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EventsShould You NOT Eat Your Vegetables?
April 12 2017 by Amanda Åkesson
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in About membership, Ketosis
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD in About membership, Ketosis
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Could you be better off reducing your vegetable intake – or just skip it all together? And could ketosis be helpful in preventing Alzheimer’s disease and treating mood disorders?
This is an interesting interview with psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede, who answers all these questions.
You can watch a segment from the video interview above (transcript). The full interview is available on our member site:
A Ketogenic Diet and Fewer Vegetables – Dr. Georgia Ede
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Breakfast: 3 eggs scrambled with bacon and butter, 24 oz of coffee with 3 packets of Splenda and heavy cream.
Lunch: The keto diet cabbage and burger casserole or keto burgers and butter fried cabbage.
Dinner Either the items above that I had for lunch or steak.
I am starting to get frustrated about not losing weight.
I started exercising last week and still no movement on the scale. ( I am up 5 pounds since starting)
I am still fairly new to keto so am definitely not an expert but have found five things that mean I am rarely hungry and am losing weight steadily (15kg in just under 3 months so far). I hope something here helps!
1. Intermittent fasting. I find if I eat breakfast I am hungry for the rest of the day but now that I am used to eating my first meal between 12:30 and 3 (depending on hunger and schedule) I am really satisfied with two meals and actually eat less despite not “restricting” my meal sizes. The first week sucked and I had to keep busy in the morning to avoid watching the clock, but by week 2 I found my focus improved dramatically and I often worked through well into my “eating window”
2. Eating real food. Focusing on buying smaller amounts of really high quality produce has also been really important. Because I am eating smaller and fewer meals (and making 90% of my meals at home) I am happy spending what I used to spend on junk food and takeout on grass-fed beef and dairy. Given the amount of beef described in your diet this could be a significant factor, as my understanding is that grain-fed animal protein has a higher ratio of omega-6 fat which is pro-inflammatory. The cost might be prohibitive depending on your situation, so if you are sticking with grain-fed beef, maybe consider switching to another protein source at lunch (eg salmon or tuna)?
3. Eating a bit more fat and a bit less protein. I am still working on this, but am finding that adding dressings, butter and cream/sour cream to meals is helping. Avocado is also amazing but is just going out of season here. Making the dressings from scratch has also been helpful so I can stick with clean ingredients.
4. Testing ketones. There were a few foods that knocked me out of ketosis that I would not have even thought of. I am only measuring urinary ketones once or twice a day (which I know is far from perfect) but doing this has helped me work out which foods I seem to manage well (eg full fat dairy which I know is a problem for many) and which I don’t (so far the biggest surprise has been a bowl of homemade tomato soup!).
5. Eating slowly and starting with my veg/salad. Taking at least 20 minutes to eat and really paying attention to my food helps me to feel full often without needing to finish my meal (and I used to be what is kindly called a “volume eater” so this was amazing to me!).
Everyone is so different I imagine it can be tricky to find what works for you. I hope you find the tweaks that make LCHF enjoyable for you!
I am also alwasy very fu;; and never hungry. Im amazed on how full I feel with very little food.
Too much protein. I eat twice a day, little to no carbs, but 8 ounces of protein. Not hungry.
Lots of greens, I interment fast.
Not enough exercise. I'm 77 yrs.
Yes, eating too many calories no matter what they are can cause weight gain, but it is a lot harder to do when eating keto.
If you are new to keto I say use stevia if you like it or erythritol if the after taste of the stevia is too much or what ever sweetener you like in a limited basis. If you are stalled and not getting the benefits of the keto diet then start to look at it. The fine tuning of the diet comes as you continue to make it into a lifestyle.
Personally I am trying a month with no sweetners...I am only on day 2 but my goal is to see if my body feels or acts any differently. I had just started testing my ketones and sugars after ingesting artificial sweeteners and know that I react poorly to acesulfame potassium (coke zero) and Ideal brand sweetener (my absolute favorite), but am ok with aspartame (diet coke). The good news about this is that even though the coke zero raises my insulin (not my sugar) I still was loosing weight and had all the other benefits of the diet.
The problem is that the sweet taste, even if it's not sugar, does stimulate the pancreas to create an insulin response.
And insulin is a fat storing agent . What I am trying to say, not very well, is that insulin tells our body to store nutrients as fat, instead of using it for energy.
So sweet taste > insulin response >fat storage>weight gain
😟 Bummer.
Fortunately, I don't like things as sweet as I used to after a few years on low(ish) carb.
A lot of things taste too sweet for me now. So this girl who used to be a sweet tooth is not so much anymore.