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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I did it for 7 months about 3 years ago. Lost 30 pounds. I was counting calories while I was doing it as well, I was aiming at about 1200 calories a day at the time.
I liked the diet because I don't have much of a sweet tooth anyway, so cutting sugar was easy. I also like to cook, which I feel is entirely necessary for that diet, there is no way you're going to cut your carbs enough if you eat out all the time because you have so little control over what's in your food at a restaurant.
I eventually stopped doing it for the same reason everyone stops doing fad diets after a while, it just gets exhausting to keep up with, but if I ever want to drop some weight in a short time again, I'll consider it.
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Yea, being forced to cook has been great. Sometimes it’s just throwing proteins and brusselsprouts in an air fryer for 10 minutes, but I’ve not ordered out in a month beside a few dates at restaurants that generally have keto options since SoCal is the Mecca of fad dieting.
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