Keto Re-starter

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,261 Member
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
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    I’m assuming you regained weight after KETO. You may want to consider a diet that you can permanently maintain. Most people doing KETO are unable to maintain it then go off of it and regain the weight and sometimes more.

    The mindset many times is the weight is off so “job done” and go back to their old eating habits when in actuality the hardest job is now starting.

    The argument about maintaining a way of eating other than the standard American diet, could be made for pretty much any approach to losing weight. My first serious journey into losing weight was simply calorie counting. I lost weight, and then gained it back even doing all that is recommended here. Will that happen for me this time around eating Keto? No idea. I do know that losing weight is the easy part. Maintaining after losing weight is difficult. While I would not say Keto is the only way to go, I am doing it for more than just the weight loss, for me it is a way of eating that I can do without actually logging food and still maintain and lose weight. That is something I could not do just logging calories. That may, and likely will be, different for other people. For me, it works, after almost a year of following it, I find it maintainable for me. This is not to mention that many issues I had that I figured were just from getting older which didn't go away with losing weight simply counting calories have gone away eating a Keto diet such as tooth sensitivity and joint pain. It is no more or less difficult to maintain than any other weight loss approach. For some people it will be easy to maintain, for others it will not. Not matter what, the standard American diet is much more sustainable, but it will result in weight gain, metabolic illness, and the like because of it high proportion of ultra processed, hyper-palatable food.
    a sustainable diet in the US is only as unhealthy as you make it and done properly it does not result in weight gain. Just because someone isnt doing KETO does not mean they’re automatically doing an unhealthy diet.

    And yes it will be different for everyone. Your experience is strictly anecdotal. KETO May be easy for you however for a large percentage, eliminating an entire macronutrient is not maintainable for the long term past the Fatloss phase.

    . What is this "proper" American diet that you speak of?
    The minimizing of ultra processed foods and a calorie amount that allows you to meet whatever goal you desire.

    That's what I'm doing.

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