Marketing has corrupted and obscured the concept of a ketogenic diet.
I've lost over 100lbs doing keto properly. There is so much misinformation out there and stupid people trying to sell you something. Just like everything else.
Keto is science. Keto is metabolism and understanding how to manipulate it. It isn't some magic pill and there is no cheating or workarounds. These people selling diets are destroying lives and minds with their bullshit.
The biggest scam is that diet is a verb. Diet should be a noun, and that's the only way that things will meaningfully change with all these fat people. They go on diets thinking they can stop them at some point.
You are correct 100%. It is simply how I eat now.
Yep, I lost about 25kg/~55lbs in 6 months with keto and intermitent fasting (1 meal a day), sitting on my ass watching youtube. And I felt fantastic (because I am ;-) ).
I also do OMAD
I'm not too clued up on the keto and these other trendy diets.
I generally like a good slab of real meat with a nice portion of fresh veggies and not much in the way of sides of carbs.
What's the keto bus about? Destroying your insulin levels?
All the keto diet is is an extreme version of the Atkin's Diet from 20 years ago. Very low to no sugars/carbs.
Atkins is a very different diet. Atkins is low carb high protein. Keto is low carb high fat.
Keto functions to address insulin resistance by adhering to a macronutrient distribution designed to minimize insulin response. Eventually, it will restore insulin balance/sensitivity. This is important because insulin is a dominant hormone in the sense that its presence and absence influences the presence, absence, and performance of other hormones. Without getting too sciency, a consequence of insulin resistance is intense hunger cravings and frequency among other things. Therefore, when insulin balance is restored, satiety comes more frequently and is m ore lasting and when hunger hits, it is mild enough to be ignored. It is a wordly difference where affected people cannot ignore hunger because it is intensely ravaging.
Since keto has become mainstream again and it has been coopted by too many people, the phrase alone will become a buzzword that people will arbitrarily dismiss.
So, in more general terms, eating foods with high concentrations of fat (least insulin responsive) and low concentrations of carbohydrates (highest insulin response) help remedy insulin resistance over time. Furthermore, if paired with some form of intermittent fasting, you can prolong your periods of baseline insulin levels to achieve maximum effect. Using these two techniques together hand in hand can help restore insulin balance to the extent that anyone would tell you that the biggest reason why they saw weight loss over time was because their body did not signal them to eat inappropriately as before.
According to my research, a growing number of specialists are now rebranding what we know as 'obesity-related diseases' to insulin-resistant-related diseases to the extent that obesity itself is rebranded as a symptom within the same categories of other symptoms the general populace associates with obesity related diseases. It is fairly new ish ay the moment, since a number of research articles I have found have proposed mechanisms that connect insulin resistance and other health issues, so insulin as the causative element is still being researched on. As it stands now, insulin resistance, as a correlational element to health and wellness is established enough to give eating patterns like keto momentum.
Its not just this but every fucking thing as been blown to shit by the money hungry crowd.
I seen the nutrition content of all these keto items they now sell in stores. They all have carbohydrates as their dominating macronutrient and fat as their least.
You have one job with keto and that is to adhere to a prescribed macronutrient distribution and they fucked that up.
They say the product has zero carbs on the packaging and call it keto friendly, but when you look at nutritional info it has tons of carbs. It's a scam. They make up some shit about carbs being cancelled out by fiber or something.
To get 'net' carbs subtract carbs from fiber and sugar alcohol. Then it's zero carb
Carbs: 15g Fiber:14g Net carbs: 1g
The amount of keto snacks and keto "hacks"(making cakes, snacks, fake bread, etc.) helped me not to forget a lot of fat people are ignorant, dumb or just plain lazy. Some of them are probably just depressed because they don't understand why clown world exists and comfort-eat to cope. I did keto for six months and had great success. With that said, it is not a good long term solution because men should lift weights and carbs is the superior fuel for such endeavours. But being at a healthy weight is better then being morbidly obese and lifting.
A young guy I work with lost 50lbs over the winter on keto, he didnt spend even 1 minute in the gym either.
I lose more weight eating a 1, 2, 3, 4 cake I bake from scratch instead of buying a cake from the bakery or making it from a box.
Marketing has corrupted and obscured the concept of humanity.
FTFY
Keto, paleo, vegan, carnivore, they’re all just fucking diets. People have survived by it no matter what you’re calling it. The goal is to just not be fat and miserable. Everyone gets too caught up in the trends. It isn’t what you eat, it’s what you stop eating. All this health and diet shit is a modern problem.
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