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KETO DIET: Reviews and Tips

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    I did it for a year after I had my youngest son. I dropped a ton of weight, however, a large part of it was normal post pregnancy weight loss. I wont do it again for a number of reasons. I enjoy variety in my diet, and I felt very restricted by keto. No fruit besides a few berries?!?! I can't. No yogurt?!?! I literally can't. Also, this is Tmi, but it made me very constipated.
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    Wow.. Thank you all for the info! I know that it's primarily a calorie deficit and that all diets are going to have that one component in common. This was to follow it and see how I like it.

    I should have stated that I tried to stay away from carbs to begin with for a while now, but just not as restrictive as the 20g or less. I am currently 5' 5 and weigh 121 pounds. I'm just trying to lose some water weight really for this trip.

    Also, I have been on this diet for about 4 days now. I have had the major headache, felt dizzy, and super fatigued. But I'm starting to feel better! I have lost a couple pounds of water weight. And it's definitely encouraging me to make this a lifestyle thing where I will cycle in and out of ketosis. But once again, this was for a trip and I just wanted to look a bit less bloated (which it has definitely reduced). Thanks to all!
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    nvmomketo wrote: »
    The "keto-flu" is actually an entirely preventable electrolyte imbalance. If you replace the electrolytes that you lose with early water weight you can skip the symptoms of fatigue, headache, nausea, brain fog, moodiness, bm issues, and muscle weakness, pain or spasms.

    Most early keto'ers need 3000 to 5000 mg of sodium a day. There's 2300 mg of sodium in a teaspoon of salt.

    I found cravings were gone within a week, and it became easy fairly soon after that. I didn't change my food too much though. I just dropped sugars and refined carbs (baking) first. Then I cut back on fruits and starchy veggies. Instead of a steak with potato and a veggie, I dropped the potato. My spaghetti with meat sauce became a lot of sauce on a small amount of spaghetti squash. I stopped putting my stirfries on rice. Stuff like that.

    Good luck.

    So I ended up getting the "keto flu", but I got the MIO drops to help with the electrolytes.
  • Posts: 464 Member
    edited June 2018
    So I ended up getting the "keto flu", but I got the MIO drops to help with the electrolytes.

    Emergen-C also makes a sugar-free Electrolyte Replenisher. Just like their other stuff, you just add a packet to a glass of water.
  • Posts: 9,795 Member
    I agree with the above, dropping some water weight seems pretty futile before a vacation unless you have a photo shoot or something as soon as you arrive. But if you are travelling by plane, plus all the extra food, alcohol...unless you are planning on following keto the entire trip, the bloat will come back big time as soon as you introduce carbs again, maybe even more than if you didn't restrict them in the first place. Of course it's up to you what you want to do.
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    cln288 wrote: »
    Wow.. Thank you all for the info! I know that it's primarily a calorie deficit and that all diets are going to have that one component in common. This was to follow it and see how I like it.

    I should have stated that I tried to stay away from carbs to begin with for a while now, but just not as restrictive as the 20g or less. I am currently 5' 5 and weigh 121 pounds. I'm just trying to lose some water weight really for this trip.

    Also, I have been on this diet for about 4 days now. I have had the major headache, felt dizzy, and super fatigued. But I'm starting to feel better! I have lost a couple pounds of water weight. And it's definitely encouraging me to make this a lifestyle thing where I will cycle in and out of ketosis. But once again, this was for a trip and I just wanted to look a bit less bloated (which it has definitely reduced). Thanks to all!

    why would you want to cycle in and out of ketosis? what is the point of that?
  • Posts: 12,019 Member
    cln288 wrote: »

    So I ended up getting the "keto flu", but I got the MIO drops to help with the electrolytes.

    Add a fair bit of salt, and it should do the trick in avoiding ket flu. :)
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    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I'm not bashing the diet...I was simply stating why I couldn't personally do it due to the factors I mentioned...the foul breath and body odor would be another issue for me...but that's just me.

    Exactly, wasn't the OP asking for reviews?
  • Posts: 3,377 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »

    Yeah, nah...

    One medium apple is 25g of carbohydrate...boom...you've just gone over the 20 measly grams of carbohydrates that most keto dieters are doing. Saying that you don't have to restrict fruits and veg is a *kitten* premise.

    Most of my carbohydrates come from fruits and veg and some oats and legumes...I'm well over keto limits with my healthy carbohydrates.

    Most of the people that I know that are doing keto or have been doing it for awhile use net carbs vs total carbs. For example, 100g of spinich has 3.6g of carbs of which 2.2g are fiber so you only have a net of 1.4g carbs for that 100g serving of spinach. So with the leafy green veggies like spinach, broccoli and such, you can eat a ton of them and not go over the 20g limit.

    Also, there are a lot of people who can remain in ketosis consuming as high as 50-60g of carbs, depending on activity levels.
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    ccrdragon wrote: »

    Most of the people that I know that are doing keto or have been doing it for awhile use net carbs vs total carbs. For example, 100g of spinich has 3.6g of carbs of which 2.2g are fiber so you only have a net of 1.4g carbs for that 100g serving of spinach. So with the leafy green veggies like spinach, broccoli and such, you can eat a ton of them and not go over the 20g limit.

    Also, there are a lot of people who can remain in ketosis consuming as high as 50-60g of carbs, depending on activity levels.

    Sure...you can eat a lot of greens and whatnot if that's what you're into. I like a wide variety of vegetables and fruit. If I subtract the fiber from the apple it comes out to 20.6 grams...still at the 20g limit that most people here seem to set for themselves.

    I'm well aware that some people can do keto at 50-60g...it's still piddly...yeah, I can have 2 pieces of fruit and I'm done for the day.

    My point is that it is disingenuous to say that you don't have to limit fruits and veg...even if you're eating a bunch of greens and broccoli, you're still limiting a whole host of other things that are perfectly healthy for you.

    I don't care if people do keto or not...the claim that you don't have to limit fruits and vegetables is disingenuous. I typically have 6-8 servings of a variety of veg and 2-3 servings of fruit per day...no way is that going to fly with keto.
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