Diet and Eating Right

[hurley842002]

How many of those are you eating at a time?

Usually just two, each one is a half piece of string cheese and one piece of salami.

[Batteriesnare]

Usually just two, each one is a half piece of string cheese and one piece of salami.

That's helpful - they looked like full sticks to me!

[Parf]

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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[CS1983]

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.

[Duman]

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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I didn't realize Maker's Mark was on the approved Keto list !

[Parf]

I didn't realize Maker's Mark was on the approved Keto list !

Oh, yes. Yes it is.

Fight me.

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[Batteriesnare]

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?

[Parf]

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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[CS1983]

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.

[crays]

So I'm guessing IF is intermittent fasting?

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