This thread is about stating your personal episode requests so we can share with each other.
Is there already a place people can make episode requests? I think it would be good to look at each other’s suggestions. Not in any way to pressure the dudes (get your own show, etc).
Personally, I loved the early episodes that were really technical. I’d love to have more technical episodes… about anything… perhaps scurvy… but anything.
I’d like to see some end of diet sort of stuff. How do you continue the lifestyle after fixing all of your problems, weight or otherwise. What pitfalls to expect, how do you test for foods, or slowly add back carbs to find your new marco’s? Almost everything I see is the active portion, not how and why to maintain.
You carry on ketoing for ever… that’s why it’s a way of eating not a diet.
The topics and discussions on this forum provide the insight into what the greatest interests and questions are in keto. The 2 keto dudes now have the ability to do the analysis, and extract the voice of the keto community, from observing what topics are trending the most. Crowdsourcing customer insights and doing the Big Data analytics yields this sort of information.
Um… seriously? @Fiorella Why not just tell us what your episode title would be if you chose one?
This thread is about sharing with each other for each other. It’s got nothing to do with your comments. My first post makes it clear that this is about sharing this with each other.
I’d also like an episode about reaching the end of fat loss, which I think was @jmbundy 's intention when he stated “end of diet”. To maintain keto after excess body fat reserves are gone requires increasing dietary fat intake, which effectively makes it a vastly different diet to a 50% fat diet which some ketoers might be following (and making up the rest with body fat).
I wasn’t against this thread. I was just pointing out that the topics that trend the most on this forum also provide the 2 keto dudes similar input. It’s another data point extracted in a different fashion, and comes from a larger sample size.
I’d be delighted to listen to podcasts discussing any topics that trend high on this forum. It’s a glimpse into what this community has the greatest collective concern/struggle/success/questions with. So, I would be interested in listening to a drill down on those topics and see how it helps this community.
That is a good point actually. What does maintenance look like if you got into keto for weight loss. THis has always been a huge thing for me being part of the WLS community too. We were all familiar with either losing or gaining weight but just staying the same? That actually takes some doing! There is also I think a real addictive side to losing/gaining weight in different ways and maintaining can be hard to acclimatise to from this perspective.
I would love to see an episode that talks about people who may struggle to actually maintain or gain weight with keto. We are all too familiar with losing weight but what if you really want to do keto but struggle with being underweight? It could also tie nicely in with eating disorders and keto.
Thyroid would be another as it interests me and I have Hashis.
Brain stuff! Depression, mood disorders, migraines, etc. Again because it is a part of my life and I find it interesting to see the impact keto has on this area.
I have a few of these! So I was super skinny as a kid, I had a last minute growth spurt in the military packing on 100 pounds in 3 years. When you aren’t constantly working out it definitely has an impact when it turns…squishier.
On the weird mental stuff I dislike my body more now at 15-20% bf than I did at 35%. This is the weight that was basically the tip over point for me last time, I didn’t lose it and just kept packing it on faster and faster after. Once I was fat I was just a fat guy, now that I am almost back to how I was my brain is just “you’re gonna screw it up”. Switching to maintenance will be difficult as I have no health reasons, it will be a lot easier for my limited willpower to give in when people want to have a cheat meal. I’ll be skinny, no real health issues etc.
I hear you. I did the same. I hit my target last year (probably around about now actually) of 10 stone (63kg). It was s illy number I had in my head but never thought I would get to so when I actually started to get pretty close and it became achievable it was very exciting. I hit it and stayed there for about 3 days, if that! Then I was like… soooooo what do I do now? I can do what I want right? It wasn’t an instant slide but it started going sideways. Those were my LCHF days and I hadn’t;t started reaping the other benefits that keto brought at that time - I was still getting a lot of migraines and depression, for example. Basically, by September I had put on a somewhat impressive (not in a good way) 15kg and got to 78. That was when I started keto. Now I am 69 and happy to let things fall where they fall weight wise. All the other things are what are more important to me now plus making this woe truly sustainable because I am on it for life now - there is no way I want my brain to go back down to this depths thanks! I have found the switch to working out the best eating plan that is sustainable has been good for me. I focus on eating what I want that makes me feel good, tweaking this and that and finding a sustainable plan. As long as I feel good that is what matters. My weight falls where it falls and that will be the right place for my body. It has gone through enough over the years so it is only right that it gets to decide! So you see, there is no willpower for me, only pleasure in food.
I’ve enjoyed ALL the podcasts, always learning and picking up tidbits even from ones that I don’t especially relate to (like… young, strong athletes and how they do it).
But I LOVE hearing “success stories”. Real, everyday folks, doing Keto in real life. Very encouraging and motivating.
I also appreciate interviews with those successfully doing Keto and making healthy life changes IN SPITE OF their life circumstances. Overcoming things like age, mobility issues, health issues, money - or lack of it- issues, and any other challenges. People who have fought an uphill battle the whole way, and WON. I love hearing those, and have great respect for them.
I second the call on brain stuff like migraines and depression, because that’s why I went keto. Doing a podcast about people who are not T2D, who are otherwise physically healthy, doing this, would be really interesting, and might fit into a podcast about what happens when you’ve lost the weight you want to lose.
And based on recent experience, if there isn’t one on eating out, eating out!
I am currently on episode 23, working my way up from the beginning so I apologize if this has been covered. I am very curious to hear about IF meal planning. What do you eat, how much, if you were to track the nutrition info for those meals how much should you aim for.
I am relatively new to IF research but I have yet to see a meal plan or talk about how much to eat.
I would love to hear an episode on the topic of pets and keto. I have mentioned before an organization call ketopet sanctuary. These folks are doing some amazing work (research) with dogs suffering from cancer Their results are very, very interesting. I think they deserve a shout out and it would be a real public service to share this information about what diet would be the healthiest for our beloved pets. Here is a link for those that want to know what I am talking about…
More female episodes!
I specifically want to look at a few issues:
How does estrogen affect ketosis
How does the menstrual cycle affect ketosis
Does anxiety/mental health issues and the associated hormones affect ketosis
What the f aren’t I fat adapted after doing keto the past 9 months?!
Episode on supplements - expensive pee? or do some of them affect us in positive and dramatic enough ways to warrant the $ and effort involved. Studies not funded by companies or people who are selling supplements?
I’d also love an episode on Leptin, or perhaps as a sub-topic of something else. In fact, it ties in with the End of Weight Loss theme because apparently Leptin sensitivity is more of an issue with people with low body fat percentages.
Episode 40 was on supplements. I guess there’s always room for another though. This is what I was thinking when requesting an episode on scurvy. I’ve heard some people say they got scurvy while ketogenic. So I’m wondering whether it’s an issue for some people and how we test and supplement if it’s appropriate.
So, maybe Testing and Supplementing would be a good episode. There’s some unique needs out there.
