8 days eating keto -- in ketosis and playing with my food

(Christopher Avery) #1

2ketodudes podcast has inspired me for some months and I targeted last week to start ketoing. It’s been easy in terms of urges. No snacking, no feeling like I’ve been disciplining myself. Every meal is between great and amazing.

I got test strips today and the first test shows high/large level of ketones. Cool!

And I started tracking food yesterday with myfitnesspal. It wasn’t until I did that I “got” how to increase fat ratios relative to protein and carbs. Last night I ate 60 fat grams worth of stuffed greek olives. Easy peasy. And by golly, I just had a reasonable portion of ribeye and green beans for dinner, and I just emptied the bowl of bearnaise on my plate and consumed it.

This feels like play.

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #2

It feels good because it’s the way humans are made to eat.
Enjoy.

(Christopher Avery) #3

Thank you @Brenda. I’m thinking that what I do now is attend to macros, and listen to my body. Any other guidance?

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #4

If you’re using urine test strips, they will be unreliable in a few weeks. A Ketonix and/or a blood ketone meter are best.
I swear, 99.9 % of new ketoers fail to get enough sodium. If you’ve been doing this a week and you are not headachy or light headed, you may have avoided the sodium issue. Low sodium can cause many issues, including fatigue and constipation.
The ketogenic diet is very diuretic, and minerals and salts are flushed out quickly.
If you’ve been listening to the 2KetoDudes podcasts you are likely well prepared.
Guidance? Don’t be a CICOpath, don’t rely on the scale, do your research, n=1, and bacon.

Keto takes patience, but it is a fucking miracle when it is done right.

#5

Preach!!

(Christopher Avery) #6

Ah. Thank you for the reminder. I just sourced Morton’s Lite and Magnesium Citrate so will start hydrating with your ketoaide.

(What The Fast?!) #7

Brenda - oddly the ketone sticks didn’t work for me at all until this last week (week 6 I think). Now, they’re showing color; do they stop working for everyone after a period of time? Is it because your body uses the ketones more efficiently instead of dumping excess in urine? I follow Jason Wittrock and saw a YouTube where he still uses keto sticks (many years into keto I believe).

@Christopher Amazing results already!!

(What The Fast?!) #10

I feel like 90% of your advice is “stop worrying about X.” …maybe I should start taking it! :smiley:
Actually…I think this applies in just about everything - keto-related or otherwise. This will be my new mantra. “No worries.”

(Christopher Avery) #11

Thank you @KetoLikeaLady.

@Brenda, that link doesn’t go anywhere for me. I did find this: http://ketopia.com/why-you-need-to-stop-worrying-about-the-color-of-your-ketostix/

And it makes sense. Thank you.

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #12

That is the link I attempted to attach, yes. Lol

(Christopher Avery) #13

Okay. I have 120 (+/-) Nurse Hatty brand keto sticks to give away.
Want 10 or want them all?
DM me for my address (USA).
Then send me a self-addressed stamped envelope. If you want them all, make the envelope large enough for a large pill bottle weighing 8 oz, and maybe padded. If you want 10, send a SASE.
:grin:
:bacon:

(Matthew Gibson) #14

Awesome! I also just started testing ketones and blood glucose. Thanks to the advice of 2 keto dudes, Jimmy Moore and all guests I’m learning so much.

My journey might be a little different as I have not been diagnosed with diabetes and I shun the doctors… But when I found my fasting blood glucose to be 140, keytones 0.4 , and weight 190lb on Monday morning after a weekend binge… It woke me up quick… I ate a ketogenic breakfast and supper then intermittent fasted to Tuesday, keto supper, then fasting today. This morning my blood glucose was 100 and ketones 2.0 and weight 183. It’s is crazy how what you eat affects these levels. I’m also finding out how supplements affect these markers and weights as I’ve been obsessed with prworkouts and creatine etc for 10 years. I’m 33 and learning to love the keto lifestyle on my personal journey to good glucose levels, lower body fat, and strength training.

Thanks for all you do keto dudes!

(Jenn C) #15

Matthew ~ I am completely new to this and I find it fascinating. (Day 2). I’m having trouble getting my macros in - in the correct amounts. But this isn’t my question to you. I am wondering (after reading a few books and lurking on sites like this) how intermittent fasting works?? Could you possibly explain?
Thanks,
Jacie

(Chris W) #16

well that is a old post look at the dates on the top right of each.

So IF more or less is a method that you can use to reduce the amount of time you are eating. This helps in two ways from my perspective. It reduces the insulin spike you incur when you eat which helps keep your body in fat burning mode. As an overall many people find that after they become more fat adapted they follow it because they are not hungry so they often skip breakfast, I started it accidentally and have followed it ever since.
The second is when you are more fat adapted (which will come with time) the eating window and satiation will allow you to overall consume less than if you were eating at 3 squares or so we assume. The fact of the matter for me is I am not all the hungry anymore so I am not sure of the second part. IF IMHO is like level 2 stuff, you need to become keto adapted first which is getting the machinery running and things sorted out inside. If you fast to early on you can screw with your metabolism,(esp extended fasting) I see this with women on here quite often it seems from my perspective they are so eager to loose they skip a bunch of steps and just make things worse. At this point eat if you are hungry, replace fat with carbs directly, and drink lots of water, at a point down the road your hunger will start to recede, and you can consider other parts of this WOE, that is my opinion.