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I eat when I'm hungry :) Normally that isn't until 9-10am, I wake up around 6. You don't need the energy before working out necessarily. Try it without eating if you don't feel like eating, and see if you feel like you hit a 'wall' or run out of steam too early.

That's simply not true... if you are actually adapted to using ketones, your athletic performance will keep up with that of a carb-eater, or even surpass it in cases of endurance exercises. For a week or two, sure, you're going to feel terrible. It's not healthy or normal for that to persist though. MJudd, can you please…

Actually, it's true that carbs are metabolized as glucose, and so is protein to a degree. That's what the entire basis of ketogenic diets is based on. However I think this specific diet is one of many fads, grasping at actual food science to sell a product.

I wouldnt care about sodium unless you have hypertension or have been advised by your doctor to avoid it

butter and coconut oil blended in my coffee *u* yum

You will have a hard time making low carb smoothies, fruit is almost pure carbs. Erythritol is a natural sweetener however, as mentioned. I find it minty and disgusting. Swerve and Just Like Sugar are brands that have modified erythritol with oligosaccharides (another plant product) to make it taste a little less weird. I…

If you aren't an alcoholic or drug addict, and you don't have pre-existing conditions regarding the ability of your liver, you don't need to detox. maybe cut back the ****ty food, but 'detox', no.

5-15g, sometimes 20 if I get whipped cream on my break drink.

I changed to a ketogenic diet for health reasons, but I haven't gotten a migraine since :-) I used to get them once a month, the day before my period started. Awful migraines - in tears, vision blacking out, strong desire to put an ice pick through my eyesocket. It might have been something else about keto, but I'm…

Well, good luck! Sodium will do nothing to hinder fat loss, it can just cause some water retention if you aren't getting enough water. It's still a micronutrient that's useful and has functions in your body. :-)

There's not enough fat in semi-skin to create that fat-fullness feeling :P Maybe half & half. Vanilla's great though, I make almond milk at home and a little vanilla changes the taste a surprising amount!

Sodium is unfairly demonized. If you get your water and don't have any blood pressure conditions etc exacerbated by sodium, then don't worry about it.

I would attribute a lot of that to just "vegetarians eat less calories", since reducing your caloric intake dramatically during and past middle age extends the lives of all animals, including humans. Meat-eaters will naturally eat more calories per meal and their whole lives than vegetarians because of the calorie density…

eating disorders are a good reason... is your son overweight? or worried about losing weight? why does he want to know the exact makeup of his food at 9 years old? I know he's your child and not mine, but I just have memories of keeping a cute little journal of my caloric intake at 11 years old, and being in a hospital for…

Fruit ("real") sugar is the same as regular sugar though, fyi. Your body's insulin response doesn't care if it came from a cupcake or a couple bananas, but I guess it is nice that the sugar came with some micronutrients. It is true and super ridiculous that sugar is in everything, I cut sugar (and carbs over 15g/day) 100%…

"clean" is incredibly subjective. do you mean home-cooked? organic-only? LOCAL-only? If you say "oh, I don't eat processed food" - just about everything is 'processed'. Blending your food is processing, and so is cooking it. I think you just need to do your own research on different foods, additives, processing methods,…

I've read it and I think his work is poorly sourced in regards to fat, and the studies he does source are out of context. If anything, Americans should be eating much, much more fat (and less sugar, and less carbs, which he mentions). However, his look at marketing and advertising was spot-on - capitalism is an interesting…

butter and coconut oil blended in my coffee every morning :-) only reason I get out of bed.

I wouldn't recommend mentally calculating food until you're used to what the food actually weighs. For example, I can eyeball 15g of peanut butter easily because I've weight 15g of peanut butter so many times. I recommend you just buy a kitchen scale, they're cheap and invaluable for calorie counting.

Lots of meat. I eat gluten free, but not dairy free, so I also have a lot of cheese and heavy cream. It's pretty easy to make almond flour and almond meal at home, I make a batch every weekend for drinking and baking.

Sugar in fruit is treated in the body the exact same as any other sugar, it just comes packaged with nice things like antioxidants and fiber. But it is sugar.

I think most of the disagreement came from calling oil junk food. What type of oil was it? Kraft garbage ranch dressing is a very different beast than olive oil and balsamic, or even lard. High fat is not junk food by default.

home made mayo!

If you bake with natural sweeteners, a pumpkin pie would be pretty easy. Modify any keto cheesecake recipe with puree'd pumpkin (which is pretty low carb by volume, mostly water and fiber but do check). I've been doing that autumn while the puree'd pumpkin is on sale. :-)

To my understanding, they're just protein shakes with a lot of sugar. Buy yourself some flavoured whey at costco or gnc or whatever and save yourself the (incredibly high) cost.

I am (was?) suffering from starvation-type bulimia, so I'd binge on 2000-5000 calories in a sitting, then starve myself out of self-loathing and guilt for days afterwards. I haven't had a binge episode in over a month, which I attribute to eating a ketogenic diet - no wheats, starches, sugars at all, and I found that now I…

The question was, how do you define junk food? I eat a ketogenic diet for my celiac disease, so the aformentioned foods are, to me, junk. They make me feel ****ty, they make me crave carbs, and they literally chew holes in my intestines and make me ill.

My diet is 70-80% fat, which means lots of avocados, nuts & nut butters, grass fed meat, and sooo much full-cream dairy. Love it.

Erythritol and erythritol-based sweeteners are all pretty good (Swerve, Sweet Perfection, Wholesome Zero, etc) as well as stevia glycerite - aka stevia that is NOT bulked up with maltidextrose or processed in a damaging way. There is evidence that some sugar alcohols and sweeteners like sucralose, whatever Sweet n Low is,…

Starch, wheat, grains, sugars, trans fats. Edit: Oil isn't junk food. I drown my salads in delicious oils every day.