Starting tomorrow

#1

I’m starting a keto diet tomorrow. I’m just sneaking into the obease category. I hate my weight. I just got acid reflux for the first time in my life and so while I was planning a gradual reduction of carbs over a 2 month period I just feel like my body is telling me enough is enough.

I’m sure I’ll post a lot on here.

I don’t plan on telling anyone in my real life as they won’t be supportive and will be convinced I’m heading to a heart attack. Guess this is one time where being single is a bonus.

Right, I’ll try and post daily to keep myself accountable. Off to the kitchen for me now to do some meal prep.

(Arlene) #2

Jenny, I wish you great success with learning and implementing this way of eating. It should easily take care of the acid reflux. I hope your plan of gradually reducing carbs over a 2 month period works for you. It took me quite some time to accept that I would have to make these changes if I wanted to feel and look better. I had so many set backs, but I never gave up. Eventually, I went almost zero carb, and finally no more sweet cravings. I no longer fight with myself. I no longer look at a bag of oreo cookies or a snickers bar and vividly remember and long for that taste. Sometimes I can still remember the taste of some junk food, but it no longer has power over me. For me, it took removing the carbs drastically to get me out of my major carb addiction. I strongly urge you to educate yourself as much as possible. There are great resources on this site, and great people to bounce your thoughts off of. Best of luck to you.

(Carpe salata!) #3

I know it was a typo - but CRABS . I love it.

I started in on kind of paleo. I wanted to make it simple and easy. I had one rule: no grains, no sugar. OK, maybe that’s two rules. Also I kind of figured out that I needed ‘good water’ like celery, cucumber, capsicum … things like that, and make sure things I eat were nutritious and not empty calories.

The step up to keto was pretty easy after that.

I was thinking of starting a thread on mental tricks and tips. Little self-talk things. “I’m not eating those crabs” would fit perfectly!

(bulkbiker) #4

As an encouragement my acid reflux and general bloating disappeared after about a week on a (at the time ) LCHF diet and have never returned after 18 months now full on keto.

(Carpe salata!) #5

I also had the reflux and would notice it when I lay down to sleep and it would annoy me.

It was one of the several things in the “do not want” category. (Reflux, cramps, lethargy, headaches, breathing effort, weight…)

I filed carbs under “do not want” and they all went away together.

(Siobhan) #6

Keep it simple at the start to make it easy on yourself.
You can focus on just keeping carbs <20g per day and eating fat to satiety, or if you want to go all in and it wouldnt be overwhelming go for 1-1.5g of protein per kg of lean body mass per day as well.

Good luck and you can do it! We are all here for you!

#7

Thanks for the comments. Can see this is going to take a bit more getting used to than I realized.

Had eggs and proper butcher sausage made without breadcrumbs for breakfast. Nice

Packed lunch and put it in the office fridge. Morning meeting ran way over schedule. Didn’t have time to go back to office before next meeting so am now sitting eating a bunless Angus burger but forgot to say no pickle. So that’s on the veg. Surprisingly few low carb options around for lunches.

Thought I’d treat myself witha 25g dark chocolate toblerone as the burger wasn’t a large meal and I was craving something sweet… Just looked at the calories and for 100g it’s like 50g sugar! For dark chocolate! So yeah that was stupid. Just assumed dark chocolate would be less. Clearly needs to be quality dark chocolate.

Going out for dinner as a good friend is in town so I guess I’ll be having a mainly vegetable meal with a dash of protein.

Not an ideal start.

I guess over time you work out where to buy lunches in times like this? I live in Asia and most Asian food is carb heavy and the western lunch food tends to be sandwiches, pasta or salad (couldn’t find any salad around today).

Guess I’ll improve as I go along this and not forget to check any packaged food carb amounts before buying it again!

#8

Also great to hear about others improvements in their acid reflux. As it was my first experience of it last night hopefully on this diet (once I get through the teething period) I’ll not have to experience that again!

(Carpe salata!) #9

We went out to Chinese the other night …

Seafood omelet, Chinese vegetables, and some sang choi bow … I think we came in pretty close :slight_smile:

#10

Thanks Peter, I guess I just need tofind the right places. Like noodle restaurants are out but some other places probably do have things on the menu like you said!

(Jim Russell) #11

Dark chocolate just means they don’t add milk. They can still add as much sugar as they like. :slight_smile: Reading food labels will show you how much the food industry likes to put sugar (or more likely high-fructose corn syrup) in everything.

There is a learning curve to eating keto, don’t worry if you make a few mistakes. Learn from them and move on.

As you become keto-adapted, you will be able to skip meals if there are no good options available.

Keep calm and keto on.

(Doug) #12

[quote=“Jimbo, post:11, topic:14193”]
Reading food labels will show you how much the food industry likes to put sugar (or more likely high-fructose corn syrup) in everything.[/quote]

So depressingly true. I’ve read that in the U.S. there are roughly 800,000 food items to be found in stores, and that about 75% - 600,000 of them - have added sugar. :neutral_face:

#13

What’s wrong with pickles?

(Jeffry Lauder) #14

Most of the time, even dill pickles are made with a substantial amount of sugar. Sour dill being one exception I’m aware of. Safer to steer clear if you can’t look at the label.

#15

I’d always heard that also but I’ve rarely seen a serving of pickles have over 1 carb. And that’s usually a whole dill pickle. A few slices of any dill pickle can’t be that bad? But I guess if your macros are that tight? I’ve eaten massive amounts of all kinds of pickles and managed to stay deep in ketosis.

(Jeffry Lauder) #16

@Rian, interesting. I’m always worried about them at restaurants because I’ve made dill pickles and watched more than a cup of sugar go in. I never really thought about how that’d translate into per serving. Maybe not much is actually absorbed into the pickle.

#17

Jimbo thanks for the info on dark chocolate! I didn’t realise. Will definitely read labels!

The pickles were in some kind of sauce which is how they seem to do them in Asia (a bit like McDonald pickles on burgers so I’m fairly sure there was a fair amount of sugar).

But dinner was a bit of a disaster. Turned out to be a curry buffet. Could have made good choices. Gave in to some Naan bread though. Didn’t eat too much (compared to what I normally would have so I guess that’s better than nothing)

But back at it today. Just about to eat a yummy salad with lettuce, red onion, avocado and come bacon. Yum.