In three weeks I am going to East Europe to visit my parents. I will be there for 3 weeks. The eating habits there are based on carbs, and keto food is not so readily available as it is in US. On top of that my mom would freak out if she would knew I eat so much fat especially since I think my dad has familial hypercholesterolemia (he has high cholesterol and has those fatty spots on his eyelids). Because of all that I will not be doing keto, I will try to limit the carbs, but there will be a Christmas cake, or my dad’s birthday pizza. and so on.
I plan on jumping back to keto as soon as I get back to US in January. My question is if 3 weeks of eating carbs will reverse the fat adaptation. My guess is no, but I wanted to make sure…
Is fat adaptation reversible?
marioana
(OM)
#1
grp
#2
Yes it is. Check out Mark Sisson’s take on it. Three weeks won’t ruin you though, and you can get back on the wagon again when you return. Also, when you’re away, you could do some short (day long?) fasts a few times, which will really help you when you return!
ianrobo
(ianrobo)
#3
You will be perfectly fine if you go as a well fat adapted person. For example I went on holiday for two weeks, eat the usual stuff and alcohol and there is another story there and then came back.
I never even had keto flu again so the real tale is just to avoid unnecessary carbs where you do not need them and relax !! Stress is far worse than some bread !
VLC.MD
(VLC.MD)
#4
Do you have a ketone meter ?
If you do, take your blood ketone levels (a few readings) before and after !
marioana
(OM)
#5
That was the idea, I don’t want to stress about explaining 5 times a day to every family member why I eat the way I do, or trying to find keto foods.
ianrobo
(ianrobo)
#6
but obviously they are ways of hiding it ha ha …
but sod it, ebnjoy yourself knowing the progress you made and it is only for a short time
Sasquatch16
#7
I wouldn’t worry about it to much…Enjoy yourself and get back on when you get back.
I am seeing family for a couple days for Thanksgiving and plan eating and drinking what I want. You have to live. Not worth stressing about.
Berengal
(Sjur Gjøstein Karevoll)
#8
I was off keto for five years, and when I started back again there was no keto flu at all. I started omad at the same time and pretty much felt like I was back even before my first meal just from fasting overnight then skipping breakfast and lunch. I didn’t notice anything of what bothered me the first time around, no foggy mind, no confused hunger, nothing. Just a couple days later I was already feeling a lot of increased energy.
gnomesb
(Naomi Brewster)
#9
I wonder if that was because you continued some habits of IF, keto lifestyle even though you had switched back to a carb woe or if you truely don’t have the effects of keto adaption?
Berengal
(Sjur Gjøstein Karevoll)
#10
I ate fairly healthy most of the time, certainly the last few years. Three homemade meals per day, homemade whole wheat bread (zero white flour, only whole wheat with some rye and barley flour) with eggs, liver pate and mackerel in tomato sauce (all of which I still eat without the bread). Homemade meat balls, boiled cod etc. with steamed potatoes and veggies for dinner, very rarely anything packaged in cardboard. No snacking, no cakes, no sugary drinks just water, tea and diet soda. Lots of dairy. Pretty much the same diet my parents ate growing up and that I in turn inherited from them growing up.
There was a lot of carbs, but very little junk food and fairly high nutritional values. While I’m very overweight (bmi of 45 when I switched) I was fairly healthy for someone of my weight and activity level (zero at the time). The only markers of insulin resistance that worried my doctor was my weight (myself I thought my a1c was pushing it a bit too). When I had been keto a few months my health markers improved a lot to the point my doctor said I was like an active young man wearing a fat suit.