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Yeah that might be too much, at roughly 6000 cals that's pretty ridiculous but everyone is different, i work with a guy who eats sweets and cakes all the time and he's not got much to him, if i did the same i'd notice it.
Those here who know me irl and to a lesser degree some of the Facebook folk will.know I dropped over 3 stone doing a version of keto. I initially did your standard keto/LCHF a few years before with decent results, went back to 'normal' and gradually regained but then a couple of.years about (maybe a bit less) decided to get back in it and came across a variation on it that's been even better for me - great weight loss result but also even better from energy levels point of view and general good health, skin, aches and pains and whatnot.
I won't be a bore about it so will just say it once and leave you to whichever route you are good with but I'd strongly vouch for a particular Facebook group called "Ketogenic Dieters" - it's pretty strict about keeping people on message to their version of it, which is in turn wherever possible backed by research and science , and the PDF in their pinned post sets it out really clearly. The biggest initial challenge becomes getting 150g (in my case) of protein in you in a day. You find all manner of odd ideas for breakfast to get there haha
Anyway, I recommend checking it out.
I figure I don't have to limit to keto to actually lose weight or eat healthy, the key is moderation. That's it.
You can diet this and diet that. One diet is cut carbs, one diet is cut fat, one diet is cut this and that. You have your slim fast diet, your cabbage soup diet, Akins, Keto and the new thing now is Blue Zones diet. They all do the same thing, they make you watch what you eat.
So just watch what you eat, and portion control, little to no processed food. Eat fresh, eat healthy, less sugar and salt. It's common sense, we all know it, except people are weak and often go for the sugars, alcohol etc.
It's not a diet that people need to do, it is the eating habit, a life style, and even their taste and palate.
p.s. I bet if you eat 50lbs of bacon a day, you will still get fat, and probably diet of a heart attack before long.
Moderation.
Throw out the word "diet".
It's pretty simple this weight management lark. However, it's been over complicated intentionally to make money out of us. IMO, it's all largely commercialised bobbins.
Losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight is a very straightforward thing to do: you just eat a healthy balanced diet.
Don't eat too much of any one thing, aim to eat natural unprocessed fresh foods. don't stuff yourself at each meal, drink plenty of water.
If you eat a balanced diet, with a good amount of fibre, fat, protein and carbs, your body will take energy from all of them in the right proportions. You don't have to induce ketosis or any other fad process, you just have to do what your body has evolved to cope with.
It's not great shock that if you eat lots of processed carbs and fats, your body will convert them into stores as this stuff is like food cocaine - instant rushes to your system. IF you eat plenty of fresh carbs, fibre, fat and protein, your body works harder to get nutrients out of the foodstuffs.
Add in a reasonable amount of activity and you are on the way to getting back in shape.
Rapid weight loss shocks the body. Its shouldn't be a surprise that the weight eventually goes back on unless the shock continues.
When you stop eating, the body will eventually go into starvation mode - when you start eating again, you will convert more of your food into fat as the body is storing energy for the next bout of starvation. If you really want to burn fat, one of the things that needs considering is actually eating more fat - like kindling a fire, it primes the system to burn it off.
Lots of these fads work in the short term, but the best and easiest way to do it long term is just to eat a balanced diet and move around a bit. Most people just don't do this.
But then, the diet industry would have us believe otherwise, so we spend loads of cash on books, plans, supplements and all that BS.
That's not a diet, that is just her life....clearly she wants to eat more stuff, her problem then becomes similar to an alcoholic who if they have 1 drink, they have to have 10 drinks. So they cut it out completely.
I can have 1 drink and stop, then not have another for 6 months. My problem is i find myself eating too often, my portion sizes isn't even that big, it's i am not active enough. I don't need to diet, I need to exercise.
Keto diets obviously work well for some people but I'm pretty certain if Emp spoke to his GP they wouldn't advise it in his case.
1 - Eat less - You don't need to stuff your face full. There is saying in Japanese that translates as 80% full/comfortable full.
2 - Eat more vegetables.*
3 - Drink Less
4 - More active
5 - Moderation.
* in the west we eat our salads and leafy vegetables raw. In the east they cook them, you will think it is mad to cook lettuce, but a bit of garlic then put in your lettuce and toss it around for 2 mins. Sure a lot of water will come out but the fiber remains. Same with many other kinds of leafy veg. I can eat and half a lettuce in 1 meal easily when cooked.
The only constant is eat more vegetables, do more exercise and eat and drink in moderation.
Weight crept back on, as it wasn't a lifestyle change.
I'm back to the no shortcuts method now, eating better, calorie counting - just to make sure I'm at a deficit) and exercising at the gym twice a week, when work allows.
There is an important thing in respect of fats to keep in mind: if you don't have the full view of the research, and a scientific education, you need to be careful with taking anything you read as gospel.
As has been said, just eat a balanced fresh diet. The keto diet is not balanced and eventually it will make you ill, same goes for any diet too skewed to one food group, or omitting others.
All this anti carb stuff is a load of rubbish too. Carbs are essential to diet, alongside fat and protein.
Horsecrap peddled by representatives of companies that are there to make money out of fad diets.
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When I need to lose weight (I'm in that mode now after having another baby and living off convenience crap and comfort snacks for over a year) I skip breakfast. I don't tend to feel hungry in the morning and that's also my busiest time of day so I don't have time to think about food. It's just skipping a meal, but now that is repackaged as Intermittent Fasting, along with a load of science with how it's better for fat loss. It's not, - in practical, fat bloke who isn't an elite athlete needs to shift some flab terms - it's just an easy (for me) to stick to way of eating fewer calories.
I think if there are no underlying health issues like diabetes (which does change things obviously) it really doesn't need to be more complicated than that - do whatever enables you to stick to eating fewer calories.