Nice work! Pick up a 40lb dumbbell and feel the difference.Quote:
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Nice work! Pick up a 40lb dumbbell and feel the difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Holy crap, that's great! Congrats. Are you following a specific diet?Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
No. Just made it up myself. Basically I avoid sugar, keep the carbs as low as I can, eat three meals a day that mostly consist of vegetables and lean meats, and try to keep my calories to around 500 a meal. The first twenty or twenty-five pounds came off quick then it slowed down and I’ve been dropping two to four pounds a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fentonite
Also, I have laid off of beer and switched to hard liquor instead. Lol.
That's awesome. I need to do the same, but the motivation to drop beer just isn't there yet.
Honestly, cutting the beer out was the hard part. I do still have one from time to time as a special treat. But if I just want a beverage in the evening it usually involves vodka or rum now. I do plan on putting my “no beer” rule aside on April 6th when I go to the Rockies home opener. I’ll probably make up for lost time by having as many as I can handle.
Beer is probably the biggest bad part of my diet as well. I was going to ask Hurley what beer he drinks since he avoids carbs. I recently did the grocery shopping and only bought vegetables and meats. Some stuff I bought too much of and it went bad, but for that week or two I was eating very healthy (and intermittent fasting) and I really felt great.
Ray, I assume you're just drinking vodka and rum straight, or are you using mixers?
I have been body building for the last 4+ years and have learned that vodka sodas are my best friend. I like the taste (or lack of) of soda water so it doesn't bother me but at home, I use La Croix's (YAY for the millennial drink). I have friends that mix crystal light packets or Mijo to theirs for flavor. Another good choice is coke zero, sprite zero, fresca or diet tonic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
If I'm not drinking beer, I'd do whisky, which I can just drink straight.
I've never had straight rum or vodka that wasn't a shot. I'm more curious if he's just sipping vodka, or having a mixer.
Crown and coke zero is one of my go to "keto friendly" beverages, vodka tonic, cranberry vodka using the sugar free or reduced sugar variants, or good ol Michelob ultra's quench the thirst just fine.
I was going to ask about Michelob Ultra. Thanks for jumping in.
I mix it. Mostly with ginger beer. Not the best but still better for me than beer. I think it turns out about 110 calories so if I’ve been active or haven’t had about 1500 calories that day I can splurge.
Moscow Mules are my splurge drink of choice, especially with extra lime. Careful as ginger beer is loaded with sugar.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I like it, if anything it's refreshing, different taste than the other light beers IMO, and 2.6 grams of carbs, which is less than most of the sparkling alcoholic beverages that seem to be geared towards the low carb lifestyle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Keto folks, a question. I've been on the diet for a little over a week now, and I feel great. The problem I'm having now is hitting a minimum calorie count per day - I'm sticking around 1200-1300/day and don't feel hungry at all, but I'm concerned about cutting to far and having my body/metabolism adjust to this being the new normal (especially if I introduce some carbs a little later down stream). My target for daily calories is 1800, which is cutting at 2lbs/week. I should also mention that this includes two tablespoons of MCT oil - one AM and one PM.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Yeah. I just looked. Looks like 18g of sugar. Honestly, that’s probably the only sugar I’m sticking in my body and I probably do it once every three or four days. Doesn’t seem to have slowed my weight loss so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthPaw
What percentage of your calories are from fat? 1200-1300 definitely seems a bit low, especially if you aren't taking in enough fat, which is part of the foundation of Keto. Are you exercising also? If yes, your calorie intake definitely seems low, even your goal intake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Batteriesnare
I was at 52% fat, 44% protein and 4% carbs yesterday. I realize that I need to bring the protein down and get a higher percentage of fat, but I'm struggling to shove food in my face when I'm just not hungry.Quote:
Originally Posted by hurley842002
I've made some fat bombs, but those have been a combination of melted coconut oil and protein powder, which doesn't really help the cause. The strange part is, before going on this diet, I was constantly hungry (or could feel like eating), but now I'm having a hard time finishing regular portioned meals.
Your percentages are definitely on point, you might try some more fat dense foods like salami cold cuts, high fat, cuts of meat etc. My wife makes us string cheese wrapped in salami, which I'll eat with a plain Greek yogurt, and a hard boiled egg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Batteriesnare
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How many of those are you eating at a time?Quote:
Originally Posted by hurley842002
Usually just two, each one is a half piece of string cheese and one piece of salami.Quote:
Originally Posted by Batteriesnare
That's helpful - they looked like full sticks to me!Quote:
Originally Posted by hurley842002
I started on a keto diet March 3rd, after I injured my lower back. I've dropped 21lbs so far. I'm shooting for 1600 calories per day with 180g protein and 25g net carbs. The foods that help me with sticking to the diet the most, are:
Costco's Premier Protein Shakes, at 160 calories, 30g protein, and 4 net carbs.
