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I tried fasting and a pure keto diet. While they do work, I felt miserable. This is not sustainable for people like me who has to lose more than 100 pounds. No
by TeeMassive 5y ago
I tried fasting and a pure keto diet. While they do work, I felt miserable. This is not sustainable for people like me who has to lose more than 100 pounds.
Now I started losing weight by just balancing macro-nutrients; more protein, more vegetables, less carbs as opposed to absolutes "no" and "only" except for no sugary drinks and beer and deserts except in social occasions. Also big emphasis on weight lifting as opposed to cardio. Cardio helps with its own health benefits but is very poor for muscle growth and fat loss and should be seen as a compliment.
- rich-cartwright 5y agoYep spot on about the sustainability. We hear this all the time from the Fellas.
- faichai 5y agoI felt miserable on Keto the first two times I tried it. I’ve found doing fasting in the month prior helped with the adaptation and a large part of the misery was loss of electrolytes. By using electrolyte powder I only really had one or two really miserable days this time round.
- rich-cartwright 5y agoInteresting. How long have you been doing keto this time?
- faichai 5y agoOnly week 3, but finding it pretty great this time round, ketones actively suppressing appetite, eating about 2 meals a day, down about 6kg so far. I still fast a couple of times a week, but being in ketosis already makes it crazy easy. Have enough energy for gym, though power slightly down. I hear people can hit a wall about 8 weeks in, but also hear that could be down to over-consuming seed oils. Will see how it goes.
- rich-cartwright 5y agoInteresting to know, thanks.
- TeeMassive 5y agoVery interesting. I'll try it out with electrolytes. What did you take as electrolytes supplement?