No, keto doesnt have a time frame of when to eat. Keto is just keeping your carbs below 50g while eating a high fat and moderate protein. Most people try for 20-30g carb a day. Extremists do 20g or less a day.
Keep going. Don’t stop, educate me further.
Keep going. Don’t stop, educate me further.
What you just basically said is that you simply dropped your calories drastically by not consuming many carbs if at all.The main change is really what you eat, not necessarily when. That said, when my brother recommended it to me, he said he did it with intermittent fasting as well., and he fasted (water only) for the first two days of it to kick-start the body's transition into ketosis ().
So long story short, during this I ate like, one meal a day and had a snack or two.
The diet itself is high fat, moderate protein, little to no carbs, no sugars. To make it easier () I basically cut out all carbs and sugars. So no bread, pasta, fries, breaded meats, rice, sweets, sugary drinks, chips, potatoes, cereals, milk, etc.
You can have basically any meat -- even wings -- so long as they aren't breaded in flour or whatever. So steaks, grilled chicken, salmon, bacon, pork chops and what not is good to go. Gotta up the fat intake, so things like avocado, heavy cream, butter, dressings, olive/coconut oils (ranch, mayo and all that) are encouraged to be eaten and/pr cooked with. Veggies are good too (spinach, leafy greens), sans beans. Water is essential and basically the only thing you can for sure drink (black coffee by itself and I think unsweet tea is fine too). I also used those sugar-free drink mix powders to jazz up water.
Typical day for me was like:
Breakfast: Sausage link (or bacon strips) with two cheese eggs
Lunch: Breadless burgers (lettuce for bun) with avocado ranch dressing or some sort of salad or lettuce wrap variant
Snack: Salami slices with cheese
Dinner: Nothing. I didn't eat past 4 pm most days, and I find that I don't eat as much in general when I'm not at work.
I ended up cutting out breakfast a few days in and basically my window was 12-4. I don't recommend this, but I'm just telling you what I ended up doing.
As for exercise, I'd have to defer to someone else on that as I didn't have to do any of it. But from what I read/was told, a hardcore workout is not recommended on this diet, but some moderate cardio or light lifting session (in terms of time spent) might be OK. Will say that consensus is that exercise + Keto =results.
I was syked before I kept reading your stories. This all just sounds like a way to eventually fall off the wagon.
What's the... keto flu? *GULP*
What you just basically said is that you simply dropped your calories drastically by not consuming many carbs if at all.
You lost weight so much weight because carbs retain water. The human body is 70% water so that means when you go back to a normal diet yes you would have lost weight but it wouldn't be pure fat that you'd achieve in a regular diet and just gain the water weight back that wasn't part of the actual aggressive fat content of your initial weight loss.
This just sounds like an overly meticulous diet fad from my research today.
The dramatic weight loss isn't good as you'll most likely get excess skin if you are losing 14lbs-20lbs a month if you have 50lbs + to lose.
The skin would need time to regain its elasticity which is why professional health practitioners who are good at their craft state losing 1-2lbs of fat normally is sufficient to allow the skin time to heal to your body's new shape. Not everyone is the same so a dramatic weight loss for some may not display the same results for others.
Look at those health nuts on YouTube that lose 70lbs-100lbs in sub six months. They look literally like a saggy sack of bones
You'll just end up looking like the Boneless Chicken from Cow & Chicken.
The keto diet is good if you need to drop some lbs fast for a special event like a holiday, date, party or wedding etc.
But, how can you sustain not getting in enough grams of fibre in the day to not feel constipated?
Men need 36-40g of fiber a day so how on Earth can you reach that only eating 20g-50g of carbs?
Don't get me wrong I know this diet works but it cannot be a healthy way of living.
Even cavemen ate carbs especially grains all day long when meat was scarce which is the paleo diet
Imma just stick to my regular normal 150g of carbs a day to live happy and enjoy life.
But, thanks you lot for sharing ya journeys imma give the fad diet a miss.
What you just basically said is that you simply dropped your calories drastically by not consuming many carbs if at all.
You lost weight so much weight because carbs retain water. The human body is 70% water so that means when you go back to a normal diet yes you would have lost weight but it wouldn't be pure fat that you'd achieve in a regular diet and just gain the water weight back that wasn't part of the actual aggressive fat content of your initial weight loss.
This just sounds like an overly meticulous diet fad from my research today.
The dramatic weight loss isn't good as you'll most likely get excess skin if you are losing 14lbs-20lbs a month if you have 50lbs + to lose.
The skin would need time to regain its elasticity which is why professional health practitioners who are good at their craft state losing 1-2lbs of fat normally is sufficient to allow the skin time to heal to your body's new shape. Not everyone is the same so a dramatic weight loss for some may not display the same results for others.
Look at those health nuts on YouTube that lose 70lbs-100lbs in sub six months. They look literally like a saggy sack of bones
You'll just end up looking like the Boneless Chicken from Cow & Chicken.
The keto diet is good if you need to drop some lbs fast for a special event like a holiday, date, party or wedding etc.
But, how can you sustain not getting in enough grams of fibre in the day to not feel constipated?
Men need 36-40g of fiber a day so how on Earth can you reach that only eating 20g-50g of carbs?
Don't get me wrong I know this diet works but it cannot be a healthy way of living.
Even cavemen ate carbs especially grains all day long when meat was scarce which is the paleo diet
Imma just stick to my regular normal 150g of carbs a day to live happy and enjoy life.
But, thanks you lot for sharing ya journeys imma give the fad diet a miss.
But, how do you reach your recommended daily allowances for vitamins and minerals and especially fibre naturally.Well heres the thing. Some keto people think calories in vs out is a myth. Ignore those people.
As for calories, trust me u wont go over. Its very hard. Fatty foods keep u full,even more so then protein. I was trying to go over due to the fact that i was at 1600 calories at the end of the day. shyt had me like
I gradually bumped it up to 1800 by adding more oil to my foods.
I used myfitnesspal not for calories but for macros. But since it tracks your calories as well, u get to see that just for fun
I find IF works just as well. But, it is all down to calories and getting the right macros. You could lose 15-20 lbs by eating 1000 kcals everyday for a month with no exercise which is essentially what you guys are describing as your keto diet.That's all well and good, breh. Nothing wrong with that. But I knew going into it I wouldn't sustain anything like this for more than 2-3 weeks at a time, nor did I want to. Everything I read said this is only a short-term deal and anything more than that runs the risk of health issues, though some people have been able to make it work long-term. Personally, I like carbs and all that shyt too much to stick with it like that.
As for getting fiber, it was avocados and spinach for me. It was during this time I learned I don't care much for spinach.
I literally tried it only because my older brother urged me to do it after he got results from it (without any of the extra skin issues). I figured why not, lol.
For me, the most important thing is trying to keep the weight off and sustain a size as a benchmark while still working toward a goal. I mean, as my posts have shown, you can lose weight merely by not eating. And since that trial ended for me about two and a half weeks ago (when I weighed in at a shade over 260, 260.8 to be precise), I'm at 261 as of this morning. So I've not really added anything back on since going back to eating the food I like
I'd definitely go Keto again, maybe stretch it out to an extra week. But it'll be a while before I go again.
