EQuinn, Looking good i love a big bowl full of chicken and dumplingsš
Bit chilly here this eveningā¦that sure looks good!!
When do we eat, looks delicious
You betca. But chicken-n-biscuits is my comfort food. Yum.
Seriously?
Three years and a simple hot meal was all you needed?
Welcome back old timer
@EQuinn I just had two nights of that, good stuff too!
Youāre killinā me! Iād love a bowl! But I canāt. Iāve been in ketosis for 1 1/2 years and my Drs all tell me to keep doing what Iām doing. You have no idea how much I miss things like that. I can eat the chicken though.
My wife made a big pot of beef stew tonight, drive on up, got the feeling Iāll be seeing it for a while.
Thanks for the invite! I love beef stew. But I canāt eat carrots and potatoes. I make a great beef stew and havenāt had it for all that time. I was thinking tonight about coming out of ketosis for a month. I almost think Iād eat pizza every day.
With 2 years under your belt?
How close are you to your target?
Iām not doing it for weight so much as for heart disease, but if I can shed another 20# Iām good with that. That might not make much sense since the media has everyone believing fat is the problem with HD. Itās not. My Drs are monitoring everything and my numbers are really good despite using fat for fuel. My past problem came from genetics, but also a liver that was producing too much cholesterol for my body even though they would have been good numbers for other folks. Iām taking care of what my liver produces and that leaves ingested cholesterol. There was one fraudulent fat āstudyā that āprovedā fat in the diet was the problem. The media jumped on it to tell everyone what to do as they are known to do. Everyone believed them. Since then other studies have tried to replicate the results and no one has been able to in the intervening years. If the first study was valid Iād be the poster boy for high cholesterol, but Iām not. My previous number were 140ish/70ish (LDL/HDL). That was OK for many people but too high for me as it turned out. My latest numbers are both in the 70s. My PCP tells me that people would kill for those numbers. I eat sausage, butter, full fat cheese, etcā since I no longer burn sugar for fuel but fat. If I backed off of the fat Iād start to lose weight again (I lost 40#) since the fuel must come from somewhere and itāll come from my body if I donāt consume it. So far all of my Drs have all told me to keep doing what Iām doing.
But I gotta tell you, the sugar addiction is a hard one to break. After 1 1/2 years I still crave the things I canāt have, pizza, bread, potatoes, etcā. Everything I ate all my life I canāt eat.
One spin off of being in Ketoā¦ anyone using sugar as fuel must eat a number of times throughout the day since our bodies donāt really store sugar all that well. When the sugar runs out we feel hunger and have to eat. When burning fat if I eat, OK. If I donāt eat, thatās OK too. There is no need for scheduled feedings from a fuel standpoint. Some meals I eat and some I skip, no big deal.
When I had covid last Febā (a year ago) I didnāt eat for 4 days and thought nothing of it. My wife was all sorts of āWill you please eat something!??ā, but I knew I didnāt need to so I didnāt.
What are your fat fuels?
I donāt take issue with fat, just had pot roast yesterday, used leftover prime rib from Christmas, the fat covered everything, loved it,
But how do you eat/survive on fat foods?
Please say bacon 3 x daily
Anything containing fat is fuel for me. Bacon works. Marbled beef works, fatty fish works, eggs fried in butter or fat, salami, pepperoni, spam. One just has to go easy because calories still count and fat contains lots of calories. When I make my hot morning beverage I use half and half to make it quite light. If I have low carb cereal itās half and half that it floats in. But if I eat the right foods I really donāt need to seek out additional fat.
If I want to lose weight Iāll just back off on the fat intake and my body will use what I have stored. I find that the more fat I eat for breakfast and lunch the less likely I am to eat supper. I just donāt need to eat then and my body just doesnāt press me to eat.
