chicago ken's Journal, 26 September 2023

I know how you feel. Keto isn’t for me either, but I do use some of the keto foods for lower calories. I tried keto years ago, and it’s not for me. 

SunnyDayTonya yep 👍. It was good to jump start me but then the plateau happened and it wasn’t worth it anymore. It can cause long term problems with metabolism I’ve read. People who are on it for medical reasons like epilepsy or holistic cancer treatments makes total sense.  

Nice job Ken! ⭐️ 

moko 13 Thank you! 🏁 

@Ken... I'm glad you found what works for you! 👏 😊 My mantra for dietary advice is "to each their own". Personally, Keto works best for me. Maybe partly because I enjoy what I eat. I would much rather have a nice fatty steak, ground beef, pork, (grass-fed) butter, lots of eggs, etc. as compared to the things allowed on your preferred diet. Fish & poultry (unless it's breaded & deep fried...lol) is a amongst my least favorite meats. Olive oil?? No thanks...lol. All of that probably stems from my southern roots...lol. Veggies, I don't really care for most of them. Grains? No thanks, I know what "grain brain" feels like. Fruit, etc... I can settle for it sparingly. Saturated fat being bad came from a very bad study. Look up Ancel Key's 7 country study. Also, salt has caught the bad rep that sugar should have caught instead. It's actually vital for health, to where sugar... well, I digress...lol. My personal experience with Keto (while eating entire packs of bacon, drinking butter in my coffee, and having salt water in the mornings) were that I came off of blood pressure meds, anxiety meds, depression meds, avoided diabetic meds, and chorlesterol meds. My good chorlesterol went up, my bad chorlesterol went down.  

As I said, I'm so happy that you found what works for YOU! "To each their own"... 😊😉 

OH! Sorry, but 1 last thing. Metabolism slows with weight loss, regardless of the diet you follow (unless you build the appropriate amount of muscle to maintain that caloric intake). The science is now that the metabolism adjusts just fine after a couple of weeks when switching back to burning carbs for fuel instead of fat. The best way to do it is slowly, over 2-3 weeks, so that it doesn't shock your body & possibly cause massive blood sugar spikes and digestive problems, etc. though. There will naturally be a little water weight gain because 1 gram of carbs hold between 3-4 grams of water. ...and anyone that goes off of ANY diet & becomes a cookie monster again will gain again, regardless of what diet they were following. 😉😊 

Bravo 🎉🎉🎉 

Low, no carb is good for me but I'm my neurotic about it . I don't do the high fat add lots of crap keto 🤣 what have you changed? What are you enjoying more... and yeah on your weight loss. Congrats 👏 

Congratulations on the losx. The Mediterranean diet is very similar to the anti inflammatory diet my doctor wants me to follow (I try). I agree with slot of what Menus says, I would love a high fat, eat all the bacon you want diet, but it isn't good for my personal health issues. I think the weight loss itself impacts most health issues. The diet type itself often doesn't matter unless there are health issues 

jenjabba thanks for your interest in keto to Mediterranean pivot. I did gain weight while pivoting but then my body reset and understood what I was doing and went from emergency fat storing/burning mode to “ok now you are fueling me and trusting I can regulate you!” The body is an incredibly complex and wonderful mechanism that has evolved from millennium after millennium. I recently saw a series called” the blue zones” which follows areas around the globe where there are the most centuregenarians. Most or all had fruits vegetables and grains as 80-90% of their diet and not so much meats or dairy 

Meant to say I agree with a lot of what Zenus says! 

Continued….so at any rate I strongly urge everyone on here to watch that series. (Not sure what stream it was on). The greatest thing about migrating to this diet was that I trusted my body to work the nutrition I was giving it and it rewarded me with lower triglycerides and blood pressure. At my next doctors appointment I will ask my doctor to titrate my statins or possibly get off completely. Oh also I’m pretty much gluten free. I don’t demonize gluten I just think it’s been “high jacked” by the food industry and isn’t the same as when we were kids. People were just not overweight back in the day. I blame legislation and the food industry “bliss points” 

Zenus I agree with everything you said 100%. Moderation of macros is the key. Protein for me stays between 65-90grams only. Protein is important when exercising more but isn’t bad to go lower when not as active as I am. Tuna eggs peanuts some milk yogurt chicken are my sources of protein. Everything else is veggies and fruits.  

Thanks Fritzy! 

Cool, Ken! 🙂 🤝 I'm closer to a carnivore. 🙂 

KETO isn't an appropriate diet for all people, no different than any other way of eating.  

Bravo! I’m with you on the Mediterranean Diet. It feels much more like a sustainable lifestyle and not a “diet.” I’m just getting restarted this week and I’m looking forward to seeing 192, too! 

Except for brief glimpses of 192# in 2011, 2016, 2018, I haven't been below 192 since 1987. Best to you on your health journey.  

Congratulations to the new you!