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Whew! Now that's progress! Great job! What's your routine/system that got you there?

Do, how ya doing with the increases, setting ant impact with negative our positive?

So..........whatcha looking for? 5' 5", 120# doesn't sound like you need to seek anything, unless you're looking just for the extra energy.... Which would be slowly increasing some intake (stay away from the simple carbs, since they mostly give fast bursts of energy, but drop you nearly as fast,) in fats and proteins......…

So 1300 (or 1450) including the alcohol? What are you eating, can't be much! I've heard that to gain a pound, one needs to eat an excess (more than your body consumes) of 3500 kcals, so one needs to increase their daily intake by 500 kcals, to gain a pound per week... So maybe you could increase slowly your intake until…

You mind reader... I was going to say that, when I read it... Just think of the peanut as a bean... They are high in carbs, but if that's not a concern, not a problem... Other nuts, walnuts, pecans, almonds, etc. Are not as high when considering weight/volume, that's all...

1. MCT is Medium Chained Triglycerides... Coconut Oil is about 55% lauric acid, makes coconut oil solid, there are some smaller chained fats (triglycerides) that account for the composition of what's on coconut oil. Coconut oil only contains a small fraction of MCTs. 2. For what? Do I think it's necessary for anything, no,…

If I eat more than 30g of carbs, no matter how many calories I eat, I gain weight... That is just me... I have heard others eat a bunch more and still lose... You need to find your own magic number...

I don't know about this CICO thing... I mean true you eat a boatload of calories, weight gain is inevitable... But if you "listen" to your body, I don't think you need to count as strictly... If you eat, just to eat, opposed to eat when your hungry and only eat as much where you start to feel satisfied, then count…

I had the UP 24, worked great, loved that it sync'd with MyFitnessPal, tracked my sleep too... Then it lost the button (poor design, in my opinion) after about six months and it was not available anymore... So I had to upgrade, got a Samsung Gear Neo... Doesn't interface with MyFitnessPal, which sucks, but I could enter it…

Do you know what I do to keep my sodium up? Eat bacon!!! I feel great, and am happy too! Yummy bacon! What other diet allows you to eat one of the greatest foods around? Bacon! Although, pineapple is the fruit of the gods, in my book, and my diet doesn't allow for that... Think happy thoughts... BACON! Michael.

Yeah, I don't measure to know when I'm in or out of ketosis... Like many have said, you know... Your body definitely tells you... The reason I decided to spend the capital I did was more of experimentation... Understanding what foods do what to blood glucose and ketones... So I could compile my findings... that's really…

Well, that's better than my abbott xtra meter I have, in regards to the disposables... Otherwise very similar... It costs me about $7.50/test, where it appears that nova max is about $2.00/test. I might consider switching once my disposables are depleted. Otherwise,I might go to the breath unit: https://www.ketonix.com,…

Another thing, MCT oil does wonders for me... If I want to go deeper into ketosis, drink 15ml, I'll move a good 0.5mmol/dl in 15 minutes... I once took 30ml and went from 0.3 to 2.1mmol/dl in about 30 minutes... Felt like I wanted to be placed in a coma until morning... Though,I think this thread is now way of point... My…

Nice,i saw similar results... went from 320 to 250 in about seven weeks... Very true... I use blood ketone to test my levels... Yeah, I know those levels are optimal, I just don't like how I feel... Plus I tried a doctor, they kept saying I was losing too fast, they said ketosis is very bad, had Yada, Yada, Yada...…

I'll agree in part... Eating low carbs does drop the weight... The kcal deficit (at least for me) is something I've seen doesn't impact me as much as one would think... I can eat 1500kcals (made up of moderate fat, moderate protein and moderate carbs) and lose, but I can eat 3200kcals (high fat, moderate protein, low…

I agree with you 100%, the more carbs I eat the hungrier I am throughout the day... and when I'm ketonic, I have to remind myself to eat... Wife doesn't like to eat alone. That's why I'm so interested in learning about some that gain weight when in ketosis.

