What I Ate Today (9.26.2016)

Tools to Help with Eating Keto (Food Scale and MyFitnessPal)

Tools to Help with Eating Keto (Food Scale and MyFitnessPal)

One of the great things about the ketogenic diet when I first started was that I didn't need to worry about counting calories. Counting fat grams and protein ounces? Nah. Didn't worry about those. I just needed to make sure my total daily carbs were below 20 grams. I knew that most animal products are nearly carb free (eggs have just a bit and dairy products do as well). So if I avoided anything non-animal based, I had no problem losing weight. In the first 3 months I lost 38.2 pounds. It was a wonder. I had tried to lose just 10 pounds for 20 years, following the low-fat, eat less move more mandate.

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What is the Ketogenic diet?

What is the Ketogenic diet?

ketone
noun, Chemistry.
1.     any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5.

Ok. All that may be less than helpful. (You know you're dealing with a fairly esoteric topic when your spell check fires up and underlines every third word in angry red...)

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"So, what do you eat?"

"So, what do you eat?"

When people learn that I've lost quite a bit of weight - 83.9 pounds - since starting to follow a ketogenic nutritional protocol the initial response is frequently "wow!". That is followed closely by wondering what I eat. Then there are a series of cascading comments regarding my health. I'll write about those elsewhere.

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