Three day neewbie

(DALE M PHILLIP'S) #1

Third day today, blood sugar down from fasting 140-165 to 108-111.
Not losing weight yet, but feel WAY more energetic in the morning.
Had a serious sugar addiction, 70 pounds over weight, diabetic, had three stints put in in January. Looking forward to reversing the diabetes!!

(Alec) #2

Welcome Dale! Stick at it, the weight will come off when your body decides it no longer needs it. You’re already in the process of reversing your T2D!! Loads of people here have done it.

Keep calm and keto on!

(Carl Keller) #3

Hi Dale.

You’ve chosen the perfect way of eating to reverse your T2D. Be patient with the scale. It takes time to heal your metabolism and to get your hormones to behave how they are supposed to but it can be done!

(Jody) #4

It can be tough at first, but hang in there! Welcome to the community!

(Marianne) #5

Good for you! Once you get acclimated, days turn into weeks and weeks into months, with no sweat. This is the easiest, most pleasurable “diet” I have been on. I think you will see big changes - in weight and non-scale victories - all the while eating delicious food and not craving sugar. I’d suggest that you make sure you’re eating enough, just starting out, and maybe waiting a couple weeks before incorporating fasting. You want to make sure you are getting enough fat and food in the beginning so that you are not hungry and to help eliminate/minimize the sugar cravings. Here’s seeing you around!

(MikeSpeed) #6

Cliché: Its not a diet, its a lifestyle.

When I started keto I was 296 lbs. In less than a year I lost 90 lbs. A gym membership was not necessary. This shit works, just mind your electrolytes. I was told this when I started keto but I grossly underestimated it. My skin got super dry (cracked and bleeding) and I had a few times where I was so lite-headed that it was dangerous.

Your results may vary but it may not hurt to have an electrolyte supplement handy.

Now that I’m adapted and familiar with it, it totally is a lifestyle. Now, every time I order pizza I’m disappointed that I didn’t order the Cobb salad instead.

(Marianne) #7

Do you think this was from low electrolytes? How are you supplementing. Right now, I am just salting my food and sometimes drinking salt water.

Congratulations on your progress!

#8

Welcome. You are doing great! I am a fellow sugar addict and this way of eating is hands down the best way to gain control over that addiction. In fact, I’ve never been on another “diet” in my life that wasn’t torture due to not eating as much as I wanted and feeling hungry, and constantly thinking about (craving) high carb foods. Even on Atkins where I enjoyed the food and lost weight easily, but the cravings didn’t subside, because I believe my carb intake still wasn’t as low as it needed to be for me.

(MikeSpeed) #9

I didn’t do anything scientific to confirm that it was electrolytes but I believe it was. The lightheadedness may have been keto-flu or magnesium; I couldn’t say. I feel pretty strongly though that the dry skin was from low potassium. Before I started taking the potassium my hands and feet were super dry! They were almost always peeling and I had cracks in the skin at the edges of my fingernails and on the heels of my feet that would sometime split and bleed. Lotion, Bag Balm and Neosporin all had very little affect. Since I started taking the potassium none of that has been a problem.

I take 200mg magnesium & 99mg potassium daily. I know that I could get these from food naturally but its been difficult for me.

#10

I’m also a relative newbie (6 weeks in and feeling great). Everything seems to be going as expected: joint pain way down, lost some weight, very few cravings of anything. But I’m bothered by the almost painful splitting of my skin around my nails. I’m doing the electrolyte solution once or twice a day and taking a Mg supplement. Wondering if maybe I need to also take vitamin c. Thoughts? Is this thread still alive??

(Marianne) #11

I’m sorry, I don’t know either way about supplements or electrolytes for this. I don’t think a multivitamin can hurt and know that getting enough salt is actually important. Don’t know about this either, but I also take a vitamin C supplement every day as I figure I am probably not getting sufficient amounts of it from my regular diet.

I would just say stick with it. Six weeks, although great, is not a long time to see major normalization in all areas. I have been on this a year and really incredible things have happened. Some were early on (loss of inflammation and aches and pains), and some took longer (favorable LDL, etc.). The amazing thing is that in addition to those, really incredible things have happened - honestly, the wicked age spots on my hands (I am 61), have reduced so much, it is remarkable to me. The scaly skin on my elbows that I could not mitigate over a lifetime have disappeared. My elbows are completely smooth now, and that is without using any moisturizer whatsoever. My skin look great. I’ve had some minor surgeries and procedures, and the scars from those have lightened considerably. I believe my body is so much more healthy than a year ago, and it just continues to get better.

So, I really believe in time that your splitting issues will lessen and/or eventually disappear.

#12

Your words are inspirational! I too am seeing strange skin irregularities disappearing and am very motivated to continue this path. Thanks so much!

(Marianne) #13

Music to my ears! I love it when people discover the wonders of keto - and the way we get to eat and still lose weight! Heading to the kitchen now to make our dinner of huge pork steaks and cole slaw.

Best.
:hugs: