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405 and close to 50% body fat to 180 and less than 11%. After pic is at 185 2 years ago. Weight Stable nearly 2 years. LCHP.... Add 20:4 IF.... Switch to 20P/75F Keto...Switch to 35P/60F Ketovore. 2400-2800 calories daily.

IF/TRE is too often said to work by limiting your calories by limiting the amount of time you are allowed to eat. For some that may be true but it really depends on what your protocol is as well as what you personally can eat. If you are doing 16:8 where you limit your eating to an 8 hour window (which many people do even…

And that is a problem and I certainly see where you are coming from since it isn't like you can choose to only have autophagy work on ONE of what my wife calls her "bat wings" (the sagging bicep skin) or only on your abdominal skin but not your inner thighs. As far as doing it with IF, especially with smaller daily…

Autophagy was really only recognized a few years ago and a lot about it is still unknown. They Scottish guy who water fasted for 382 days and went from something like 460 to 180 pounds did have his skin "shrink" back which is indeed unusual and I would suspect it was a combination of the effects of autophagy and that he…

I turned 50 in November. In 2015 I was 387 pounds (6'0") and eating whatever I wanted and in huge quantities. Working on portion control got me to 356 which is when my doctor referred me to my hospitals bariatric clinic to go the non-surgical route. With insulin resistance, pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome, they put me…

Actually those are not the only way to know for sure. Those test only one type of ketone secretion and are the least expensive. They measure acetoacetate and show you the amount of unused ketones being secreted by the body. You can also buy blood ketone meters which measure ketones in the blood but they are more expensive.…

We have Charge 2's we bought from Costco for $150. Works fine for us. We don't have smart phones to sync them with like most people but if you are in this same situation, be aware that it doesn't come with the USB bluetooth dongle you need to sync it to your computer. I am sure it works fine with the app but it was a bit…

???? Keto isn't about veggies..... well, unless you are doing a vegetarian/vegan keto which is a bit more challenging.

Great advice and swaps that made it work for you. As one who loves ice cream, I never tried the enlightened bars but the Halo Top ice cream was a great choice and something that I can even work into my plan now on days when I am at the end and still have a few carbs to give. :)

I agree that it is important that you work to lower your carbs in general before trying keto. Especially if you are coming from a particularly high carb diet where seemingly benign staples are extremely high in carbs (such as the situation with Asian or Italian cultures where rice and pasta are central). As I have said,…

Understood but I think that the discussion/debate is relative to the OP's question.

Fat is the most satiating of the 3 macros due mainly to the effects of severely reduced insulin levels that allow the hormone leptin to win the battle over hunger. When insulin is high or in higher levels than leptin, the signal to decrease appetite is lost. When insulin is low, leptin wins and the appetite is suppressed.…

It is a big difference in how your body handles carbohydrates. Edited by a MFP moderator: If you would like to further discuss this please start a new thread in the debate section. Thanks, 4legs MFP mod.

Exactly. One of the best things you can do to understand how we have been lied to and given misinformation over the years about saturated fat and heart disease is to listen to or read "The Big Fat Surprise - Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong In A Healthy Diet" by Nina Teicholz.

All one needs to do to see how false the whole "years of waste in your colon" is ...... is hit 50 and get your colonoscopy screening. One day of no eating while drinking a lot of stuff that tastes terrible and then they scope you to see that you are fine.

I find this interesting because for me, keto with IF makes me go WAY less often.

My wife has issues with artificial sweetners (GI doesn't tolerate them well) and went off all of those diet packets and such we had so many of and now gets the carbonated water with no sweetners in it. I have tried, I really have, but I just can't do them. It is like sushi for me. Even if I like the ingredients I just…

When I started I was simply low carb/high protein (85/160) and did a lot of diet soda or the zero calorie packets you mix with water. Eventually, when I added intermittent fasting to it doing 20:4, I learned that they can be problematic by kicking you out of your fast. Even if you don't swallow it they can produce an…

What you know is how your version affected you based on the way you did it. After going from 356 to 295 a few years ago simply doing low carb/high protein (85g/160g roughly), calorie restricting (2100cal) and eating 6 times a day I ended up giving in and letting it creep back up and ended up back at 356 again. I still had…

My apologies. I SWEAR when I first read it that she had said as much. :) Looking back it was someone else that said she had the same problem when she started keto and I think I tied that back to the OP. :(

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You can do it. We had a meeting a few weeks ago at work and they ordered about 50 pizzas from a place I love. I didn't have any even though it was in my eating window and although there were enough left for many people to take home, I walked away. :)

For me I suppose it was the ice cream vendor at the farmer's market that was making fresh waffle cones. Today wasn't a day I felt I needed to give in to anything like that. Since I have switched from simply low carb/high protein and eating 6 times a day to keto and 20:4 intermitent fastign, I have to be much more mindful…

Well, if you know deep down that you probably drink too much and should probably quit..... I would see it as "if these people can get clean and they are WAY more addicted to crack than I am to booze, I should be able to get this under control". That is just me though. I think it is a matter of where you are too though. For…

Let's just say that you WILL gain weight from that (and I am not saying you will), what are you going to do about it? Eat 900 again for a couple days .... so that you can be "really hungry for the next two days" again and eat beyond your goal again? What is done is done. If you gain weight you will gain weight, if you hold…

Having read some of your other responses I am not sure if you have really researched this very well or not. That said, you are welcome to have a personal belief of whatever you like. There are plenty of people that believe in a lot of things, such as climate change not being something humans had anything to do with despite…

Dating in general is a crapshoot and matters a lot where the people are in life, maturity level, etc. I used to play an online game called Everquest (the big game before the current World of Warcraft) and I used to chat with some women in game. Got to know a few and would do the cybering thing. One of them I eventually…

I had heard Joe Rogan mention (just in passing during conversations) Intermittent Fasting and finally decided to look it up. When I understood more about what it was, I started looking for podcasts about it and found The Intermittent Fasting podcast with Melanie Avalon and Gin Stephens. Their experience and information has…

On days I don't work, I just log as I go. On workdays, my menu is pretty consistent when I am at work (other than add ins while there) so I pre-log everything I pack in my lunch and then log whatever I eat for dinner and evening snack.

I think a lot of it really depends on where you are at on your journey. I am 6' tall and if I were the 195 pound guy I was shortly after high school it would be reasonable for me (personally) to set my goal of getting to 175 and solid. Now when I started my weight loss & be healthier lifestyle change, I was at a BMI of…