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Urine strips detect acetoacetate which is only 1 ketone of the 3 that are produced and as your body becomes more efficient at using ketones then acetoacetate becomes more efficiently used and less shows up in the urine, and why urine strips are highly unreliable. I've been on a keto diet for over a decade, and if I'm…

Too many unknowns. How long have you been trying keto? Keto diets are moderate protein and high fat but people have a hard time doing that, eating a lot of fat that is and subsequently the extra protein just gets converted into glucose and obviously effect ketone levels. Fat should represent at least 70% of your calories,…

Try a whole food diet siding on more protein than carbs. Young people it's mostly about eating junk (lots or refined carbs and sugar) which results in exactly that, pre diabetes and fatty liver, and if they are attached at the hip to social media, push them outside and make them move more. In the perfect world of course. 😉

Fresh Pasta.

Calories are actually food and which type of food, macros and diet would suit your circumstances best is difficult to assess without knowing your metabolic health. I would say to try and consume more nutrient dense foods as opposed to calorie dense, which mostly represents a whole food diet and less takeout and processed…

There's actually no scientific logic based on biocemistry it's just 25% of the recommended USDA recommendations for gender, females 2000 calories daily and males 2400 calories so the 25% is the 500 and 600. Fundamentally it means nothing. Basically don't worry about it, would be my advice, imo of course.

I'm quite familiar with 5:2 and have been using that for periodic weight loss over the last 3 or 4 years. Are your 2 days non consecutive or back to back? what does your diet look like? What are you eating during those 2 days, specifically.😊

Well if your world revolves around numbers for eating, then numbers are king, funny how that works. Yeah the body is not a calculator and more like a biological synchronization or microbial symbiosis, basically a superorganism, hosting trillions of microbes that co-regulate digestion, absorption, and energy balance and…

shrimp pasta with garden tomatoes, chicken stock, onion, garlic, white wine and a little parmigiana Reggiano.

Carbonara.

Fructose contributes to both liver fat and body fat, but the liver itself is the first to suffer, but to be clear, it's also excess calories and fructose intake together, and because the liver is the primary site of fructose metabolism where it converts that fructose into fatty acids and bears the brunt of the biochemical…

Both of those links leave a lot to be desired, especially the second one. Someone has to finish at the bottom of their class, and there's a couple of good examples,imo. Insulin resistance simply put is basically found when our cells that normally take up glucose are saturated with glucose, in other words the cells are full…

Cooking actual real food is now an epiphany of brilliance, we can't make this stuff up. Congratulations on you for realizing real food is tasty and better for us.

I hope you achieve your goals.😊

The medical institution is quick to blame the individual where I actually don't blame people for overeating with the solution of eating less and moving more, also a 50 year fail. It's not really their fault and neither is it a good solution to their problem and if some GLP-1 medication can help, by all means do that, but…

I had left over braised leg of lamb in the reserved lamb broth/sauce and made a pasta with it. I sauteed some garlic, julienne red onion, parsley, chili flakes, cherry toms and a little mutti and finished with a little of the starchy pasta water to loosen the sauce and then added parmigiana Reggiano and used pappardelle.…

Calorie counting is about math and when a person does an activity outside of their daily norm and their allotment of acceptable calories they've used up more calorie energy so on that particular occasion they get to eat more calories, basically exercise allows for more calorie consumption if a person has not factored it…

Yeah, I don't calorie count and lost quite a bit of weight (65) by limiting my starchy and sugary carbs and consume mostly animal products so basically lower carb which as indicated supported the hormonal balance that for the vast majority of people that bring our satiety hormones back into balance, basically the hunger is…

I took it that the OP was eating nothing but chicken and the dietitian was surprised by the statement. I mean what dietitian and I mean even one that is totally incompetent would ever just say to eat a lean protein exclusively, I could be wrong but that's the way I took that statement.

Do you only eat chicken breast?

Call your diet whatever you want but when consuming a diet mostly conceived of whole foods while also reducing starchy carbs, especially UPF and focusing on fiber, like cruciferous vegetables, avocado and proteins is one of the best and proven strategies for reducing IBS type symptoms, prediabetes and (NAFLD) non alcoholic…

I didn't think anyone would get that metaphor, so good for you. It's basically comes down to the erosion of our "metabolic flexibility" (MF) and it's basically the canary in the coal mine and is like the early warning sign which determines our overall metabolic health and this begins to erode long before, for example,…

Well, I don't count calories and lost 65lbs and have kept it off for over a dozen years and to tell you the truth I rarely encounter studies that focus on calories other than being mentioned if and when the study was a biological comparison. A calorie after all is just a measure of energy and not a measure of nutritional…

I feel your pain and I wish you attain an outcome that resolves your frustration with the foods that are not working for you or your metabolism, it's a common problem and mostly hormonal and hopefully with your team a harmonious solution can be achieved. 😊

Having high blood pressure is like getting hit in the face over and over again where eventually inflammation results and it mostly effects the left anterior descending artery called the "widow maker" not good, and this normally has been in play for years when it is accompanied with obesity and probably 1 or 2 other…

Maybe, but there's actually dozens of metabolic reasons which will and do interact with factors lik lifestyle, genetics, and hormonal systems which not only cause fluctuation from day to day but also intra-day as well. It's a forest and tree thingy going on, zoom out and chill. 😁

So, just trying to be in a caloric defict was too hard and will power wasn't enough and the weight just came back on, but taking Ozempic made him less hungry and he lost weight and when he goes off Ozempic unless he makes healthier food choices the weight will just come back on, as you've indicated and is common knowledge,…

You should be advised that a person can do both, count calories and intermittent fast. 😉

You should be under constant medical supervision with a nephrologist and hopefully a renal dietitian is part of that team, period.

Yes I did, but I also added some chili flakes and pecorino as well. Also some lemon zest.