Ketogenic Eat-Along

Thank you. I'll check it out. Looking for some weight loss help and thought this sounded interesting.

So happy to find this thread! I tried the ketogenic diet on my ND's advice to prevent cancer cells from growing, and it worked great for about 6 weeks. I lost 25 lbs, my cholesterol cut in half, my BP lowered. Then holidays happened, a month in Spain happened (not that I'm complaining about that!) - in other words, lots of situations where I was not controlling my food. I felt very alone trying this keto diet, and so am thrilled to find you here!

hi ladies I always joke 'tis the season of carbs' lol

I am just starting the keto diet - already got some info from this post

I am doing it for weight as i have gained alot of weight with my cancer and health hopefully does kill cancer cells.

Any helpful starter hints would be great

I have asked a few nutristionists/dieticians in my area and no one seems familiar with the ketogenic diet. I was very surprised by this.

I am searching for information and menu plans . I have really had a hard time finding menu plans. I have found some recipes that's great but I need help with examples of what and how much of what people eat in a day. on youtube they say 10% protein 20% carbs 70% fat or something similar. I thought a menu plan would make things easier to start

I was on a pseudo-ketogenic diet. I did it while I was already appetite-suppressed. Yes, I lost 23 lbs in 2 months. My onc was not happy about it, but I think I needed to lose the weight anyways. I chose to eat salads, cheese, eggs, salmon, etc.

Agness is a ketogenic-diet nerd! I hope he sees this thread. She has some good ideas and recipes.

Are you using ketostix? I used them to see if I was in ketosis and played with my meal selection that way.

Just curious to hear what your onc said about the ketodiet. I don't dare talk to mine about it. They just keep telling me to eat!

In what way was it off? I have found their information to be quite accurate.

With a few significant lapses (foreign travel, winemaker dinners, 65th birthday, and my post-dx/pre-New Year’s pity party), I’ve been low-carb since Jan. 2013, even during holidays. Lost 50 lbs.--trips to Spain, New Orleans and the aforementioned pity-party (before the Spain trip, the winemaker and birthday dinners I maintained my loss) caused me to regain 20 lbs. So now that I started letrozole on New Year’s Eve, I decided that I needed to “get back on the horse” in order to keep the inevitable lowered metabolism from making me gain weight. Just saw my MO--have lost a pound since my first appt. with her in Oct., so she’s happy--and says if I keep my weight steady she’ll consider it a victory and if I lose any more it’ll be (flourless) gravy.

Here in Chicago there’s a brand of low-carb 100% whole wheat bread called Today’s Temptations that tastes like real bread (unlike that awful Paleo Bread crap) and is only 2 net gm. of carb per slice. It’s available freshly baked, rather than the much more expensive Sami’s brand sold frozen at a couple of health food stores. Alyssa’s Cookies (online-only outside FL) have only 2 gm. net per cookie for their Healthy Vegan Bites and Dark Chocolate Almond varieties.

Of course, you’ve deduced I am not following a strictly ketogenic diet. I am eating like this for weight loss (or regain-prevention), not to cure or prevent recurrence of cancer (except indirectly via losing some fat cells). Any time I see a specific diet claiming to prevent or cure cancer, my woo-woo detector needle goes into the red zone. My MO and PCP both said “just don’t eat any white stuff except cauliflower, chicken breast, fish and a little bit of organic full-fat dairy” (said “white stuff” being, of course, sugar and starch and everything that contains or turns into it before it even hits your stomach). Even the brown stuff is very, very limited for me.

Checking in as it seems this thread has gone dark. Some of my friends are on the keto diet and love it. I'm thinking about giving it a go, but perhaps slowly. Like using up what I've got in terms of bread/crackers/sweets and then not buying anymore. I live alone, so it's not like I can foist them off on someone else. Got a good resource or book to recommend? Anything happen over the last 4 months that made you change your mind and stop? Risks/benefits?

Milaanddra - you are fabulous! Thank you so much for the info. And congrats on the success. My old swim coach used to say it takes 6 weeks to make a habit but only two to break it (he was preemptively berating us before the break between swim seasons). You're so close to the 6 week mark.

I've heard a bit about Bulletproof Coffee, including that it's good. I, too, don't get much sleep (thanks for the hot flashes, tamoxifen!) and this could be just the ticket to getting me out of the house in a reasonable amount of time in the morning while helping me resist the never ending supply of carbs in my office. I've weeded a lot of the carbs out of my house and may give my neighbor a bunch of groceries. The dark chocolate I'll take to the office. Sigh. Gonna miss that the most.

I've been eating mostly keto the last few days and am surprised at how full I feel. Bonus: I'm starting to actually lose a bit of weight. Now, to see if the rumors about it reducing hot flashes are true...

(Nope on the reverse Warburg effect, but I'll be looking that up.)

Dark chocolate is pretty safe if it’s 72% cocoa solids or higher (which neither Dove Dark, Godiva Dark, nor Hershey’s Special Dark are). 85% and above are even better--and those with cocoa nibs add fiber. Ghirardelli’s 86% Intense Dark (or is it Midnight Magic) individually-wrapped squares are delicious and satisfying. And at Eataly I found an 88% bar with Sicilian sea salt that is absolutely yummy--the salt cuts the bitterness. I also found some 72% sugar-free extra dark and blood-orange dark (they use sugar alcohols, which can have a laxative effect too) at WF. Lindt Excellence 85% & 90% are safe--but the 90% is alkali-processed which cuts down on the healthful flavonoids. And I like Green & Black 85% better than many 74-77% brands.

I fell off the horse rather spectacularly in March through May, traveling to London, Lausanne, Paris, San Antonio and most recently, NC. Wine with every dinner while traveling may have contributed to my undoing, as well as the quality of the breads in Europe, the Mexican food in TX and the BBQ in NC. (Although the music conference I attended in the Blue Ridge had many low-carb options on the buffets, the dessert table included not just berries & melon but coconut cake--a must when I’m in the South--as well as no-sugar-added pies, which were tough to eat w/o the crust. And of course, biscuits & gravy on the breakfast buffet....)

So after finding to my horror I’d gained 13 lbs. on a combination of letrozole and lax discipline, I went back to low-carb. No more than a pint of wine a week (and if I have a full glass one night, I teetotal for at least the next two). In the course of a week and a half I’ve lost 7 of those pounds! I also just joined my insurer’s fitness program (not the free Silver Sneakers, which it doesn’t offer, but $25/mo).

so glad I found this I am new to keto and this thread is so helpful. Love the meal plans for the day

Do you all have bulletproof coffee everyday?