great thread. me still doing either One Meal A Day or Intermittent Fasting.
still have some carbos in my meals (especially since if I am only eating 1 meal) but i try to reduce it i am eating 2 meals a day.
Started 9/1
Weight: 86.8 kilos (started at 90 kilos)
Body fat: 26.5% (started at 27%)
Some yo-yoing, with some gain over the weekends and then back down towards the end of each week. The trend is still downward, though.
A few people at first thought about that the admission of a low carb diet can bring about heart sicknesses because of high-fat substance in it yet as indicated by ongoing exploration in the field it has been demonstrated that a what is ketogenic diet and how it can bring significant weight reduction.
I have started experimenting with low carb diets. To be honest with you I always wanted to but what stops me is the fact that protein and vegetables are expensive (in particular, vegetables have such an unstable price that they can be cheaper than dirt one month, and more expensive than gold the next). So I end up eating 2 meals a day rather than 3, because before when I eaten mostly rice and noodles I got hungry FAST (like within 3 hours after eating) and would crave food. Before I would eat tofu with rice and vegetables (often paired with eggs) at around 11:30-12:00 pm. By 4pm I am not just hungry but I feel like I MUST EAT A TON OF FOOD!! With some discipline I could maybe hold out til 6pm to eat dinner, which would be another carb rich fest of either eating at a restaurant (those buffet type places) or something of the sort, which again are also very carb rich. But then by about 10pm I’m hungry again and must have a snack of wonton noodle!
Now my current schedule is this:
Lunch (around noon)
alternate between 2 Costco hamburger patties, no buns, with cheese on top and BBQ sauce (I have to flavor the thing you know), or 2 boneless chicken leg/thigh meat/3 chicken drumsticks (I find 4 drumsticks cost half as much as 2 boneless chicken leg/thigh from Carrefour)
1 serving of stir fried water spinach or just spinach (flavored with garlic, salt, dashi, and fermented tofu)
2 fried over easy eggs
1 thing of a tofu dish (either mapo tofu or tofu and 2 century eggs)
Instead of becoming ravenously hungry by 4pm I can actually hold out past 7pm, and in fact with discipline I can withhold eating past 10pm!!
Dinner (always past 7pm)
Wonton soup with vegetables and 2 pork balls (5 wontons from that tiger sauce place). Vegetable is bok choy. Flavored with pork broth bullions and dashi. Sometimes with eggs depending on how hungry I am.
Or hot pot with pork, various hot pot dumplings, cabbage, 2 eggs, sauce, etc.
and I’m done for the night, no need for a midnight snack (most the time)
The only thing I’m missing is that the meal plans I have still have a bit of sugar, and wonton skins are carb. But I find Wonton skins to be acceptable because it’s a very thin coating of skin rather than dumpling (which is much thicker). Besides, SOME carb can’t hurt. I just don’t think I can stay under 10 grams a day because that means a single teaspoon of BBQ sauce would have exceeded that by too much, and your food will taste terrible without seasoning.
I find it easiest to roast chicken drumsticks in a toaster oven. Slow roast it for an hour and turn up the heat to max to crisp it at the last 10 minute.
I just feel from now on I’m not nearly as hungry as I used to be…
I have no problem with low carb and high protein, my problem has always been high fat. I find it so hard to incorporate good fat and make it the biggest chunk of the diet. I can’t picture myself having butter with coffee 
, or endless eating avocados everyday
What about extra bacon, cheese, butter based sauce? Or just have lots of eggs Benedict with extra bechamel sauce?
You should not consume meat with too little fat or else you’d end up with rabbit starvation, but that’s really only a problem if you eat lean everything. Highly marbled steak, hamburger meat (they have at least 30% fat), whipped cream, etc. are all great because they have lots of fat.
I’d say eating less fat is a huge challenge… and if eating avocados all day is bad, try eating stuff with guacamole…
No problem with those. And eggs Benedict eggs are great, but without the bun. A high marbled steak is no problem for me, and I would not reach ta it starvation with salmon etc. but when you add all those are they really the good fat ? I am not so sure. I watch a lot of Thomas DeLauer on the topic, and have been mindful about the ‘bad’ fat
Yea honestly if the diet is unhealthy, your body will let you know FAST. As in if you are experiencing rabbit starvation your body will let you know about this and you’ll do whatever it takes to avoid it.
I don’t know about the healthy vs unhealthy fat thing, and we’d drive ourselves crazy worrying about this. I’m pretty sure I’m using unhealthy fats all the time because I use vegetable oil (most available and cheap), hamburger fats, etc. and honestly coconut oil is just too expensive. I don’t eat fish because I really can’t afford to, and then people said fish is bad because of all the pollution…
So I’d say try the diet and see how your stats adjust (like your sugar level, HDL/LDL levels, Triglyceride, etc.) to decide if you should make changes.
One side effect of this diet is I seem to be thirsty a LOT… meaning I drink more water.
I am always thirsty but I have always been this way. I guess not eating the other junk makes me fill it up with water all the time, when I could be snacking etc
at first it scared me to be honest with you, like I’m pushed into full blown diabetes (I’m basically pre diabetes, with A1C level at 6), but I read that eating a high fat/low carb diet would make you thirsty a lot… makes you pee more too.
I always lose weight when I’m abroad then gain the weight back when I return because I rarely had rice there. My diet was healthy af in London. Almost like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Awesome report. I once tried to stay aa low as possible and at least under 20 a day and it was unhealthy after a few weeks with some dizziness and maybe even some heart arithmia and lightheadedness when exercising. Other than that I was feeling great.
I think the keto recommendation is normally a little higher and individual based. I eventually went to keeping it under 30.
I’ve done a relatively low carb (80% less rice, noodles , some toast, low cal and lessbeer) same fat mostly cheese (well less milk) veg and nuts diet with some snacks. I don’t eat a lot of western food like pizzas. I go for soups, dumplings, salads, fish . I do eat the odd subway though.
I’ve lost over ten kg and maintaining it. Exercise has been helpful for me also to look good and feel good and get better cvs. Healthy BMI , yeah ! Only problem is cholesterol hasn’t dropped. That could be the cheese or something else.
Happens to me also. In my case is because I tend to eat real food when I am abroad. In taiwan those noodle bowls, etc are full of nothing nutritional
Another update: I took my blood pressure and it was normally around 130/80 but as of now (about 2pm) it read 99/70. That was after some walking too so I wonder if this was from low carbs.
