Keto

[Azanne07]

Does anyone here understand the whole keto life style?
How does it benefit a person?

I know you have to eliminate a lot of carbs but is it possible to be somewhere in between a lot of carbs and this keto diet

[countrygirl12]

I have heard of it but do not really know what it is. None of these new fad diets are going to work nor are they healthy. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables and not eating red meat or pork. Exercise instead of vegetating in front of the tv. Eliminate stress. That is what is going to help you to be healthy.

[Tresbn00]

I think that most people diet so that they can have the ideal body. If having a better looking/functioning body is the goal than exercise is the best medicine and needs to be planned out. I used to run Ultra Marathons (thirty five plus miles) and weighed about one hundred and ninety pounds with a body fat percentage of eleven percent. I was full of energy but didn't have washboard abdominals or bigger upper body. I used to try every diet in the book in order to get my weight down for marathons. The easiest diet was the may clinic diet which is free and guarantees a twenty pound weight loss in two weeks. The best shape of my life came when I worked out with weights four days a week, did cardio three days a week and ate seven meals per day-balanced with equal parts carbohydrates and protein. This regimen took my weight down to one hundred and eighty five pounds and a body fat percentage of under nine percent in twelve weeks.

[oldbuddy]

Does anyone here understand the whole keto life style?
How does it benefit a person?

I know you have to eliminate a lot of carbs but is it possible to be somewhere in between a lot of carbs and this keto diet

I started to try it, but fell back to low carbs and lost 15 pounds in a month. I still watch the carbs and have kept it off for another couple of months, but I have a couple spoons of Ice Cream every night. My Ha1C dropped a point too.

[sak4kat]

I don't know much about it - but I have tried a few Keto recipe's because they just sounded good.  And after eating them I felt full had long standing energy.  I do know a few people who have incredible weight loss over the last couple of years using different diet methods.  keto, isogenix shakes.... etc  For me keeping track of what I eat on an app helps monitor what nutrition (or lack of nutrients) I've been feeding my body.

[sbenkoski]

There is a place in Texas doing the keto diet for dogs and they are curing cancer with it.  Sugar feeds cancer and they claim if you cut out all sugar and carbs you can beat cancer or at least have a better chance.  Its near impossible, its pretty much meat and more meat, it is a bacon lovers dream diet and i guess you can eat butter by the stick !

[taethowen]

My mother has recently started on the keto lifestyle. It's more about re-teaching your body to use fat sources as energy than anything else. That DOES mean cutting out carbs, because if carbs are available, your body will use them first because they're easier and faster to break down than fat is.

However, it's not NO carbs. What you want to concentrate on in an overall healthy lifestyle is cutting out SIMPLE carbohydrates (processed flour, refined sugar, etc) and eating more complex carbohydrates (like those found in vegetables). It's impossible to cut out ALL carbohydrates and be healthy, because a lot of the vitamins and minerals we need are found in vegetables and fruits.

[aflyingmonkey]

Is the KETO like a new version of Atkins? 

I remember when eating Atkins was all the rage.... it worked until one started to eat carbs again.