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About two years now, and I'd been doing it less strictly / on-and-off for a year and a half before that. I've definitely noticed feeling much more focused and
by buu700 11y ago
About two years now, and I'd been doing it less strictly / on-and-off for a year and a half before that.
I've definitely noticed feeling much more focused and productive since starting, and it also helped with dropping from 210 to a bit over 150 pounds in the first few months of 2014.
Also anecdotal, my cofounder at my current startup Cyph has been on keto for close to a year now, and in that time has had a heart condition almost entirely vanish and his body fat drop to something like 6%.
- beachstartup 11y ago+1 for keto here. the only real downside is that it's extremely difficult to maintain the discipline to avoid carbs! also the social aspects.
- buu700 11y agoI would actually say that it's extremely easy, but only because any carb cravings I may have are met with the flour/sugar substitutes and pre-baked goods from LC Foods (holdthecarbs.com), along with other common carb replacements like shirataki noodles. It's pretty nice that I can freely eat awesome dishes like pizza with the crust fried in clarified butter that people who aren't on a high-fat diet would never touch. That said, it would certainly take some discipline without something like LC Foods, and I suppose there's also the issue that keto kinda forces you to become an amateur chef (but I at least enjoy that aspect and don't find that it's super time-consuming). While the social aspect is of course an issue, one interesting thing socially is that anything I cook for guests at home is LCHF, and people are always shocked when I mention it in passing later on; e.g. one reaction to my stevia ice cream was something like "I thought it was weird that I wasn't getting a headache like I usually do after eating sugar!".
- beachstartup 11y agoyeah, sure, all that stuff. but it's still hard to not order fries when i go out to eat. the reason i got fat in the first place is because i love, love, love, love, love carbs. real honest to god carbs, not half-assed replacement like fake noodles.
- buu700 11y agoAh, then maybe it's just easier for me because I've never really liked fries and have always seen noodles as nothing more than vessels for sauces/cheeses/meats/etc. (a common complaint about shirataki is that it's flavourless, but to me good quality shirataki is indistinguishable from ramen noodles — probably because I'd never noticed any particular flavour of noodles to begin with).