Hello From Another Newbie lol

(Carl D Black) #21

Lol. Well…I had to tweak that part of my life for sure. As I write this I am drinking my Gevalia French Roast, one mug, stevia and a little sucrose, 7g total. So, 13 left for the day. I seriously don’t care if I get half my carbs for my morning coffee. :smile: Oh, and now I am 268 lbs and I’m feeling it… it’s working…

(Sabrina Leonardo) #22

I just joined this forum, and this topic speaks to my heart! I have had a horrible time trying to figure out a coffee that I can drink. I am a sugar-aholic plus use sweet creamers, Hazelnut, in my coffee.
After a few fails… I have found it. I think. I added butter, whipping cream, coconut oil and used a pinch of a sweetener called Pure (Walmart sells it) . So far this has been my favorite.
Maybe this helped. I just started trying Keto this week.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #23

Welcome! My morning coffee is sweet and delicious. I use spenda (count each packet as 1 g carb), heavy whipping cream and a dash of powdered ginger (or dash of cinnamon or tiny splash of vanilla extract, etc.)

It’s what gets me out of bed and moving and I want it tasty. Now the rest of the day it’s meat, cheese and veg. But my one coffee gets the sweet works.

(Carl D Black) #24

Welcome Dandy. Yeah, I just joined yesterday. The responses have been terrific! I have been SO excited all week as I started my Keto. I have been slowly adapting to fat burning. I don’t have all of the ketosis evidences, but I am losing weight, which is my goal. I was just making my store list this morning and I’ll be buying my heavy cream today. We already have coconut oil. And I shop at Walmart so I’ll look for the Pyure. Thanks!

(Scott) #25

Back from a four mile run and sipping on coffee black with a tablespoon of MCT oil as I ponder skipping breakfast. If you try I am sure you can get used to no sweetener in coffee.

(Scott) #26

Sweet tea if that is iced tea I will guess your in the south. I was a big sweet tea drinker but I think the kids that make it now have a sweet tooth and are over doing it. I started mixing half unsweetened in and thought this is stupid. I went all unsweetened and now that I became accustomed to it I prefer it.

(Carl D Black) #27

Taking things a step at a time, Scott. I’m 54 and have been eating wrong all of my life. If stevia doesn’t throw me out of ketosis, I’ll use it.

(Scott) #28

57 here, I feel your pain. I don’t think keto WOE is supposed to be something you dread so go at your own pace and take things one day at a time.
I guess I am fortunate here as I just stumbled upon keto while channel surfing (Magic Pill) and had not gone to T2D or any other health problems other than a large beer gut. I did have skin tags that I later found out is a sign of insulin resistance.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #29

I was a huge artificial creamer addict before keto, about 5 months ago. I poured it down the drain when I started and went cold turkey with HWC. NO SWEETENER OF ANY KIND! I quickly started to enjoy my espresso that way switched to a more concentrated coffee and I really got over it quickly. It’s that morning sugar jumpstart you’re really craving. Leave it behind, you don’t really need it. This will be a stumbling block if you don’t just give it up without looking back. It’s high fructose chemical stew with bad cheap processed soy oil as the fat. All totally against a keto lifestyle. This is your heroin as it was mine.

(Cindy) #30

Yes, a lot of the tea I would drink in local restaurants was too sweet for me. I like strong tea, so that “bitterness” of the tea, but then the sweetness, too. Lots of places brew it so weak that it’s like sugar water. I won’t say that I prefer it unsweet yet, but I’m definitely much more ok without it now. These days, my preferred drink is water with a bit of lemon in it.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #31

Heavy cream. Yum! :smile:

Ignore the macros. The way to get fat out of your fat cells is to eat less than 20 g/day of carbohydrate and to get enough calories to encourage your body to part with its excess fat. Do that by eating to satiety.

In other words, don’t eat unless you are hungry, stop eating when you stop being hungry, and don’t eat again until you are hungry again. Ignore the clock.

No way of eating will help you lose weight if you exceed your carbohydrate threshold, because your insulin level will be too high to permit fat to leave your adipose tissue, so your carb limit is the most important. Replace the carb calories that are now missing from your diet with calories from fat, which stimulates insulin even less than protein does. So odd as it sounds, eat fat to lose fat. But stop eating when you stop being hungry. That way you don’t have to count calories, calculate macros, or worry that you might not be giving your body enough calories to want to let go of your extra fat.