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

#21

My husband had gotten serious about keto in the last month or so and I am at about 6 months. He keeps saying things like when we can have such and such again… Last nighti finally said to him that there is no time for me that I plan on going back to bread, beer, potatoes and pasta. HARD PASS! :bread: :beer::spaghetti::stew::potato:

(Karen) #22

Took me a long time to get that…“when I’m done with this keto thing I’ll ea Fill-in-the-blank again” read a lot more since then. Check out or buy the Obesity Code for him.

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(Jay AM) #23

Nutritional ketosis is a way of life for me. But, so was eating low fat, being vegetarian, vegan, fruitutarian. I didn’t do those “diets” for losing weight as much as I did to gain health. Anything in the world worth bothering with has some sort of odd science to back it up.

The people who think of keto as a weight loss short term diet though, do themselves a major disservice. They discount the fact that the body has to take a hard left to shift to burning ketones and seem to only care about vanity. Being beautiful inside to me is superior and, as a side effect, should fix what’s aesthetically wrong at some point.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #24

An intervention lifestyle that will likely change as my health improves and my needs and goals change. It may be that the intervention is permanent. It may be that it leads to something more Paleo or Wise Traditions. I’m a ways from needing to figure that out.

(Brian) #25

I think that’s a good way of looking at this WOE. I don’t know exactly what I’ll be eating after getting to the point of maintenance rather than weight loss. I haven’t committed to keto forever and ever. I will give myself permission to vary the foods that I eat if and when I learn that they’ll be healthy choices for me. There are some things I really do need to leave behind, like the sugar laden pasteries and the mountains of potatoes and pasta. But I may decide that certain beans, carrots, sweet potatoes, and maybe a bit more fruit could show up in my diet later on.

I absolutely do not want to return to my former way of eating. No intention of that. For some, what I suggest isn’t possible and it boils down to stay keto or die. Glad not to be there.

(Vladaar Malane) #26

Definitely a lifestyle. I think any variation of it when I get to my ideal weight would be paleo in nature, if I ever did variate.

Great thing about it, is it is never Boring Keto as the category goes.

#27

I have definitely partaken of the keto Kool-aid. I can’t imagine going back to the way I ate before my “diet” like I did in the past because I now know what it will do to my health.

(Doug) #28

I think about it often, many times a day, but sadly still struggle with it.

(Lynne Hurley Perry) #29

I have thought that I might shift into paleo, especially when summer fruit is at its peak. I want to be able to eat a beautiful juicy summer peach without sliding into a whole sugar craving train. I will allow myself one or two 1/2 peaches this year but that is it. I am still about 20-25 pounds away from goal.

(Miss E) #30

To me “this is how I eat now” is not the same as a “lifestyle”. As a comparison, you could do yoga once a week and yoga is your chosen exercise, for whatever you use it for. If yoga were your lifestyle this would alter other areas of your life like diet, product choices, job, hobbies, friends etc

So there is keto as a short term diet, keto as a long term way of eating and keto as a lifestyle. I think for many people, because keto has a profound impact on many areas of there life other than what they buy at the grocery store, this is why it becomes a lifestyle for them. For many others, it’s just a change in eating style and content.

For myself, I started consciously exercising in mid January, started keto a month or so later. Since then I have started a youtube channel and looked into studying to nutrition and or sports science. These are lifestyle changes.