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Originally Posted by bronco67
I do intermittent fasting, so my first meal is around 12 or 1...
I've been trying to get keto adapted for the last couple of weeks, which basically means switching your primary fuel source from carbs to stored fat. I'm doing a carb re-feed today, but on most days I've been doing about 50g at most, and upping my intake of good fats. I drink about 3 tablespoons of olive oil and have grass fed butter and coconut oil to supplement the fat intake. Contrary to popular belief, fat does not make you fat, carbs do...but don't expect the food industry to tell you that.
Feel like crap now, but supposedly once the body gets into nutritional ketosis I'll feel great. I do know that the state I'm trying to get into makes more sense for getting rid of body fat. Early man wasn't munching on carbs all day for energy. They used stored body fat as an energy source to get them between fasts. That's what your fat is there for.
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Amen to this.
I've done keto on and off for about 3 years now, been on about 95% for the past year. While I have cheat meals on occasion, I really try to keep it on occasion. I try to keep it down under 40g of carbs because anything over makes me feel like absolute garbage. As in water retaining, joint aching garbage. People were trying to make me feel bad this past weekend for not eating some cake at a wedding this past weekend (hubby said it was very underwhelming tasting). How can I feel bad by not feeling bad? Let others eat cake, I'll take that cheese platter everyone is avoiding due to "too high fat".
Btw, if you're feeling like crap, up your salt intake, magnesium and potassium. I found out that you can completely avoid keto flu/feeling bad during the month adaption period by maintaining those electrolytes. /r/keto is the best subreddit ever.
