Keto meal portions! Kindly answer fast as I'm hungry LOL

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #11

Are you all so serious about me eating as much as I want???

I am so scared i will gain and not loose

do you mean i can really enjoy a fatty, buttery, cheesy meal?

Like add all the forbidden ingredients on any normal diet?

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #12

I do it at home :slight_smile:
Its like the raw paste and i add, oil, vinegar, cumin, salt, pepper, and pinch of garlic

(Bacon, Not Stirred) #13

I said I WOULDN’T say it was unfriendly. My assumption is it’s fine.

Yes, that is exactly what we are saying. Stay around 20 net g carbs, moderate protein, fat to satiety.

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #14

When i added my weight and height to the Carb Manager app it automatically adjusted these ratios or macros for me:

Bare in mind i am doing this on my own, no doctors, no friends even heard about it, and everyone where i live think i am crazy, eating all that fat and expecting to loose weight.

So how much exactly shall i eat in grams?

If that will help you,
I am 80kg, Height 162cm total body fats, I have no clue, but I assume a good 40%
:see_no_evil:

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #15

Is hummus Keto friendly?
I thought it wasn’t

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #16

Try the calculator in this thread:

Also as you lose, 10 or so lbs, you will need to recalculate since you can’t just set it and forget it.

#17

I would be careful with hummus. Chick peas do have carbs. Normally a serving of hummus is two tablespoons. Don’t go wild with it if you are trying to stay under twenty grams of carbs.

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #18

@PaulL What 50lbs in 6 months and I double the fats

I must admit that from these forums, I am already in love with Keto.
Because i hate eating grilled food with no oil, butter or a nice melted cheese on top.
it seems like a perfect diet, because it was made for my personality. Of course my real personality is by adding the carbs, but I managed to easily get over it, because of the fats i’m eating.

Now since everyone is asking me to eat as much as i want, I would like you to explain to me, as if you are explaining to a complete idiot, how much in total shall i eat from the following:

Assuming that i decided to breakfast and dinner and want to have only lunch, and would like my lunch to be the following:

Bun length Hot dogs, Cheddar Cheese, Eggs, Butter to fry of course, some lettuce, and Mayo

Don’t tell me in grams, remember i said explain like you are explaining to an idiot.
Tell me how many hot dogs, how many cheese slices, how many eggs and table spoons of butter and mayo, shall i have for a whole keto day.

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #19

@jeremystorie This is heaven to me LOL

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #20

@collaroygal That was wise of you to tell me, to re-edit when i start loosing, because i was going to carry on with the same

(Haidy Makram Ebeid) #21

@collaroygal I check the Calculator you sent me, I have no idea which body fat i belong to, but i believe i am something like 30% or 35% not the 40%
shall i change that in Carb Manager, or leave it as it is?

(Crippie) #22

Totally! I didn’t believe it at first either, all the butter and cheese I could dream of, and bacon! and its encouraged to salt your food! It just seemed bonkers to me but it works!

In the first few weeks you could gain, or lose, or maintain. The scale is your enemy in the first month, your goal should be to become fat adapted which is much easier when you are full and happy on fat!

So ignore the scale for the first few weeks, and just eat fat until you are full. Once you get the carbs out of your system and are in ketosis and fat adapted you will find that you get full so much faster, and get hungry less often. That is where the weight really starts to come off. Your body is burning its stored fat which is why you have virtually no hunger!

It is a good idea to try and track all your food in a food tracker like My Fitness Pal or something similar, more to make sure you are not getting hidden carbs, and to make sure your protein numbers are not incredibly high. But it is also cool to go back and just see how your numbers do start to decline and eventually you are only eating 1200 calories a day and feeling full the entire time.

(Jeremy Storie) #23

Yeah, I get the strangest look from the waitress when I ask her to have the cook dig around and find me the fattiest ribeye he can find. Then I ask her if they have real butter that I can spread on top of it :grin:

(Jim Russell) #24

Here is how I like to do it: I keep my carbs under 20 grams net. That’s it. After that, I just eat fat and fatty meat and let things take care of themselves. Eat until you’re full, then stop. Try not to snack. Either eat a meal or don’t eat.

