Find a support group. A couple of middle age plus people I follow are Serious Keto (youtube) and 2krazyketos (youtube, they also have a great Facebook group). They both have incredible testimonies.
If you do decide on this life, start by "detoxying" your house and dispose of/donate all of your carb foods and artificial oils (seed/canola). Fill cabinets with healthy fats, almond flour, coconut flour. Fill your fridge with fatty meats, full fat cheese, heavy cream, butter, and low carb veggies. If you like chips, pork rinds.
Take a vacation for your withdrawal week.
Electrolytes. Carb withdrawal will result in your body burning through stored glucose. There are lots of water molecules bound to glucose molecules that will be flushed and they will pull out electrolytes when they go.
Eat as low carb as you can go to break the carb addiction.
Eat fat as much as you need to stay full during withdrawal.
Salt under the tongue when you crave carbs (sweets).
Premake a nice, rich, low carb dessert for awhile. Depends on your social/work life temptations and will power, but people will tempt you, snacks brought to work, etc. Have your outlet easily available.
People will say "oh, a little bit won't hurt," but most little bits will be over 20 net carbs and you will be out of ketosis.
Record and cherish the non-scale victories (NSV). If you have chronic pain, you will see a reduction. If you bloat when you eat, it will stop. You will eventually find weightloss to be an added benefit but the other wins will overwhelm it.
Check out keto-mojo.com for great info.
Yeah, at first I was looking for “fat bomb” recipes that tasted good and were easy to make. I’m over that now.
Yesterday I had a three egg and cheese omelette for lunch, then a one pound strip steak for dinner.
I’ve lost 8 pounds in less than two weeks. Stopped eating bread,pasta,French fries,anything with wheat in it, potato chips,no sugar soda. No crackers and cut way back on any sugar. I put heavy cream in my morning coffee instead of sugar.
What I’ve been eating:
Hamburger meat,lettuce wedge with blue cheese dressing.
Hot dogs sauerkraut.
Steak & broccoli.
Bacon or sausage with eggs.
Lunch meat, pickles,cheese. Still eat oranges, apples which have some sugar. Fresh Raspberry & blueberrys with heavy cream.
Cottage cheese with fresh berries.
Low carb Yogurt with fresh berries.
When I went low carb fifteen years ago I lost a lot of weight right away in the first month, but then it slowed down. I started at 225 then Lost 25 pound. Got down to 200. Didn’t get below 200. Kept it off for a few years until I started eating bread & pasta again. I think wheat is the cause of gaining weight.
I was at 230. I’m at 220 now. Hope to get below 200. Be great if I got down to 180-190
“Salt under the tongue when you crave carbs (sweets).”
I eat one or two macadamia nuts when I crave sweets. I also have the 0 carb water flavorings that help me with sweets.