I suppose so... It's just that when I'm in moderate ketosis, (1.4+ mmol/dl) I'm not that hungry... When I'm nearer to 2mmol/dl, I'm feeling nauseous, but that's another story... When I'm around 0.5 - 0.8mmol/dl I can eat a bunch more, but those times I find myself eating more proteins and/or carbs than what I should, which…

Really, hmmm that really surprises me, but whatever... I would think that reducing the food that affects blood glucose by increasing it, weight loss would be a good side benefit, though when I decided to try ketosis,I eliminated grains, sucrose (heck avoided all sugars,) breads, fruits... and I lost like a fiend... If you…

Well, I'm just speaking from what I have experienced... For me, once my glycogen levels are maxed, my blood glucose levels go up and my ketones levels go down as I increase carbs beyond 20g and my protein goes around 200g. Not that I'm totally out of ketosis, just I'm not at 1.3+ mmol/dl, but more like 0.7 - 0.9mmol/dl.…

Ketone strips? What about them? To check if you're in ketosis? I never liked the urine strips,I go for the blood ketones... More accurate, and I'm an accurate type of guy. As for the number of carbs you have to stay below, it really is personal... I can't go above 20g, but then again, it depends on what type of carb... If…

Well, using the CICO strictly and thinking that a calorie (kcal) is a calorie, is a calorie, is false thinking... Sugars/alcohols take nothing to metabolize, both fats and proteins take about twice as much energy to metabolize into a useable energy source (from what I recall.) So just keep that in mind. Plus you don't get…

True vegetables do make the diet easier, and offers more variety... They should not be 100% avoided, like you would sugar, but too much and you'll find yourself surpassing your carb limit. Not a bad thing, as long as you don't mind going in and out of ketosis temporarily. Some people can handle more carb intake than…

What I discovered for me is the more carbs I eat, the more hungrier I am thoughout the day... If I stick to mostly fats and moderate proteins, I don't eat as much during the day, nor am I very hungry at any time. Starches, simple sugars, doesn't matter... Vegetables, nuts and (for me) the rare fruit, and I am always…

That is the inherent issue... you can't consider it a "diet"... it needs to be a lifestyle - you need to change the way you think about food and what you want to put in your body. Ketosis is a great way to lose weight, true, but if you are doing the "keto diet" routine, just to lose weight... Well, like people say, it is…

Yeah,I never was to big in eating my vegetables, so that's not an issue for me... Potatoes shouldn't be considered a vegetable, that one I never had a problem eating, and still struggle with that today... I just remind myself, is it worth it? No breads, cereals, grains, pasta and I try to stay away from any sugars where…

I have an awesome pizza recipe... Man do I love pizza, and was craving it to no end... Found out somewhere on the internet and tweaked it a bit. Crust: 4c hard cheese (parm, cheddar, etc.) [You need to shred it yourself, don't buy pre shredded, has extra carbs that keep the cheese from sticking together] 4 eggs Toppings:…

Oh my gawd, NNNNOOOOOOOO!!!! I forget the number of books I have read that say the same thing... It is a large number... Unsaturated fats are not healthy! One good book comes to mind... "Toxic Oil", look it up. It's a short read, and very enlightening. If one book only said it, it'd tend not to believe it, but when at…

Easy saturated fat! Yeah, you're probably thinking this guy is going to die of a heart attack when you see what I eat, but before I tell you, I ate this daily for over a month before I had blood work done, and I mean everything...lipid panel, vitamin levels, you name it, I wanted to be sure I wasn't harming myself... the…

I have been doing ketosis for about four months, well the last two I've been slacking, and introduced vegetables in my diet, before then I didn't eat any vegetables or fruits, and didn't eat more than 10g carbs a day. The key is to eat fat, lots and lots of fat... I lost around 80+ lbs in the first two months doing that.

My experiences include, but not limited to, in ketosis: not hungry, and when I eat, I don't eat much, nothing it's really that appetizing. If I'm in deep ketosis, like in the 2.1 mmol/dl level, I've felt nauseous... Well it might have been due to going there in about an hour's time... I can explain that later. Not in…