TheBeastie said:
Thanks ^_^
TheBeastie said:
I am not keto, just been lowering my carbs, its all about killing those processed food addiction habits.
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The thing with these low carb pre-made meals is you can eat a few of them a day if you feel like eating like a pig and still lose weight as long as you stay aware from sugar/rice/pasta carbs.
I never lost weight until I did/copied this setup.
You know, i've heard that from a lot of people. That going about halfway as low carb as i have, resulted in major weight loss and health improvements. I have also heard that just eliminating sugar and bread was the key for some people.
That is why i don't necessarily think everyone should eat the way i do. Results matter more than dogma.
Youtube made a world of difference because I didn't know how to cook, I didn't know how to meal prep. Books tell you to "cook the chicken", I didn't know how to do it properly.
I am also lazy, I couldn't be bothered cooking every night, so making 5 meals in a single go made a huge the difference.
Yeah i didn't know how to cook before this either. I was eating around 80% processed foods as a result. I hear they do not teach children to cook anymore in school here in the states..
I also do meal prep. It is the only way to eat healthy every day in a time efficient manner.
My weight loss was quite large, the more I stick to it the more the weight goes, I am actually thinking of reintroducing rice so that its generally more healthy. I go in and out of doing a small set of pushups per day to keep some muscle, but I got to make this more routine also.
I used to think rice was healthy until i read about the arsenic in it and looked at the vitamin content in it, versus a megavitamin food like pork liver or brussel sprouts. Brown rice is the most nutritious but also comes with more arsenic and more phytic acid, which reduces nutrient absorption. When it is processed into white rice, it loses all of it's nutritional value. So in either scenario, you are not exactly winning the vitamin lottery.
The value of rice is mostly in the carbohydrates myself, but i try to avoid carbohydrates at all costs, so when i eat vegetables, they have to be the most nutrient dense ones.
TheBeastie said:
I have realized all the processed foods/sugar really is poison, like having drugs sitting around, but broadcast TV/media made it feel normal, when in fact it's incredibly destructive to your life.
Okay, so i read research papers on diet and medicine as part of another job and i can tell you that a lot of recent medications target pathways which are harmed by poor diet. It's funny and sad at the same time, because you could completely skip the expensive pharmaceutical drug and just eat different, but...
There is a drug that is a metabolite of omega 3 ( DHA ) that they're going to try to sell as a heart afib med:
https://regenerativetimes.com/2019/...patients-with-persistent-atrial-fibrillation/
A drug that causes the body to excrete sugar and force the body into ketosis is being studied as a medication for heart failure:
https://regenerativetimes.com/2019/...ely-provides-the-same-benefit-with-less-risk/
There's a recent report about mice getting depressed on a 'high fat diet' which turns out to resemble a standard american diet ( not ketogenic ) and the researchers are basically fishing around for new areas of the brain to target for depressed people who are on what i'd call 'standard american diet plus ice cream':
https://newatlas.com/obesity-depression-high-fat-diet-brain-signaling/59636/
Turn on any television and you will be sold the poison and the cure for the poison, often in one sitting.
And in the research world you see a good effort at preventing people from connecting the dots.
I stopped watching television in '99..
By the way, you will probably love this video since you also see the connection to processed food and our health. Robert is not exactly a keto diet guy, but sympathetic to the cause.
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Also, a lot of people say acid reflux goes away on a ketogenic diet. I believe the reason why is that a proper ketogenic diet does not contain much in the way of plant poisons or plant/artificial acids. There is an elimination diet documented in a book called 'dropping acid' and a friend of mine who is not on the keto path swears by it.
My stomach is allergic to some kind of self defense chemical ( probably solanine ) in certain potatoes. I used to get an inflamed stomach and perpetual hiccuping which would go on for months. One doctor found out that taking an antacid for 2-3 days stopped the out of control reaction. instead of having antacids around, i just stopped eating potatoes. YMMV.
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