Thanking this community and sharing my plateau

#21

I never would finish one serving of cereal but of course, who eats zero cereal, don’t buy cereal…

So it’s elsewhere too, not surprising. The only thing I saw with “KETO” on it was oatmeal. Very normal oatmeal with fruits and stuff, just tiny (and expensive as all oatmeal in a package*)… Getting less than 20g carbs from a teeny-tiny high-carb stuff isn’t so very much keto to me… It CAN be eaten on keto, sure. It doesn’t worth it for anyone I suppose but it is possible. Everything is keto that way.

*I just don’t get this laziness(? if it can be called that). There are tons of stuff that is far from ready to eat, you still need to make it - and it’s about as much work if you just use cheap ingredients. Pancake powder, muffin powder, there is all kind of stuff that makes zero sense to me. They usually even need the person who buys them to add egg and milk!

(Kirk Wolak) #22

Add to that…
I have to be below 5g of carbs/day to maintain ketosis!

in fact, a protein heavy meal can easily spike my glucose 30-40 points!
(and have me nodding off shortly after). This is CLEAN. Beef + Salt.

So every body is different in it’s tolerance. Awareness First. Then Measuring!
(Because the other thing I learned is ZERO does NOT mean ZERO. LOL)

(Liz Santiago) #23

what rule is that? I have never heard of it. Oh, and thanks!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #24

I’ve also heard of it as the five-ingredient rule. Basically, it’s a way of distinguishing highly-processed foods from real foods. Real foods have only a few ingredients. Furthermore, those ingredients have simple names, such as “beef,” “milk,” “eggs,” and so forth. It’s a good idea to avoid any product that contains any ingredient your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise (such as disodium phosphate, EDTA, maltodextrin, and the like).

(Alec) #25

The best keto food is not badged keto. It’s called a steak.

#26

A very okay food item may have many ingredients (various spices and meats, sometimes they are listed) and a bad one only a few so I never cared about such simple rules. I just read the ingredients list and compare it to my blacklist and other things :slight_smile:
Yep if I have no idea what something is, that’s a bad sign.
And of course, it’s best when I buy simple one-ingredient things, preferably without a label… But I can’t be that strict, that wouldn’t end well. But my staples are like that, good.

My mustard has several ingredients but it tastes nice and has no added sugar. (Still didn’t learn to make good, nice, creamy mustard :frowning: mine is good to mix into things but on top of my eggs? I need something lovely there.)

(Alec) #27

My rule is: if it doesn’t have an ingredient list, it’s a real food. If it needs an ingredient list, someone has mucked around with it.

#28

I don’t see why that would be a problem but anyway, I need cream much more. I do try to minimize it but not because it has a label and another ingredient.
Our carbs have all only one ingredients except my SO’s pasta, that has water too. I am way more interested in what kind of ingredients my food has, not how many.
I would miss cheese too, sometimes (4 ingredients, the normal ones a cheese has). Yep, some people wouldn’t eat a processed, not natural food like dairy and what’s more, an aged, multi-ingredients one but as it was already mentioned, I am not like that :wink:

(Kirk Wolak) #29

The 2 Ingredient Rule is for Whole Foods.
The 5 Ingredient Rule is Ultra Processed (5 or more ingredients, you really have to avoid it).

Dr. Aseem Mohltra was on with Dr. Berry. GREAT EPISODE from an honest Cardiologist! (And he mentions the 5 Ingredient rule for Ultra Processed)