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Added you. Anybody other keto'ers feel free to add me.

If you're trying to lose weight, you can use your body fat to meet your fat macros. Just don't eat fat and your body will use your own supply, automatically. If you don't want to lose weight, look into fat bombs.

They work great when you're just starting out. After a while, they don't work well at all. Thing to keep in mind is that you're not shooting for the darkest color you can get. You don't need that. You just need it to be a tiny bit pink. It might be maroon one day and light pink the other. Both are fantastic. Don't be like,…

Two things I know of can hold a lot of water in your body. First is salt. Second is carbs. Your body uses carbs to store glycogen in your muscles and glycogen holds water. Glycogen stores are the reason marathon runners "carb load", by the way. They are trying to store the maximum glycogen to use on the race day. This is…

You didn't just stop weighing your food. You stopped weighing yourself. That's the issue. I'm guessing you also stopped thinking about how your clothes fit. Or you wear/switched to mostly stretchy types of clothes? Pay attention. That's the key to maintenance. Don't ignore your weight and justify what changes you do…

Lol, I'm American, but my husband is South African and he regularly makes fun of us for being obsessed with Ranch. And we are. It completely masks the taste of the vegetables. So, if you don't like veg, it's a good way to eat it. It's a good way to get your kids to eat salad. So many of us are raised on it. I like…

I started mine back up on Dec 30th. I've lost 7lbs since then. It may not seem like much but it's vanity weight. I started with a normal BMI. So I'm pretty pleased. If you aren't losing weight, you're eating too much. You still have to track calories and stay under your TDEE. If you're doing that, you'll lose. If keto…

Haha! Yes. For me, too much Orbit gum and I just can't leave the house.

Aside from veg, avocado has tons of fiber and not a lot of net carbs. Invest in avocado. Nuts are also high in fiber and keto freindly.

I can eat around 60g of carbs a day and stay in ketosis. I do about 6 hours of advanced yoga a week. That eats up a lot of carbs. IF you're active, you might be doing keto.

Are you doing anything to manage the stress? If eating is your coping mechanism, have you replaced in or are you only trying to remove it?

Man! So many smoking hotties in this thread! You guys are KILLING IT!

I exercise almost exclusively at a studio. I do yoga which is notorious for this. A kind of magic happens at the studio that doesn't happen at home. A big part of why is that a lot of exercise is conducive to dissociation. I can put music on and start running and just zone out. I used to use exercise to dissociate. I don't…

I'm assuming you ask because you have DE rooted in some sort of trauma. If this is true, there is one major factor to consider which is memory. Is the trauma a single or discrete series of events that you remember clearly? If so, tapping or EMDR might really help you a great deal. If the trauma is more that you were raised…

My depression and anxiety lifted when I started keto. I'm not exaggerating when I say it has been the best treatment for depression I've ever tried. It definitely has a huge effect on mood. Our gut has so many neurons, it's often referred to as our "second brain". If you start feeling depressed on a specific diet, I would…

See, the problem my actually be that I care so little because I'm not coming back to this thread. Dealing with the kinds of replies I'm getting isn't worth it. I'll just go on having my unpopular opinion. To imply that my opinion. is held simply because I desire to hold that opinion is unkind and unfair. This is why I only…

I have never seen evidence that the human body can extract the same number of calories from 100 calories of X as it does from 100 calories of Y. As far as I know, we don't even know how many calories the body can extract from 100 calories of X much less compare it to Y. And that is based entirely in facts and reality. I've…

You're begging the question. I don't want to believe any particular thing. I don't care. I believe what makes the most sense to me.

None at all. I couldn't care less. I just see people claim all the time that a calorie is a calorie and I always think, "You're talking out of your *kitten*." But I don't disagree because any time I do I'm beset by an angry mob. So it's just this unpopular opinion I had sitting in my pocket when this thread came up.

What bias do you think I am confirming, even? If we came to basically the same conclusion, what bias do you perceive I have. Do you see the similarity? Do you see that we are coming to basically the same conclusion? I am saying that the way we measure the calories in food is nowhere near anything similar to the way the…

I'm probably going to get woo'd into another dimension here but here goes. CICO is not exactly true. A version of CICO is true where CI is not the calories that go into your body. It's the calories you are able to extract from the food. We don't have that information. We determine calories in food by burning the food. Your…

Are you now eating any kind of sugar free candy? Chewing a lot of sugar free gum? Anything with sugar alcohol like xylitol or sorbitol? If so, THAT IS WHY.

I agree, but I still like the idea. Just make it something positive, instead. Every time you feel like snacking, sit down in a quiet place and check in with yourself. Ask yourself how you're feeling. Maybe write a page in a journal about whatever you're thinking about. Or think to yourself, is there something else I might…

You may be right. My BP is usually low, 100/60. Maybe the Keto is making it dip into something woozifying. I'll try more salt :)

You know what will make you really, really, really thin? Chemo. The worst of it catches up to you much, much later. In both cases. I'm sure you can smoke and run marathons... now. I put on 20 lbs when I quit smoking. It sucked. It took me a while to stabilize, to get to where I was able to comfortably manage my weight…

This may have been your personal experience but there's a show that ran for 20 seasons about people intervening on loved ones who drink too much or use too many drugs. There are people whose profession is helping hold these interventions. So we all know with absolute certainty that it happens a good bit and people are…

Ex-smoker here, this is deeply false. People say *kitten* to you as a smoker, as an alcoholic, as a drug user. Hell, Elon Musk, a wildly successful man once publicly smoked pot in a legal state and caught *kitten* about it. There's really plenty of judgment for everybody. Seriously, if you're catching *kitten* for being…

Thanks. That's really helpful.

You can do it! It's funny. I came to read this thread because I use this as a weird goalpost, as well. As long as I'm at least 10lbs lighter than my husband, I feel like I'm okay. My husband, btw, is South African, lol. Anyway, adding you :)