I see so many threads about failure. Well, as encouragement, today is my 2,220th day on low carb/keto, since starting 1/1/14.
Have I had plateaus? Many of them.
Have I changed what I ate? Absolutely. I went from low carb to paleo to resistant starch (anyone remember tiger nuts?) to super high fat (Jimmy Moore’s Keto Clarity) to high protein (Ted Naiman) to super high saturated fat, low PUFA (currently). I’m about to test high saturated fat and mashed potatoes in a cyclic ketogenic diet to see if that helps with muscle growth but still keeps me in ketosis.
If I wrote a list here of everything I’ve tried, this would be another hundred or so lines long.
I’ve gone from fasting tons of 4.5+, 3+ days, to 36 hours, to not being able to make it more than a day lately. (Hope to get back into it…but my high saturated fat diet seems to have upped my metabolism…I burn up at night, even with no covers, and we keep the temp in the low 60s.)
Have I had times off the diet? Every time I go on vacation. Every holiday. I’ve made these shorter over time, though. But I don’t worry too much about these excursions.
I just switched into a smaller pants size and had to buy a new winter coat, as my old one was too big.
So, if you’re down in the dumps for some reason, and wondering whether you can continue the keto diet. You can. Just keep plugging away.