• Fuyu
    +2

    Unfortunately I'm under a required meal plan for my University so during the school year, I don't have access to healthy food. During the summer, I eat pretty healthy following the 17 Day Diet book. However, thanks for the link! I've been interested in cooking my own food (even if I can't at the moment) for a while and have a small collection of recipes I'm happy to add more to.

    • mathematical
      +5

      I'm not a health expert, but I've gone from 470 to today's weigh-in of 351.6lbs since last March. It's all calories-in-calories-out but I use keto to help keep energy and satiety where they need to be. If you have any questions, just let me know. It's actually really easy to get going, and then once you've got the mindset, it's hard to remember eating junk or going back to how things were.

      • Wenjarich
        +1

        This is exactly how I lost weight. I went from 102kg to 85kg in 4 months. I found an app that helped a lot. Mostly though it was the fact that it gave me my daily budget of calories I could spend and adjusted it if I did excercise. It also tood you the calories of something if you entered it. I wasn't told I couldn't eat anything, there were just certain things that I chose to stop eating because they were too "expensive".

        It's a bit like when you decide you really want to buy a knew laptop, then you see how much it costs and decide it's not worth the amount you'd spend. I started realising that that awesome meal that I got from the recipe on the app, the meal that was too much food for me to finish, got less calories than this little chocolate I wanted.

    • Gozzin
      +2

      I've also been doing keto and it works. I've lost weight and I have not gained it back. But I've also not gone back to the sad either.

      http://www.dietdoctor.com/

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    • Kysol (edited 8 years ago)
      +1

      Basically what /u/mathematical said. Keto isn't some "special" meals. Think Bacon, then add Bacon. Now give yourself a nice side of Bacon. Did I mention Bacon? I'm joking but not really. A sample of what I was eating:

      Breakfast: 4 pieces of bacon and some scrambled eggs (with thickened cream instead of milk), and some halloumi (not necessary, more just to increase fat). Lunch / Dinner: Make things in bulk for dinner and freeze for the next day or twos lunch. We cooked a lot of chicken cordon bleu bake with broccoli or cauliflower and beens.

      Oh a lot of red meat as well is good w/ fat.

      Basically you're eliminating, breads, rice, anything with sugar and replacing with high fat. The easiest way to explain Keto is that you are reducing your carb intake as your body will break down carbs before fat. Increasing fat intake and lowering carbs will mean fat is burned faster.

      It's an interesting lifestyle change. I went from 340 to 264 in 6 months. A lot of that (like 30-40 went within a few weeks due to water weight). You're not eating special, you're just eating smart. Also keep almonds handy and drink a lot of water when you are hungry. You'll get to a point where you'll be like.. meh eating, but you should keep your energy up so don't really ignore food.

      Edit: Check out Caveman Keto for somewhat simple recipes.