Do you see Keto as a "diet" or a "lifestyle"?

(Lynne Hurley Perry) #1

How do you see eating "keto? A way of life OR a Diet?

(Dan Dan) #2

IF/EF Keto is a Swiss Army Knife WOE a all-in-one tool WOE :star_struck:

“May the Force (fat adaption) be with you”

IF/EF Keto WOE is Self-Discovery :wink:

Good luck and much success in your journey in IF/EF Keto WOE :grin:

(Keto in Katy) #3

Needless semantics. It is about finding which foods properly fuel your body for optimum health.

Or a cult. But do not talk about the mother ship yet. :smile:

#4

It started as a diet and it’s become a way of life.

(Brian) #5

Do something enough and it becomes a habit. Habits make up a lifestyle.

If it’s just a diet, that implies a beginning and an end. Although I foresee some alterations along the way, I don’t see an end to the low carb lifestyle.

I’m not a food tracker. There are just things that I don’t eat anymore. I have things that I like that are good sources of protein and things that are good sources of fat. I try to stick with mostly non-starchy veggies to go with. That’s pretty much it. Simple. Easy. Not a lot of thought goes into it after the initial figuring out of what’s good, what’s not and what I need to be careful about.

Sometimes, people obsess over the minutia to the point where their whole lives revolve around one tiny morsel. I can’t do that, I’d go nuts.

But… to each their own.

(Karen) #6

Still a diet for me as a newbie. It was really hard with tracking and flipping my mindset the first month or so. Now I don’t think about it much. I don’t get quite enough fat though. Still losing. Pretty sure it just will become a woe.

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(jilliangordona) #7

Started as a diet, now it’s just how I eat, a lifestyle.

(Allie) #8

Lifestyle as I don’t even stop to think about it.

(Clare) #9

Lifestyle - the pork belly and butter lifestyle.

#10

Definitely a lifestyle, No carb in this world tastes better than I feel.

(Karl Bork) #11

I see Keto as knowledge. Most people do not understand what they eat. If you understand keto you can guide your health better for the long term.

#12

There is no such thing as a keto diet. It’s a LCHF diet. Keto is short for ketosis, a physiological state. It’s a result of what is eaten, how much is eaten, when it’s eaten, exercise, hormonal state, metabolical health and individual physiology.

The problem with defining a “keto” by macros is that it assumes everyone is the same. That is clearly not the case. If you can eat 75g of carbs daily and be in ketosis, are you following a keto diet? If I eat 15g of carbs daily and not in ketosis, am I following a keto diet?

Keto isn’t a diet or a lifestyle. It’s a result.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #13

“Nutritional ketosis” is the phrased coined lo! these many years ago by Dr. Phinney to describe the physical state (and to distinguish it from diabetic ketoacidosis). A “well-formulated ketogenic diet” is how he describes the way of eating that leads us into the state of nutritional ketosis. And even with ketosis, the point is not so much how many ketones are circulating in our bloodstream, but rather being fat-adapted, so that we can mobilize our fat reserves, lower inflammation, reverse Type II diabetes, get the fat out of our liver, heal cardiovascular disease, and generally restore metabolic health.

And because I am hopelessly pedantic, I just can’t resist pointing out that the word “diet” itself means both (1) “a short-term change in eating pattern for a purpose (usually, but not always weight loss);” and (2) also “a long-term way of eating or pattern of food consumption.” :rofl:

(Dan Dan) #14

Yeah what he said - Go Paul :grin:

(Bunny) #15

I am still grappling with how this could even be coined or coming close to being defined as a “fad diet” in the sense of how we should (life style) be eating, verses trying to configure (trying to put the square peg in a round hole) high glucose (from carbs also; gluconeogenesis) dietary intake into the mix that is contrary to; and goes against all of nature’s laws as healthy unless contradicted by other health conditions (most likely from the damage created by the high sugar diet in the first place other than co-morbidity and congenital from birth)? Simply because humans want to try to do logic defying feats to try and bend the laws of bio physics or attempt to do so, to enjoy the sweet tasty stuff called SUGAR!

It’s a lifestyle!

(Dan Dan) #16

Meet Hammer (IF/EF Keto) :hammer::muscle:

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #17

This way of eating is part of my lifestyle now, along with fasting. It is now part of my diet. Diet is what you eat. The word gets abused and misused a lot.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #18

There, all fixed! :rofl:

(Linda Reed Hendrex) #19

A lifestyle for sure. No point in ever stopping something that works so well on so many levels. I’m in it for life. My only regret is that it took me almost 63 years to figure this out.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #20

Let’s just hope you’ll have another 63 years to enjoy it in, then! :bacon: