Ketogenic Eat-Along

I'm in, but probably will be a cheater until my last chemo treatment on June 17. I did a modified Keto diet for four years, lost 50 pounds. Have now gained 10 back during chemo.

Basically I started out meat, fat, vegetables, no cheating. Then after a couple of months, i added in a cheat meal once a week. After the first year, I also added in small amounts of beans, yams, and red potatoes, sort of as a garnish.

I think one thing I eat that is a no no on a ketogenic diet is dairy, but sometimes it is all there is to avoid falling into the carb pit.

On chemo, it is basically I eat what my stomach can tolerate, but I am getting sterner with myself again

I am half Sicilian, half Greek, born in the United States. My husband and I (20 years) fell in love in Italy and have been there several times. So I have a double reason for calling myself Italychick. My grandparents were born there, so I grew up with a lot of Italian influence in my childhood.

We eat almost all organic, and we buy free range beef and bison from Montana, and get local organic chickens in San Diego. We try to keep our diet as free of impurities as possible.

This forum should be fun. We can exchange favorite recipes! And hopefully others will join. I know of at least one other person on this forum who does the ketogenic eating, and I will email her and invite her to join

ok I'm back so yeah dairy. It's my fix to avoid a sweet tooth. Last night had broiled salmon with marinara sauce- made sure doesn't have sugar and an avocado. I forgot to smother with butter. But tell me- why is cheese a no no if we can have good fats?

I felt hungry n are btwn meals. I also do intermittent fasting which is also a disease killer- ESP cancer. So I'm a lil annoyed with myself. I'm trying to not be so hard on myself after having 4 months of chemo and 5 of Herceptin and still on it, can't snap back in 5w PFC. I know our bodies need nourishment. But I am not feeling the chemo weight gain either. I am back to running tho.

I would've loved a cup of coffee (decaf). I tried black yesterday n it made neuropathy buzz a little. Sugar off limits and any type of sweetener. And btw I really love pizza lol.

Okay awesome, thank you

welcome! I have strips too and haven't used it once lol. But I can tell when I am bec weight flies off and I get that hunger pang all the time. This is gonna be great. I've been hoping to find a group like this.

Fat is where it is at for this type of diet I think. If too much protein is eaten, gluconeogenesis can supposedly occur, which is where your body makes glucose out of the protein. But I haven't noticed that to be much of an issue as long as I stay away from processed carbs. Vegetables seem to not matter at all. I do watch fruit intake and limit it to mainly berries and grapefruit. For some reason, during chemo I have been on a major grapefruit kick. I peel them like an orange and eat them.

But pasta, rice, chips, etc.? Total death on my diet. I have eaten some pasta during chemo because sometimes I can only tolerate bland buttered noodles. My motto before chemo was if I didn't cook it, I don't eat it. And no added sugar. I found a substance called erythritol that has like .2 grams of carbs per serving, and I use that to sweeten my coffee. Or else stevia, but if I eat too much stevia, I can get the poops.

one thing I do is keep macadamia nuts in the fridge. If I get hungry, I eat some. They are pure fat, and a good fat, and satisfy that hunger and crunch urge.

erythritol is not a sugar, it is a sugar alcohol, and our bodies make it. It is a fermented corn product, so I don't believe it counts as a sugar. I have eaten it and measured blood sugar, and it hasn't done anything to mine.

mmmm, I so want that chicken soup right now. I have made many oopsies, but they fell out of favor at my house when I found a low carb flaxseed bread that has just six carbs in it. And it toasts up super crunchy.

I also did all the almond flour baking, but that fell out of favor too. One thing I do make is panna cotta with erythritol and stevia, omg so good, and a huge fat bomb. Plus it has protein from the gelatin. You can basically take any recipe on the Internet and replace the sugar with erythritol and stevia. Add fresh berries, omg, to die for

Erythritol is different than other sugar alcohols. But I would definitely avoid all the other ones. I get mine on Amazon, but health food stores usually have it too.

Yes I agree. But if you get the granulated, you can put it in a blender and turn it into powder. I have done that before because sometimes the powdered is more expensive.