Keto diet - anyone else?
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Yes, I pour some of it back over the meat and eat it, but there are limits! Bacon and fatty pork belly produces nearly enough excess to swim in and that's way too much to pour onto your plate. 
I've been pouring the excess into old coffee jars, freezing them, then remembering to put them in the outside bin on collection day before they've defrosted. Missus has said to save it then make fat bombs for the birds but I have enough problems cleaning bird crap off my car as it is without encouraging even more of the blighters. 
I'm not a fan of tinned fish in spring water or brine, instead preferring it in olive oil. I used to just mash it into the oil and eat it but it's too much and makes it sickly. Oil doesn't freeze very well so it's either going down the sink with boiling water or getting soaked up with kitchen roll and binned.
I've been pouring the excess into old coffee jars, freezing them, then remembering to put them in the outside bin on collection day before they've defrosted. Missus has said to save it then make fat bombs for the birds but I have enough problems cleaning bird crap off my car as it is without encouraging even more of the blighters. I'm not a fan of tinned fish in spring water or brine, instead preferring it in olive oil. I used to just mash it into the oil and eat it but it's too much and makes it sickly. Oil doesn't freeze very well so it's either going down the sink with boiling water or getting soaked up with kitchen roll and binned.
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Any thoughts on this? Appreciate it’s VERY unscientific but has anyone here been keto for >22weeks and had their blood tested re Hb1Ac?
Any thoughts on this? Appreciate it’s VERY unscientific but has anyone here been keto for >22weeks and had their blood tested re Hb1Ac?
1/2 way thru week 1 and doing OK. Had my 1st tomtit in 3 days, wasnt a lot! Think I'm eating too much cheese, even thou its delish of course BUT breakfast today was 2 rashers and a fried egg, yum. I've also noticed that the portion sizes with DD compared to what I usually eat are 25% smaller.
mikal83 said:
1/2 way thru week 1 and doing OK. Had my 1st tomtit in 3 days, wasnt a lot! Think I'm eating too much cheese, even thou its delish of course BUT breakfast today was 2 rashers and a fried egg, yum. I've also noticed that the portion sizes with DD compared to what I usually eat are 25% smaller.
The majority of bowel issues people have on keto are from what they eat (rarley what they avoid - unless it's water/electoyltes) People go on about fibre and veg, etc but if you are eating lots of chesse/nuts/etc ..... good luck on staying regular!grumbledoak said:
I didn't realize what a tomtit was.
A diet high in fat normally makes things 'easy' that way. Less cellulose means less to come out - meat, eggs, cheese all get completely digested in the stomach.
Constipation is normally dehydration.
Amen to that. I plop out a couple of beautiful pebbles every few days and get through so little toilet paper that I sometimes put a sheet back on the roll. That’s not constipation, it’s just less waste.A diet high in fat normally makes things 'easy' that way. Less cellulose means less to come out - meat, eggs, cheese all get completely digested in the stomach.
Constipation is normally dehydration.
Grumbleoak right again unsurprisingly. I can stuff myself with meat til I'm nearly busting but it seems to completely disappear! Eating carbs it's like your body rejects it as it goes straight through your system and you spend half your life s
tting it all out down the pan! 
tting it all out down the pan! grumbledoak said:
A diet high in fat normally makes things 'easy' that way. Less cellulose means less to come out - meat, eggs, cheese all get completely digested in the stomach.
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mikal83 said:
Is almond flour a decent alt to real flour? I do miss my rhubarb crumble on a sunday
Sounds like you're suffering with sugar withdrawal to me - understandable as you only started a few days ago. Eat more meat, fish and eggs to get your satiety level high and your hunger level low then you won't be craving for sugary desserts. There are a couple of keto rhubarb crumble recipes but they use a lot of erythritol which is a natural sweetener and not particularly nice.Edited by Lemming Train on Sunday 8th September 14:53
Erythritol makes me st like I've had a madras, just without the chilli endorphins.
You can have a fully-fledged crumble here and there, or any carby food/meal if you want, mikal, but after a while of adjustment. However a lot of people find that even mentally they aren't overly bothered about things like desserts once they've been keto for a month or two.
t like I've had a madras, just without the chilli endorphins. You can have a fully-fledged crumble here and there, or any carby food/meal if you want, mikal, but after a while of adjustment. However a lot of people find that even mentally they aren't overly bothered about things like desserts once they've been keto for a month or two.
That's it ^. Once you've become fat adapted it all becomes much easier to sustain as you don't get the sugar cravings. The middle ground before that happens can be torture if you've got a sweet tooth and are used to shovelling in cake, biscuits, beer.
Keep your fridge stocked up with low-carb snacks that you can nibble at when you get sugar cravings. They don't need to be sweet, you just need to eat anything to satisfy your hunger. Packs of cooked meats are good for this : cooked ham/chicken/turkey. Corned beef also very filling. Pepperami, spicy sausage snacks, cheese snacks all good. For sweet stuff, have a big tub of natural Greek yogurt in the fridge (the proper expensive stuff, not the Greek-style ones which are packed with carbs/sweeteners) and get a pack of raspberries/blackberries to chuck in, maybe even strawberries at a push but don't go crazy with strawberries as the carbs will quickly mount up, but all these are infinitely better for sticking to the keto script than making crumbles to satisfy your cravings.
Keep your fridge stocked up with low-carb snacks that you can nibble at when you get sugar cravings. They don't need to be sweet, you just need to eat anything to satisfy your hunger. Packs of cooked meats are good for this : cooked ham/chicken/turkey. Corned beef also very filling. Pepperami, spicy sausage snacks, cheese snacks all good. For sweet stuff, have a big tub of natural Greek yogurt in the fridge (the proper expensive stuff, not the Greek-style ones which are packed with carbs/sweeteners) and get a pack of raspberries/blackberries to chuck in, maybe even strawberries at a push but don't go crazy with strawberries as the carbs will quickly mount up, but all these are infinitely better for sticking to the keto script than making crumbles to satisfy your cravings.
Lemming Train said:
mikal83 said:
Is almond flour a decent alt to real flour? I do miss my rhubarb crumble on a sunday
Sounds like you're suffering with sugar withdrawal to me - understandable as you only started a few days ago. Eat more meat, fish and eggs to get your satiety level high and your hunger level low then you won't be craving for sugary desserts. There are a couple of keto rhubarb crumble recipes but they use a lot of erythritol which is a natural sweetener and not particularly nice.Edited by Lemming Train on Sunday 8th September 14:53
But how do you make the rhubarb crumble? Rhubarb is quite bitter on its own and usually gets a lot of sugar added to it when cooking it . Rhubarb itself is very low in carbs so if you can eat it as it is, crack on, there are keto friendly crumble recipes to be found online, but if you need to add some sort of sugar to sweeten up the taste you're best avoiding it.
Lemming Train said:
But how do you make the rhubarb crumble? Rhubarb is quite bitter on its own and usually gets a lot of sugar added to it when cooking it . Rhubarb itself is very low in carbs so if you can eat it as it is, crack on, there are keto friendly crumble recipes to be found online, but if you need to add some sort of sugar to sweeten up the taste you're best avoiding it.
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