Heath Nutrition Question. Keto/Other Diet

StormiLu
StormiLu Posts: 211 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I recently started back up on here and my heath again. 2 half years ago I went ful keto, lost about 26 27 pounds. Went from 199 to 173. Now I am back up to 199. Working out again, I am stuck on going back all keto or just eating more whole foods/Protein. I hear keto is bad but loaded with fat gain it back etc but it did work for me when everything else did not. But now I am ready to work out 4 to 5 days a week. What diet plan/Lifestyle do I go to? Just am not sure.

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  • StormiLu
    StormiLu Posts: 211 Member
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    I do absolutely nothing but restrict my calories and eat what I want and find satisfying that fits those goals.

    Also if you lost with keto and then regained it didn't actually work. Being able to do it forever is the key to maintaining loss.

    Thanks for the Input, how I saw it. Thanks
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,225 Member
    Like others who've commented, I lost weight fine just by counting calories, eating foods I like (at age 59-60, hypothyroid (but treated), after previous decades of staying overweight to obese). I lost nearly a third of my body weight, well over 50 pounds, in a bit less than a year, obese to healthy, 183 to mid-120s at 5'5". I've stayed at a healthy weight for 5+ years since the same way (now 65).

    I ate pretty much the same foods while losing as I did when obese, just in different portion sizes, proportions, or frequencies. (I'm sure some that weren't that important to me have dropped to a frequency of "never", but I can't think of any offhand.) I was already a reasonably healthy eater, had been vegetarian for over 40 years by then, so I'm not suggesting nutrition is unimportant for health.

    I didn't materially change my exercise routine to lose weight, just generally kept on doing the same things I'd been doing before. (I was already very active while obese (and stayed obese nonetheless!), so I didn't feel any health-related need to increase exercise.) I have found that being at a healthy weight makes activity easier and more fun, so I suspect I may do more of it these days, but there's nothing forced in the picture.

    I'd never consider keto personally. (Keto vegetarian sounds difficult and unpleasant to me, though I know it's theoretically possible . . . and it's just not necessary for me, so why would I? I tried low carb years back, BTW, and it made me miserable, personally. I'm not - wasn't when fat - diabetic or insulin resistant.)

    Keto is a great way of eating for some people, and to the extent that it controls appetite more easily, or something like that, it can be a great choice . . . for others, not for me. 😉
  • StormiLu
    StormiLu Posts: 211 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Like others who've commented, I lost weight fine just by counting calories, eating foods I like (at age 59-60, hypothyroid (but treated), after previous decades of staying overweight to obese). I lost nearly a third of my body weight, well over 50 pounds, in a bit less than a year, obese to healthy, 183 to mid-120s at 5'5". I've stayed at a healthy weight for 5+ years since the same way (now 65).

    I ate pretty much the same foods while losing as I did when obese, just in different portion sizes, proportions, or frequencies. (I'm sure some that weren't that important to me have dropped to a frequency of "never", but I can't think of any offhand.) I was already a reasonably healthy eater, had been vegetarian for over 40 years by then, so I'm not suggesting nutrition is unimportant for health.

    I didn't materially change my exercise routine to lose weight, just generally kept on doing the same things I'd been doing before. (I was already very active while obese (and stayed obese nonetheless!), so I didn't feel any health-related need to increase exercise.) I have found that being at a healthy weight makes activity easier and more fun, so I suspect I may do more of it these days, but there's nothing forced in the picture.

    I'd never consider keto personally. (Keto vegetarian sounds difficult and unpleasant to me, though I know it's theoretically possible . . . and it's just not necessary for me, so why would I? I tried low carb years back, BTW, and it made me miserable, personally. I'm not - wasn't when fat - diabetic or insulin resistant.)

    Keto is a great way of eating for some people, and to the extent that it controls appetite more easily, or something like that, it can be a great choice . . . for others, not for me. 😉

    Yeah that is what I did before keto and before I got pregnant and seem to be working 5 years ago. I'll give it try but this time with more exercise.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
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  • StormiLu
    StormiLu Posts: 211 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
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    Thanks for this, Really appreciate it.

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