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I did a hybrid sous-vide/smoked beef tongue a week or so ago, the flavor was fine but the texture was weird, like cheap hot dogs almost. Makes me wonder if the tongue I got was just a bad one or something, because I've made tacos de lengua and the texture of the beef was more like chuck roast then.

Sometimes I can see some water weight retention if I drink a bunch of diet soda the day before (like 2-3cans), which falls off the next day if I don't drink any. But it's definitely anecdotal, could be all kinds of crap.

I'm making meat pies tonight, it's Medieval week on reddit.com/r/52weeksofcooking. Been saving my calories all day, expecting to consume ~900cal tonight :open_mouth: Gonna make some with honeyed chicken filling, and some others with beef and mushroom filling

Eating gluten free will not help you if you do not have a medically diagnosed gluten intolerance. I agree with @psulemon, if you cut out a lot of carbs you could be hitting the "keto flu" that comes with cutting carbs and not getting adequate nutrition to help your body adapt. Potassium, magnesium, and salt are usually…

If you're doing something like a grilled or pan-seared meat, weigh cooked. If you're putting raw meat into a braising liquid and calculating calories on the whole dish (like a pot roast), then weigh raw. Fat and moisture will render away when grilling or pan-searing, and not much of that comes with the meat when you're…

Are you weighing your food? Open up your diary settings and the cause will probably become clear

Dump him. Keep going with diet and exercise. Weigh everything you eat, and see success. Every week you will feel better about yourself. This is relevant, just switch the genders.

For low calorie snacks I have bags of cut up broccoli, cauliflower, quick-pickled cucumbers (salt and vinegar), and celery in the fridge. I put a paper plate on the scale, and weigh each in grams. You can have a big-*kitten* plate of veggies for <100 calories. It'll fill you up real well too. Just sprinkle some salt the…

For OP's question, in my experience, I have found that as long as I stay under 50g net carbs in a day I don't get out of ketosis. Whether those carbs are from veggies, sugars, breads, whatever, it doesnt seem to matter. However, I've found that the more carbs I eat, the more water I retain. When I stick to a traditional…

Your diary isn't open, are you logging EVERYTHING that you eat? Literally everything you consume needs to be logged. If you are logging everything, are you measuring by weight using a kitchen scale, or are you going by volume, or are you trying to eyeball it? How many calories are you consuming in a day? Are you…

Rate of loss is going to depend on how tall you are, and how much you currently weigh. A 300lb dude can easily lose a bunch of weight in a month but a 150lb girl is going to go slower. That same 300lb dude would see it slow down the lower he goes as well.

I definitely see more water retention with more carbs, which falls off easily when consuming fewer. But it's just that - water. I think that a lot of the success with LCHF is the increased satiety from fat and protein, carbs seem to absorb quickly and leave you hungry, while protein and fat are slower burners. That's not…

Possibly, how many calories are you eating per day OP?

Beer. I miss beer. Every time I think about having one, I just end up wanting to spend the 200 calories on something else. I guess that means I like food more than beer...but it's close!

For what people are recommending here - be careful if you go the hummus or peanut butter route, it is easy to overeat on it because its calorie:volume ratio is higher. Make sure you weigh it. Honestly the most filling snack I can turn to that is still low calorie is a plate of raw veggies and a single serving by weight of…

They're not perfect but comparing to manual checks the precor ones at my gym are usually +- 10bpm. I've done manual checks and comparisons vs my fitbit in the past as well and found that it gets less accurate the higher your heart rate.

Correct. Also correct.

Paleo seems to be more of the "hippie BS" type of diet, where its all organic with arbitrary restrictions. Keto is just using fat and protein as your primary fuel sources rather than carbohydrates, and keeping net carbs (carbs minus fiber) under a certain threshold. The threshold is different for different people, for me I…

I have the charge HR and I can say that the heart rate monitor part is pretty useless for when you're actually exercising, it was reporting 135bpm this morning on the elliptical and then when I used the grip-HR monitor thing on the elliptical it posted me at 160bpm. As a step tracker it's cool though, and I like that it…

Halotop Ice Cream, 240-280 calories per pint and it tastes better than a lot of real ice creams out there. Only problem is it'll run you like $6 per pint, because I've only ever seen it at Whole Foods. But seriously, for sweet cravings it is the absolute best and won't wreak havoc on your macros.

2 slices of thick bacon, or 4 slices of thin, and 2 over-easy eggs fried in a little bit of the bacon fat. Dip the crispy bacon in the runny yolk, so good. Edit: If you're wanting to add more calories to breakfast, add more bacon, more eggs, or a piece of buttered toast if you're feeling lucky. Proteins and fats will keep…

Log EVERYTHING! Every. Single. Thing. that goes into your facehole needs to be on your diary. Make sure you're getting enough water as well, and keep working with your nutritionist and trainer. If you stick with it, you will succeed, it just takes some more time for some people.

If I ever fall off my diet (like eating a whole bunch of food and getting plastered at a friend's house) it takes almost a week of normal diet/water intake for me to get back down to my actual weight. Eating garbage food makes me retain water like crazy, but it all falls back off within a week. I think that once you start…

At our local Sam's Club I found this big-*kitten* pack of Klondike ice cream "candy" bars that clock in at 190-200cal/ea, and they are absolutely delicious, but nowhere near nutritious. You can definitely do worse for a chocolate+ice cream based dessert These are the ones: http://www.klondikebar.com/#Kandybars

I'm going with the "instant noodle" recipes listed in here: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-instant-noodle-cups-food-lab.html I did the thai coconut curry this week (but used chicken instead of shrimp) and it is really, really tasty and surprisingly filling at just over 400cal. Word of warning about the red curry,…

Olive oil for pancakes? Any particular reason you can't use a more neutral oil or even butter? At any rate, if you're super concerned about absorption vs waste you could always weigh your skillet before (with oil) and after removing the finished product, and find the deficit there.

It sounds more like you need to prevent overeating in the first place, or you need to revise your macros. 1200 is pretty low for just about anyone.

Nothing. Intermittent fasting ftw

I'm down over 50lbs so far using keto, and I started intermittent fasting about 2 months ago. I have also been doing the Insanity workout program (final week!). Still about 50-60lbs from my GW, but this diet works better for me than anything else. I'm sated through the day, I get to satisfy my meat tooth, and I get to eat…

There are a lot of oil or cream cheese based "fat bombs" out there, here are a couple of my favorites (I do LCHF so my fat macros are always supposed to be high). Peanut butter cups http://dietketo.com/keto-food/fat-bombs/ Vanilla cheesecake mousse (this is even better if you crush up some cinnamon roast almonds and line…