KETO DIET

I did keto for 3 months and it destroyed my LDL. Now I have to work on lowering it when I never had this issue in my entire life. Keto also caused me to start binge eating from the deprivation. You can’t even have a simple piece of fruit on that diet. “A small amount of berries” is not enough. I eat what I love now within normal healthy parameters and I’m so much happier. I’m never doing keto again it was the worst mistake

thatcoolkiid wrote: »

have any of you guys did the keto diet? where you eat really low carbs and eat high proteins and fats? if so how many carbs are you guys eating daily and how long did it take for you to see results

@thatcoolkiid for the past 4 years most days I still eat the 50 grams or less required to do keto for many people of carbs but seldom less because I eat food containing carbs. The Zero-20 grams of carbs has not been in my past or present and I do not see this level in my future.

I lost about 60% of my pain level of the past 40 years in the first 30 days of stopping eating and food containing added sugar and or any form of grain Oct 2014. I had to go off cold turkey to break my controlling carb like addiction. I did try to taper off for two months but that ended in failure again. I was facing starting Enbrel injections the first of Nov 2014 and finding a WOE that prevented the need to start that Rx med in my weakened state gave me the drive to go LCHF at once.

While I had no weight loss goal at that time or ever again I did drift down from 250 to 200 over the next year and have maintained that loss over the past 3 years eating all that I want when I get hungry so I am not starving to lose weight because I stay on a high calorie WOE. I remember I did not lose a pound for the first 45 days but that was not an issue since weight loss had been removed as a goal.

My goal was to manage my pain levels and extend my life since I was losing the ability to live independently.

Since have lived in a state of nutrition for nearly 4 years with great success health wise now at the age of 67 I plan to do it for another 40-50 years.

Now my LDL did go over 400 but it has drifting down each year and is now 300 which is good for longevity of healthy old men. I have no known health issues per my physical last week and am not under the doctors care or take any Rx meds. The detailed annual physical and labs I plan to keep doing until my death. I order the tests that I wish if I do have a person concern or question about the impact of my WOE on my health markers.

I do not promote any one way of eating and know few will do keto for life. Personally doing keto to just lose weight makes zero sense to me for weight loss or CICO, etc if one is not going to do it for life. I damaged my health losing weight for 40 years with 100%+ regains EVERY time.

Keto manages my pain well, stopped a life of binge eating, got my fasting BG levels below 100 for the first time and my current A1C came in at 5.1 last week. Lower risks of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, ect is a plus of keto as I view it. Just managing my pain, stopping the binging, IBS, ect is reason for me to keep doing keto.

Keep looking at your WOE options until you find your own Way Of Eating that works best for you.