mcfizzlestag said:
Neptronix, are you on a ketogenic diet? My wife is very high risk for type 1, due to family history and with both of us being overweight, she made the lifestyle change. In 6 months and with the holidays being off the diet, we are still down a good 65 lbs combined and have plenty of energy.
Yes, watch the video above and check out my channel for some other videos on the topic i made when i got started.
Type 1's benefit from keto quite a lot, but type 2's are the real winners. So is anyone with a problematic appetite. This appetite problem is most likely due to the beginnings of insulin resistance, unless they are an emotional eater and using food as a drug of choice. ( in that case, i'd recommend taking up smoking, because it's healthier than a pail of icecream a night :lol: )
Challenge with all these diets is filtering out current over marketing buzz products (ie bullet proof coffee, pink salt, and suppliments) as well as outdated research from past iterations of these diets.
Indeed. When i was learning about keto in ~2014, i also had the same information problem. But now it's a bit the other way - people overpromising what the diet can do, or creating new false arguments against it.. in neither cases, will you find proper science quoted and need to be skeptical when researching this approach.
Only real thing i miss is real pizza, cauliflour or almond based crusts just don't cut it x.x We found a bread roll replacement (psyllium husk/almond flour base).
My wife has mastered the keto pizza after a lot of experimentation. We've got to the point where an average person cannot differentiate it from regular pizza. She's thinking of commercializing some of her recipes, so i can't spill the beans on those, sorry
This recipe for 'version 1.0' of our pizza attempts though.
https://eatketo.com/chicago-style-stuffed-pizza/
As for not being able to afford quality food or not, the standard american diet has plenty of room financially to improve health just from the sheer elimination of processed goods from their food budget.
Although i cannot eat a standard american diet anymore, i have to say that i fully agree with this. Processed food is expensive and nutrients go missing in most steps of that processing. I know some ultra frugal people who eat the SAD way and their food bills look more like $150 a month per person.
Time wise, learn to prioritize better, food is your health give it more priority. No one is saying spend hours making a meal, but theres plenty of 15-30 minute prep meals, that dont require much attention cooking.
I have settled into a routine where 2 hours of cooking on sunday feeds me for the entire week. People will spend 30 minutes driving to a restaurant, waiting, and driving home again.. do this 4 times in a week, and you've spent the same amount of time i spent preparing healthy food. And those restaurant calories come at 3 times the cost.
When you consider that the food costs ~3 times as much, then you need to work at your day job 3 times longer to pay the extra premium. Once you start thinking about this, you realize that convenient food is actually inconvenient.
I was clueless about cooking and eating healthy when i started keto and at a keto junk food diet. I still lost weight, but it was expensive and i knew i could do better. Learning how to cook is the best life hack i've found, other than low carb, bicycling, and not paying attention to mainstream news.