First time cooking keto

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#1

I started keto on Tuesday and made my first meal yesterday and was looking for input (good/bad/indifferent). Here’s what I made (all animal products come from free range, pastured, hormone free, etc animals and the cheeses are raw milk cheeses):
Hamburger steak – 80/20 beef with salt, pepper, [real] wasabi, ghost pepper powder, 1 tbsp Kerry gold butter
Fried egg
4 strips of bacon
6 Bacon wrapped, cheddar stuffed jalapeños
Avacado
Dill pickle spear
Pepperoncinis
On the hamburger I put crumbled blue cheese and the grease from the bacon pan. I put EVOO on pretty much all of it.

This is what MFP gave me for the macros:
23 carbs – 8% (this is total carbs. Net should be much lower because of the avocado)
178 fat – 59%
99 protein – 33%

Not listed is the MCT oil laden coffee I had while preparing it or the whiskey I had for dessert :slight_smile:


(Griffin Mekelburg) #2

your macros are impeccable lmao! Looks like you did a great job and if your body is telling you it agrees you are def doing this right! Maybe someone sees something I dont that could be beneficial but from my perspective keep up the great work!


(Bob) #4

Meant to ask what is EVOO and MFP?


(Griffin Mekelburg) #5

EVOO stands for Extra Virgin Olive Oil
MFP stands for My Fitness Pal (a macro tracking app)
:smiley:


#6

What he said. :wink:


#7

Thanks. That was a pleasant surprise when I entered it all this morning. I just tried to make things as fatty as I thought I could.


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #8

kamikazesasquatch

Ermergerd. I just love your user name. Lol


#9

I guess I have one more questions on this…should macros be calculated based on weight or caloric content? Because if it’s the latter then I had a much higher ratio of fat:protein/carb.


(Dany Bolduc) #10

By caloric content… but I wouldn’t worry too much on the macros.

If you limit carbs to 20 gr.
And you keep proteins between 1.0 and 1.5 gr. Per kg of lean body weight
And eat fat to satiety.

You will be in ketosis.

Depending on the amount of calories of fat requires you to reach satiety on a given day, the % of macro will vary and that is perfectly fine.
Restricting calories to be exactly where you want to be %-wise on the macros invariably forces you to either over-eat or under-eat.

TLDR

Here’s why I say this:
Say you have 70 kg of lean body mass and you want to be on the higher end for proteins, you must then consume +/- 100 gr of proteins.
So carbs = 20 gr = 80 cal
Proteins = 100 gr = 400 cal
Total = 480

(Assuming you’re looking for macro ratio of 75/20/5)

That means you need 1920 cal from fat (or +/- 200 gr)

For a total of 2400 cal (1920 + 400 + 80) (75 / 20 / 5)

You will be fine with that, but every single day, every single meal, you will either eat a little more or a little less than you would have really felt like eating. (sometimes it could be a lot more or a lot less)
Being Keto makes you SO MUCH more capable to hear when your body has been properly fueled and when it hasn’t.
You no longer need to monitor your intake to make sure you don’t over or under-eat, you need only eat when hungry, and stop when full.

Anything else is probably sub-optimal … ‘especially’ relying on some hard calculated calorie number that does not take into account the 1000s of variables that affect your “in the moment” calorie expenditure.

But your body know, and when you squelch the noise that carbs craving makes…. you can hear your body just fine.

And if you DO happen to over-indulge (on Keto food of course) and over-eat, say 1000 calories.
You can bet that your body won’t bother you for fuel for many hours, most likely skipping a meal or two.


#11

Thanks you, that is extremely helpful.


#12

Are you doing one meal a day?


#13

Typcially one meal per day, yes.That was what I did before keto too :slight_smile:


#14

Cool, take pics next time! :slight_smile:


#15

Not the best pic ever because my light is burnt out, but here’s from the OP:


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #16

Every single bit of this info is spot on.
Keto stamp of approval from me! (not that you need validation, but here ya go)


(Dany Bolduc) #17

Thank you Brenda, your validation is always welcome and appreciated.