2017 Weight Loss

[irie feeling]

Originally Posted by GamerDadOfFour

I've considered it, but the quirk with keto is you have to be able to keep your carb intake too low too consistently. Doing that would annoy the crap out of the rest of the family and I'm not making a separate dinner for just myself every night to make that work.

Keto for the adults. (Meat and vegetables) and kiddie meal for the 8 year old.

Side note, I have to make a special "me" pizza dough. We buy a bakery dough for the girls, and rise it, roll it. It's fun.

[irie feeling]

Originally Posted by tt3

An interesting side note of going low carb higher fat is you can fast, too. I've been doing one day a week, ~36hrs water and clear non-caloric liquids only. (Coffee, tea etc.) It's not as bad as you'd imagine! I'm fitting into clothes I hadn't been in for years!

I went from 36 inch waist to a "Men's Health Magazine" 32 inch waist! Without working out!

[GamerDadOfFour]

Originally Posted by irie feeling

Keto for the adults. (Meat and vegetables) and kiddie meal for the 8 year old.

Side note, I have to make a special "me" pizza dough. We buy a bakery dough for the girls, and rise it, roll it. It's fun.

My wife would riot if I tried to push keto on her as well. It'd literally be prepping it just for myself and I really can't justify spending the time on that with everything else I have to get done.

[irie feeling]

In all fairness, I get that.
For me it's a medical treatment prescribed by my nuero team. My wife is totally onboard, we've seen the results, both in research studies, patient history reports, and in me.
We've all seen the Atkins diet. It's just a lower carb or no carb Atkins with fat being the main fuel-instead of carbs. Eat more fat in the keto. Put butter on evrytang!
I ask my wife every night if she wants some? Allot of nights she'll eat what the lil princess eats.

[irie feeling]

You know, that Pelaton looks interesting. Or at least the girl on it does.

[GamerDadOfFour]

I've got a buddy who does it and swears by it. I'm definitely interested, but don't think it's gonna work out for me at this stage. I'll be keeping it in mind for the future though.

[tt3]

I'm not hard core keto but I am pretty diligent with low carb. For our family there isn't much modification I have to do to get enough to eat. There's just more meat and dark green veg on the table.

I do a lot of our cooking from scratch though because we have dairy, egg and nut allergic kids. The instant pot has been our friend for a long time.
If it weren't for the beer I'd be down further, but since Jan 1st I've lost 15 putting me solidly under 200, somewhere I haven't seen in 10+ years.

I'm not on here as much as I used to be, so a very belated welcome GamerDad!

[Mark B.]

Originally Posted by GamerDadOfFour

I've got a buddy who does it and swears by it. I'm definitely interested, but don't think it's gonna work out for me at this stage. I'll be keeping it in mind for the future though.

Gamerdaddy, I remember when the kids were young like yours are it was the toughest time to try any sort of diet. Getting workouts in regularly was hard enough.

[TwoCubs]

Keep posting, guys. It's good to hear that you are making progress. I keep getting on and then stressed and falling off.

[Kwak]

No progress here. In fact, I've had a bit of a back slide. I blame it on the OREO cookies that seem to have appeared in my pantry. I feel like I've been sabotaged!