How did you hear of Keto/ How did you come to Keto?

#21

I heard about keto last year sometime, then in February I kinda wandered across the keto community on Reddit and from there I watched Sugar: The Bitter Truth on YouTube. It scared the hell out of me. I immediately stopped eating sugar and started watching more videos, which got me to Gary Taubes’ books, and a week or two later I started keto.

I’ve quit Reddit in general because it’s a hive of scum and villainy, and when I googled a bit more, I found this place. Y’all seem nice. :slight_smile:

I am still really, really salty that this info has been out there and available and no one told me about it. All I’ve heard all my life is “eat less and exercise more”, CICO, all that nonsense, and it did nothing but poison my relationship with food and make me miserable. Now I’ve reached my late 30s and I’ve finally started to make peace with my body and with the food I eat. No one has dared give me grief about it yet.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #22

For me, it was Peter Attia’s TED talk and Robert Lustig’s lecture on fructose. I cut out the sugar and sweets, then went full keto a few weeks later, because I felt so good just cutting out the sugar.

(Brian) #23

After growing up a vegetarian and spending a few decades as an adult trying to make it work, then doubling down on veganism for a while, I found myself way past obese, markers not looking so good, not feeling well, setting up nicely for a heart attack or stroke, well on the way to T2D, and realizing something must be wrong since a badly broken leg took way too long to heal, I knew something had to change, and if it didn’t, I wouldn’t be around that much longer.

I got a few emails in my junk mail from Dr. Eric Berg. I watched a few of his videos. Figured, why not? What was the worst that could happen? Maybe I’d kill myself? That’s not a very big threat when a person feels like they’re gonna die soon anyway.

Told my wife I was gonna try it. She really wondered about it. I said she didn’t have to, but I was gonna do it anyway. She decided to come along for the ride. That was August of 2017.

We both dropped weight pretty quickly and have been really noticing improved health overall. We both still have some weight to lose but are not crazy about counting or measuring. It’s still coming off slowly. We’re OK with that and are keeping on with this way of eating. It’s more of a lifestyle at this point and most of the stuff we shouldn’t be eating isn’t really that big of a temptation anymore, especially since we’ve found keto-friendly substitutes for most of the carby stuff, some of which are better than the former carby stuff.

I don’t spend a whole lot of time with Dr. Berg anymore and have never bought anything from him. He had a few somewhat quirky ideas and there is no way I’d be able to consistently eat that much salad day in and day out. But it was him that got me started on this journey so I have to give credit where it’s due. Internet searches for a community like this brought me here and I’ve never found another group like this one. We don’t always agree on everything but it’s definitely civil and respectful, something sorely lacking in the other places I’ve looked (Facebook for one).

:slight_smile:

(icky) #24

I agree! The variety of the posts is fantastic! :blush:

I especially love this one, as I never thought I’d have anything in common with the Kardashian Klan, but now I know I do :smile:

And I’m glad I chose this forum when I read this: :smile:

(E.O.) #25

This older couple, who were retired scientists, kept posting on social media different facts. Along the edge of many of the facts were URLs for various Keto websites, blogs, proponents. Before long, this elderly couple posted they had lost 300 lbs between the two of them. I had no idea what they were doing–but it obviously was working for them–so I wrote to them privately and asked. At the same time, on the same social media site, @CandyLindTX started Keto and was posting about her results and eventually I checked out Keto and this site.

(Diane) #26

I had been suffering from chronic health issues when my PCP pointed me to Dr. Mercola’s book Fat for Fuel (not where I would send a newbie :yum:). That book pointed me to Dr Fung’s Complete Guide to Fasting, which led to watching some of his (and Megan Ramos’) YouTube videos, which led to their podcast with Jimmy Moore Fasting Talk with Jimmy Moore. When I had listened to all the episodes of Fasting Talk, I went looking for more podcasts with Dr. Fung and Megan. This led me to the 2 Keto Dudes.

I spent about 2 months doing research and making some gradual changes before going full on Keto in September 2017. Haven’t looked back since.

(Lorraine) #27

I ran across a Dr. Jason Fung video on YouTube about fasting to cure diabetes. I was searching for diabetes stuff because I was afraid I was eating my way into T2D. At the time, I had what the doctor said was ringworm. It was not getting better and just kept spreading. I was afraid that my high sugar diet was somehow feeding it.

Well, turns out it was NOT ringworm, it’s psoriasis. But I am thrilled with my new WOE!

#28

I saw a programme on UK TV comparing different diets to see which worked, keto was mentioned & as I was battling a bit of a carb addiction, I thought I’d look into it… So glad I did!

(Empress of the Unexpected) #29

Read Banting’s Letter on Corpulence, then did some reading on low carb diets, and somehow found this forum. And I am so glad I did!

(Ron) #30

After advancements in diabetes and other continually increasing damages that were only being treated by my GP with consistently elevated levels of medications, I decided it was time to take matters on my own as last resort before surrendering to the inevitable. In search to educate myself about the diseases on the internet, the direction of my research seemed to naturally steer me to the Ketogenic WOE and the successes it was achieving. It didn’t take long after that before the net led me to this forum where I have learned so much and experiencing so many physical AND mental n=1’s. I am eternally grateful to all who support and especially to the 2 Dudes of giving me this resource.

(TJ Borden) #31

Sorry that this is a bit long; I went for a DOT physical which included a drug screen (pee test). The technician said I tested positive for ketones and the doc/nurse would talk to me about it.

