Actually, I think I was already there once about 10 years ago.Hardartery wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:13 pmLOL. The pee strips are not particularly reliable indicators, but good for you guys. I've been keto for several months now and will soon transition to low carb for a while. Bigger guys take a lot longer to flush out the system, but if you're hitting it right you should lose a solid 6-8 poiunds of water as you flush out and get into ketosis. It can take up to three weeks though. Jerry Brainum has some informative Youtubes on the subject. He's a little dry, but provides a lot of info.mbasic wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:43 pm I was attempting another foray into intermittent fasting (16:8) but the wife starting reading about keto ... and I guess now we are doing The Ketos.
Those two things seem to go hand and hand (well, getting started with Keto anyways).
We slowly upped the amount of time fasting, and simultaneously doing low-carb.
She had a nice colorful pee strip, after fasting 20 hrs, doing some pelaton workouts, and eating almost-no-carb meal either side of the fast.
I've yet to make a dent in a pee strip.
She has gone all coocoo with it. Since has bought the blood-meter. Listens to podcasts all the time, etc.
When she first hit higher range on the pee strip, she kept texting me in the car to tell me about it....one sentence at a time.
My truck's bluetooth text ringer constantly going off multiple times in a row ...
....my kid sitting in the back seat asks, "Who's texting you all the time?"
Me: "Its your mom"
Kid: "What's wrong?"
Me: "Mom is in keto finally."
kid: "Where the heck is keto?"
My brother brought me a Dr.Eades Protein Power book which espoused the virtues of a low carb diet....which I bought hook, line, and sinker.
I went from about 235 down to 187 ish in about 2 months!
For the first two weeks, I literally ate less than 15g of carbs a day.
I slowly ratchetted up carbs up to ~50g/day the over the next 3-4 weeks.
IIRC, the Eades book was more about insulin being the enemy. It was a long time ago.
I don't remember too much about ketosis being mentioned, and/or any of the benfits of a ketogenic diet in there (maybe it was an real old publication when I got it) such a atophagy, brain stuff, etc.
I think I can do it again.
My wife, she's a carb addict ...
I just eat too many total calories and have gotten fat.
I have no problem NOT eating grains, breads, rice, noodles, sweets, etc.
I might have been known to eat half a jar of organic almond butter at one sitting though.