What Happens When I Stop?

[David_Stilley]

I believe that ketosis was meant to be our primary metabolic system for fueling our bodies. We tend to think of ketosis as some sort of backup metabolism in the modern world and sugar and carb burning as the more normal way of eating. The advent of the carb heavy diet was also the beginnings of modern diseases under the umbrella of metabolic syndrome. Most of the metabolic issues that made you unhealthy the first time around were related to elevated insulin and running on carbs/sugar as your primary fuel, which is meant to be the back up system, and prolonged living like that leads to metabolic syndrome.

So what happens when you get out of ketosis is you start heading back again where you just left. I don’t believe it’s possible to switch back to a carb dominant diet and be healthy too. You might be able to stay in ketosis at a higher carb level after longer fat adaptation.

Your weight loss is the result of reversing metabolic damages and getting back to what was the intended primary way of eating for humans. “Healthy whole grains” is a myth. And starchy root vegetables just fatten you up. That’s why I’m here to stay.

[amwassil]

I prefer to think of ketogenic eating as a ‘way of health’. Keep in mind that carb-centric eating has been around for only 8K years. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors were in ketosis 99.9% of their lives. They were more robust and healthier than us. Our farmer ancestors not so much. Until the domestication and selective breeding of some plants, carbs were limited by geography, season and nutrient availability - most plants were 90% indigestible cellulose. Eating carbs in more than miniscule and incidental amounts has caused our decline in health and introduced a host of metabolic diseases unknown to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. There are couple of Michael Eades videos floating around the forums that document the deleterious changes our farmer ancestors introduced with plant cultivation and we continue to suffer. All due to abandoning and ignoring our ketogenic evolution.

Yes, continue to eat healthy - or not. Your choice. This is an oxymoron: “…a very healthy diet – lots of vegetables, healthy fats, lean proteins, whole grains (and the very occasional slice of pizza”.