Keto longevity
A_mission_for_me
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Five years ago I was an active member of this group and very successfully Keto for 8-9 months and reached the best health of my life. For some reason I stopped and I’m now back to my heaviest weight and have recently returned to my Keto ways and determined to stick to it this time but need some encouragement that is possible to stick to this again. So my question is how long have you been Keto? And what are your tricks to sticking too it long term?
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A_mission_for_me wrote: »Five years ago I was an active member of this group and very successfully Keto for 8-9 months and reached the best health of my life. For some reason I stopped and I’m now back to my heaviest weight and have recently returned to my Keto ways and determined to stick to it this time but need some encouragement that is possible to stick to this again. So my question is how long have you been Keto? And what are your tricks to sticking too it long term?
I have been on keto off and on ...I restarted this time on Feb 26th .... I make sure to meal prep on Sunday's so that I have my meals and won't go off the deep end eating my daughter's stuff ... having a plan is the key to stick with it ...Wishing you much success
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I was strict keto 2016-2018 and have been low carb since then with occasional keto months. I do tend to gain and lose the same 5-7 lbs every year. I am down my holiday gain and am still on a losing trend for a change. I use a food scale mostly for meats, I rely on importing keto recipes into the database and have gotten pretty good at menu planning and food shopping so that I need less meal prep. I've had to start buying separate snacks for hubby so that he doesn't eat mine. Feel free to send me a friend request.1
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I have been keto since 2016. I find the diet suits me, but it is a lifestyle.
FWIW, I stick to basic foods and don't typically eat anything "special." People at work understand that I am a seriously picky eater at this point, and so snack tables will often include cheese squares and broccoli so I will have something.
A biggie for me with compliance is that I cook supper and plan for leftovers at lunch. My wife cooks bacon and eggs (with cheese sometimes) for breakfast. Having one menu and one shopping list helps a lot. If you have to have different meals for members of a family, it is a lot harder.2 -
I too, have been keto and low carb since about 2016. I had gotten to my heaviest weight, went on high blood pressure meds and saw a pic of myself that didn’t make me feel good about my habits. I lost 30 pounds, went off the meds and have stayed relatively low carb, and mix in some carnivore now and again. My focus now is keeping protein fairly high and carbs in the 50-75g range sometimes going upwards of 100.2
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I started keto 2 years ago and lost 35 lbs and felt amazing but lately, I’ve fallen by the wayside and regained 20 lbs. I have no idea why I allowed the sweets and carbs to take over but do know, it has to stop. My body is full of inflammation again and I feel terrible. I was following another plan and had stopped coming to MyFitnessPal. Obviously I’m back and hoping tracking my food again will give me some insight into what went wrong.6
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I did low carb in 2014-2015 when in my late 50s strictly, managed in that time to lose 11 kg (about 22lbs, shown in my avatar here) but then added back wine... Gained back a bit and maintained until last year, working from home has cut my movement drastically. Gained back now about 10 kg, so am trying to get back into ketosis. Hard to go back to being strict again, sigh. But the extra fat bothers me, gets in the way of yoga and I had to buy bigger jeans, arg. My health markers were ok at a checkup in March, though. Now I am 66 and it seems this body likes the extra fluff. I still mainly eat low carb.2
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Hi, I have been eating low carb for 2 years now. I'm down 50 pounds but can't get past my current weight. Been here for 1 year. I meal prep weekly, walk for my excise. Any ideas to get me over this hump and back to loosing weight?0
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Hi, I have been eating low carb for 2 years now. I'm down 50 pounds but can't get past my current weight. Been here for 1 year. I meal prep weekly, walk for my excise. Any ideas to get me over this hump and back to loosing weight?
I say reduce calories to jumpstart things. My maintenance calories are lower than the charts/MFP would claim. Sounds like you are in maintenance.0 -
Sometimes you have to make decision to eat to live, vice live to eat.
A can of tuna, and dukes, is keto, and a full day proteins.2
