It’s not about calorie restriction for me. When I started to do intermittent fasting I learned to listen to my body and only eat when I am actually hungry. That’s what i’m trying to explain to everyone. I was doing IF long before I started Keto. I don’t limit myself to once a day and then spend the rest of the day clutching my guts saying I’m starving. If I find that I am hungry outside of that, then I eat, but I simply can’t make myself eat just for the sake of eating. The reason I eat the way I do is because I can eat a nice healthy, filling meal and not feel like garbage afterwards. I’m not starving myself because I’m desperate to see the weight drop. I know it takes time. I’m just trying to get a feel for how I should prepare the meals to get them loaded up with fat and if I am at least heading in the right direction.
Recently this is how my meal time goes.
-Come home from overnight shift.
-Preheat Oven and cover the baking sheet in foil and oil/butter.
-Season Chicken with additonal oil/butter and whatever the flavor of the day seasonings I decided to use.
-Get out vegetables I’m using and have them ready to throw into a pan (cooked with salt, butter/oil)
While the oven is preheating, I get out 4 large eggs, whisk them in a bowl with land o lakes heavy cream and then make scrambled eggs while I wait for the oven to preheat. Sometimes I have bacon and If i do I cook my veggies in the fat and some extra butter. I add some cheese, salt and pepper to my eggs, I eat them and then I pop my chicken in the oven.
Once the chicken is almost done I cook my veggies so they are ready at the same time, and then I add some additional butter or oil and seasonings and what have you and then I sit down and eat. It’s a big, hearty meal and I love it and I don’t feel hungry again until the next day.
I just don’t know what everyone wants me to do unless they want me to force myself to eat more when I am genuinely not hungry. It’s kind of discouraging, because on one hand I’m being told there is no rulebook to Keto, then the next thing I know I’m being told everything I am doing is wrong and that I’m gonna fail because of it. ( Not necessarily you, just in general).
So I guess the question I am really trying to ask is, does the meal I am preparing sound keto, and if not, what are the suggestions to make it more so? I’m actually buying dark meat next time since I am told it has more fat and in general is better for Keto.