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Yeah.... it's magnesium (IMHO)

I think eggs too... scrambled with coconut oil, heavy cream, parmesean cheese, and sea salt! Yuuummmmy and fills my tummy ..... for hours!

I'm adding this into my new lifestyle... with the exception of Darden's food plan. Good science behind the negatives/inroad approach to muscle growth and turning on hormones for fat-burn! I also like the science supporting a high (healthy) fat, low carb, moderate protein diet. I can't argue with the ketogenic…

Eat more protein in the 48 hours after lifting. Lift with enough weight that you'll exhaust at 8-10 reps, SUPER SLOW ON THE NEGATIVE (~ lowering the weight)... You can feel this!... then let your body recover. When you're truly keto adapted, your body will burn fat for fuel.... IMHO it is totally possible to lose fat while…

Looks like a lot of good advice. The only thing I'll add is to consider a liver cleanse (Instead of a homemade one I use Renew Life's 7 day total body cleanse.... and if you've never tried Intermittent Fasting, look into that. The last few days I've had some interesting results not eating between 8-9 at night and 12-1 the…

I never get a moderate reading... always a little or more less. I bought a blood ketone meter but haven't tried it yet. The test strips are pretty expensive so I want to reserve it for fine-tuning. Now I'm just trying to see consistent ketostix readings and some obvious weight loss. I read that you can cut the ketostix in…

Heck yeah! Also try to go organic with all high-fat animal foods - because toxins concentrate in the fat.... and are filtered (and concentrate) in the liver. While I'm not a toxicologist, I am an environmental engineer and frequently work with risk assessments involving toxicity models, etc... This type of info along with…

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Congrats daisysmamu! I may be back on egg fast Sunday too - I've had a hard time really sticking to it the last five days - but probably had 3 full on Egg fast days.... and 2 where I ate just the meat and green veggies at a dinner with family. I believe cycling on and off may be good for me. I certainly don't consider…

Thanks for this thread! 1) loose 10% of my body weight by March 1st, 20% within the year (unless added muscle overrides this metric) 2) compete in a rowing "sprint" race this spring. 3) double my salary while doing an amazing job (hazardous waste site investigation/cleanup) 4) engage globally - in work and play! 5) give…

Thanks this is all very helpful. I too have had a mild resurgence of heartburn which I had attributed to increased dairy. I'll try some Bragg's ACV drinks to see if it helps. I'm not sure if there is a kombucha "mother" made with cabbage or not but traditional Kombucha is fermented green (or black) sweet tea. You can make…

Hey! I'm also a little disappointed with results so far. I'll adjust my cheese intake - and plan to adhere more closely to the plan today and for the next couple of days. I didn't think it would be so hard to stick to it even though I was out of town - but when my sweet father (recently widowed) cooked for me, I couldn't…

I was thinking of mixing in some IF strategy along with it this week (only eating between 3-9 pm) and that is in fact happening today - just been busy and my fatty tea satisfied me. I'm interested to try the egg-fast linguine from IBIH website. Have any of you tried it? Good to hear you had a positive experience in the…

Thanks! please share any eggy meals that you particularly love ;) My daughter stepped in and made the cheesecake bites for me yesterday and they didn't have an even ratio of egg/fat - but since they are just made from 8 oz cream cheese and 1 egg (should have been 3 for better ratio), I've snacked on a couple along with my…

Here's a menu plan from IBIH that gives you an idea of the options: http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2014/07/egg-fast-diet-menu-plan-low-carb-keto.html I just realized while reading over it again this morning that I should NOT be using heavy whipping cream in my tea in the mornings - I'd been doing that with coconut oil and…

Hi! I'm new here ;) Happy to finally be seeing some ketones show up on the ketostyx (small-mod) which took 5 days - suprised me because usually only takes 1-2 but then I have never really tried keto - I used to think high protein, low-carb was keto. Anyway - yet to see any weight loss either which is also odd since last…

Hi Nick... couldn't see your diary. Based solely on my recent spin up (not actual experience) I'd say to check: 1) if protein is high - may need to bring it down to a gram or less per kg of body weight as gluconeogenesis turns excess protein into glucose. 2) if calories are too high - usually not a problem if eating fat TO…

The only sweeteners I can stand are Xylitol (my fav) or Erythriol (which I have on hand because one of my kids is sensitive to the xylitol) ... seems like xylitol takes less to effectively sweeten things. I made a flourless chocolate cake using the xylitol a couple years back - it did great! I use it in tea daily and have…

Settin out on a keto journey that I intend to be a lifestyle - hopefully my body will "get" it too! I'd enjoyed eating low carb before - which was always high protein for me - as much as I wanted. Never really tried to do high fat until this week... and moderate proteins... so it's a new feeling. I tried my old approach to…