Keto friends
angelexperiment
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Hi I’m doing keto for about a month now. It would be nice to have a few buddies to share recipes and progress with. So far I am enjoying it and do not crave for anything! And I’ve not even been tempted by the kids candy this year which I admit I usually eat! But not this year and to me it’s a big success in my eyes bc Halloween candy always takes me off the rails and it’s so hard to get back on track after bc then it’s thanksgiving! But this year is so different this time is so different. I’ve done it before but I feel like it’s easier this time and less effort. I don’t miss anything not even chocolate which to me as a hardcore chocolate fiend is like a miracle!
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You can friend me. I do keto and love to cook. I post a lot of photos in the lc group. So if there is something you see, you can PM me.1
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If love to be friends and ssupport amd share recipes and ideas. I started keto yesterday. I felt full for the first time in mon the a. Did have 39 carbs but I usually have 140 plus. So I’m thrilled I cut back that much. Gong for 30 carbs or less today. I’ll keep going til I get only 201
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I have been keto for 8 years and love this WOE. I make absolutely everything I eat but it has to be quick as I don’t want to spend my life in the kitchen (I also eat out) The best bit of advice I could give anyone doing keto is to ketofy the foods you love, that way it’s easier to stick too. There is nothing you can’t have if you ketofy it and plan it into your macros. Any recipes you want I’m sure I’ll have somewhere, good luck 🍀 and keto on.1
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CharleyStoll wrote: »If love to be friends and ssupport amd share recipes and ideas. I started keto yesterday. I felt full for the first time in mon the a. Did have 39 carbs but I usually have 140 plus. So I’m thrilled I cut back that much. Gong for 30 carbs or less today. I’ll keep going til I get only 20
That is very good I think you can add me if you like? Or we can do our thing on here if you like.0 -
I'm unsure how to add friends but would love to connect with keto people. Im almost mid 70's but thought I was techie until trying to join the community it's taken me a while to find this page again even though I thought I had bookmarked it. 😞0
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PatHolland3 wrote: »I'm unsure how to add friends but would love to connect with keto people. Im almost mid 70's but thought I was techie until trying to join the community it's taken me a while to find this page again even though I thought I had bookmarked it. 😞
Ok sent you a friend request had to figure it out! Lol1 -
Thank you, accepting was so easy. 🤗0
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Hi guys and I hope thanksgiving went well! I did well and had a nice spread. What did you guys have? I had turkey, I made a keto sweet potato casserole, crust less pumpkin pie with crumbles up top, bacon wrapped asparagus, brussel sprouts with bacon and pancetta, mashed rutabaga it was all so amazing and I stayed within calories1
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I am in the US. I am not a fan of turkey, so i modified that tradition. Yes, that is a pumpkin pie with only 7 net carbs per slice (8 slices per pie in a 10" pan).0 -
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The one thing I have never acquired a taste for is pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin as a veggie mashed with lots of butter & cumin spice.1
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You are terrible lol now I want some0 -
angelexperiment wrote: »
You are terrible lol now I want some
What's terrible is that its only 560 calories. I make a lot of chaffles (pumpkin, chocolate chip, sweet, chaffle grilled cheese, gingerbread). Its the only "bread" my son will eat.
If you ever want recipes let me know.
Gingerbread!
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angelexperiment wrote: »
You are terrible lol now I want some
What's terrible is that its only 560 calories. I make a lot of chaffles (pumpkin, chocolate chip, sweet, chaffle grilled cheese, gingerbread). Its the only "bread" my son will eat.
If you ever want recipes let me know.
Gingerbread!
Now I need a waffle iron !0 -
Any ideas on how to keep my protein grams down and increase fat grams?0
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I would start by increasing fats with salmon, avocados and nuts which may help with keeping you feeling full for longer and naturally reducing proteinTpickens93 wrote: »Any ideas on how to keep my protein grams down and increase fat grams?
I have the opposite problem trying to get enough protein in but over the week it seems to even out. I hope this helps. 🙏
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Tpickens93 wrote: »Any ideas on how to keep my protein grams down and increase fat grams?
Well a servin should be no more than 4 fingers wide and as thick as your hands in prayer for protein and fat about 3 tbsp0 -
Tpickens93 wrote: »Any ideas on how to keep my protein grams down and increase fat grams?
It's a myth that you need to keep protein down. @psuLemon can probably explain this better than me. And fat only needs to be high enough that you're getting adequate calories. Unless you're doing therapeutic keto (ie for something like epilepsy). Low carb is the important bit for ketosis, and even that many people can eat higher than the oft-spouted 20-25g net carbs and still achieve ketosis.1 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Tpickens93 wrote: »Any ideas on how to keep my protein grams down and increase fat grams?
It's a myth that you need to keep protein down. @psuLemon can probably explain this better than me. And fat only needs to be high enough that you're getting adequate calories. Unless you're doing therapeutic keto (ie for something like epilepsy). Low carb is the important bit for ketosis, and even that many people can eat higher than the oft-spouted 20-25g net carbs and still achieve ketosis.
