I'm up to a 36 waist - thanks to Del Taco and a few others. As well as eating pretty poorly over the last year, or so.
I'm on a strict regimen now and doing a three week diet and then merging it into a new way of life. I have a history of eating well (normally) - but, again; have been quite clumsy over the past year or so.
My plan is to limit myself to 1100 calories a day the first week, then up to 1200 the second week, and then stay on or around 1500 calories as the norm, with one cheat day per week.
After the third week - I'll get back into some sort of exercise, which too will be part of the new 'way of life'
In this thread I'd like to discuss food ideas for assisting myself (& others) with weight loss.
Since Monday I've not gone above 1100 calories/daily - I have eaten oatmeal, oranges, bananas, hard-boiled eggs and in closing, in the evening - I'll eat one of the Chick Fil A Spicy, grilled chicken wraps w/o dressing (350 cals)
I'm open to ideas - but the goal is - finding items that are a little less common and more creative.
Please assist at your leisure - anyone else need assistance or interested in jumping aboard, I welcome it.
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Taking a quick look at the Keto diet and it doesn't seem that abnormal from a standard diet to me.
If you're eating healthy meats for high protein intake and limiting sugar and junk carbs as you normally would in a low cal diet then aren't you getting a similar effect anyway?
Seems to me that Keto is just a more restricted version of a true healthy diet. Shrug, idk.
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
So what does a daily meal plan look like on a Keto diet?
As I said, I don't necessarily follow Keto directly, but I don't eat breakfast, have some coffee usually though.
Lunch I eat some form of protein, usually grilled chicken with some type of veggie. Or just some fruit, maybe some cottage cheese, an apple. I only have 30 mins for lunch and usually just see patients during that time anyway so I eat on the run.
Dinner we usually have beef, pork, chicken or fish. We raise and have our own cattle, and pigs butchered so I'm pretty excited to be able to do the grass fed or whatnot.
Paired with a salad or some asparagus or anything from the garden. I don't think it's keto but I eat a lot of sweet potatoes as well.
I have quite the sweet tooth as well, which has been hard for me. I get a bag of dark chocolate chocolate chips and grab a handful after dinner. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
As I said, I don't necessarily follow Keto directly, but I don't eat breakfast, have some coffee usually though.
Lunch I eat some form of protein, usually grilled chicken with some type of veggie. Or just some fruit, maybe some cottage cheese, an apple. I only have 30 mins for lunch and usually just see patients during that time anyway so I eat on the run.
Dinner we usually have beef, pork, chicken or fish. We raise and have our own cattle, and pigs butchered so I'm pretty excited to be able to do the grass fed or whatnot.
Paired with a salad or some asparagus or anything from the garden. I don't think it's keto but I eat a lot of sweet potatoes as well.
I have quite the sweet tooth as well, which has been hard for me. I get a bag of dark chocolate chocolate chips and grab a handful after dinner.
You would be kicked off r/keto if you admitted to eating like that. [Reply]
Really, when keto and/or low carb works, it works because it's a meme to eliminate highly palatable food that is too easy to overeat. They talk about "carbs" being addictive but are talking about things like potato/corn chips, pizza, donuts, cookies, candy and other highly palatable combinations of carb, fat, sugar and/or salt. These foods aren't addictive because of carbs but because those flavor combinations tickle the pleasure centers in our brains.
The thing is, is that you don't need to eliminate all carbs just to limit those things. There is no reason to eliminate a boiled potato because you tend to overeat potato chips (crisps, for the over-reacting Brit). Not to mention, using your high functioning brain instead of your lizard brain, it's possible to measure out a portion of chips and eat them without eating the whole bag. [Reply]
There's not one 'right' way - I think there are several methods that can be effective toward personal weight loss, even silock will tell you - do what works for YOU. [Reply]
