Why do we self sabotage? I have a terrorist living inside me.!

BrettPGH_ wrote: »

Add me to the "abandon keto" crowd.

Why make this so much harder than it needs to be? Starving your body of carbohydrates until it feeds on other sources to meet it's needs...plus there's a good chance you'll get sick from this diet. "Keto flu" they call it. Keto zealots act like it's normal, but to me any diet that makes you sick can't be very good for you.

Count your calories, keep at a reasonable deficit. There you go! Eat whatever food groups you want, just don't overindulge.

Doesn't that sound easier?

HARDER? What you don't seem to understand is that it's actually EASIER. LIGHT YEARS EASIER!

I'm eating roughly the same calories I have been since the end of August, all that's changed is my dietary macros. The reason I LIKE this way of eating is that, unlike the entire month of September and October and beginning of November, I'M NOT HUNGRY ANYMORE. I was hungry more than 50% of my waking hours, waking up hungry, going to bed hungry. Fantasizing about food. For a loss of, BARELY 1 lb a week. I constantly felt deprived and I'd resolved that if I want to get my weight down I'm going to have to get used to being hungry and having the thought of food at the back of my mind for the rest of my life. At my age (49) with my metabolism fighting me and health issues that prevent hard core exercise eating at a deficit is nearly impossible (menopausal women classically cannot lose weight, it's like our destiny to get fatter as we age).

On keto, I'm not hungry, I can take or leave food, when I eat I enjoy what I eat but I'm not bolting my meal because I'm ravenous and I've dropped almost five pounds this past week. I've lost inches, so it can't ALL be water weight, and again, it's a little over four pounds, not the huge 10 to 15 lb wooshes you traditionally hear associated with Atkins induction/keto that are water loss. I was already eating lower carb and had been edging my carbs down a few weeks prior to going full keto plus I normally drink a LOT of water, a gallon generally (one habit from my weight lifting days I never lost), so I probably don't hold as much water as less hydrated people.

As for the Keto flu, I didn't get it. If a person is eating a high carb diet loaded with refined products, I guess they'll feel a change. I'd been eating a lower carb (carbs around 75 to 100g), low fat diet that was 100% whole food, no refined flours (I'm gluten intolerant) so maybe I adapted to this diet faster than someone eating like most of Americans.

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111grace wrote: »

Any solutions! would be appreciated

Sure. Stop keto. Eat in a deficit.

yup. love your kidneys. stop keto.

I love my kidneys. I do keto. I also love to do my research before I hand out advice.

TITCR

For anyone who reads this that is itching to criticize the ketogenic diet, please take what I'm about to say into consideration: I doubt if any of us who follow this diet are saying that THIS IS THE ONE TRUE WAY! What we ARE trying to say is that this is a viable alternative and may be a particularly desirable one if you should have any of the metabolic issues (metabolic syndrome, prediabetic state, possibly PCOS and/or other hormonal imbalances) that make weight loss difficult if not impossible. In my younger days I ate macros of 40p/30c/30f, weight trained at least five hours a week in addition to six or more hours of cardio a week. I wasn't hungry because I was eating about every three hours. Now I have tendon deterioration in my shoulders and elbows, I have no supraspinatus tendon in my right shoulder anymore, osteoarthritis in my neck, lower back, hips and knees, I'm perimenopausal and am on thyroid medication. I physically cannot exercise 10+ hours a week. My life is quite sedentary. To lose weight I have to basically starve. Keto makes starvation possible without suffering.

One peach a day and 10 - 12 glasses of water and some bran cereal, tbl or so in a salad ought to make a difference. Plus exercise daily aids in elimination.

More water and try some Metamucil in the evening- you don't want things happening at work the next day

I second the magnesium...or go to a Naturopath or Dietician and have them help you with a solution!

"God, holy war and terrorism"?

Thanks for taking the time to reply. My beliefs differ from yours, but I was nevertheless struck by your choice of language.