My Keto Recapitulation

Condensed From MFP Blog

The following is a summary of previous entries I had made in MFP before moving my blog over here.


First Week: I started Keto on January 1, 2022. I did not go full Keto but eased in over the first week. It took five days to both eat all the high-carb foods I had and ease my carb intake down to my new goals. By the end of the first week I was feeling better, but having some cravings for high carb foods. I lost four pounds in the first week; I know some is the water I'm no longer retaining.

Week two: I continued to have trouble keeping my carbs as low as the Keto diet requires, but for the most part, was very close on my macro-nutrients. Saturday was spent shoveling out my Mother-in-laws's driveway and then we ate at a Chinese Buffet. That put my carbs way over the limit, and the next day I actually had a carb hangover.

We do have one cheat day each week, so this was it. Note for future cheat days, watch the carbs... Not only does consuming a high level of carbs bring on a food hangover, but it started me craving carbs all over. Yet another note, for in the future when I reached my desired weight and go off of Keto, ease off slowly!

Week three: The pounds are melting off, slowly but steadily. I'm down nine pounds so far, feeling great, have more energy, and I'm not hungry all the time.

The biggest problem I'm having on the Keto diet is reaching my calories and fats. I come close but seldom do I finish a day without being a few hundred calories under and still have about one-fourth of my fats left. I tend to be short on fiber as well, but it's difficult to get high-fiber foods without having high carbs. We have incorporated Mission Carb-Balance wraps as a solution. The carbs are kind of high, but the fiber off-sets them and in the end, they are five net carbs.

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