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Lyle is definitely top of the game. If you want another, more layman but definitely highly respectable perspective, John Berardi's Precision Nutrition website is a great source.

My energy levels have been lower on keto, but everything has evened out so much- there's not so much of the up and down mood swings there used to be. I'd love to have more energy back, but that was an issue even before keto, and my primary and I are trying to figure out if there might be something else underlying.

I dunno about you, but running has always made me extremely hangry once I start trying to go for distance rather than speed. Training for 5k's usually do me in and I gain weight. Swimming does this, too. But doing bootcamps, HIIT, speed work, and weight training usually brings my hunger down. So could your marathon…

Yep, I'm a certified personal trainer in another life, which is part of the reason why I was so floored about this whole situation. The body can easily make up the energy needed for the brain, it doesn't just have to get it from Carb sources. It's preferred, of course, but not essential. Just like carbs are preferable for…

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That ^^ is insane. Wow. So glad they caught it!!

Wow, really good info! I did see relief from going keto: almost instant reduction in acne, bloating, gut aches, mood swings (that took more like a month to even out). My hair stopped falling out in large quantities (it was getting suuuuper thin. Still thin now but is reversing.). 90% of the time now I'm gluten free and…

Oh, crud. I normally take 1200 mg Vit C per night, and the night before had taken 2200 mg because I had been exposed to a ton of crud that day (I work in a pediatric clinic in registration).

Hmm. I wasn't wanting to overdose on mag, as that definitely causes loose stools for me. On the two a day, it keeps things moving but not watery. I'd never noticed the ALP and didn't know what it was for. I know a I have a sensitivity to gluten, but have never been tested because I didn't really show symptoms other than…

I really, really do intake >5,000 mg per day. Im terrible about logging it, but the few times I have, it's up there. I have at least 2 tbsp of sole water (2300 mg per tbsp) per day. I drink at least 64 oz of fluids (usually closer to 75 oz) and at least 80% of those fluids have sole water in them. I'm salting my food. I'm…

Looks like I'll be taking a few days off (see my other post in the discussion area). Sigh.

Height, current weight, goal weight, activity level, macro goals (calories, fats, proteins)? It looks like you're eating very little calories, which while that works for some people, it backfires for others. I was eating 1250-1300 a day for five months until I stalled out, and now I'm playing around with up to 1500…

Took a weekend off of keto, started Friday and by yesterday was willing to just say eff it to everything. Fasted Saturday morning though, and fasted today until 3pm, so there was a teeny bit of good. Didn't get my squats or push-ups in on Sat or Sunday, so I really effed up. Back to it today. Scale isn't really my friend…

Pepperoni. Just as salty, plus fat and sheer yum. I put a serving in a baggie and enjoy myself.

Thanks!

The trick for me has been 275 degrees for 20 minutes, stir, bake 5 more minutes, then turn off oven and let them sit for a while. I always had trouble with burning them before switching to that method! But we lurve kale chips in our house.

110 bodyweight squats and 65 pushups last night (I mis-counted,lol!).

I started my fitness challenge a day early (1/31), so have two days under my belt. Set up this schedule: Week One and Two: Bodyweight only 50 squats/day minimum; 50 push-ups on knees/day minimum Have done: Tues 100 squats, (30 w/ 20 lb dumbbell); 50 knee push-ups; Wed 110 bodyweight squats (plus 30 each side split squats)…

I'll jump in. I want to get back into shape, hill or high water! It's going to require some finagling on my part, but I want this. Also, the scale hasn't been my friend (luckily the inches are still dropping) so I'm thinking I need to just focus on dropping the bodyfat and keeping the scale the same for a bit.

I miss French fries and chocolate milkshakes... *wah*. Radishes do nothing for me and my plan is low fat enough that I can't have whole cups of heavy whipping cream without completely abolishing my macros.

The fact that it takes a couple days to get back into ketosis keeps me from allowing myself to say, "ahfeckit just this one time won't hurt." Because it does, in fact, hurt. It takes me a full week to get back on track to weight loss again, even if I'm following exactly to plan. So it's a preventative measure more than…

You'll always have to increase your sodium well above the recommended RDA- there's a post in the Launchpad that talks about electrolytes that is very useful. One way to keep high sodium is to have sole water on hand, which is basically salt-saturated water. You start at 1 tsp of it diluted in 4-8 oz of plain water and work…

@tcunbeliever One of my dreams is 20% bf...I've gotten to 23% via dexa before and still felt so "jiggly." I'd love to see what I've got at 20%!

*Just* found the notifications button...and discovered I had some! Thanks for the support! I'm glad to be down, still working on the next 20. Have been stuck at the 156 for almost four weeks now, so starting to feel a bit frustrated. I get approximately 5,000 mg sodium per day (food and approx. 2 tbsp. of sole water that I…

This one looks a bit closer. From Ketogenic Dieters.

Ooooh, how interesting. Muchos gracias! That was an interesting read!

Well, it had climbed up to 180 by the time this last September rolled around. *cringe* I've currently stalled for the past four weeks at 156-157, but I keep plugging. Two of those weeks were Christmas, where keto was followed *very* loosely if at all.

My macros are 120 pro/76 fat/ 20 carbs. Optimal Ketogenic Living, Ketogenic Dieters, and KetoGains on facebook follow those macros, going by height and optimal lean body mass for them. I'm 5'7". Protein consumption at that amount helps maintain current lean body mass. Those two sites see a ton of success. Myself, I'm down…

Before I realized how much sodium I really actually did need (5000 mg+/day), I was having those symptoms. I now just keep a jar of sole water (salt-saturated water, always has a layer of salt at the bottom, I use sea salt b/c I'm cheap and don't believe in all the "benefits and woo" that Himalayan salt purports, since its…

Started keto end of Sept 2016 on a lark. Nothing else I'd been trying had been "sticking," and I was sick of feeling awful all the time. After a friend had amazing (100 pounds +) results on keto, I thought, "what the hey, no harm no foul." The goal of getting less than 20 g of carbs helped to tweak my mindset, and then the…