For me, Cywes is in the pantheon, beside Fung and Ramos

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(Mother of Puppies ) #1

Holy crap!

I’ve never been so hopeful about keto.

I’ve been keto-aware for three years, kept diabetes at bay, but regained the weight. (As I look back, it happened as uncontrolled stressors arose in my life)

Cywes’ focus on endorphins echoes what I used to say years ago (but forgot) — when I do hard cardio, I forget to binge on carbs.

He says success in this depends on endorphin/stress release, which can take four forms:

  • Creative outlet
  • Physical movement
  • A spiritual practice
  • Comfort being vulnerable/emotional health

I’m going to wake up in a couple hours and do hard cardio, like I used to in my 20s and 30s.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel, (and it’s not a train, finally!!)

#2

My take on it: forget the hard cardio and just do keto right. When you do keto right, then after about 3 months or so, the miracles begin. Nobody believes it while they are not fat adapted. Once you get into fat adaption, things simply fall into place, and then you dont have to torture yourself with “hard” cardio.

(Utility Muffin Research Kitchen) #3

Carb cravings will take a while to subside. I still get hit now and then, although the first 2-3 months were the hardest.

Sugar is an addictive substance. It takes a while to get off it, and it might trigger an addiction for some people even if consumed in small quantities.

(Mother of Puppies ) #4

That worked for me when I was completely adherent due to a medical scare. Once the diabetes scare was over, the cheating and binging came back.

I can be keto adapted within 24 hours with fasting. That does not stop me from cheating.

“Just do it” is not all a stress/binge eater needs.

Fung and Ramos built the car for me, Cywes gave me the key.

#5

I do respond to Dr.Cywes’s addiction model of carbohydrte eating relapse.

Some good interviews (2) on the Low Carb MD podcast. And I combine that listening and reflection with also listening to Dr. Joan Ifland PhD. But I find her communication not totally to my subjective taste.

The information presented by both these experts can lead to beneficial behavioural adjustments. You just can’t have what you crave in the house with you.

I agree it is an important insight into why many do very well on a keto WOE but fall of the wagon and go back to eating carbs based on false memories of industrially manufactured food chemical “happiness”.

(Mother of Puppies ) #6

I like Joan Ifland a lot also, but I disagree with some of what she has said about keto, so I can’t be all the way on board with her.

I just did my “hard cardio,” (30 minutes of dancing and jumping around until I broke a sweat) and subsequently found some old trigger food wrappers in the car and felt nothing. Already a breakthrough

(Jane) #7

Wonderful!

(Rebecca ) #8

Amen!!!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

Dr. Cywes is very insightful, and I find his take on keto to be highly illuminating.

For those that want to wade through it, he has a fascinating set of interviews with Gary at High Intensity Health on diabetes and a well-formulated ketogenic diet. I love the man like a brother, but dear Lord! does the good doctor love to talk, bless his soul!

(“You’re black,” said the pot to the kettle.:grin:)

#10

Many things can release endorphins for us. Chocolate, hot peppers, prayer, chanting, yoga, intense exercise/sports, jogging, laughing, crying, singing, and many more.

(Mother of Puppies ) #11

That explains the spicy food craving that I could not shake for a while.

My “hard cardio” was just 30 minutes of dancing - enough to break a sweat. I did yoga instead, the second day. This has been the missing element I needed