I’ve been cooking for myself since I was 5 years old, which means my relationship with food is based on a 5 year-old’s heuristic understanding of a balanced diet. Could I have tried to learn some actual dietary fundamentals in the past 25 years? Sure, but my understanding of healthy is “am I still frickable” and that’s been affirmed (sometimes unfortunately) over the timespan.
Well now I’m 30, and the cycle of going 20 pounds over and then crash-dieting back to normal has gotten harder. My usual go-tos of cereal, sandwiches and rice-heavy stir fry has been making it really hard to keep pounds off as I work out less.
So a friend I was trying to have s*x with recommended keto and showed me recipes she’s been trying out, and so I gave it a shot.
Night and goddarn day. It’s only been a few weeks and I’ve had to cut coffee for black tea since I have too much energy now. I don’t feel like a bloated sack of shit if I don’t make dinner before 5pm anymore. And the best part is I haven’t bothered calorie counting. I’ve had MyFitnessPal, a food scale, heavily-invested into CICO through my 20s, where I’d go from 2500 calories a day to 1400 for a few weeks to carve off pounds. And it works, but going to bed hungry sucks. And when I finally am getting laid, why bother continuing to do it?
I’ve not counted once with Keto and I just feel good all the time. Probably shaving off 2-3 pounds a week, including this last week where I’ve been on bedrest with a back injury.
Anyway, tell me about your experiences with the diet too. Getting a lot of value out of my $70 air fryer.
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Did keto for 5 weeks and it was indeed a huge mood and energy booster. Alas, I gave in and wanted pizza one weekend. lol I keep carbs down best I can but have loosened up my diet a bit since I work out a lot every day. If I went back to a wagie job, I would likely go back to low carbs.
Those eggs are perfect btw!
Just spent two weeks with my family eating and drinking all day, so today is day 1 back in the habit and losing the bloat and weight I probably put on. When you go back to large amounts of carbs, you always feel like shit and I do right now. Got like 3 days of this before it goes away.
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Yea, I’m going up to Alaska in a few weeks to hike/kayak etc but also to daydrink since “daydrinking” in the Alaskan summer is drinking anytime before 11pm.
Worried I’m gonna break the diet even if I’m not craving anything right now. When I lived in Juneau there was this incredible waffle place, Russian dumplings, and a frickton of distilleries. Gonna give myself some grace here but I’m hoping I don’t overdo it on vacation and making coming back to earth much harder.
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Just remember you gotta go through the keto flu again if you give in! lol
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