Not losing any weight, a little guidance would be helpful PLEASE

(Robert C) #21

What Megan Ramos sometimes suggests is to drop the fat bombs and bullet coffee if weight loss is not happening (I guess these can get you into a range where your body won’t burn its own fat because intake is pretty much matching or exceeding need). You might notice that thigh meat roasted with skin on at lunch is much more satisfying than the bullet coffee (but only 100 calories more than chicken breast - a bullet coffee can be 3 to 5 hundred calories). Losing weight with keto does involve both getting your body to be able to easily burn your own body fat but also, it needs the opportunity (either a temporary drop in calories or a fasting schedule).

Speaking of fasting schedule…another way to help things along is to skip breakfast or dinner and eat in a 6 to 8 hour window OR just fast a day or two each week.

(Felicity ) #22

Pork belly is divine!

(Alec) #23

Jean
Give it a shot. I promise you won’t regret it. I thought a bit like you that I wouldn’t like it. But I love it.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #24

If you have any fondness for bacon, you will love pork belly (uncured, unsmoked bacon).

But, if you can’t get there, thank you, as you’re helping control the price spiral as more people go face down in bacon everything.

(Jean Guthrie) #25

I actually looked up a recipe and realized it was not as bad as my mind was imagining it!! I will give it a try for sure :slight_smile:

(Alec) #26

I remember eating a pork belly dish at a restaurant once BK (before keto). I thought it was way too rich, far too fatty and I really didn’t like it much. Now I am keto it tastes divine! I think your body and taste buds change on the basis of what food it craves to fuel it.

Nowadays I really can’t eat sweet things. I really struggle. I can eat a mouthful or 2, but that’s it…

#27

Pork belly is delicious. My favorite way is braised until browned. Put a few thick, wide pieces in a bread pan or other oven dish, add water or broth to cover about about half or 3/4 the way up, with a lot of Asian spices. Bake at 225 for a long time. When the liquid is largely evaporated, the pork belly will be bronze and beautiful, the liquid will be a yummy, gooey deliciousness. I also agree strongly with ditching the chicken breast (too lean) and replacing it with thighs with skin on.

#28

Yes, I find that about fat too. I used to never be able to eat macadamia nuts. Or the visible fat on steaks or chops. Just too rich. Now I eat all of them easily and love them. I don’t know about sugar. I was never a sugar fan anyway. But starches, that’s another story. I’ve only been doing keto for 4 weeks. I’ll be curious to see if I no longer like to eat starches. I had a mini-test this past weekend. I made a bunch of loaves of bread for my brother’s wedding. I had one small slice—2 ounces of baguette, I weighed it—and it threw me out of ketosis for a full day! It was only 28 net carbs—but that’s twice as much as I’ve been having in any whole day for the past month! It was such a small serving; I don’t know how I would have felt had I eaten more. But the anti-ketosis result was enough to prevent me from testing it again any time soon. The only other carbs I had that day were a few green beans and about 5 ounces of Swiss cheese.

(Alec) #29

Warburg
Don’t get too worried about being “out of ketosis”. The way you should think is simply that you have 28g of carbs to burn before the body goes back to burning fat. 28g = about 100 calories = about an hour for many people’s BMR.

The biggest issue in my view of eating the carb is the insulin effect. If you are very IR, even small amounts of carbs can lead to a long tail of high insulin, which stops you then burning fat. So what does the body use for fuel at that point? It just doesn’t have much fuel to go on and you feel sluggish.

But if you are not IR, and we know that keto really helps lower IR, then the insulin effect is low and short and you get back to burning fat pretty quickly. So where do the ketones go? You burn them… and they only start showing up on the measuring tools when you have an excess some time later.

#30

Thanks, Alec. I wasn’t worried about being out of ketosis, because I think ultimately it’s normal and desirable to go in and out of it. But I was surprised by how such a small amount of bread had that effect. The other effect it had was I hungry for hours. I haven’t been hungry in a month, not even during a 3 day fast. I wasn’t tired, but I was uncomfortably hungry. It was a good lesson to learn about myself—be careful with starchy carbs! Hopefully, black beans, wild rice, chick peas, and lentils won’t treat me the same as French bread did. They all have a lot more fiber and a lot more nutrition. And I like them waaaay more

(Alec) #31

It’s really interesting what you say about carbs and hunger. I think this is the insulin effect working overtime. Meaning insulin is stopping you burn bodyfat, body running low on carbs, hence hunger.

#32

Yes, I think that’s exactly right!