Posted on 05/01/2021 4:12:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An extra support way to augment this is to take things that stabilize blod sugar when you eat. Cinammon, turmeric, green tea, and a few others, all help to keep blood sugar from spiking when you eat.
I did keto for a long time and lost a lot of weight. But I gotta have my bread so I just eat it in moderation.
I’ve seen all kinds of diets. What they all have in common is cutting sugar out of the diet. This includes knocking out all forms of refined flour.
Do that and your life improves a lot.
When I did keto, I made my own yeast bread with low carb flour, regular recipe, but throw in some extra gluten. Tastes just like regular bread. The low carb flour is called carbalose. You can order it from Amazon, Wal-Mart, or netrition.com. It smells odd, but it tastes fine.
I just forgo bread etc.
I do it 5 days a week. M-F. At work, easier to stay disciplined. Sat-Sun I eat my usual way.
That sounds good in theory but didn’t work for me. I didn’t take any supplemental protein and I was still having trouble going into ketosis (according to test strips). I finally had to cut out pretty much all meat for a few days to see if I could finally go into keto. I did go into ketosis but I was miserable and quit after a couple of days.
It’s called keto flu and only lasts a handful of days. If you’d kept going another day or two, you’d probably felt better than you did before you started keto. If you ever try it again - remember to eat high fat meats (beef) rather than high protein (chicken) or at least add a bunch of high fat items to it (sour cream, butter, high fat cheeses, etc).
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