Is there a need to have a continuous period of 4-8 weeks of keto at the start of keto lifestyle?

[cloudy]

Soy, corn, canola, vegetable oils are not considered healthy they are inflammatory and provoke insulin responses so they can shut down ketone production in some people if taken in large enough doses. So they are not really part of the keto lifestyle. Soy oil is one of the worst, in particular for inflammation and I can attest to that now. They really should not be considered in your macros as fat, they should be avoided.

I realize that there are some oils which are vegetable based that are good so it could be confusing, they include coconut oil, olive oil and avocado and few others.

Don’t worry, I know that. In fact, I am the one who believe that saturated fat is better than poly-unsaturated fat.
In fact, just when I started to learn about fat in High School, just soon after I asked the biology teacher about trans fat and the teacher talked about it a little bit(then stray off again, just like an old teacher tends to), I already started to know that poly-unsaturated fat is actually bad. Just that in that time, I understand it in terms of stability of fat, which means poly-unsaturated fat is still healthy, as long as it doesn’t change into trans fat, but it is prone to turning, making it actually bad, unlike saturated/mono-saturated fat which is MUCH more stable, even though saturated fat might not be as healthy when it is by itself: It is what I thought that time(In terms of healthy-ness, Poly = Mono > Sat > Trans, but in terms of stability, Sat > Mono > Poly, and so after considering stability, I would say Mono > Sat > Poly in that time, so ever since that time, I believed in Olive Oil already). It is only about at most 1 year ago that I know that saturated fat might be accused, then I found out that it should be Mono = Sat > Poly.

(always saying that others like to stray off, but I also like to stray off. heh)

Keto = low carb, moderate protein and HEALTHY fats to satiety is what I like to say.

If you are carb addicted and you become insulin resistant and down the road type 2 diabetic, you will be the one starving even when you eat that side of carbs! Keep that in mind.

And I know that healthy fat is basically…
Butter(grass-fed is preferred) + Pork Lard + Coconut Oil + Olive Oil

Now I am not staying with my parents, so it won’t be too stressful to eat those, but… it is still crazy to outsiders to eat like that. Luckily I personally like to use butter to fry the vegetable(yummy smell), so I am okay with it, but then again, it is hard to convince myself to drop a HUGE chunk of butter to fry.(I feel that I might be too conservative when it comes to putting oil. <_<)

and wait… you sure? The diabetes works in the way that I will still be starving even if I eat lots of food in bigger quantity? <_<… So quality still matters much more than quantity?

[In2steam]

In a simple sense people who have become type 2 diabetic and consume large qty of carbs tend to become tired. That is because the insulin is trying to store the glucose in the body fat. Often they cannot access the fat, the glucose is doing less because of the insulin resistance, and they are getting more tired. They eat more to compensate, this becomes a viscous circle. People with T2D can explain it better, but yes they are starving inside even though they are eating all the time.

Butter and bacon are my best friends, eat all of it all the time waste nothing.

[PaulL]

. . . this becomes a viscous circle. . . .

Which becomes a sticky situation!

(Sorry—I’m not criticizing, it’s just that autocorrect causes a lot of really amusing typos, and this one just tickled my fancy, lol!)

[In2steam]

yeah that may have been my voice to text as well I don’t remember.

[cloudy]

Butter and bacon are my best friends, eat all of it all the time waste nothing.

As much as I would like to believe in such…

now bacon is also not really my good friend. (For some reason, recently I just cannot bake my bacon to be tasty enough to eat anymore, while I remembered I managed to do so in the past, even though I am using the bacon from the same brand, using oven to bake…)

[Regina]

Sorry, internet failed me and I couldn’t get back to the answer about your mother…

Yes, people have been brainwashed. Start her on the low carb. Maybe even a bit of brown rice once a week. Show her scientific studies. I am in week four and feeing great - and have lost six pounds. And love eating like this, but then again, I was not a carbaholic before. Bacon is my God. My favorite thing in life for 60 years has been meat. And I am alive and kicking to prove it. Start her gradually.

[Regina]

Buy the mid-cut bacon.

[cloudy]

And as I said above, bacon was, but is no longer, my friend at the moment.(as in, for some reasons, I am not able to like the bacon that I baked now)