Looking for KETO friends!

Once you get past the keto flu it should be smooth sailing. Takes a while before you enter ketosis but stick with it, it's worth it.

I have been doing prep work for starting the KETO diet about a month now: research mainly through YouTube, purchasing a monitor for keto and glucose, creating meal plans, buying supplements like MCT oil, foods and drinks and decreasing carbs (from about 100 to 20 daily in 2 weeks). Was determined that I would do this diet right and not fail. My plan was to start today but since Wednesday, when I hit the 20 carbs mark, I have been feeling awful, have all the signs of Keto flu. Have been drinking electrolyte drinks and already on a high dose of potassium for a health problem but the problem continues. Wondering if I cut off the carbs too quickly and even saw a couple of videos stating for the older folks who have been on a high carb diet for years (that's me) they will need to slowly decrease carbs over a 30 day period. Pretty sad to have KETO flu before starting the KETO diet. LOL Anyways determined to stick with this diet as my weight is now starting to kill me with damaging multiple organs.

KADC57 wrote: »

I have been doing prep work for starting the KETO diet about a month now: research mainly through YouTube, purchasing a monitor for keto and glucose, creating meal plans, buying supplements like MCT oil, foods and drinks and decreasing carbs (from about 100 to 20 daily in 2 weeks). Was determined that I would do this diet right and not fail. My plan was to start today but since Wednesday, when I hit the 20 carbs mark, I have been feeling awful, have all the signs of Keto flu. Have been drinking electrolyte drinks and already on a high dose of potassium for a health problem but the problem continues. Wondering if I cut off the carbs too quickly and even saw a couple of videos stating for the older folks who have been on a high carb diet for years (that's me) they will need to slowly decrease carbs over a 30 day period. Pretty sad to have KETO flu before starting the KETO diet. LOL Anyways determined to stick with this diet as my weight is now starting to kill me with damaging multiple organs.

Out of interest, how much water are you consuming each day? As for the electrolyte supplements, what are the dosages like for each micro-nutrient?

I'm a 49 year old man, I went cold turkey when I started, went from 100+ carbs a day to 30 but at the same time I went from 1/2l of water to 3+l of water a day, I also started using High 5 Zero electrolyte tabs (4 - 6 tabs a day.

The flu like symptoms really could be a mix of not enough water and electrolytes, check your dosage against these recommendations - https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/supplements.

KADC57 wrote: »

I have been doing prep work for starting the KETO diet about a month now: research mainly through YouTube, purchasing a monitor for keto and glucose, creating meal plans, buying supplements like MCT oil, foods and drinks and decreasing carbs (from about 100 to 20 daily in 2 weeks). Was determined that I would do this diet right and not fail. My plan was to start today but since Wednesday, when I hit the 20 carbs mark, I have been feeling awful, have all the signs of Keto flu. Have been drinking electrolyte drinks and already on a high dose of potassium for a health problem but the problem continues. Wondering if I cut off the carbs too quickly and even saw a couple of videos stating for the older folks who have been on a high carb diet for years (that's me) they will need to slowly decrease carbs over a 30 day period. Pretty sad to have KETO flu before starting the KETO diet. LOL Anyways determined to stick with this diet as my weight is now starting to kill me with damaging multiple organs.

Hello there ! I've been Keto'ing for most of this year and just want to highlight that the level of carb reduction required to stay in ketosis is different for everyone. Personally, I think 20g is just too restrictive diet wise.

My experience was keeping it at 50g NET for a few weeks to get into a decent fat burning state (shows as a marked reduction in hunger rumbles rather than super speedy magical weight loss) - I then increased my cardio (walking) and could consume 100g NET carbs and still stay in Ketosis (I was brisk walking 5 miles a day). Less cardio meant less carbs so it can be tweaked to meet your preferences.

As mentioned above, drinking lots of water helps - I found eating as much veg as possible also helped. Cauliflower is your friend, as is spinach ! Adding salt to your meals can help with the KETO wobbles at the start as your body adjusts.

Keto is not meant to be miserable and is maintainable without all the fancy add-ons - you just need to find the level that works for you as well as an eating pattern that works for you.

Good luck !

Hi feel free to add me I’m on day 2 today done this before and lost two stone and kept it off for five years untill I got pregnant my daughter is 8mths old and have the last of baby weight to shift which is about 2 stone (I gained over four stone when pregnant 🥴) I know it works and fine the first two weeks the hardest then u start to feel fab xx