Keto diet and low carb eating
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Most opinions are that keto testing kits are not useful. On kind are strips that you use with urine. Once you are further along your body uses all the ketones instead of pissing out the surplus. The strips will show less and less ketones as you get more adapted. If you are eating less then 20g of carbs you can assume you are in ketosis.
If you use reddit there are some good sbreddits that are useful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/
If you use reddit there are some good sbreddits that are useful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/
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I found that once in ketosis your mouth becomes very dry and the need to drink lots of water.
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Anytime you're on any kind of diet you need to drink lots, at least 2 liters, of water every day.
When you lose weight the first 5k. is water and if you don't drink a lot of water you can damage your kidneys. Drink a cup (250ml) every waking hour and you'll be covered. If you go out, take a bottle of water with you. Yes, it's annoying to have pee all the time but that's preferable to damaged kidneys.
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I've been on other diets, usually low calorie, and never experienced such thirst. It is listed in 'signs when in ketosis' and puts it down to the lack of carbs:
This is because when your body burns fat instead of carbs, it produces ketones, which must be passed via frequent and increased urination.
This is because when your body burns fat instead of carbs, it produces ketones, which must be passed via frequent and increased urination.
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Yep, defo thirstier so drinking more water and peeing more so it must be working. Won't bother with the tests then.
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Six weeks into Keto now and I've hit my target weight of 75kgs.
Eating out over the weekend away was a big challenge, every single Thai dish has sugar in it and you have to tell them specifically not to add it, to which you get very strange looks. To avoid the rice, we'd order the dish plus an omelet but couldn't avoid the cheap dirty palm oil they cook everything in. I'd hate to be diabetic in this country, it is very unhealthy eating out.
Will carry on Keto into March by which time none of my shorts will fit!
Eating out over the weekend away was a big challenge, every single Thai dish has sugar in it and you have to tell them specifically not to add it, to which you get very strange looks. To avoid the rice, we'd order the dish plus an omelet but couldn't avoid the cheap dirty palm oil they cook everything in. I'd hate to be diabetic in this country, it is very unhealthy eating out.
Will carry on Keto into March by which time none of my shorts will fit!
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Well done that man!
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Until such time as you buy new ones, I hope you’re a belt or braces man (or both)buksida wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 11:51 am Six weeks into Keto now and I've hit my target weight of 75kgs.
Eating out over the weekend away was a big challenge, every single Thai dish has sugar in it and you have to tell them specifically not to add it, to which you get very strange looks. To avoid the rice, we'd order the dish plus an omelet but couldn't avoid the cheap dirty palm oil they cook everything in. I'd hate to be diabetic in this country, it is very unhealthy eating out.
Will carry on Keto into March by which time none of my shorts will fit!
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I found the same - shorts were falling down and my shirts became extra baggy.
The upside is that clothes/shirts/T-shirts that I bought years ago now fit!!
The upside is that clothes/shirts/T-shirts that I bought years ago now fit!!
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Great effort and amazing how much weigh Keto folks lose without appearing to make much sacrifice, in the sense that most of the food is yummy and you never seems to go hungry.buksida wrote:Six weeks into Keto now and I've hit my target weight of 75kgs.
Eating out over the weekend away was a big challenge, every single Thai dish has sugar in it and you have to tell them specifically not to add it, to which you get very strange looks. To avoid the rice, we'd order the dish plus an omelet but couldn't avoid the cheap dirty palm oil they cook everything in. I'd hate to be diabetic in this country, it is very unhealthy eating out.
Will carry on Keto into March by which time none of my shorts will fit!
It seems that after a couple of months being strictly Keto, the body becomes metabolically efficient. This basically mean that whilst it’s taken you 6 weeks of dedication to drastically reduce your carb intake, you can occasionally tuck into a carb heavy meal without effecting your keto compliance.
Providing you follow up a carb load meal with a fat intensive meal (eg. carb dinner, fat breakfast) the body will quickly click back into ketosis.
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One sandwich can knock you out of Ketosis and it will take 3 - 4 days to get back into it.
Read it on google but since proved it to be true.
Read it on google but since proved it to be true.
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There are many benefits to the keto diet besides weight loss. I have been on Keto for three years. Not always in ketosis but lost a lot of weight and feel much more energy, sleep better and cognizant. My blood tests are much better. No longer pre-diabetic.
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Clearly agreed on the increase carb intake knocking you out of ketosis. There are numerous studies on the subject of metabolic flexibility and the body’s ability to quickly return back to ketosis after an intensive carb kick. It seems that the more tuned the body is to ketosis the quicker it can return to that state. It makes sense I guess especially if the body is restricted from carbs and energy sources immediately replaced with fats.HHTel wrote:One sandwich can knock you out of Ketosis and it will take 3 - 4 days to get back into it.
Read it on google but since proved it to be true.
It seems that by simply fasting for a period of 36 hours (water intake only), the body begins to generate ketones and utilizes fat deposits as the primary energy source. Again it makes sense, restricting carbs completely will force the body to utilize stored fat as energy.
I wonder if your sandwich experiment could be retried after another sustained period of ketone generation, perhaps the 3-4 days you experienced first time would be reduced next time. It’s certainly what is being suggested in the literature I’ve read.
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Going to do another month before venturing back into the world of carbs! Avoiding the sugar has been harder since it is in absolutely EVERYTHING here.
Once the body acclimates, it gets easier getting back into Keto again after getting knocked out of it.
Once the body acclimates, it gets easier getting back into Keto again after getting knocked out of it.
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The 'sandwich experiment' was not from experience. Just something I read on one of the Keto sites.