Newbir

#1

Only been keto for 2 months. Seeing positive results — especially gut, skin, arthritis and cognition1!

(Cathy) #2

Good to hear you are feeling better. Keto can be very positive for some people. I started for the weight loss but stayed for all the other positive effects. In my 17th year now.

(Bob M) #3

I had no idea there was someone longer than me (in my 13th year). Congratulations!

(Cathy) #4

Congrats to you too! There are lots of us ‘old timers’ out there. I belong to a group that has folks that have been at it for 20+ years!

(Ohio ) #5

How did you come across keto information so early? I only found out thanks to seizures and searching online around 2010.

#6

Counting my Atkins years… I’d qualify for that. Can’t decide if that makes me awesome or just old…

#7

Atkins :+1:

(Bob M) #8

That’s how I found it too, as through Atkins. I started and stopped so many times, because I thought I needed carbs for exercise. I remember starting Atkins multiple times, and each time I’d get to a point where I’d be driving around or whatever near lunch and I wouldn’t be hungry. I was always hungry on higher carb.

(KM) #9

The trouble with Atkins was that it never really challenged the necessity of carbs. It was this “grueling” period of ketosis you had to “get through”. Just when you’d be fat adapted, you had to start adding carbs again. I know many people do carb cycling or find a maintenance protocol that’s not ultra low carb, but somehow being specifically told it was just temporary missed the whole point of adopting a better WOE to maintain health.

(Cathy) #10

I started with Atkins too but having done it for a few years (beginning in 2000) and then falling off the wagon and struggling to get back on for literally 6 years, I understood that once I achieved the 2 weeks of ‘induction’, I had to stay there - in induction - which is ketosis. That was in the fall of 2009.

For me, Atkins was keto and the ‘keto’ diet and still is. Atkins did explain that some people would always have to keep carbs low and I certainly fit that bill.

(Jane) #11

My Dad and I did Atkins together back in 1976… but I was still in the lower-fat mode even though I ate a lot of ground beef and cheese, but I wasn’t eating enough fat to sustain it. Keto fixed that for me.

(BuckRimfire) #12

This is one of the biggest changes for me. I used to be ravenous by late morning when I ate a big high-carb breakfast. Now, if I’m even slightly busy, I don’t even think about eating until dinnertime after my big low-carb brekkie. I sometimes snack if I get bored, but hunger is never intrusive.

(Cathy) #13

In my low fat days, I would eat 1 piece of whole grain toast with a skimming of low fat cheez whiz and an orange. I was ravenous an hour later. Of course I would eat poorly for the rest of my day. I would repeat the very same thing the very next day.

Such a miserable struggle.