| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
The low/no carbohydrate diet has changed my life. I feel young again. Used to have wicked bad acid reflex, daily. Gone! Entirely 100% gone! Totally unexpected. I figured that if anything it would be worse. It is gone. That alone sold me on it. Getting fit has been effortless. Cravings and overeating are never a problem. 30 lbs of excess fat, gone. 6 ft 3 inches and 208 lbs. What a difference from 238 lbs! Arthritic issues, gone. We did not previously eat processed foods before, except for pasta and Mission flour tortillas, four burrito sized per day for me, 800 calories that. I loved those things. Somehow, I have not missed them or pasta or potatoes. Something about eating high fat low carb just satiates you so well, it is a non issue. Michele had blood work done after 6 months, EVERYTHING improved, significantly. Doc was surprised. She had years of marginal results. He was suggesting she get on a statin for high cholesterol. No more. Triglycerides dropped 90 points or whatever the units are. Our govt has freaking lied to us for a half century about food, the Food Pyramid has sickened and prematurely killed untold millions. It put obesity, type-2 diabetes, and dementia through the roof! Worst medical crime in history. Ketogenic eating gets rid of fatty liver and type-2 diabetes, and is proven to ward off dementia. I will be getting my blood tested soon. Anyone else try it? | ||
| Hootowl |
Been at it five years now. Lost 50 pounds in three months. Arthritis went away. I also have not been sick a day in those five years. In addition to keto levels of carbs, I stopped eating seed oil, and began intermittent fasting. Our food is killing us. | ||
| Blake |
Yes, no seed oils! Exactly! You are five years ahead of us in everything it seems! LOL. | ||
| Blake |
No more oatmeal stout though.  I had a few cheater beers this Summer. | ||
| Aesquire |
It can be hard to stick to if you have a sweet tooth, and I do a couple of mini dark chocolate bars a day as a reward. But I do go off the wagon sometimes and have to restart, can't blame anyone else. I got pretty sick, well into my trip down Denial, when I had my scheduled blood draw, and got a phone call from my Doc on Friday night, "Go to the hospital for IV insulin, NOW" ( at 255 pounds, my peak ) I really hate needles, so I went semi-keto, the Hospital Diabetes diet, and got off insulin in a month. "We tell people to diet out of Diabetes, but few do, and you're doing fine." Lost 50 pounds and then stalled, poor habits, and got to get back to it. ( Life stuff, easy to backslide when you're dealing with other people's problems ) Don't know about arthritis, that might be more seed oils so I'll focus on that. A Keto/high protein diet can be bad for you if you have liver or kidney disease, so go with the Doctor's advice. And have regular blood work, to guide you & them. I still have some nerve damage in my feet, and that's not reversed, treating my body like an Amusement park instead of temple is for young people.  I can blame some medical stuff in my life on genetics, nearsighted, drug reactions, but getting fatter than I should have and eating too much fast food & french fries is on me. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/visual-guides I went from Coca-Cola and Mt. Dew to coffee and "zero sugar" Powerade/Gatorade Zero. And more water. The funniest thing I've tried is Mt. Dew Zero, which seems to have every kind of sweetener known to man except maple syrup & honey. It's the sweetest thing I've ever tasted, and you can use it to repel ants by pouring a line of it between your picnic and the hill. | ||
| Aesquire |
For someone brought up on the dept. of Agriculture Diabetes & Heart disease Food Pyramid, the Keto recipe parts of the web are hilarious. Butter based sauces? Hollandaise is health food! https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/bacon-wrapped-h alloumi-cheese Crud, now I need to go buy some halloumi. | ||
| Hootowl |
Carbs cause inflammation, too, but yeah. Seed oils are near as makes no difference 100 percent omega 6, which is inflammatory. And the omega 3 they contain is not in a form we can use. Fish oil is almost a must to get close to 1:1. | ||
| Hootowl |
I cheat during a two weekend period around thanksgiving. An annual beer festival a friend of mine puts on, followed by Thanksgiving and the Texas Renaissance Festival. | ||
| Tootal |
I too stopped eating bread and too many carbs. I only shop the outside of the grocery store, none of the internal rows, except for coffee. I do enjoy liquid bread in moderation though! My doctor wanted me on a statin but I refused. My triglycerides dropped way down and that's the main thing. | ||
| Hootowl |
Assume quotes around good and bad in the following. I cannot post quotes. My bad cholesterol went up on keto. Doc wanted me on a statin. I also refused. Bad cholesterol plays a part in immunity, and are simply the core carriers of good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol is taken into the liver where it has more cholesterol packed onto it, making it good. They distribute that cholesterol to the body. All hormones are made of cholesterol. Vitamin D is made of cholesterol. When your liver does not need any more of these small LDL particles, it stops uptaking them. This causes the count to go up. Statins force the liver to uptake them. This harms the liver. The bad particles are not bad unless they become oxidized or glycated from seed oil and sugar. Guess what? A statin cannot force your liver to uptake these damaged particles. So statins do nothing except harm the liver. Seed oil and sugar damage your cholesterol circulation system and those damaged very small LDL particles are what causes arterial damage. Those cause inflammation and essentially wounds in the artery. This is what leads to plaque and calcification (combined with a lack of K2 - which is abundant in eggs, and what your doctor does not want you to eat). | ||
| Hootowl |
Also, beware of a lot of the keto stuff out there. Almond flour is loaded with oxalates. Eat this only if you want to experience acute kidney failure. You have all undoubtedly heard that rhubarb leaves are poisonous. They are not. They are simply loaded with oxalates. If you must eat high oxalate foods, add calcium powder to the recipe. This causes the oxalate to combine with calcium in the gut, where the resulting compound is harmless. If it happens in your body, you strip calcium from your bones, and get kidney stones. The more I learn about how bad plants are for me, the more carnivore appeals to me. I have essentially cut plants other than onions and cruciferous. The antinutrient in broccoli reduces thyroid function. My thyroid does not work at all, and I take a pill, so no harm no foul. | ||
| Tootal |
Statins also stop the liver from producing other needed things for your health, not just Cholesterol. Your brain is made with Cholesterol. Hmmm, Statins and dementia related??? | ||
| Ourdee |
It is how I beat diabetes. From A1C of 10.1 to 5.4. | ||
| Blake |
Jeff, I have found that spinach has a great beneficial effect. I toss a bunch in with my scrambled eggs or omelette. The ol Popeye effect aint entirely wrong. See if you notice any effect. | ||
| Hootowl |
I do eat spinach, in a spring mix blend. I put shredded cheese on my salads so that the oxalates in the spinach and the calcium in the cheese combine in my gut, rather than have the oxalates strip calcium from my bones. |
