eckhart's Journal, 14 February 2018

one of my fav keto breakfast sausges eggs, tons of cabbage a thick layer of cheese

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MMMMM love cabbage 
15 Feb 18 by member: knovosel
Interesting. Read your bio, have a question. In 1988 I was on the “original” keto diet - Dr. Atkins. It was a zero carb diet. We did not have to keep track of fats or animal proteins, were allowed 4 cups of undressed greens. That was it - except for $200/wk in vitamin supplements. I went from a woman’s 18 to a zipped up size 10 skirt between late Aug and mid Dec. I was doing aerobics 3 x wk. I looked & felt good, but started losing my hair. Dr. Atkins’ assistant said it was the fact that my body needed more carbs than 0. As soon as I added broccoli and string beans, I stopped losing weight; as soon as I added tofu, I started gaining weight back. I would only eat the tofu once or twice a week; it didn’t matter. All the weight came back within 2 months! I ate no fruit, no desserts, no starches -just the broccoli, string beans, sometimes the tofu or half a tomato in the salad. What went wrong? I am now slowly but successfully losing on a 1500 kCal, moderately high carb diet (at least compared to keto). I’ve lost 26 lbs since mid/Sept; it would have been more had I been able to exercise. I’ve had difficulty walking since June 2017 (before that I had been walking 30-45 min 4 times a week, at about 2.5 mph. I have, among other things. fibromyalgia/myofascial papain syndrome. Had spinal surgery in 3:15 and again 3/16. It has been difficult to even get out of bed because of my disabilities, and I also have a non-functioning thyroid. My cholesterol went into the 500’s, as did my trigs. When I’ve tried keto, my cholesterol zooms sky high. Is this all because of inflammation? With this recent weight loss, my cholesterol dropped from 320 in Dec 3016 to 205 in Dec 2017, which is much healthier. I have to control chil by diet, not statins / I can’t tolerate the pain caused by the statins. When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last August, I was determined to lower my blood sugar to normal without meds or insulin. I’m doing well with the blood sugar - it went from 7.5 in Aug to 6.5 in Dec. I can already tell it’s not going to go down much this quarter - I’ve been sleeping (hence eating) at extremely irregular times; most days I don’t need to be at an appointment, I go to bed at 3 AM and wake up between 10 am and noon. I know I have to somehow get moving, but we still don’t know why I have knife like pain in my groin, thighs, and sometimes stomach. Not tumors, not aneurysm, not PAD, not arthritis, although I’ve had OA for 35 years. I can’t ride an exercise bike either, so that is out. It’s all I can do to get around with a cane; now both legs are giving way without notice. I may be reduced to a walker. But I don’t want all my weight loss to be in muscle mass. I can’t afford to join a gym - I’m on disability. Any hints? Ideas? Suggestions? Because of my prior experience with the cholesterol going from normal to the 500’s in 4 months on the Atkins diet, I truly afraid to go on a keto diet again. Right now I am a poster child for : here comes a heart attack! Thanks. 
21 Feb 18 by member: Stromie
Hey Stromie, Theres a few part to this let me try to explain. Atkins diet is not an accurate keto diet, actually shouldn't be consider the same at all because on Atkins you don't actually into keto fully. Reason why, Atkins is a high fat, high protein diet, the problem here is that when going into keto you must do moderate protein, the body is addicted to glycogen it will always use glycogen as a energy source over Ketones. Protein are converted into amino acid, they repair tissues, skin nail, hair muscles amongst other functions in the body. When you over eat protein what happen is the body uses parts as aminos another part will converting into sugar in a process called glycogenesis. So while consuming high amount of protein you will never get fully into keto because your body will continue to cannibalize your proteins for energy. So my guess you never fully achieved keto. Everyone while on keto or not need to consume a minimum of at least 40 grams of carbs, these are not veggie carbs i mean grain or fibrous, as the body need them for digestive purposes and amongst other things. Vegetable carbs should be counted into you daily carb macros, unless you doing a body building show, were you need to get to 5% body fat then they may play a part. So at first you lost weight because gaining and loosing weight is all about depleting calories or adding but needs to be done smart, the body is built to adapt if you cut too much calories off you diet your body simply gets smart and slows down you metabolism to burn less calories. Second when you lower your carbs any were below 100 ish your body will stop retaining salt when the salt goes then the water, your muscles stop retain water, that also contributes to the weight loss. Sine you never got into full keto again body is built to adapt the minute you gave your body more source in which he can covert sugar it did just that, thus the weight gain. Now cholesterol part again you didn't achieve fully get into keto so now your not converting your current fats into ketones and your eating a high fat diet thus why your cholesterol sky rockets. In fact multiple studies have show that keto actually promotes the production of good cholesterol. Fats are converted into Ketones in the liver, during this process the liver you can not store fat around your liver any longer and good cholesterol is release. If anything you would have a backward problem. Too much good cholesterol in you body. Join pains, yes if you have an inflammatory system, yes you will have join pains, all though inflammation is needed in the body for recovery process, too much can have the opposite effect. The high protein diet might have contributed or created an inflammatory system for you because when protein are been broken down it releases chemical called nitrate this puts a heavy strain on the body. "I have knife like pain in my groin, thighs" this i would consult a good Holistic doctors(i know there hard to find the ones not full of shit lol), modern medicine is built around symptomology so example you have a headache they prescribe a Advil. But the root source of that headache can come from digestive issues amongst other things. Holistic medicine works backwards they look for the root issues and work to treat the problem this way and yes this is the longer route. But it will help you narrow down the source. My advise start by working your gut flora and digestive system. Make sure you digesting everything properly supplement and eat probiotic and lost of veggies high in probiotic, supplement and eat omega 3s they help reduce inflammation, eat grass fed sources again high levels of omega 3s in does foods.(when you have an inflammatory system you will have problems sleep well, because the body struggles to create melatoning during does conditions) Figure that part out first once you line that up, re do you macros for keto. Protein should be 50% - 70% of your total body weight it will land some were between 10 to 20% of your calories intake 70% fats 5 to 10% carbs.( i can help you figure this out) And monitor extremely closely to make sure you actually get into keto. But make sure you correct that digestive system first so you don't have a repeated incident thats priority. Best thing to do is cleanse reset everything and then rebuilt your gut flora from with supplements. ( honestly would recommend something for this but my mom is the expert for that lol shes done holistic medicine her hole life.For that she would need to treat you her self.)  
21 Feb 18 by member: eckhart
I think i cover all your question keep me posted on your next steps  
21 Feb 18 by member: eckhart

     
 

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