If you try that and it isn’t working for you, then maybe you will need to be stricter with your macros. This seems to be much more common for women than men.

Remember, you’re not on a diet. For keto to be really successful long-term, it needs to become a way of life. And after seeing how easy it is and the results, both on the scale and off, I can’t imagine going back.

#25

Hot dogs as many as you want assuming nitrates do not bother you. They have about 5 grams of protein per serving so in theory if you ate nothing else, probably around 10. At your size about 50 grams of protein a day is good but a little more is ok. Cheese, some people limit to 4 ozs a day but not everyone does. Mayonaise contains canola oil in the US, many people thinkl seed oils are unhealthy. Lots of recipes for olive oil mayo which you can eat as much as you want. You will get full. Try to listen to your body, if you are mostly full, stop eating. Wait, see if you are still hungry. No snacking if you can as others have said.

I call this the diet of everything you were told not to eat by your mother and everyone else

Lettuce, a cup if you want.

(Jim Russell) #26

The funny thing is that it is way closer to the way my grandmother ate than my mom. She cooked everything in bacon grease. She even spread it on bread, which is counter productive, obviously. She was a big bacon and egg eater too. She lived to 98, so I guess she was doing something right.

(Siobhan) #27

Yes, keto is a very ad libitum way of eating when it comes to fat.
Protein is enough to maintain (or build) muscle - about 1-1.5g of protein per kg (2.2 lbs) of lean body mass.
<20g of carbs
The rest is fat. By “the rest” I mean until you’re full and not hungry between meals.
So cook up some chicken and dip it in melted (good quality) butter (like I just did for dinner haha), or very fatty cuts of meat, homemade mayo (seed oils I do not recommend but melted bacon grease works great for mayo!), bacon, etc… and of course some veggies to make things interesting :slight_smile:
Or some berries on occasion… heavy cream (whipped) + vanilla + a few berries = yummy
I tracked for about 2 days and have not tracked calories or fat since (1 year and change on keto now). I occasionally track protein.
For carbs I just memorized things or look them up if I need to.
But, you may find it easier to track, etc… depends on preference. I prefer not to.

So - I would say just look up foods you frequently eat (like hot dogs, cheese, eggs, etc) and calculate for the protein, then add fat to stay full, etc

(Carpe salata!) #28

But your grandmother or great-grandmother would have probably called it normal.

Edit:
I see @Jimbo already said that above me so I’ll add…
When I was in Alaska, the crab was always served with a pot of melted butter. I had never seen that before but it was so good.

(Khara) #29

If I was eating these foods in a day…
1st meal would be 2 jumbo eggs cooked in butter. I’d also have at least 2 slices of bacon with this and also 1/4 to 1/2 an avocado with olive oil and salt on top. (If bacon wasn’t available, a hot dog with the eggs would be good.)
2nd meal could easily be 2 hot dogs. I would prefer these with mustard and a tiny dollop of ketchup (ketchup is sugary :confused:). But if I had mayonnaise, I’d probably use 1-2 tablespoons. The cheese slices on the side… that’s hard to describe because “slices” are differing sizes. I could eat 1-2 ounces of cheese. These 2 hot dogs may or may not fill me up depending on the day. If I was still hungry I might have another 1 or 2 eggs. And there would probably be a cup or two of coffee with heavy cream.
I’m trying to just give you an idea of how much I would eat on a normal day with these foods. I really do just eat until I’m not hungry anymore. A lot of other people have said this too. I personally think you should do your day with these particular foods as a test. Eat whichever ones sound good and until you are satisfied. Log all you eat and then look at your macros. If protein ended up too high or fat too low then now you know and you can adjust the next time.
I hope that helps some…

(Khara) #30

Haidy, What types of dishes do you use Tahini on or for? I’d never heard of it before.