The thing is, for keto to work, it can’t just be treated like any other diet, which is really confusing considering all the pundits touting the keto diet. Eating a balanced diet in daylight hours and night capping with a keto bar from Whole Foods is not going to put you in a state of ketosis, nor is eating keto religiously and bingeing the family sized bag of Doritos twice a week. Putting the word diet beside keto is a bit misleading because it downplays the outrageous restrictions required to put your body in an unnatural fat-burning state. In order to accomplish the ketosis most diet plans talk about, you need to radically change your lifestyle and, unlike switching to a balanced diet of whole foods, you must be fairly religious about carb restriction in order to reap the benefits.
No bruh,
When I first heard of keto I was skeptical.
"Diet" to me meant "calorie deficits and "denial of food".
When it was explained to me, and having the experience of caring for a Type I diabetic, I knew it would work.
I agree with you regards you cant "cheat" and it is a total food lifestyle change. Cheating I think would do the absolute opposite to your goals and I think would set up an unhealthy metabolism.
I am not a zealot in my eating nor do I follow any strict regimen. I go out to eat and enjoy company without being "special".
I just dont eat carbs and processed foods to the greatest extent possible.
No bread, no pizza, no rice, no Doritos, Ive refused salad dressings that contain ANY added sugars. Food labeling these days makes avoiding carbs pretty easy.
I eat fats, protein and green vegetables, lots of cauliflower. I only shop the meat, produce and dairy (soon to cut out some dairy) aisles.
I go to a restaurant their is always steak on the menu and instead of the starch I get a double order of broccoli. Dessert is black coffee with a rye or some sort of cocktail.
If I piss on a ketostik I doubt it would be deep purple but Im a fat burner for sure.
My daughter is Type I diabetic. Any time she gets sick her sugar numbers are such you think she is cured - not so. We quickly slide into an equally dangerous situation as she goes into ketosis and we are forced to feed carbs just so we can get insulin into her system.
We lucky many that have a functioning pancreas can avoid the dangers she faces and benefit from good health.
Never caring about ratios, just carb starving myself Im down about 20-25 pounds, a not obese 205 to a fit 180.
Twenty years ago I unknowingly went "keto" and was in the best shape of my life. I just stopped eating processed foods but I also cut fats out of my diet. I ate tons of brocoli and veg but Id stupidly and with great regret trim the delicious salty fat off my steaks. I considered plain rice and pasta healthy than too - you dont see many fat Asians. I think I countered the carbs because I swam 3-4 days per week at an hour per session and in between swimming days I would take 7-8 mile runs. Lifting was daily. Sundays Id avoid the usual and just bike or rollerblade.
My current excercise is more attuned toward the guy living in the second part of the century yet Ive been able to break out and wear clothes that had been bought when I was at that peak of fitness twenty years ago.
......and Im eating that sweet salty fat on the steak like a man possessed motorboating Dolly Parton when she was in her prime.
Truth be told I think the govt lied to us in 1975 with their Senate Select recommendations on Nutrition and they are likely responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans. Those food guidelines were a big kiss to the corn syrup/high carb industry at the cost of our health.
The last two years Ive basically practiced all the nutritional things we are warned against and great health has been the result. My labs back that up.
All food is medicine.
Make sure you put healthy stuff in your body.
