So now I’m being told Keto is the only effective way to lose weight?
mikew4242
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That is so far from true.
ANY diet will work, it's all about how many calories you take in.
Pick a diet that you can turn into a lifestyle and stay with.28 -
Whoever told you that is wrong.
This site if full of people who are successfully hitting their weight, fitness and health goals using all sorts of plans. There's also a large group of successful long term maintainers here as well, using different strategies as part of their weight management plan.
For weight loss it comes down to being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight loss goals. You can eat however you want within that-keto, high carb, straight calorie counting/ignoring macros etc etc.
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Who told you that?
You can lose weight with keto.
You can lose weight with vegan.
It's all about how much you eat, not what you eat.11 -
Weight loss equals eating/drinking less calories than your body burns. Fact.14
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I haven’t done Keto and I’ve lost nearly 60. I stay within the calorie limits set by my dietician, and I excercise regularly. I think you’ll find hundreds of others here who would confirm, including many who’ve stayed within their calorie range, not excercised, and still lost. I’d rather eat normal, “healthy”, readily available foods I don’t have to think so hard about than be roped in to some arcane or trendy plan with funky rules. Sounds too much like work to me, lol. I need this to be as simple, liveable, and maintainable as possible.18
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missysippy930 wrote: »Weight loss equals eating less calories than your body burns. Fact.
QFT - this is the ONLY thing that matters for weight loss (regardless of how you achieve the calorie reduction).10 -
springlering62 wrote: »I haven’t done Keto and I’ve lost nearly 60. I stay within the calorie limits set by my dietician, and I excercise regularly. I think you’ll find hundreds of others here who would confirm, including many who’ve stayed within their calorie range, not excercised, and still lost. I’d rather eat normal, “healthy”, readily available foods I don’t have to think so hard about than be roped in to some arcane or trendy plan with funky rules. Sounds too much like work to me, lol. I need this to be as simple, liveable, and maintainable as possible.
This 1000%13 -
Who's telling you this? Keto is a way of eating that can be helpful in weight management for people who prefer to eat that way.4
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I don't blame you for thinking that because Keto is the hot new fad now that is being pushed in everyone's face constantly when it comes to weight loss. People have been losing weight for thousands of years before anyone heard of a ketogenesis. It is no way necessary and not any more beneficial than any other way of eating that you eat at a deficit.9
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You can lose weight eating pizza, burgers, mac and cheese and drinking beer too. I lost 50 pounds using only portion control (i eat what i like) with exercise. Do what works for you!21
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Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.10 -
My 100+ pounds lost are an illusion
I consistently eat 250 grams of carbs, so yeah.
ETA: joking aside, the best way to lose weight is the way that allows you to sustain a caloric deficit over time consistently. This could be keto for some, but it could be any other way of eating, or even the random "whatever you feel like having today" that I do.13 -
butdidyoudie911 wrote: »You can lose weight eating pizza, burgers, mac and cheese and drinking beer too. I lost 50 pounds using only portion control (i eat what i like) with exercise. Do what works for you!
This 1004 -
Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.
This is the big problem with Keto and other restrictive diets. If someone is not going to eat Keto for life, then it is not a very effective long term weight loss solicitation. There are a lot of stories of people losing on Keto, but almost as many of people gaining it back when they stop doing it. So I think for most people, unless they genuinely like the Ketogenic way of eating and feel like they could continue with it long term, it is better to just moderate intake of the foods you like to eat, so you can sustain it better once you lose the weight.12 -
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Keto is all over the place right now so it makes sense that there's so many posts about it. I was standing in the check-out lane at the grocery store yesterday and I kid you not-there were 6 magazine covers advertising keto. It's the new 'paleo' which was really big a few years ago.
As more people try it and then drop it (already starting to see an uptick of these kinds of threads here), it will fade away and some other fad diet will take its place.
The dieting industry is a mult-billion dollar industry in large part because of these fads-keto will be milked for as long as it can make money and then it will be discarded for the next thing that will make money.6 -
Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.
This is the big problem with Keto and other restrictive diets. If someone is not going to eat Keto for life, then it is not a very effective long term weight loss solicitation. There are a lot of stories of people losing on Keto, but almost as many of people gaining it back when they stop doing it. So I think for most people, unless they genuinely like the Ketogenic way of eating and feel like they could continue with it long term, it is better to just moderate intake of the foods you like to eat, so you can sustain it better once you lose the weight.
There are also lots of stories of people gaining back weight after having lost it by calorie counting using MFP. Go look through the Introduce Yourself or Getting Started sections. Does that mean that MFP's method is not a very effective weight loss solution?
