New and curious about some things

#1

  1. Is the 1 - 1.5 g of protein per lb of lean body mass recommendation for health, or to avoid it turning to glucose? (I forgot that word)

  2. What surprising foods have you found that take you low or out of ketosis that you weren’t expecting (so, not Snickers bars, obviously). I’m just curious if common keto foods do it for some folks like avocados or cream cheese. I doubt it, but curious

  3. What do you do if you’re still hungry but your macro grams have been met, or even exceeded? I know this will stop the more I continue and hunger calms down, but when this happens, how do you get more fat without ANY carbs and/or protein? Or do you just get more mostly fat on some minor carb and/or protein?

(Kim) #2

Dr. Jason Fung recommends 0.6 grams of protein per kilogram of ideal body weight per day. I hope this helps!

#3

Does he say why? Thanks for taking the time to help. I know I’ve read many different versions of essentially that amount, but I’m not sure I’ve understood the reason why other than gluconeogensis, which we all actually find at our own levels if we test, which I’m working on now. Just looking for some science behind it if there’s more to it than that.

I’m not a huge Dr. Fung fan but I do love Volek and Finney and am re-reading both their books now so I may just stumble across it as well

#4

I’ve posted this comment before but it serves us to remember that on SAD diet we learned not to trust our bodies… But in keto we have to relearn to trust our bodies. Eating or fasting on keto comes from needing or not needing to eat- our bodies are fat adapted and ready to harvest our body fat. It will tell you when it needs supplementation from eating. I would encourage you to trust your body. If you are hungry, eat. if you are not hungry, don’t eat. If you’re not sure, try drinking some water, or keto-aid (or your preferred salt-supplementation), or even some coffee or tea bulletproofed or not.

I’m still really early in, about 1 month, and I still find myself struggling with the mental aspects of eating more-so than actual hunger. I also find that, for me, the scale seems to drop more when I have eaten well the day before, than the days that I eat less. But I stopped closely monitoring my calories and macros as I have begun to understand what foods are good to eat and in what amounts. I am on my first fast today–24 hours in. I can’t afford a keto monitor yet, I’m not super concerned with numbers in general because this is a long term plan and the day to day ups and downs are less important than the overall goal of being keto and preventing progressive disease.

Good luck!