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I am a very active 28 year old who is 40 lbs overweight. I eat 4000-5000 mg of sodium per day, and I have for years! Had bloodwork done recently, and my cholesterol and lipids were perfect. I am a guy that eats bacon, cheese, fat cuts of meat, eggs, butter on everything. I find it hard to believe that diet would influence…

This is not true at a basic level, so please get informed before you assert yourself. The body can operate efficiently on a diet of 70-80% fat. Op....my diary is open. I could list some things, but it wont give you a clear picture. I have a high carb tolerance, so please understand that you might not. But most days I log,…

I just ate 2.1 ounces in one meal, with more on tap for tonight. You are eating ONE serving a day. So if you eat ONE apple a day for 8 days, is that unbalanced?

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Its not the sodium in sodium-rich foods that harm you, if not got you where you are today, if sodium is a focal point. Lets just make that clear. Pound for pound, cheese is one of the best things I can eat. I have the stomach for it and it doesnt irregulate me. Some times, I will just cut off about 4-6 ounces and eat it as…

Pretty sure there is a study that "shows" eating cheese causes a higher risk of getting cancer, or some other speculatory disease. and then another study that if we have one glass a day, we will live longer...oh. whoops. Sorry. News presents those studies about once a week. Sometimes I mix them up.

The strapped kind will be your most accurate. I like using the Timex Zone Trainer. Got it on amazon for $75 or so. Hasnt failed me yet, has a big display, and many different functions. Works as and looks like a waterproof watch for when you dont want to use the hrm functionality. I dont trust the wrist ones. Had bad…

Eat the fattiest cuts of meat, buy a bunch of butter, bacon is your friend, and if you end up doing lchf, the first week will be the toughest if you have a weaker stomach. Heavy whipping cream (36%) goes in the coffee in the morn, unless you like coconut oil. I personally dont. Oh, and dont buy in to the…

Bacon. It is healthy for me, it tasted like....well, like bacon, I suppose. I like things that taste like bacon. So that would be my go-to. Have it about every day!

I hardly ever hit those guidelines, but I don't find those guidelines appropriate. It was those guidelines that got us where we are today, why keep on keeping on? I eat a lot of sodium, but hardly ever use salt. I am a perfectly healthy overweight American, although my GI tract will tell you it hates fruit. I don't know…

My personal experience... I am extreme low carb, 5% if i try. I dont expevt anyone to do it like me...because i do it outside of the fad guidelines, back how it started in the early 20th Century. The diet involves a lot of dairy and meat, so it requires a tough stomach. With higher carbs, macros set to 40C/40P/20F, I…

I would have a picture of a mathematician making pies.....but I don't know how to post those pictures. So yeah....Happy 3.1415 (which is essentially 3.1416 when rounded, but we will just keep that under wraps)...!

that can be said for 95% of posts on these boards. It is a staple answer and completely unhelpful. I am not attacking you, I just think responses could be more informative. OP, it is all about calories. If you have made some room for you to have a little something, sure, go ahead. But if you are at a 500 calorie deficit…

I would say you are not eating enough. 200-300 calories is a snack, or at best a light meal. make a meal heavy. The body will run more efficiently if it is getting less food coming in (generally). Therefore, your metabolism has slowed. Kickstart your metabolism by eating more than you are. While exercise is not necessary…

Keto adapted means you are in ketosis without the negative side effects that a ketogenic diet commonly induces when the diet is started. These can vary between stomach cramps, headaches, weakness or soreness. It is the effect when the body feels it is being deprived of energy, which is partly the case. It is still…

Don't feel stupid. At one point in his life, Einstein had to be taught what an electron was. Look at him today. Ketosis (or nutritional ketosis) is when your body is using a greater amount of fat cells for energy output. Carbs are process first and foremost in the body, because the body has nowhere to store them as glucose…

Ah...theres a question that gets somewhere. To me, it is defined as not having to eat again to sustain physical activity (no matter the activity). Having the fullness factor isn't how you feel after you consume thanksgiving dinner, but rather how long the fullness lasts. If you can sustain longer on a certain variety of…

Sounds like this thread fizzled down to a lack of communication and reading comprehension. I have said my peace, hopefully it helps someone. Unbookmark.

OP, find a new way to explain it. You obviously are not getting your message understood. I am pretty sure you mean to say that by restricting carbs, you feel full for a longer period of time, and because of that, you naturally eat less calories. Also, you mean to say that your maintenance calorie level (where intake and…

You lost your audience with this statement. This right here is where the ketogenic/LCHF diet will shine. Lets say between 6am and 7pm, I hypothetically burn 1400 calories. If my breakfast at 6am is 800 calories and is 80%fat/17%protein/3% carbs, and that 800 calories last me until 7pm, my body will have HAD to use some of…

If you eat an apple or what have you before bed, you won't wake up in a diabetic coma (if people are awake for that-are they?). What your husband has has nothing do to with you, since he was genetically predisposed to the disorder. Were his parents overweight as well? It took him years to get where he is today, just like…

Thought so....read your last post, and used the context. Thanks!

What does WOE mean?

I have no medical condition, or aptitude for any medical conditions, that I am doing this for. I have seizures, but they are non-epileptic and have a specific trigger, which is environmentally controlled. I listed my reasons for doing it in my last post, but none of them are for a medical condition. I am about the…

A LCHF perspective: Worth mentioning that a VLC/HF diet, also known as a ketogenic diet, has been used since the 1920s to help with a variety of ailments, such as epileptic seizures, thyroid conditions, sleep issues, and diabetes, to name a few. I don't know what they say in the checkout newsstand magazines, because I just…

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Healthy fats, you say.....about 70 to 80%* of the fat I eat is saturated. According to standards set by the AHA, which are endorsed by the US Government, saturated fats are not healthy fats. I have been eating this way for about 8 months. I just had blood work done, and my cholesterol numbers are stellar, along with…

Back to the OP's op, any diet is just a tool to conquer losing stored energy. The energy we use each day is quite finite compared with the amount of energy the body can store. In a perfect world, we could just stop eating until we hit a certain fitness standard. But the world is not perfect. I do keto for now because it…

She is a role model for the threads. Very modest, kind, and knowledgable.

I eat a lot of popcorn. some nights, I will eat about 16 cups of popcorn. I buy kernels in bulk and pop it in real butter or olive oil. Because of this, I consume about 80-100 carbs, and while the macro #s are not ketogenic, I can remain in nutritional ketosis. My carb tolerance is very high, so for me it is okay. When I…