Need keto friends too. I'll be your friend! Just re-started yesterday. Used to keto back in 2012.

Tried low carb, nothing happened. Just started with keto, down 2 lb. Easter is coming, planning a keto quiche for brunch with the family.

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New to mfp and Keto. Still trying to figure out my macros...kinda lost. Too many sites on fb.

Perhaps too obvious, since this is the r/keto group on mfp, but take a gander at the reddit sidebar. There's a site for generating your macros (first link under Useful Links), a faq, and links to related subs.

For me, my second try (started in November '13 and was great guns until I fell off it in September) began on March 20th with the decision to eat maintenance calories until the carb craving crazies fled. That took about five days and I've been eating at a steady thirty percent deficit since then, lost more than an inch off my waist with a delicious and easy transition back in.

My priorities: protein is non-negotiable, figure out that goal and hit it every day - not really a keto-specific thing. Obviously carb limit. Water, drink a lot (I drink at least 60%, in oz., of my body's weight in lbs. every day). Get 3.5g of sodium (not salt!) a day, and some recommend adding a gram and a half more. Track potassium and magnesium. Enjoy your saturated and mono fats to satiation/calorie limit, increase the omega three polys, limit the omega six polys.

And again, there are some very sensible people over at r/keto - I didn't know about that place when I started out and I learned a lot lurking in-between my keto stints. There are more than a few good books out there too, I reference Phinny and Volek's "...Living" a lot. Lyle McDonald (The Ketogenic Diet) is more of a skeptic but the book is rigorously researched and he makes a lot of good points.

There are quite a few benefits to limiting carbohydrate, more to eating ketogenically. You may find, as I hope to, that eating this way helps a lot more than your waistline. But probably the most important thing to remember is this: no diet works for everyone. Hopefully this is a great fit for you, but you probably have to do it, and properly, for at least six months to find out. The first four to eight weeks see a lot of energetic changes, as your body produces more fat-digesting enzymes and mothballs the carb-digesting ones. Anyone who tells you they tried keto for less than three months didn't do their homework and didn't really test the diet. Which isn't to say there may not be reasons why some can't, but there's a distinct there.

Good luck!

P.S. Sorry about the wall of text, hope something helps.

I was keto for MONTHS actually almost a year ..... I shed 100 pounds because of this lifestyle and was in the BEST shape of my life ..... life happened and I fell off for about 9mo and now am trying to ease back into it .... would love support!!

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add me too please! running out of meal ideas

Also starting keto. Feel free to add me!

Have dun with this style of eating! The food is so tasty!
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Heya folks! I started Keto on April 1, and am looking for more friends to help support each other.

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Please add me I would like keto friends!

Please add me too. I'm perhaps not the best role model, especially right now, because I've never heard of or done keto before. I'm kind of experimenting with it, playing around with it, learning what I can, but not 100% (actually not even close to 100% keto). I'm testing the water so to speak. Complicating matters is I have a family of very non-keto people to feed and they are not very supportive. I'm working through that trying to figure out how to make them happy but stay on track for myself. It's difficult. I'm failing miserably right now, but on the positive side with each failure I'm learning how to fix a problem. And if any of you have gone through being a keto in a non-keto family please share any and all advice you can.

sparks! same here! I'll start another post.

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