Weight management is about caloric intake, not the foods you eat. There are plenty of people here on MFP who swear off certain foods during loss and add them back in (in some capacity) once they are at a healthy weight and have developed the habits they need to maintain the loss. Are they also doomed to fail because they weren't eating those foods all along?
Our diets change over the course of our lives. No one eats the same way that they did as a child, or a teen, or as a young struggling twenty-something. It's not the foods you choose, it's the amount. A person who can manage the amount will be successful no matter what they eat or how the foods in their diet change.8 -
I remember a work colleague who wanted to lose a few pounds and said she'd heard of a fabulous new diet where you could eat as much fatty food as you wanted and you'd lose weight, as long as you didn't eat vegetables because they would make you put weight on.......well, she did just that and in no time at all she'd gained 5 pounds.
It's not what you eat, it's how much lol8 -
Nope. It's really all about creating a moderate, slow calorie deficit consistently enough (read "months") to allow your body to lose excess fat gradually (1-2 pound per week max). I've tried cutting too many calories too quickly, and my body says "we must be starving, so no fat loss." And if I cut down but don't do it consistently for weeks into months, my body says "oh, this isn't something we're doing for very long, so no fat loss." LOL
Remember: Our amazing bodies have survived over millions of years because of our ability to store fat very well, and to maintain balance, or homeostasis. Work WITH your body, and all will balance out.19 -
suziecue25 wrote: »I remember a work colleague who wanted to lose a few pounds and said she'd heard of a fabulous new diet where you could eat as much fatty food as you wanted and you'd lose weight, as long as you didn't eat vegetables because they would make you put weight on.......well, she did just that and in no time at all she'd gained 5 pounds.
It's not what you eat, it's how much lol
LOL ditto what you said!!1 -
I am doing keto (sometimes I slip) because bread KILLS me- one bite and I go overboard. I like meat, and I like fat, so guess what? I do Keto because it works for me, and I like the foods on that plan (plus it is recommended for fat burn for those of us preparing for bariatric surgery). If keto doesn't work for you and you lose weight eating pizza, then that is awesome! The only diet I do not recommend is breatharian.
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Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.
This is the big problem with Keto and other restrictive diets. If someone is not going to eat Keto for life, then it is not a very effective long term weight loss solicitation. There are a lot of stories of people losing on Keto, but almost as many of people gaining it back when they stop doing it. So I think for most people, unless they genuinely like the Ketogenic way of eating and feel like they could continue with it long term, it is better to just moderate intake of the foods you like to eat, so you can sustain it better once you lose the weight.
I agree. I am going to be on a high protein, moderate fat, low carb diet for the rest of my life. It is not even be a diet at this point, it is already a life style.2 -
absolutely not.0
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Some people enjoy keto and find it an easy way to stick to their calories. Some don't.
It's certainly not the only effective way to lose weight.2 -
Keto has worked for a lot of people! It’s an easy restrictive diet because you can substitute a lot of high carbohydrate foods. And protein and fat are yummy to eat!
The biggest problem I have with keto is that after you’ve lost your weight and want to eat like you did before, you gain because your body just naturally retains water when eating higher carbohydrates (not fat). And then they tout that carbs are the devil “because they made me gain”. I feel like there’s certainly a lot of fat loss from keto (calorie deficit) but the extra losses are just water.
This is the big problem with Keto and other restrictive diets. If someone is not going to eat Keto for life, then it is not a very effective long term weight loss solicitation. There are a lot of stories of people losing on Keto, but almost as many of people gaining it back when they stop doing it. So I think for most people, unless they genuinely like the Ketogenic way of eating and feel like they could continue with it long term, it is better to just moderate intake of the foods you like to eat, so you can sustain it better once you lose the weight.
I agree. I am going to be on a high protein, moderate fat, low carb diet for the rest of my life. It is not even be a diet at this point, it is already a life style.
Earlier you stated you were doing Keto, but the bolded above is not keto... Keto is high fat, moderate protein, low carb11 -
Does that fit with your experience of the world? Have you ever seen people you know lose weight without being on keto? Are you aware that people have gained and lost weight for as long as there have been people, and certainly long before the keto diet was a thing? Have you googled "successful weight loss" and looked at information from reputable and credible sources?
Whoever told you this is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts. If they tell you the sky is purple with green polka dots, you do not have to ask the internet for their opinions on the subject. Sometimes it's okay to just tell people who say something demonstrably wrong that they're talking out their *kitten*.4
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