Keto anyone?

If you lost weight and regained it already doing keto, are you planning to follow keto diet the rest of your life?
If not, why not eat count calories and eat the foods that you like in moderation.

I've done keto/low carb in the past. I learned how to lose weight, but now how to maintain. I developed an eating disorder during my time following keto/low carb. Not saying it was the diet. I just got carried away with seeing the numbers on the scale dropping. This time I'm trying to not cut out any foods, just moderation, and some exercise.

Beerandsunshine wrote: »

So it’s my second serious go at Keto. Lost a lot first time around and then of course gained it back. Looking to change my lifestyle and have it be permanent, not temporary.

@Beerandsunshine I have been more or less Keto for over 5 years because it lowers my internal inflammation levels but trying to eat Keto more so since it can lower my risk of getting the bat flu since it has resolved some of my preexisting health issues that I do not want to come back since Keto does not really cure things. Personally I find it helps with my appetite because in my body it seems like one carb calls for four more carbs. Best of success.

Your beer and sunshine approach is the best!

It's my first time on keto diet and I have spent 3 days of being imbalanced .
Is it the ketoflu like symptoms ?!

Beerandsunshine wrote: »

@GaleHawkins i also notice it helps with inflammation for me cuz i have a bakers cyst behind one of my knees. Also, my cholesterol and body fat percentage wasn’t going in the right direction. Thank you for your feedback! Best of success to you as well!

@Beerandsunshine I was down to 30 days before I was to start Enbrel injections for pain management so in desperation I went Keto cold turkey. After a hellish two weeks my pain level started to decrease and at my appointment to start on Enbrel injections my pain level was dropping well so I was able to the young MD that I was going to try this new Way Of Eating for a while so I passed on the Enbrel injection pain management option. He was very confused. He said he left India where Enbrel was not even option due to cost and I was using coconut oil from places like India. In fact my first cup of coffee each morning still is heavy with coconut oil and half and half cream.

It was day 45 before I lost my first pound of weight but I had been losing fat for sometimes before the weight loss started because I had to tighten my belt one hole already.

I was very serious and doing the blood ketone levels daily because for the first time in 40 years my pain levels were dropping like a rock. After a while of all my health markers and pain levels were improving it hit my brain there had to be more than high levels of ketones changing my health markers so fast.

It took me another two years of studying before I understood ketones were not the main key to my health improvements. Weight was decreasing while I was stuffing my face with the Keto WOE source of calories.

While many people today understand health and obesity problems most often can be traced back to one's gut microbiome and its balance yet back in 2014 that was not common knowledge even on MFP.

Over time my reading of research pointed to the key factor to human health is the make up of our gut microbiome and its balance. While I still do low carb because it works so well eating Keto is not the only way one can eat to develop a healthy microbiome. My gut level hunch to cut out all grains and sweeteners cold turkey turned out to be a valid hunch in my case and still is today.

This is why all people do not have to eat the same foods to develop the best possible human health. We are all different. About a year ago I added some raw honey, an apple including the peeling and the core as well as a peeled banana daily for my gut microbiome health and balance. Below talks about how eating keto/low carb can lead to better health for some of us.

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678592/
Genes (Basel). 2019 Jul; 10(7): 534.
Published online 2019 Jul 15. doi: 10.3390/genes10070534
PMCID: PMC6678592
PMID: 31311141

Ketogenic Diet and Microbiota: Friends or Enemies?

Be careful when reading on the the microbiome subject and do not take just one article as your only source of info.

https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/link-between-gut-bacteria-and-weight-loss/

Keep in mind how to fix health related issues by balancing our gut microbiome is not settled science at this point so there is no final word yet and the subject requires an open mind. Most health issues seem to point back to the health of our gut microbiome as more research continues to be reported.

Best of continued learning success.