I steer clear of refined oils since they are low in omega 3 and high in omega 6. Thatās exactly the reverse of what the body should have. Heart healthy? I donāt think so. But Mazola and Crisco wonāt tell us that, they just tell us itās āheart healthyā which is a lie. Extra virgin olive oil is good as long as itās the real deal. We have no definition of EVOO so weāre used as a dumping ground for crap masquerading as EVOO. Butter from grass fed cows is good, so is the beef. Generally the farther away from natural something is the worse it is for me (or anyone else).
But the diet isnāt just meat and fat. It should also contain lots of greens. All plants are carbs, but theyāre low if the right type is consumed. I allow myself up to 40 grams of carbs daily and I generally stay well under that. That includes a treat of some sort, nuts, chocolate, or low carb ice cream.
First, I want to say, @EQuinn your chicken and dumplings look great. My wife is going to make some chicken and dumplings tomorrow. Thanks for the idea.
Second @BrianK , here is a somewhat long video that explains what you already know along with some other information that would be considered disinformation.
Tough to cut the carbsā¦ Yup. Studies have been done on rats and it was found that it was easier for the rats to cut the opium addiction than it was for them to cut the carb addiction.
Doc, do you know how difficult it is to go against current thinking and chart your own course when your life is on the line as mine was at the time? I had emerged from a very mild heart attack and a triple bypass and like the Dr in the video heart disease research became a passion of mine. I found out just how fraudulent what we were being fed and the the guidelines were. Itās backed by huge big money, politics, greed, and itās killing Americans. The folks involved should be charged with murder because thatās exactly what it is.
FWIW, my PCP Dr and my GI Dr, and also my VA Dr all know exactly what Iām doing and not one of them has given any indication that what Iām doing should be changed. The only word of negativity, and I didnāt really se it as that was my GI Dr who told me how hard it was to stay on. She tried it and, couldnāt do it and went onto Paleo.
I find that I can come up with alternatives for foods that I miss. Pizza dip, dipped with cauliflower is pretty decent. I have yet to find a good subā for yeasted bread, but for quick breads thereās Carb Quik. It takes some getting used to but it works. Itās a decent substitute for pancake mix. I ad flavorings to the mix and all thatās needed on them is butter. For sweeteners there are all sorts of low carbs choices available today. High carb gravy is easy and I love gravy. But again there are low/no carb thickeners that work fine. They DO NOT take the place of dark roux in flavor, but they work. But all of this takes time to learn. I was a pretty good cook before when I cooked with carbs and that base of knowledge worked for me when I switched to low carb.
I didnāt know that about carbs pushing lipids up. When sold me on keto was when I found out that the (fraudulent) fat study was clearly fraudulently done. The āDr.ā who did it was in a competition to publish with another Dr who had a competing theory that carbs were the culprit. Then when the media jumped on their little darlinā I knew it was the wrong way to go. But I never suspected that the goāverminās food pyramid, the Heart Assā, and many more were involved in killing people through their lousy advice. But itās right there once one knows what and how to eat.
Sorry, I need to get back to the video. Iām not even 20 minutes in and I was going wild and had to spout off.
Roast chicken with the crispy skinā¦ Chicken fat is quite similar molecularly to EVOO. So chicken fat is back on the menu. As with all animals, grass fed or a normal diet for the animal is best.
He mentioned diabetes. I was being told that I was pre-diabetic. I take enough drugs for my heart I didnāt want any more. Greatly reducing carbs forced my A1C to take a nosedive. Iām no longer pre-diabetic and my PCP removed it from being a concern on my medical record.
Gents, he hasnāt mentioned ketosis yet, but thatās what heās talking about. Being in ketosis is how humanity ate many thousands of years ago when we were hunter gatherers. When fruits, grains and such were ripe thatās what we ate because they were easy to harvest and available. Donāt chew seeds fully and as they get excreted we did the job of spreading them for the plant. The plant didnāt care if it was killing us and we didnāt know. It tasted good and gave us energy.
Sorry, back to the videoā¦
I did NOT know that about statins. I either need to get off the statin period or just move from atavorstatin
Time to cut up some wood to work it off.