Keto Experiment (Tried and True)

First and foremost, my highest weight was 210 at 5'8. I'm 24 years old.

When I began A Ketogenic diet I lost weight in huge quantities and dropped down to 145. I experimented with my body, my meals, my fitness routine and I'm 110#% sure keto is the optimal diet for human beings. (AT least in my subjective experience as a human)

I tried a vegan diet, I was eating salads, rice, vegetables, along with crackers and other knick knacks and counting calories. I lost weight, BUT I was hungry af the whole time! I felt fatigued and sometimes I would tremble. While on it I dropped down to about 170 from 210.

I gave up on it and tried just counting calories. Even though I felt a hell of a lot better eating meat, fat, and carbs, the weight started slowly coming back WHILE counting calories. At this point my mind is literally like "wtf" lol.

While doing research on macro nutrients, I read a book called "Protein Power" simply because I was wondering how to put on muscle and discovered a lot of history on carbs. How they contribute to disease, diabetes, fatigue, water retention, humanity's relationship with carbs. I was shocked to find out obesity seemed to be in direct correlation with our carbohydrate consumption.

So I tried the keto diet, not really counting carbs, just eating meats, fats, and vegetables like broccoli, avocado, cauliflower. Etc. I would allow myself a cup of berries every now and then and before I knew it, maybe a month and a half I went from 170 to a 145. I was not hungry, fatigued, or anything. And I looked forward to my meals and had a new appreciation for food in general.

Keto opened my eyes. Along with my research in other areas of my life, it became a subject on its own in my writings. The food pyramid is bullshit.

Before reaching a hypothesis, I decided to try carbs again.

Mistake

I gained 25 pounds in two months

I know water retention is part of it, but eating carbs snowball. Finishing a big meal feeling like you've eaten air, and your body is saying "More more more, feeed me Seymore!!" Lol!

I'm fairly new to Reddit, I'm sure you all have experienced this also and there's probably a plethora of these same stories in this sub, but it's almost mind blowing to me.

In school, from a very young age, we eat school lunch and think it's healthy because the food pyramid says so. In adult age, that same lunch tray is a TV dinner, a burger, pizza, tacos, fries, we subconsciously believe it's "healthy" although our conscious mind knows better. The subconscious mind snaps in an instant, conscious reasoning takes longer, and today, convenience is the God of consumerism.

I'm excited looking forward to a ketogenic lifestyle, the grocery shopping, the cooking, the certainty, constantly learning new recipes, bacon, and looking amazing well into old age

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Submitted March 08, 2017 at 06:32PM by KyriiTheAtlantean http://ift.tt/2mHRHMC