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I'm down appx. 3 lbs despite a grand celebration of my mum's 80th in the weekend. Haven't done anything special besides doing slightly more mindful eating. Haven't started weighing food yet. I'll assess further action in the next couple of weeks. Maybe it was a fluke, lol. Good job everyone for staying on track..or coming…

Fasted training requires even more sodium than lowcarb without exercise. I claim that lack of adequate salt is the number 1 reason people feel crappy on lowcarb. -r/ketogains is a subreddit on reddit.com. for people on keto who exercise. There's also the century bicycle rider on 2ketodudes.com. You can also do a small…

Congrats on going for a serious tryout on keto adaptation ☺ You seem to have a clear plan. If you don't mind, I have a suggestion. 1. Try establish a baseline first, before you start using exogenous ketones. Why? 1a. If you first establish the acclaimed enzyme and mitochondria upregulation as a MECHANISM in the body, you…

The liver is the metabolism general. Maybe the most underrated part of health. It was interesting how they discussed liver function test as a possible canary in the mine....early predictor of disease...long before formal diagnose. What's really astonishing to me is that there is very little attention to the fact that NAFLD…

Sorry can't really help you. I'm lowercarb since 2014 and knee pain is gone. But physiotherapist says I got hypermobility in joints. So my elbows and shoulders hurt often. Apparently hypermobility is one of the symptoms of IR. I wonder what that's about? Maybe blood sugar spikes or elevated BS is somehow related to the…

Our bodies change without us noticing. When I was young a frd accused me of hosting a tapeworm cause I could eat everything. Not anymore, lol. We still have huge craters of missing knowledge about our endocrine system. Maybe you've been hit with a mystery. Did you hit maintenance by choice or did it just happen? I don't…

You've maintained quite a while. Congrats! What have you changed since you lost fat the last time? Stress, lack of sleep, antibiotics, medications, underestimating intake etc etc could be culprits. Reassess your current routines :) Overseas travel isn't natural for the body. And it's quite stressful for the body to switch…

Eating fat gives the body no incentive to burn off from stored fat. It defeats the goal of fat loss. BUT if it makes it easier to eat less than usual, thus yielding a DEFICIT, by all means go for it. The most important is what works for ya, not the label you use. Please remember to up your electrolytes while fasting :)

You're not alone. I was faithfully weighing every gram of food to 1200 kcal/day for 11 months in 2013. Despite being at the gym 3x/week I was slowly gaining fat. It was about 85-90% carbs. Desperate times with daily hypoglycemia and cramps. #facepalm I really didn’t know any better and had to learn a lot about what…

I'm in! I've let carb creep get the better of me. So I've regained about 17 lbs. Ouch. Not sure I'm willing to do the work getting down to 115 lbs again...but I think shedding off 11 lbs and STAY thereabouts is manageable. I'm a binge eater. Sadly, I can cram in an astonishing amount of food within 4 hrs eating window.…

I only wish it could become known in the general public that the body doesn't care whether you're eating sugar, wholegrain bread or pasta...ALL starches sans indigestible fiber turns into glucose anyway. The only difference is the time it takes for the body to break down the molecules. I wonder if this quite arbitrary…

Omg, you not only shaved off the beard, but it looks like 20 yrs as well. Good job! Interestingly, I notice a lot of people like old classmates and such that are very wrinkly indeed. Most noticeably on my old high school teacher who is a registered dietician, who happened to be on TV. Her skin looked like 75+ yrs. I wonder…

I think it's important to not confuse goals. If your goal is to keep BS lower, then the traditional ADA advice of eating many small meals is the way to go to avoid big PP spikes. BUT, if your goal is to lower basal insulin levels, then fasting seems to me, the only way to go short of a gastric bypass. Fasting allows the…

I've gradually increased non-eating hours, so I often end up with a 24 hrs cycle, several times a week. But I don't sweat it if it's suits better due to social stuff to have 2 meals per day. I've done several 72 hours too. The most important thing during fasting is to get more salt! If not I suffer low electrolytes…

Make sure you get enough L-tyrosine. Don't overdo it, though.

Oh I was a bit early. Now they've changed the info on there to register. Ty:)

Ty for sharing. But all the links only lead to ordering packages. Can't find a link to registering for the free access this week. Or am I missing something? Ty in advance.

It's a journey of see saws. Forgive yourself the slide backs, because guilt tripping yourself is toxic. Making errors is at the core of being human. Use the errors to identify which situations or foodtypes etc that are traps for you. You seem to already be good at observing yourself which is the first step. Ask yourself…

If you/Rowdy have a chance to hunt a boar or know someone who will do it for you, wild boar meat is veery tasty! Re dogs and diabetes. Pets are increasingly getting DM and cancer in the western world. Did you know there's an ongoing research project with dogs, keto and cancer? If he really loves Bagel, he should stop…

Oh, I dunno all abbreviations, Ty for clearing that up :) BHB is Beta-Hydroxybutyrate one of the ketone bodies that are produced. Re hunger. I do understand that feeling hungry is awful. I remember that feeling all too well. But if avoiding that feeling and discomfort at all cost is holding you back, it could be worthwhile…

OP, congrats on the freedom from feeding:) It's a wonderful feeling to NOT be hangry. Over the past 2 yrs I've experimented a lot with IF, slowly extending my fasting hours. I've tailored IF to my schedule. Making it flexible and easy without too many rules has made it a very sustainable lifestyle for me. Good luck!

Yup. That's why I drink vinegar and eat fermented foods too:) I'm also randomly getting weird cravings. My obsession with pork rinds has been weaned off, but the love affair with flat parsley remains. But I eat a lot of vegs in general, so I wouldn't know how a meat and fats only diet would impact me. Maybe that's for a…

What's "MO"? There are lots of things that affect FBG, FI and triglycerides, so as a proxy it HAS a lot of caveats. I honestly don't know if the method is any worthwhile for outliers. But the trending is very important. Again, I think that if making a detailed food diary with symptoms, f.ex. rating subjective feeling of…

I'm a hoarder. At the superficial level there's definitely a factor of control-freakyness. On a deeper level there's also the continuing battle of distracting myself by avoiding unpleasant feelings. My theory is that all disordered behavior is a cushion to avoid feelings. I notice that I binge, shop and do gaming when…

I'd up my sodium and good fats like avocado and olive oil. It's often recommended to eat maintenance calories a couple of weeks to get hunger down first before attempting fat loss while lowcarb. Once you have lesser appetite, losing fat is easier. I think people often "feel hungry" when it's more an electrolytes imbalance.…

Scientifically one can never prove a hypothesis "right" , one can only eliminate by finding evidence that speak against. Even more so in a multivariate OPEN system like the body. As such, one should never assume numbers in a medical study are the absolute truth for everyone. Medical sudies are only an indication valid…

Yeah, he said so in the excessive protein post too. I really wish he had backed up those claims with some data... I do think he may have a point tough that at least some of the protein turnover during fasting is actually recycling connective tissue, not loss of skeletal muscle. For what it's worth I've done semi fasts (500…

Buy lactose free dairy = no milk sugar = less carbs :)

You made me crack up :D Ty.

@RalfLott. I understand your battle in getting the doc to take insulin test. Here the government pays it so the docs are very conservative in taking "unnecessary "tests. But there might be another proxy that could work, besides the symptom of no hunger. Many of the people who comment on Dr Jason Fung's blog posts are T2D.…