I had no idea what a ketone was and I was thinking I had failed the drug test. I was relieved when the doc told me I passed the test fine and then she asked me if I had eaten yet that day, which I hadn’t. Ironically I was doing OMAD long before LCHF/keto, but just because I was never hungry for breakfast and I was often too busy for lunch. Of course dinner generally wasn’t a healthy meal by anyone’s standards and often included two sodas, not because I was that thirsty, but because I wanted the person taking my order to think it was for at least two people.

She explained that I was in starvation mode because I hadn’t eaten anything and that testing positive for ketones meant my body was burning fat for fuel.

Isn’t that s good thing? I asked. It’s not like I don’t have plenty of body fat to spare. She said it’s not considered a healthy way to burn fat, but to her credit (considering her medical practice is based in a strip mall and specializes in Department of Transportation exams), she said given my substantial, nearly 500lb physique, it wasn’t anything to worry about.

I went home and fired up the ‘ol google machine to search for ketones and came across Dr Phiney via the diet doctor website. I played around with LCHF, but scrapped it because although the weight loss was okay, I didn’t actually have high blood glucose yet so I figured I was fine.

Fast forward a few years to last year. I went in for a sinus infection and was told that based on my glucose levels, I was diabetic and they wanted me to start a bunch of drugs right away. I had already seen my dad follow the downward spiral of that game so I refused because I already knew what I needed to do, I had just been putting it off.

So as of October of last year, I went keto. My glucose levels are still elevated (105-120 fasted), but they’re steady. I’m down 65lbs and have never felt better.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #32

Gotta hand it to ya, TJ, you’re twice the man I am! :bacon: :rofl:

(TJ Borden) #33

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

(E.O.) #34

Fabulously encouraging story! Thanks for sharing it.

#35

I got really sick last year with influenza a and enterovirus but prior to that about 12 weeks I was away from home for a family funeral and eating our normal Eastern European cuisine I returned home feeling bloated and inflamed and gross. So made myself lchf at about 50g carbs per day because I was still of the opinion to be strong with my oly lifting I needed some carbs. Then got sick and got sick really badly. I couldn’t shake the virus and my dr was concerned something was hindering my recovery so he sent me to an immunologist. Turns out I was allergic to wheat, yeast and soy quite severely and my normal environmental ones I’ve known of since a child (asthma and sinus). So by chance I asked the immunologist if my change in diet was to blame. I explained I was doing lchf (and mind you he was a very old school, Chinese doctor who was a mega expert in his field so I thought if anyone would have the wisdom he would), and he said without even knowing it me being lchf for the last 12 weeks was actually the best thing I could’ve done for myself and that the virus was seperate to that.

Fast forward one year and I’ve been seeing the immunologist and my gp to monitor allergies etc (turns out I also have gluten sensitives and they’ve detected the celiac gene but no antibodies yet). I wasn’t losing any weight and ideally would like to go down another 20-30 kgs if possible (lost about 13kg just doing lazy low carb but I’m also an oly lifter so I do have muscle mass). So then I was talking to a friend about how lazy low carb just wasn’t doing it for me and I found I kept subbing to gluten free foods which were high carb and therefore not losing weight. She kept telling me to go strict keto so I went to the diet dr site and took their two week plan and made all the recipes and froze them. I also then introduced bulletproof/keto coffee and boom, I’ve now been strict keto for about a month and feeling amazing. I think I finally have the right amount of calories and macros worked out for my body and my expenditure. I do log my food but that’s more to make sure my carbs stay low and also to track what I need for different phases of the month, including shark week, max out days, competition days, heavy load days and deload weeks.

I’ve been reading that to be fat adapted can take the 6-8 week mark but essentially it is up to the person. I’ve found I am a bit weak these last few weeks but I’m only on the end of week four. I anticipate also that with the new lifting program I’m on as well that by the time the heavier sections ramp up I’ll be much better fat adapted.

Feel amazing and I feel healthy. I kind of say I’m glad I have these food allergies because I can never eat the way I used to again (or I could get really sick and die, literally!) so it keeps me not only motivated to eat keto but a total champion for the keto cause.

#36

I heard Joe Rogan and Tom Segura talking about it on a podcast.

(linda) #37

I read about putting butter in coffee!! What?? …then to Bulletproof Coffee…then looking around on line and found the Keto Clarity Book - and was impressed as to read the amazing things that were promised by doing the diet. Then jumped in!!

(Chris Robertson) #38

The diet they were portraying in the documentary was high protein. They specifically said it multiple times. They made it look like keto was Atkins plus fat. They even referred to keto as being “Atkins on steroids” so it created a false impression of what a keto diet was.

(Ron) #39

@corduroyew
I did not take it that way. The Atkins on steroids reference to me addressed the higher restriction over the original Atkins diet. This would hold true in that context.
Exert from original Atkin diet-
"Most diets are fixed formulas and are therefore short-termed and self-limiting. This diet
is fixed only for a week. After that – because it must be a lifetime diet, it is, as variable as
are individual tastes. "
I also took the higher protein address as a natural increase due to the replacement of carbs so as not to eat at a deficit. Different views though are what make the world go round.:grinning:

Copy of original Atkins diet plan just for giggles-
http://www.joblack59.com/LC/atkins72.pdf

(TJ Borden) #40

One minor correction there sheriff; I believe you meant shits and giggles