Poll: what was the source of you hearing about keto that got you started?

#1
  • Already doing LCHF/paleo/something similar and moved to keto as a natural next step
  • It was yet another thing to try on a long run of different diets
  • A doctor/other health professional (excluding nutritionist) recommended it to me
  • A nutritonist recommended it to me
  • I observed the results a friend/colleague/family member had from it
  • I saw a celebrity who had results from it
  • I read about it in a book/magazine/news article
  • I heard about it in a podcast
  • I watched a documentary on Netflix/YouTube/other streaming sites about keto or a similar diet
  • I watched any other video (i.e. not a full length documentary) on Netflix/YouTube/other streaming sites
  • I saw it mentioned on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc)
  • I cooked a (or sampled someone else’s) keto recipe and then thought it was worth trying
  • Self-research (i.e. independently ate this way and only later discovered it had a name)
  • Grew up this way (i.e. prescribed this WOE since an early age, possibly for medical reasons)
  • I woke up one day, having possibly been abducted by aliens, and just “knew” about keto
  • Other (please share!)

0 voters

(Laurie) #2

I answered “Already doing LCHF. . . .” for simplicity’s sake. But I had been away from Atkins for about 13 years. The reason I tried keto was that in 2018 this group was easier to join than the Atkins groups I found online.

(Doug) #3

Other - internet search relating to diabetes.

(Dena ) #4

Should have a option for family/friend. My sister is my intro to Keto

(Running from stupidity) #5

It was a podcast, but not a keto podcast, so I don’t know if that would skew the results if I answered that, so I put “other.”

(Paul Thurrott, Windows Weekly.)

(Karen) #6

Dr. Berg videos

(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝) #7

Not the results I wanted with paleo and a coworker was having great results with Keto, so I chose “I observed the results of someone else”

(John) #8

I went with “Observed results from a friend/colleague” which is vaguely correct - someone I knew from a completely unrelated forum posted a link to an Ivor Cummins video which he referred to after turning his heath around after a second heart attack.

I watched that, then continued to research from there and decided the science was solid enough to give it a try. Everything has been self-taught and self-researched from reading multiple web sites, watching YouTube vids, and reading the research studies. And the occasional tidbit I pick up here.

(Carl Keller) #9

Other- Talked to a guy who lost 60lbs in 6 months and got interested.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #10

Dr. Lustig’s lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” scared the [spoiler]shit[/spoiler] out of me and got me to recognize my sugar addiction. I managed to cut out all sugar and sweets, and started to feel so good that I went full-bore keto a few weeks later. By that time, I had moved on to videos by Dr. Phinney, Dr. Attia, and Low Carb Down Under, so I knew about keto by the time I started. And it was Dr. Attia’s TED talk that got me started down this whole nutritional rabbit-hole.

#11

Other- When discussing my wife’s gastric bypass surgery with a doctor, and talking about how little a person post surgery could eat and what she should prioritise, carbs were last on the list.

That got me intrigued as I always suspected that carbs/sugar were responsible for weight gain, so I did some research on the internet and ‘keto’ kept popping up.

My wife postponed her surgery and we both decided to try keto for a year to see if that helped.

(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝) #12

That’s awesome! When was this? Did she end up not having the surgery, or are you still within that year?

#13

No surgery. We’re three months into keto, we’ve both lost about 20kgs (44lbs) each.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #14

Other–already did Atkins diet years ago and knew I could go back to it because it was effective. Searched Atkins found keto.

#15

Thanks everyone for sharing. Some great stories here. Sorry if the poll is restrictive in choices in any way, I tried to add a lot but didn’t want there to be about 80 options. I wanted to edit it about 10 minutes after creation but you only get five minutes to do so.

Hopefully will still yield some interesting data!

(Rick Singers) #16

I watched “The Magic Pill” Documentary on Netflix while trying to find something to make me sleepy! Finished the docu more awake than when I started it. Been keto (still learning) for 6 months, 50 pounds gone, daughter is having even better results, which is causing second daughter to try keto!

(Edgar) #17

I did paleo mainly from following Mark Sisson for many years but I took a break and stopped following him once I thought I had a good grip of the diet and it seemed like he wasn’t providing me any new info. I had heard brief mentions of keto here and there around the internet but the thought of giving up fruit and lowering carbs even further just seemed crazy to me so I never paid it much attention, I had only heard about it in the context of weight loss but never heard any of the other health benefits so I thought there’s no way this could be healthy for you. Then to my surprise Mark released The Keto Reset Diet and I had a couple of Audible credits to spare so it got me curious why he would endorse such a wacky diet and I downloaded the book. The reasoning and science behind the diet fascinated me and made sense, and I’ve been following it since. I don’t really follow his “metabolic flexibility” approach, but he’s the one that opened the door to keto for me.

(Allie) #18

I didn’t hear about it anywhere. I was just being lazy and saving time by cooking just meat at meal times then did some research and found it actually had a name. So really I went keto before I knew keto was a thing.

(Randy) #19

My brother told me what he was doing, and sent me this link:

(Pat S) #20

Ken Berry