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The amount of carbs you eat should primarily be dependent on what degree of ketosis you want to be in. The amount of protein you eat should primarily be dependent on how much activity/lifting you are doing. It's 0.6-1.0 g/lb of LBM. See the calculator to calculate that range. Protein does affect ketosis, but you probably…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824152/ http://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/fats-in-your-diet.aspx http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/05/06/saturated-fat-phobia.aspx

I don't even care to defend oliverwnc's post, but that's just terrible logic. That's not what the argument was presenting and is irrelevant. oliverwnc was presenting an all else equal juxtaposition. The number could have been 10^300 g and it wouldn't change the argument.

I eat those things all the time (except pasta and I drink black coffee 99% of the time). In as much as there is such a thing as good or bad food, I would consider those things good. I don't really look at food as good or bad though. Rather, I try to put food and biology into cause and effect relationships. Wanna do…

Can we all learn what equivocation is? People are talking about achieving different things. Be aware of this. Most of the time, you aren't arguing about the science or logic. You are actually confusing what others are saying. You just said "no" concerning a weight loss goal. You replied to a comment saying types of food…

Probably fat. Both dietary and body.

Basically the opposite did it for me. Not ever diagnosed with GERD to my knowledge, but with a general problem with acid reflux. I'm doing keto: high fat, low carb. I drink coffee all the time and have no problems. I don't often eat tomatoes because of the carb content though. It tended to come up more when I ate a lot of…

You're assuming that they kept everything else equal. Did the study say they didn't or (and more importantly for your point) were instructed to eat the same grams they had been eating of everything else?

I don't know if you're in the right thread. Also, you absolutely do not need carbs to survive.

If you fit your macros, you are simply sticking to the diet you planned. The question then becomes, "What macro goals are you going to set?"

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6308?qlookup=splenda&fg=&format=&man=&lfacet=&max=25&new=1 Splenda is made of sucralose and dextrose/fluffed maltodextrin. Sucralose basically provides no energy (and is not considered a dietary carb as far as nutrition labels go) but the dextrose bluking agent is basically a normal…

Get your electrolytes and make sure you are eating fat.

Just want to say that you can determine something about body fat using these numbers (granting the rounded constants): (3500 Cal/lb of body fat)/(9 Cal/g of pure fat) = 388.889 g of pure fat/lb of body fat (388.889 g of pure fat/lb of body fat)/(453.592 g of pure fat/lb of pure fat) = 0.857 lb of pure fat/lb of body fat

Lately, I will have days where I go slightly over/stay right around maintenance. I still stick to my macros though. I find that I sometimes lose pounds the day after (not that daily weight changes say much anyway).

Not to mention low carb diets often count net carbs.

Agree with all of these. Develop a strategy and stick to it. Counting calories is only one strategy (or part of a strategy). If what you're doing isn't working, try something else or add something else to it.

Either in your head or you could use this on a desktop: http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/27vrmg/mfp_macro_no_longer_working_chrome_has_disabled/

"Low carb" is a vague term so attacking "low carb" for making you feel bad is a bit of a straw man. I am not saying that the vague "low carb" diets make you feel better. I am saying a diet that produces ketosis and is properly getting correct amounts of macros, micros, water, etc. will probably make you feel better. Maybe…

A. It does not make you feel like crap. It makes you feel great. B. OP probably didn't do keto properly. We are trying to figure it out, but those symptoms sound like what we've been discussing. C. It's still up to the person. I think it's great and would help a lot of people, but it isn't necessary or for everyone. Again,…

When did I say ketogenic diets are necessary? Please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. People can do whatever they want. OP just said she had a hard time on a low carb diet, I'm trying to help her not have a hard time. To defend ketogenic diets: there's a lot to respond to but I'll respond to your quote at least.…

You don't have to count, but you probably will want a strategy. Your terms for "junk" and "processed" and "healthier" are awfully vague. Get specific with what you are actually going to eat. Do some research, develop a strategy, do some more research, and then research some more.

What do you mean by low carb? How low was it? Were you counting everything with a tool like MFP? What did your macros look like? How much of a deficit of Calories were you eating at? As already said, I think you may have been eating too many carbs to see the actual benefit of a low carb diet. I also think you may not have…

Try reading this: http://www.ruled.me/3-ketogogenic-diets-skd-ckd-tkd/ Especially refer to the flow chart in the middle.

What do you mean by counting? Do you mean adding the totals from your diary? Or do you mean the default goals and how it adjusts to exercising. As far as macro grams and ratios go, doing different things will do different things to your body. Energy (Calorie) deficits will make you lose weight as a general rule, but what…

The calculator in my first post here is a good place to start to determine the ratios of other macros. Here it is again for convenience: http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/ I'm not sure if I can give you too much advice about your digestive issues but I found a few resources on a non-dairy keto diet:…

1. I don't think your version of moderation is the only healthy way to think about food. 2. Whatever food OP chooses is going to affect her children, whether it's status quo or someone's recommendations. It's not as if there is something psychologically special about OP restricting bread. I think what the OP should do is…

Why do you consider bread a food group? Because the USDA told you it's one? Why should your diet be the angelic one? You aren't discussing the nutrition. You're just trying to label something as bad by using inflammatory language. Does staying away from bread develop eating disorders? Show me that study.

Clearly I ignored it.

First, this is basically what it seems the health coach is describing: a keto diet or near keto. I think a lot of you questioning the coach's credentials is quite laughable. It's the same emotionally charged language as you seem to think "demonizing" bread is. Attack the argument, not the messenger. It doesn't add anything…

Parents enforce diets on their children all the time. This is no different than a parent "enforcing" a non keto diet. Diets are what you eat. Parents buy the food. The younger the child, the less say they have.