Pork rinds are 0 carbs. In keto recipes, we grind them up and use them as coating for fried chicken, onion rings, etc. I like to dip them in ranch dip.
I do have Type 2 Diabetes and was diagnosed several years ago. And it was doctor who suggested the Keto diet, all the while knowing I was diabetic. I'm finding out the hard way that doctors are nowhere as smart as they think. But then, with a world of information only a few keystrokes away, I have no one to blame but myself.....
The trick (imho) is managing sodium intake, and keeping the fat/protein ratios reasonable. I am not an expert by any means, but it's what my body reacts well to. Also, I'm not even worrying about limiting carb intake, but naturally it has dropped to 200g a day even though my "budget" is 260g.
260g of carbs is equivalent to a 6 pack of sugar loaded Pepsi or Coke. We made a deep dish pizza a couple weeks ago. Again, almond flour based crust.
You wouldn't eat this on a low fat diet: That's two burger patties, pickled jalapeno nacho rings, full fat pepper jack cheese, two slices of bacon and a fried egg on top. It's sitting on a bed of full fat mayo and mustard. The pickle is 2 carbs. The whole stack of burger is less than 2 carbs. It sure did taste great
I don't know if this will help you, but increasing my fiber intake helped me diminish my cravings for snacks throughout the day.
I hope you don't mind me posting pictures of the food I make like this. Sirloin roast, bacon wrapped asparagus, mashed cauliflower (potatoes are not good on this diet). The aioli is mayo, mustard, and the fat drippings from the pan I roasted the asparagus. The asparagus and cauliflower on that plate are maybe 10 carbs.
Tonight's dinner is chicken burgers with frank's wing sauce on oopsie buns, cucumber soaked in vinegar with crushed red pepper and cayenne and a packet of stevia, and jalapeno halves stuffed with cream cheese and melted cheddar. Oopsie rolls are made of egg yolk, cream cheese, cream of tartar, psyllium husk. They look a lot like a hamburger bun, but they don't get overly soggy and fall apart.
That joke was poorly constructed I apologize to everyone in the thread. I always fall off the wagon during the holidays. I got quite a few pounds to take off.
Yeah I cut out soda and sugar drinks and it always kept me from gaining but never helped me lose. I'm one of those people I think that will just have to do a fuck ton of cardio. Im drinking way too much beer lately but usually just water since December, though a soda at lunch has started creeping into my routine for the caffeine.
Yeah I never learned how to run, I got cut freshman year on the basketball team and gave up on sports. I was always fast across short distance but running I cant breathe properly. Biking is something I use to do a ton of it seems like my legs are so strong biking doesnt work me out. But honestly I think my problem is im an expert at preserving energy even when im supposed to be working out. Ive got being a lazy fuck down to a science.
I think the Keto works great if you are strict about it. For me, I can't because I'm in the wine industry and have to drink at least small amounts of many types of wine, including sweet ones on a frequent basis. I'm pretty good about not drinking too much, as that's a real danger in the industry for all the obvious reasons, but Keto is strait impossible. I do however, eat low carb. I tend to get filled up easiest by eating lean whole meats, like chicken breast and certain cuts of pork, so I very frequently eat that for dinner with a nice helping of roasted cauliflower or something like that. Since I'm not keto, I can't load up on the fat without paying a price, but it's still better for me to indulge with fats than sugars or breads. For the past 10 months I didn't diet or do much of anything other than keep carbs low. When I abused that rule, I would put a pound or two on and that's how I gained 10. However, in the past, if I hadn't paid attention for 10 months, I would have gained 40 or more pounds. So just trying to not abuse sugars and carbs kept everything manageable. Now, that I'm trying again, in 3 weeks I'll have erased all my past years indulgences. It's lifestyle. Crandc, great to see you post!
I've struggled with weight my whole adult life. What has worked best for me has been hi pro/low carb, but because of a recent heart diagnosis, meat is almost out of the question now. Right now, I am a pretty strict Mediterranean, and on Weight Watchers, because the beans and rice that I can eat bloat me. Oy vey. What is Keto? It must be based on ketosis and low carb, right? Is there a book?
I was at 205 by the time I graduated, so I've put on about 40 pounds over the years. I've almost completely cut off soda outside of the rare fast food trip or some diet Coca Cola maybe once a month. I think portion control is my biggest problem, that and candy.
