Keto Diet

[delightfullyfuked.]

Ohhhh gone off the rails🫣 Easter, birthdays… any lame excuse- Another family do tomorrow then back to the grindstone- out of interest have any of you signed up to the manyyyy apps available? I know they sound good but cost money … I know I’ve done it myself before - just curious - what was helpful

happens to all of us! Hence the reason I’ve gone full throttle this time. 8lbs down in just over a week!

I didn’t get any apps, I couldn’t justify the cost. Keto is an expensive way to eat as it is without the added extras!

 

[Megansnarkle]

Doing ok. Last night I tried my first keto-substitute, a keto pizza base mix (so far I've been sticking to real food but keto). We always have pizza night on a Friday and so I wanted to be able to continue that and also have a meal that felt a bit more like a regular treat. It was actually not too bad. Slightly more on the cake-y side of bread in terms of texture but as a short-term substitute, alright. I also had a gin and slimline tonic and one chocolate as a reward for doing my tax return but today I'm back on it in terms of being stricter.

 

[Rose28454]

My tea ( couldn’t eat it all though )

 

[truffletrot]

Doing my food shop and meal plan to start Keto, thought id share some of the recipes I'll be making:

LUNCHES or DINNERS

Creamy coconut chicken curry with green beans

Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup with Crispy Bacon

Keto Fried Chicken wings with blue cheese dressing

Chicken wrapped in bacon & bbq sauce with cauliflower mash

Cheese stuffed meatballs in a tomato basil sauce

Cobb Salad – Chicken/Smoked cheese, olives, rocket, cucumber blue cheese dressing

Jalapeno Poppers

Buffalo sauce wings with blue cheese dip

Tomato, mozzarella and basil with pesto

Hollandaise sauce with bacon and eggs

Fathead nachos with jalapeno Philly

Sausage and cauliflower mash with green beans & gravy

Chaffles

Chicken in a cream sauce, mushrooms

Shakshuka egg with crumbled Goat Cheese

Courgette Fritters with a poached egg

DESSERTS:

Hot chocolate with whipped cream

Keto brownies

Sugared pecans

Chocolate orange mug cake

 

[Kofi Annan]

Can anyone recommend keto meals please? I’m struggling for inspiration!

Pinterest!!

Anyone tried it whilst breastfeeding

It's not recommended whilst breastfeeding.

dietdoctor.com is good. It'll ask you to sign up but ignore that, hit the burger bar top left and click on low carb and keto. Loads of info.

 

[theghosttown]

I have PCOS too! Ice been doing a lot of reading about insulin resistance in PCOS which is why I decided to go the Keto route. I was a terrible chocolate binge eater and I want to overcome it. I’ve quit booze, smoking, now it’s time for sugar It’s funny isn’t it, when you get diagnosed with PCOS you get zero information on how to manage it/what you need to be more aware of. (At least it was in my case)

Pcos definitely responds well to keto and low carb. I personally find it very hard to give up alcohol. I love beer and cava but I’ve had a word with myself and said if I want booze it will have to be gin and vodka and sugar free mixers. I’m not too much of a food binger but I get myself into lazy habits sometimes!!!

Yep totally agree, my doctor told me to go to weight watchers and treated me as though I’m just a greedy slob and said the gym is pointless. It was almost comical. I’m currently 1.5 stone down. Really need to get another 2 off me in order to be prescribed clomid. I’m currently taking inafolic alpha instead of metformin so will see how that goes!


Well done on everything you’ve managed to quit!!!

 

[theghosttown]

I found an app called carb manager really really helpful. I even paid for the subscription to include recipes. Had some amazing stuff on there and also really really gives you an idea of carb content of virtually any food!

 

[Sabbie]

I’m not sure I’m with you on that one

If you’re questioning lower fat versions of food its perpetuating the myth that calorie counting is still the only way to lose weight. On keto that’s simply not the case and it’s much healthier for your mindset to drop the traditional diet culture mantra and relax about it.

 

[truffletrot]

Aloha Keto-lerinos!

Today is my first day on Keto. Ahh I feel nervous! I have cleared space for my own ‘keto’ cupboard and spent quite a bit more money buying sugar free sauces and other bits off Amazon so I’m nervous that if I fail it will have been for nothing. I suppose that’s normal.

Anyhoo, my plan is to track everything in MFP this first week but ONLY care about my carbs.

So far I’m at 3g carbs for my bacon and eggs for breakfast along with a coffee with double cream in it - oh god it was heaven in a cup. The calorie count is 508.. woah! But for this week while I get my bearings not going to focus on calories.

Will be interesting to see if I lose weight since my daily calories will probably be higher I’m going to weigh in every day this week

I’m drinking lots of water and I’ve also got these Zero electrolyte tablets which you mix into water (Got them from good old B&M pre lockdown)

 

[On A Roll]

No problem at all! How did it turn out?

a little bit too good, ate the whole thing they were amazing. I have Courgette pasta planned next week and I know it’s gonna be so good alongside it!

 

[Thatgal4]

You’re so right. I just feel so annoyed at myself for doing so well and right now I feel disgusting

 

[megsmagoo]

That’s good to know, they look munch! Any recommendations?

Day 6
Protein bread, poached egg and bacon
Chorizo Jalapeño cheese roll ups
Nduja sausage roll ups and cauliflower broccoli cheese

 

[megsmagoo]

Go you!! Chaffles - wow! They look yummaaay.

