Athleanx video

(Frank) #1

I subscribe to this channel and enjoy his energy. I was hesitant to watch this video due to my passionate belief in the keto woe, but I grit my teeth and hit play. I didn’t agree with everything he said but it certainly made me think about my own start in Jan 2018. I dove in head first for sure. 8 months in and it has only gotten easier. https://youtu.be/z3bRVpy0VtE

(Frank) #2

Question really is, do people that ease into a diet/lifestyle tend to have more success than those that dive right in head first.

(Edith) #3

Maybe it depends upon your personality type. I am definitely a “Diver.” I am too impatient to ease into things.

(Brian) #4

I’m a “diver”, too. And that’s exactly what I did. One day I was high carb, the next, I was low carb. I changed directions and stuck to it.

It was awkward at first but making the abrupt change was easier for it all to become habit, and pretty quickly.

I spent a lot of time in the beginning figuring out what had carbs and how many, what fats I liked the best, how much protein / fat was in the eggs and meat that I liked the most, what things I needed to just leave behind completely and what things I could have in moderation. Honestly, it’s not that difficult once it’s habit. And for me, there is enough variety in the foods that I do eat that I don’t feel like I’ve really given up all that much. And when I eat, I eat “rich”, or sometimes I say, “I eat well.” And I do.

I feel like, at least for me, trying to make the change a little at a time would have been confusing and conterproductive. Maybe for some, it works better.

Just my own experience.

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(Roy D Rushing Jr ) #5

Personally If I ease into a new diet I tend to fail more. In fact, when my diets have failed in the past it was because I was beginning to ease out of them and into a regular way of eating. If I ever get “half in and half out” of a diet I tend to end up all the way out rather than all the way in.

That doesn’t mean I have to always eat on plan either though. There will be occasions where I indulge. I feel if I can make those occasions always be planned (usually weeks) in advance rather than situations where my willpower just broke one random day, I’m still basically on track.

The more I watch the video and think about it, the more I disagree with him. Keto is one of the only ways of eating that actually has a built in way to ameliorate the transition without having to eat off plan part of the time. That way is simply to eat more of what you’re allowed to eat. A full stomach is where cravings go to die, and the stomach doesn’t have to be full of what you were craving. You don’t have to dip your toe into keto and stretch your induction phase out into infinity. You can dive in and feel satiated at the same time.

(Bunny) #6

I have always been a proponent of slowly easing off the carbs and sugars before diving into keto (for grave reasons of keto being blamed for the purported WOE) and most importantly the quality of food plays a major role in this?

When I see anything saying anti this anti that etc. I like to listen to what they have to say because deep within their logic there are real truths to absorb and incorporate into the ketogenic diet, LCHF is like the core sprockets (homeostatic metabolism) of the body in the transmission of our car (for an analogy) and you can build more sprockets to modify the probable missing parts for the ‘long-term’ arguments being placed on the table.

I like to keep my eyes (focus) directed on the core sprocket and build from their!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

If you’re addicted to something, stopping all intake immediately is usually easier than tapering off, though medical supervision may be required. In other cases, easing into the change may work better.

Myself, I became convinced I am a sugar addict, so my immediate concern was to remove all sweets from my diet. I didn’t worry at first about the quantity of other carbohydrates I was eating. But I soon felt so good that one day I decided to go full keto and never looked back. I try to keep postponing that next hit of sugar from today till tomorrow, but some days my carb intake is higher than on others. I find that my carb cravings are easiest to deal with, however, on the days when I eat the least amount of carbs, which is good incentive to keep all carbs low.