I grew up like that too, there was always candy of some kind, greasy chips, or ice cream in the house, and me being the way I am, if it's in the house, I'll eat it. I still have that problem. My father's metabolism is ridiculous though, he's in his sixties and will only eat one of those White Castle burgers you can get from the store before he goes to work, a sandwich for lunch, and then he'll go home and eat nothing but disgusting Little Debbie's brownies, Nutty Bars, and some really bad cheap cookies. He's been doing that for years and he's still tiny, keep in mind he's a big drinker and goes through a pack of cigarettes a day too. I'm jealous I didn't inherit his metabolism.
https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq There are quite a few books. Anything by Jimmy Moore is going to be good. He runs one of the more popular keto oriented sites. FWIW, before I started Keto, I was on 3 blood pressure medications. Now I'm on one and probably don't even need that one. The only reason I'm on this one is to address some infrequent edema I had in my ankles. Turns out the edema was due to Lupus that I've had but hadn't been diagnosed until recently. It is based on ketosis and low carbs as you said. Beans and rice are not on the diet. Olives and oils and cheese and quite a bit of the Mediterranean diet can work with keto. There are people who do keto vegetarian, so that can be done. It's not high protein though, it's moderate protein and high fat.
Yep, if you're doing a low fat diet, eating any keto food is likely to make you gain weight in a hurry. But the food is soooo good. I drink a glass of wine or two once in a while. It's not against keto rules nor is it necessarily bad to taste wine that is high in carbs. I see that a sweet dessert wine has 20.3g of carbs in a glass. That's more than a whole day's worth of carbs on the diet (for me). But if you are only taking a sip and spitting it out (for the most part), swallowing a teaspoon here and there, it is not going to add up to 20g of carbs or even close to it. If you're drinking tablespoons of it at a time and over the course of a day you're getting a glass full's worth, then keto won't work.
There are three macronutrients that make up all the calories in our diet: fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The Recommended Daily Allowances set by the government suggest a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates, about 2000 calories a day. A gram of fat is 9 calories, and a gram of carbs or protein is 4 calories. Add up all that you eat and the government says you should end up with 2000 calories, (too) much of it from carbs. The RDA is based upon ONE medical study done in the late 50s or early 60s that has been shown to be wrong. The study said that high fat led to increased incidence of heart disease. In recent years, the RDA has been changed to be closer to keto as time and more studies have come out. What numerous modern studies show is that high fat has nothing to do with increasing heart disease and that the keto diet has many health benefits. While some have mistakenly claimed keto is a cure for cancer, it is almost certain that cancer is fed by carbohydrates. Keto won't cure it, but it can keep it from getting much worse and it can possibly prevent you from getting it in the first place. What keto does is shift the source of your 2000 calories from high carbs to high fat and low carbs. You still get the same number of calories. Aside from feeding cancer, why are carbs bad? In theory they're not, but in order to make foods fit the RDA, the food companies resort to adding sugar (pure carbs). In fact, when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, people were a lot thinner and there wasn't much obesity. Since then, there has been an obesity epidemic world wide and the added sugar to foods mass produced and distributed is surely the cause. With all the emphasis on low fat and more and more exercise to burn calories to lose or maintain weight, why is it that so many people are obese? It's because what we've though was best for so long turns out to be wrong. Many of the modern diets, keto, paleo, Mediterranean, etc. are all based upon removing mass quantities of sugar and processed food from what you eat. I have nothing against carbs in general, it's just the source of them that matters. Sugar in soft drinks is downright evil. Natural sugars from fruits and vegetables are still carbs but not in the same class. The benefits of ketosis outweigh the benefits of natural carbs, IMO, so I avoid them all. The effect on my health has been quite positive. As I said, I am less reliant on blood pressure medications. I have a lot of energy - I was walking 2 1/2 hours a day at a 15 minute mile pace (that's really fast) and even running (which I simply hate) miles. I haven't had a cold or flu or fever that isn't caused by the Lupus in 2+ years. My wife comes home from work with a bad cold or flu and I don't catch it. And you can tell by the pictures, I'm eating really good food. Very little comes from cans, frozen, or from a bottle. If you're considering going on a diet, my best advice is to do so under the supervision of a doctor. Doctors really aren't trained at nutrition, but if they do a little research and watch your vitals, you have less risk of any sort of complications. FWIW, after I quite smoking and gained 40 lbs, my doctor recommended I lose weight and mentioned several diets including Atkins. Atkins is 3 phases: induction (which is keto), ongoing weight loss, and maintenance. I didn't just read up about keto and start doing the diet. I had done the low fat, count calories, exercise kind of diets and lost weight and put it back on again 2-3 times. I hated it because the food was meh (and highly artificial) and I was basically starving myself and going hungry a lot (or eating celery stalks and carrots). I decided to try cutting carbs and started counting those. As I went on doing this, I looked for advice on how to fine tune the diet and found keto. Sorry for the TL;DR post.