Sugar free jello, at 10 calories and no carbs per snack cup, I am free to gorge on a whole pack of 4 if I need to.
Macadamia nuts in moderation.
Chicharones in moderation.
Boar's Head Tavern Ham deli lunchmeat.
Bulk hard boiled eggs from Costco.
6oz bags of triple washed baby spinach with 35 calories and ~5 net carbs for the whole bag.
LaCroix canned sparkling water.
Makers Mark.
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Always on the lookout for monotony-breaking food items, I stumbled upon this tandoori chicken w/ spinach microwavable.
https://www.amazon.com/Tandoor-Chef-.../dp/B002GOYT6Y
You can get them at your local grocery store (not Walmart, I don't think), Vitamin cottage, etc.
They have 6g total carbs, and 3 of those are dietary fiber.
Vitamin Cottage on Nevada here in COS had them on a markdown sale price. I cleaned them out.
I didn't realize Maker's Mark was on the approved Keto list ! [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Parf
Oh, yes. Yes it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
Fight me.
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What have been y'all's experience with IF? Did you find it was helpful when doing a keto diet? Any suggestions on improving the long term sustainability of using keto/maintaining healthy weight?
I'm a big fan of the 24 hour fast for one reason. If you look at your calories on a weekly basis, 1800 calories per day is 12,600 per week. If you fast 1 day you can bump your daily calories up to 2100 and maintain the same weekly 12,600. A 48 hour fast or 2 separate 24 hour ones gets you up to 2520 per day.
I find it much easier to not eat anything all day, and then go to bed a bit early and hungry instead of grinding away being hungry every day forever.
Fasting is also a good bit easier when you are fat adapted from being on a keto diet.
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Cannot speak to IF in conjunction w/ Keto, though it seems google has a lot of results.
Karl Denninger has been doing a no/low carb thing for several years now. He maintains it's not a "diet", it's a lifestyle change. That doesn't mean never any carbs, but it does mean a basic change in what you will be eating on any regular basis.
Having a slice of cake at a special event will not kill your maintenance. Heck, even having 1 day a week probably won't be awful. Going back to consistently awful eating habits and items will definitely put you in the "'Murica!" category of lard-assed, useless, heavy breathing, obesity demographic -- at least over time and as the body slows down (not that you were any of those things, Batt...)
...and then there's those folks with the metabolism of a marathon running meth addict who taunt us all with their beer and sweets.
So I'm guessing IF is intermittent fasting?
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Originally Posted by crays
I do IF and Keto.
It makes it easier for me to limit my total calories. I stop eating at 8PM and I don't start again until 11:30-12:00 the next day. I do coffee/heavy whipping cream/stevia early in the morning, so I guess it's not a complete fast from 8-12, but it helps in the morning. I'm targeting 1800 calories a day in an effort to drive my weight loss a bit more effectively. Before I would eat keto approved foods if/when I was hungry, and I was losing weight, but it wasn't as fast when I was eating 2-3+K calories a day. Now with the limited calories, it is really starting to come off again.
It takes a bit to get used to, but in the end I feel better when I go for that long not eating. It's hard to describe, but I've bounced back and forth between IF and not, and I have also started and fallen off of Keto, and am now back on it.
The difference in my energy level and the way I feel is great.
For those who take protein drinks or powder what have you found to be the best not packed with sugar
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Premier Protein shakes from Costco or Sam's Club. 160 calories, 30g protein, and 2 net carbs. These in my opinion are the best. They just taste pretty good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunner
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MetRx meal replacement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunner
You can find it at GNC, I order mine online at DPS Nutrition. Chocolate is best. Vanilla works, but needs some flavoring added (I use cinnamon) to make it work.
A bit of an update on my most recent Keto stint. I started the begging of the year at around 188 give or take, and to date my lowest has been 168. I haven't been nearly as strict this time around, to the point where it may be more of a low carb diet, and not full on Keto (I don't test myself or anything). I ate a ton this winter and lifted heavily, so I'm hoping to have more lean muscle mass this summer.
I find doing pull-ups at 165 way easier than at 210.
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Oh absolutely, I'm shooting for 20 pull ups in the next month, up to 12 in my first set as of today, full dead hang pull ups, not kip or whatever they are called. Ultimate goal is muscle ups for reps, my beginning sets of pull ups feel powerful enough, and I can go all day on dips, it's just putting the two together (kind of).Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Kips are like pull-ups for LARPers. lol
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Originally Posted by Irving