Anyone else here on the keto diet?

I was on the diet for about 5 years. I never ever bought anything that any company had put the word "keto" on the packaging. They just treat it as a marketing word and it isn't useful when shopping.

I found keto really good for my endurance, weight control, calorie intake and I ate a load of stuff I won't even have in the house now. I binge eat (I'm no longer on the diet) so, keto was good for me because I knew that if I went off the diet, I would have punishment getting back on it and I wanted to be on it.

I basically ate anything I wanted as long as the total net carbs were below 50g by the end of the day. Nut butters, cream, butter, cheese, all the meats, nuts, some vegetables (not root or anything sweet), eggs, salad (without tomato, potato, most dressing...) Instead of bread, I'd use tortilla wraps and for snacks I'd have celery dipped in something nice. I used to love a sort of egg custard made with a load of eggs, a load of cream (or philadelphia) and sweetened with stevia or some other sweetener.

I know none of that sounds healthy but I honestly never felt better than when I was on that diet. Why am I no longer on it? Other people. Going out for something to eat with somebody, they would always insist that they can't eat anywhere but this place where there would either be nothing for me or the "chef" could do a really crap salad specially for me. I gave up in the end.

You really need to look at packaging of everything that you might like to eat. You might be surprised by how much you can eat. It shouldn't cost more than eating non-keto if you stay away from the dodgy marketing brands.

Good luck with it!

I think you're right about avoiding keto branded stuff. I keep hoping that seeing that on a label will mean it's made by people who know how to make keto products actually taste decent, but that never seems to be the case. I've been making my peace with slow cooked meats, omelettes, cheese and konjac noodles for the most part. I can eat nuts, but the texture never reads to me as food, so I always end up feeling like I'm eating pieces of debris. I've never been good at eating vegetables, but I'm trying to get my head into eating spinach, cos the iron boost does more for me than caffeine does.

I think my threshold for carbs is closer to 20g than 50g, because my ketones started dropping after a week of adding a little milk to my morning coffee. I'd like to have tortilla wraps again, I'd just need to find one with carbs low enough. I used to be able to find these small 1g carb ones that weren't bad for taste, but can't seem to find them anymore.

It is kind of weird what you can eat on keto, I get you there. I've got a brisket slow cooking in bone broth right now that feels like something I shouldn't be allowed to have.

I will do more reading on what I can eat. I guess the trade off for price is effort. Thanks for the input.

I think you're right about avoiding keto branded stuff. I keep hoping that seeing that on a label will mean it's made by people who know how to make keto products actually taste decent, but that never seems to be the case. I've been making my peace with slow cooked meats, omelettes, cheese and konjac noodles for the most part. I can eat nuts, but the texture never reads to me as food, so I always end up feeling like I'm eating pieces of debris. I've never been good at eating vegetables, but I'm trying to get my head into eating spinach, cos the iron boost does more for me than caffeine does.

I think my threshold for carbs is closer to 20g than 50g, because my ketones started dropping after a week of adding a little milk to my morning coffee. I'd like to have tortilla wraps again, I'd just need to find one with carbs low enough. I used to be able to find these small 1g carb ones that weren't bad for taste, but can't seem to find them anymore.

It is kind of weird what you can eat on keto, I get you there. I've got a brisket slow cooking in bone broth right now that feels like something I shouldn't be allowed to have.

I will do more reading on what I can eat. I guess the trade off for price is effort. Thanks for the input.

Hi! I've been trying to follow a low-carb diet but I want to move on to keto. I wanted to ask you about the keto flu, because last time I tried to do keto I got really dizzy and had heart palpitations during the first days. It was only getting worse, so I stopped. How did you get through that first phase? Were you drinking electrolyte drinks or eating mixes of different kinds of salt as it is proposed by many others?

Yes! I’ve been on keto for 6 months—how about you? Loving it so far, though the first few days were rough with the ‘keto flu.’ Have you found any go-to meals or snacks that keep you on track? Always looking for new ideas!"