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I am regularly in ketosis and I eat way more carbs than a typical low-carb diet. My last 4 days of carb and fiber grams: 151, 139, 157, 154, 43, 43, 43, 43 I typically find I wake up in ketosis. Get kicked out when I eat breakfast. Get kicked back in when I go to the gym. You enter ketosis when your liver glycogen is…

Except what you are saying here is keep the portion small to minimize the error. That's one of the strategies I essentially suggested by limiting the amount you eat in say a week.

Yes. My worry was that 2g seemed too small. Artichoke hearts don't have any fat if I look them up so it's all added.

My first thought is to refrigerate what you remove. Even olive oil goes solid. Water can then be drained. That would let you come close to estimating the amount of fat removed. Me if I weigh it I am eating it. If I wasn't eating it then I need to estimate what I removed. Only way to make sure I hit my macros and don't have…

I see a few days ago you went to chick-fil-a and got a salad. So you must be some kind of saint!!! Don't beat yourself up.

I eat this way. I track protein/fat/fiber (150,75,43) on 1900cals. I am 43lbs down with a load to go. What I do is at 8-9pm each night I eat a couple of foods I really like. It took me some time to find them. For me it's sliced beef and various nuts. I call this ballast and I use this most enjoyable time of the day to hit…

I don't normally go to TJ's but had to drive past it yesterday and popped in. I found tins of 'Dal Mekhani'. Beyond knowing dal is lentils of course I have no idea what this stuff is. Anyway this stuff is awesome. It has visible orange fat so I had to warm it up a little. I put some on my large celery, tomatoes, mushrooms,…

Interesting. I have a snack drink I like that's egg flower soup but if I have two cups in a day my weight goes up by two pounds because of the sodium load. It seems sodium excretion by the kidneys is driven by the pressure and that's driven by how much water you drink. So regulation is eat sodium followed by thirst and…

Read a little of this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129159/ It's my understanding that availability of carbs turns off the production of ketones very quickly. The ketones are a way of sparing glucose for the few organs that can't use anything else. You're brain which is like a 60w light bulb can burn both…

I tried low carb way before it was a fad in the US a few years ago. You learn that you can buy keto-stix at the drug store that you pee on to detect ketones. You often have to ask for them as they may not be on the shelves. You can also get sticks that test ketones and sugar but that's not needed for me. My doctor always…

Thanks for the ideas guys. I have arrived at the 10g via a processes of slow reducing a gram at a time. I used to do half of the packet. Often worked out at 12g followed by something like 16g. The effective dilution by shifting down to 10g gave me a better experience as what I got was always the same. I haven't tried 9g…

So I looked into this. It turns out your muscles and body get more efficient but it's a trivial amount for most people. You weigh less and so you take less energy to move about but experiments where they put back that weight don't make that much difference. They think it's all about NEAT. A subconscious malaise were you…

The reason I made the first post was that I was a little scared that I might be starting to shift into a phase where I start being hungry all the time. I had assumed (maybe wrongly) that eventually it's going to get much tougher. So far it's been kind of trivial. My wife might eat chocolate and I don't care. I can eat some…

Eating in the car was a big problem for me. I would buy stuff to eat later and have eaten it all before I got home. The only thing I eat in the car is sugar free gum now. It's 5cals per stick and I will replace this with some lower calorie equivalent if I can now I am nearing the end of the huge box I purchased from…

For me the nuts are a big deal. I would buy a huge container of nuts and then pretty much eat them continuously until they were all gone. It's actually amazing that I don't have that problem now I am logging. I do want to change something. I am thinking of shifting away from roasted and salted nuts to raw and unsalted. I…