetes. Reducing my weight will hopefully reduce my stomach size, hence reducing my risk of stepping over the next line of being an actual type 2 diabetic. I am currently at 109cm. Probably should have been more specific.

What I will say is that I have for the last 15 years at least drunk 15 plus cups of coffee per day, some days more. I had 1 teaspoon of sugar in each and lots of milk.Very rarely eating through the day just maybe eating a meal at night. I have always loved all vegies, meat but lived alone so it didnt seem worth all the bother. Didnt that come back to bite me in the *kitten* with my health. I am now border line diabetic with kidney stones, gall stones, sleep apnea, a fatty liver and 20 kilos heavier. So the big turn around is so I don't add anything else to that list and hopefully reduce the ones that I can with healthy eating and an active lifestyle.
I don't live close enough to town to buy take away ( and it tastes terrible) and I am not a big fan of chips or lollies. I am now eating only lots of vegies and meat/ chicken/ fish, watching portion sizes. I have 3 cups of coffee a day with half a teaspoon of sugar and I am drinking 2.5 litres of water. I am doing at least 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer each day ( Days off only as I am a shift worker). I use My fitness pal to track everything I eat. I have no doubt that it will at some point that it will have an impact on my weight.

Ultimately and yous probably have a lot more knowledge than I do but I am researching everything I have been diagnosed with and doing to achieve the best outcome . So I hope everyone can stop having kittens. Next time I write one of these , I wont write it in a hurry and be very specific.

PAV8888

saving kittens is always good!

I used to drink my coffee with 3 cream and 4 sugar. honest.
I now react negatively to even having it slightly sweetened. Or "adulterated" with milk or cream.

It didn't happen right away. So it sounds like you're on a good path!

With the complications you list, asking for a referral to a registered dietitian (or your local equivalent) may be beneficial if you collect a number of questions to ask in one go!