Truth. Reducing protein and increasing fat is a good way to lose muscle mass. Mass muscle is not only what makes a body strong, but it's the major driver of your metabolic rate, and is what gets you lean.
If you look at the studies by phinney or volkey, protein tends to be 20-30%, which turns out to be around 1.5-2.2g/kg of weight. Another way to look at it is about .8-1g/lb of gw.
The focus should limiting carbs, hitting adequate protein and letting fat fall out based on satiety. Force feeding fat, is a good way to keep that fat. The goal is to burn body fat, not the fat you eat.4 -
I don't intentionally add fat. However I do cook with both ghee and avocado oil, take a spoonful of unrefined coconut oil everyday for the MCTs, and snack on fatty nuts that are low carb.0
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Because I have been baking keto cookies for gifts over the last couple of weeks I’ve also been eating them which is not good news. I didn’t track them so the weight has gone up thank God Christmas is only once a year. I have my last lot of cookies to ice & pack for my neighbours then don’t have to do anything else apart from make 2 trifles for 2 of my children. My youngest daughters husband is making Christmas dinner as my daughter can’t as she has a broken wrist.
Happy holidays to you all & enjoy yourselves in whatever form that takes. ☃️🙏🎄🛷🎁💋2 -
Oh ya, keto is hard over the holidays. I'll be having a few cheat days, and I know it will throw me out of ketosis. Hey, I need a break every now and then! Once January hits I'll be right back to my strict keto diet.2
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If I'm not too late to the party, I'd love an accountability buddy. I started keto on the 6th of December and while I feel great and am watching the scale go in the right direction for the first time in years, I am the only keto in a family of four. The others refuse to even entertain the foods that might possibly be keto. I need to cook 2 different dishes at every meal.1
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quixoticcriss wrote: »If I'm not too late to the party, I'd love an accountability buddy. I started keto on the 6th of December and while I feel great and am watching the scale go in the right direction for the first time in years, I am the only keto in a family of four. The others refuse to even entertain the foods that might possibly be keto. I need to cook 2 different dishes at every meal.
Would love to help (l cook keto meals my friends don’t know are keto) but don’t know how to add you as a friend if anyone knows how please let me know.0 -
I don't quite understand the "refuse to entertain foods that might be keto" thing. If I have a meal of fish, veg, and potatoes, the only part that isn't "keto" is the potato, so I could have more of the other two dishes (or add nuts or cottage cheese on the side), and everyone else could have the potatoes.
If doing a pasta dish, you could add your sauce/protein on zucchini noodles or spaghetti squash or cauliflower rice and let everyone else do standard pasta. (Over the past couple of days, I made a meat sauce I could otherwise use on pasta and have been using it to stuff kabocha squash instead.)
You can do a stew without potatoes or noodles or whatever and cook those separately to add at the end for others in the family. You can do a huge salad and have bread on the side for others.
Most of what all of us eat are potentially keto, since presumably we don't all eat only single-pot meals, so I am curious what the dishes are that are being avoided -- are you trying to do stuff like meathead pizza on the reg? (I did keto for a while and have yet to try one specifically "keto" recipe or any "keto treats" but for a non-sweetened ice cream I played around with (the texture never worked out, but it made an amazing--but high cal--cardamom affogato).0 -
I don't quite understand the "refuse to entertain foods that might be keto" thing. If I have a meal of fish, veg, and potatoes, the only part that isn't "keto" is the potato, so I could have more of the other two dishes (or add nuts or cottage cheese on the side), and everyone else could have the potatoes.
If doing a pasta dish, you could add your sauce/protein on zucchini noodles or spaghetti squash or cauliflower rice and let everyone else do standard pasta. (Over the past couple of days, I made a meat sauce I could otherwise use on pasta and have been using it to stuff kabocha squash instead.)
You can do a stew without potatoes or noodles or whatever and cook those separately to add at the end for others in the family. You can do a huge salad and have bread on the side for others.
Most of what all of us eat are potentially keto, since presumably we don't all eat only single-pot meals, so I am curious what the dishes are that are being avoided -- are you trying to do stuff like meathead pizza on the reg? (I did keto for a while and have yet to try one specifically "keto" recipe or any "keto treats" but for a non-sweetened ice cream I played around with (the texture never worked out, but it made an amazing--but high cal--cardamom affogato).
I suspect it's a lot of the replacements (i.e., zoodles instead of pasta). I can certainly understand that. Ironically, some of my recipes are huge hits in my extended family and 99% of them didn't realize it was keto friendly. A few of those such items are my pumpkin pie, carrot cake and my even my chaffles (keto waffles). I find that if people don't know what they are eating, they are more open. And since I cycle keto, people in my family don't know if I am keto at the moment or not.
But I also cook for a family of 4. Most of what I cook is meat and veggies. If I am doing burgers, I will give my family rolls and I will just have more meat.1
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