I made some Mozzarella sticks today!

the recipe called for hard block of mozzarella but I just had the ball one so I basically cut 2 of them up and then squeezed as much water out with a paper towel. Then egg washed and coated in a mix of 45g almond flour plus some garlic powder and herbs. air fried them and served with Franks Buffalo sauce. 1.7 g carbs for each portion (4 portions in that recipe) They were all odd shapes but who cares they actually tasted like pizza!

They look so good, doesn’t matter how they look if they taste nice!

Just walked to waitrose and got my 10,000 steps in and they had jalapeños so I’ll be making some poppers tomorrow. Love waitrose, they had some great low carb bbq stuff and their mozzarella and burrata is buff, I also got some dark chocolate for snaccckks.

Day 5
Bacon and chaffles
Plum tomato, mozzarella and prosciutto skewers (5 plum tomatoes so 3g carbs)
Steak and swede chips with salad

First weekend of not drinking too actually which is nice, even if I’m not hungover the day after drinking always has me perusing the take away menus

 

[MissPinkk]

I'm about to start. Counting calories just doesn't work for me....I seem to totally crave my next snack. Tried the keto style before and deffo didn't crave anything.

 

[megsmagoo]

I got it from their website, I got a 10% discount searching lodough on Instagram

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[Peachy9]

So I started keto about 5 days ago... I'm really enjoying it! I like the fact I'm not hungry, and I love cheese/meat/green leafy veg, so that's me sorted. I've lost 6lbs so far... I was a carb queen so I assume my body is in shock a bit, so expect this to slow down. Need to lose about 2stone to be in my happy place though.
Anyone else ever found they feel a little bit sicky in the mornings though? Only been the last couple of days but

 

[megsmagoo]

Any good places (website, books?) to start please? Total beginner but get the feeling it might suit me as I’m not really into bread, pasta, potatoes etc. tbh. I’m happy with meat, sauces, and veg- always have been - so it feels really suited to me? Overwhelming where to start tho...

It’s actually really simple once you read up on it, I’d check out diet doctor and if you use Reddit the Keto uk forum, they have an faq that’s really helpful and they often post food recommendations.
As long as you stick with meat, veg and fat you can’t go far wrong

Keto diet for beginners: a complete guide - Diet Doctor

Learn what a ketogenic diet is, which foods to eat and avoid, and how to start it safely, with meal ideas and guidance from our doctors and dietitians.

www.dietdoctor.com

Personally I think if you stick to the carb limit it keeps it more simple, i use nutra check and if counts the carbs in my food for me so it’s as easy as possible

 

[Cloak]

Oh no! Can you speak to your bank and get the charge refunded? As it’s fraud really, this woman is arguing with everyone on Instagram saying they can’t have a refund when they are showing her photos of their food covered in mould! She says ‘it’s in the T&C’s which you agreed to when you ordered’ UHHH.. no way honey the terms and conditions definitely do not cover food being mouldy! Your consumer rights protect you from this.

I’ve been looking at their Trustpilot reviews of all the people being scammed, and I feel sick for them. How can someone scam people and then threaten them when they have the audacity to complain.

what’s annoying me more is throughout all this a couple of big Keto instagrammers are ^STILL^ promoting this asshole of a company and saying ‘Use my Code on your order!’. Like it’s so hard to be Keto in the first place, It’s a lot of work to get your head around and adapt too, and then you have this company scamming people and the instagrammers joining in!

How bizarre! I also saw that she ships to the US?! If food is arriving mouldy in the UK then I dread to think how it would arrive long-distance! I've just sent them a DM on Insta so I'll see if they reply.

I made my order when they had a huge discount, I think it was over 50%, so I'm not TOO bothered to wait it out as long as I get it in the end.

However, if service is like this, how can we trust the credibility of it actually being keto? Ya know?

 

[Doodlebug005]

Due to life stress and not being able to eat properly I have stalled starting keto, however my appetite is coming back and i've been trying to do mostly Keto but going to become strict from next week so doing some meal prep. I'm feeling very uninspired for breakfasts though, does anyone have any good go tos?
I quite enjoyed the fry up tray bake adapted from fast 800 but don't want to have that every day

I have a terrible flare up of a sciatica type pain - i know it’s because I’ve let carbs slip in ( i do imf - 2 meals a day because I’m not hungry for breakfast ) however- ginger nuts/ fig rolls/ mash- TOAST etc have crept back in , and are definitely not my friend- chat gpt is excellent- have my shopping list ready ( can’t do nut milks etc - so it suggests alternatives) if you have time in the morning- cheese/mushroom/ pepper omelette ( fantastic microwave omelette makers on amazon) if you need menu help just shout - and hopefully I’ll solve my own inflammation issues soon
Breakfast suggestions - i buy tesco ready cooked salmon- have avocado ( cherry toms sometimes) with it -

 

[truffletrot]

Dinner tonight was absolutely DEE-lish and took all of 5 mins to prepare. It did occur to me halfway through eating that perhaps I should have included some broccoli with it.

Fried halloumi and pulled bbq pork. It’s the ‘rib world pulled pork’ from Iceland, the box is 400g so I’ve got half left in the fridge now for tomorrow’s lunch. Came with a sachet of bbq sauce but I just used my own sugar free one. I was so happy to eat this as before this I was serving my son scampi and chips and feeling so jealous that I couldn’t really just eat an easy freezer tea. This meal is definitely going in rotation!

Also today I made some Keto chocolate truffles. It really didn’t work. The Erythritol had that weird cooling effect, I know some body said this upthread. I have found Erythritol works fine for me in bakes but not something like the Chocolate truffles. Luckily my dad lives round the corner and he’s got no tastebuds so they won’t go to waste