Calendyr

Hello everyone. Just here to chat a little. Today I had blood drawn for my yearly medical followup. I am really curious to see how it will come out. I had started to eat bad again in the last 6 months. Pasta, pizza, junk food, a dessert with every meal. Then during my cruise in the carribeen last month, I decided to stop that and go super strict on ketovore. It's funny how 1 cheat meal turns into the american diet when you don't pay attention! Been on ketovore since Jan 26 now. I removed artificial sweeteners from my water last week. Now just drinking flat water. Cut a lot on peanuts and almonds as well. Now mostly eating beef with a little pork, chicken. Well, I am really looking forward from comparing this blood test to the one I will be doing in about 6 months. When I was diagnosed with diabetes, my pre-keto diet and in keto diet tests were nigth and day. Now on an almost lion diet, I feel it will be even more pronounced. How about you guys? Anything interesting going on related to either health or diet?

I am very curious to see what my A1C is that. Despite eating poorly last year, I never felt the diabetic signals (always thirsty, always hungry). I was hungry very rarelly despite only eating 2 meals a day. My guess is that my A1C wasn't that bad. Will know on April first when I see my family doctor.

Ya, I think eventually I will go full carnivore. I wanted to ease into it to try to lower the chances of keto flu. When I did a keto diet a few years back, it was terrible. Never had normal bowel movements for the 6 months I was on the diet. It was always alternating between diarea and constipation. Having the same problem now, but not as bad. Don't have a lot of bowel movements, maybe once a week. Often it's diarea. I don't have constipations or cramps so that is a huge improvement from my previous experience. I don't hate eating like this. Steak is really good. Not a huge fan of the ground beef. I try to add spices like curcumin, garlic powder, salt and black pepper to make it more tolerable. Really need to add fish for the omega 3 but I have not done so yet. I plan to eat salmon and cod. I am on the last steak I purchased last time I went meat shopping so I might drop to the fish store and grab a few salmon steaks when I go see my butcher for more rib eye steaks I know nuts are calorie dense, but I also eat only a small amount of them. If I did not eat them as a second meal/snack, I am sure that more meat would be more total calories. Just trying to figure out that metabolic rate thing. This week I will be taking a break and added some non-keto food. If I don't do this I will just get discouraged. I don't make making any kind of efforts to reach a goal but the lack of any progress is something I can't deal with. I am a very goal oriented person and when I don't see any reward for my efforts, it feels like a total waste of time to me and I want to avoid this at all cost because I know that a no-carbs diet is the way to go.

I would not worry too much about the reference range. This range is calculated by a compliation of the results of the tests they are doing in your area. So if a lot of people have high trigliceride, that would be considered normal... so in other words, it's pretty useless considering most of the population eats poorly so knowing what their average results is pretty much meaningless when it comes to knowing if you are health.

Yes, I intend to cut out artificial sweetener completelly. I am just easing into it. Nuts I added to the food plan after watching several videos explaining they contain a lot of things we need. I am not again cutting them out and see what happens. I am halfway through both of my jars so when they are empty, I can try to remove them to see the result. Same goes for cheeze. I am just surprised that going from an almost american diet to very strict ketovore that I am seeing zero result. People on full keto are seing a lot of fat loss and I am eating almost carnivore and am seing no improvement. Obviously, there are metabolic improvement of not eating sugars and eating very few carbs. Peanuts contain like 3 grams of carbs in a normal serving so that is negligeable, same for almonds. I can't wait to have my bloodwork done next month to see where I am at. Unfortunately my request to my doctor to ad all the blood test Dr. Berry and Dr. Cywes recommend fell on deaf ears. He told me that those were not tests he normaly do and sent me his normal form for the blood that that doesn't include insulin level, GGT test, fasting glucose level and so on. I will very likely be seeking a new doctor if I can't convince him to track these things.

Hello there, I eat about a quarter cup of nuts each day. My jar of peanuts and almonds have a lid and I fill the lid and eat that. Never weighted it but it's really not that much. I eat those because they are great for people who are diabetic. When I am done with those two jars I could cut them out and see what happens. I am 5'11". I am never hungry or just about. When times come for my meal, sometimes I am starting to get a little hungry but it's very weak. When I am done with my meal, I am stuffed. So maybe I should quit the OMAD thing and go to 2 or 3 complete meals. I read that I should aim to eat 1 gram of protein for each pound of lean mass. I am not sure how much mean mass I have but I estimated 150 Lb... and what I am eating now is close to 150 grams of protein per day, Daniel

About your weight gains, you mentionned you trained twice a week. Is is possible you lost weight and gained muscle mass? Muscles are heavier than fat, so do you feel you have the same fat level or is your body more muscular than when you started with less fat?

Hello everyone. I am 54 and have been diagnosed with Diabetes Type 2 in 2018. When I got diagnosed, I refused the treatment they suggested (2 pills and eating mostly carbohydrates). Instead I did a Keto Diet and 6 months later all my bloodwork came out normal. After those 6 months, I slacked off Keto because I was tired of always being either constipated or having diareah. Fast forward to 2024 and I am almost eating a standard american diet. Funny how things go when you stop paying attention. I was trying to stay away from bread, rice, potatoes and so on as much as possible but I was eating pasta often and a lot of deserts. So this year I decided to go back on a strict diet. My current weight is 213 lb. I have been on Ketovore for 2 weeks now. My diet consist of: Rib eye steak, ground beef, eggs, bacon, saussage, a bit of chedar, brie cheeze, almonds, peanuts. I intend to eat salmon steaks and cod as well but have not purchased any so far. I used to drink mostly caffeine free diet pepsi. I have switched to sping water with a dash of artificail sugar flavors. Most days I eat OMAD. Sometimes I also add a snack with peanuts or almonds. I have also started going back to the gym because I am out of shape. Also I am supplementing magnesium, calcium, zinc, vitamins A, B, C, and D. Those are what diabetics are usually deficient in. So in the last 2 weeks, I have been eating a very strict diet. My meal is 1 lb of meat on average. I have lost no weight at all, I am still 213 lb like I was 2 weeks ago. I don't understand why the weight is not coming off while I am doing intermitent fasting for 23 hours a day and am eating very little. If you have any ideas or insights I am very curious how to resolve this issue. My goal is to drop to 175 lb in the short time and then over time get down to 150 lb. Daniel from Montreal