I’m posting this in just a couple places where I’ve found that cnversation particularly interesting and good !
Starting anew again after all our holiday wonders. Learning to combine an active keto life style with delightful vaca breaks from time to time - getting right back again without completely losing all -
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I feel like I’m starting anew again - don’t we just love New Year’s - I do !
Finally at the point where I can start this up again after a couple weeks work ( yah I’m partially retired but still work as a locums doc part time ) … plus 2+++ months of wonder - friends and family and travel and all these lovely holiday distractions !
I’m mid-normal weight (BMI 22-23) with aim to drop to BMI 20 just because that feels so great to me - physically, mentally and energy-wise. And a bit obsessed with making this happen, yah.
We eat real well at baseline (organic whole food vegie-fish/seafood) and daily exercise (swim 20-30min laps and walk 5-7 miles total daily) - Add some IPA to this tho - I now substitute vodka-lime etc but still sip my hubbie’s beer a bit and that’s still just about every night. Plus the occasional dessert-like treat when out.
I found and started this keto thing on September 27th and got about half way to my goal. 137 to 129 and that took about 2 months as I was learning how to do this.
Biggest was - I learned how great Keto feels to me. I pretty much kept net carbs under 16-20 and tried to keep fats and pro up to recommended measures for ketogenic aiming at 1-2 # scale down per week. Tested blood ketones and mostly >1.0 but varied some. Rarely under 0.5 unless a “cheat” occurred.
NOW, after all these past weeks/months travel and family times, it’s time to start this up again. My dad passed on 12/4 at age 91 and after that many wonderful years so add all that before and after, plus his memorial at sea a couple days ago - to 2 months holidays in 3 states, travelled out fm here in OR - and u might get our recent picture (!)
So back to NOW — I’m starting purely ketogenic per what I’ve seen are typical ketogenic recommendations.
Aiming for just 1#/week drop on scale , so …
calories: 1289
nc/pro/fat 5% 30% 65% of 1289 cals
net carbs: 16gms
pro: 96gms
fats: 93gms
I have found it more challenging to get this much pro and fat in per day than keeping net carb count down.
Any ideas welcome !
Challenge is that I don’t eat meat and like to keep all this organic and squeaky clean. Organic dairy’s fine so plenty butter and cream, more than ever before, in fact.
Any other ideas? I’m pretty much taking in about 10-12 of these 16 daily net carbs at dinner w my hubbie and going purely keto through the day. Pretty much either intermittent fast at 16:8 or do the egg diet thing from am onward or whenever hungry . One “real” meal per day is fine with me and I don’t let myself be hungry. Yay Keto !!!
Today, to break this recent easy social feeding time, it’s going to be just a poached egg/curry mayo/sour cream every few hours until dinner, then fish or shrimp plus either salad or stir fry dinner.
I’ll get on scale every morning plus start checking blood ketones every afternoon starting today.
Other ideas ??
Thanks !
And again, happy new year, all !
Ati