Keto

[jill-mc]

Hello again, there are so many helpful people here, thank you all. Just relying on info given at diagnosis I dont think my levels would ever have come down enough! The last couple of weeks I have learned I cant tolerate hardly any carbs so have been eating mainly keto meals and am now getting much lower results. I am now usually 4.5 first thing in morning. After meals, around 6.7, occasionally up to 8.9, but not been in double figures for a while now. But the more I read up about Keto the more confused I am getting about it. Is it ok to eat keto meals long term? Also, I thought it dangerous to be in ketosis if diabetic. Some of the side effects I am reading about are off putting. I am not eating keto to lose weight, just doing it as I cant tolerate carbs. Just feeling a bit lost again.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

But the more I read up about Keto the more confused I am getting about it. Is it ok to eat keto meals long term? Also, I thought it dangerous to be in ketosis if diabetic. Some of the side effects I am reading about are off putting. I am not eating keto to lose weight, just doing it as I cant tolerate carbs. Just feeling a bit lost again.

I went onto keto in January 2019 and I've stayed on it since. Best thing I have ever done. I am enjoying my food so much it is unreal and my health has improved incredibly (see my blurb underneath) I haven't lost weight (well maybe a bit but as a side effect not as a goal) as my main aim was to sort out my diabetes, blood pressure and liver function - job done fairly quickly and stayed that way. I am entirely controlled via diet now.

Today I made a keto Christmas cake (I love experimenting) and I have perfected a keto bread recipe I've sent out to a couple of other people to see if it works for them too.

If you eat a varied diet and swap out the carby stuff for high fibre/high fat (good fats like butter, ghee, coconut oil, natural animal fat of course and not nasty processed veggie oils) and have small amounts of berries and citrus you will be fine. Have fun with it and don't worry.

Here's a piccie of today's keto Christmas cake - made with vital wheat gluten (it works ok on keto), coconut flour, almond flour, keto candied peel I made myself, xathan gum, psyllium husk and some Christmas spices and a few other things. Tastes brilliant and it took my levels from 6.3 to 7.3 and back to 6.5 within an hour after eating.

 

[jill-mc]

I went onto keto in January 2019 and I've stayed on it since. Best thing I have ever done. I am enjoying my food so much it is unreal and my health has improved incredibly (see my blurb underneath) I haven't lost weight (well maybe a bit but as a side effect not as a goal) as my main aim was to sort out my diabetes, blood pressure and liver function - job done fairly quickly and stayed that way. I am entirely controlled via diet now.

Today I made a keto Christmas cake (I love experimenting) and I have perfected a keto bread recipe I've sent out to a couple of other people to see if it works for them too.

If you eat a varied diet and swap out the carby stuff for high fibre/high fat (good fats like butter, ghee, coconut oil, natural animal fat of course and not nasty processed veggie oils) and have small amounts of berries and citrus you will be fine. Have fun with it and don't worry.

Here's a piccie of today's keto Christmas cake - made with vital wheat gluten (it works ok on keto), coconut flour, almond flour, keto candied peel I made myself, xathan gum, psyllium husk and some Christmas spices and a few other things. Tastes brilliant and it took my levels from 6.3 to 7.3 and back to 6.5 within an hour after eating.

I am following your FB page and it is brilliant. Lots of inspiring ideas. Thank you!

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I am following your FB page and it is brilliant. Lots of inspiring ideas. Thank you!

Hope it helps. I've just posted up some more pictures of my cake. I am quite chuffed about it.

 

[trophywench]

There is a HUGE difference between ketosis and Diabetic Ketoacidosis! First one is purely dietary - second one since it turns you blood acidic, can be deadly if untreated pdq, (You'd imagine it certainly would have serious consequences when your flippin blood turns to acid, wouldn't you?)

 

[Veenorthants]

Hope it helps. I've just posted up some more pictures of my cake. I am quite chuffed about it.

I've just started following you on facebook. I am interested in keto but am struggling to find where to start. Any pointers?

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I've just started following you on facebook. I am interested in keto but am struggling to find where to start. Any pointers?

If you can scroll to the beginning of my Facebook page it pretty much starts off with how I began and where I began. My posts are about exploring the options and the choices I made from a position of not knowing very much about it (and I still don't think I do now) but from a position of deciding carbs were not my friend and how to get them mostly out of my diet and eat something else that was just as nice (or preferably nicer) instead.

If you click to read the posts and the comments on the threads - I share a typical early shopping haul with some of the then new items and as the page continues I visit various recipes and alternatives as I discover them.

I would just have a look from the start and work through it chronologically and then follow links - I include them - to the original sources - mainly on Youtube and if you want more info - Google the recipes and they will lead you to various other keto/low carb cooks.

I focussed on finding good recipes rather than health gurus. I don't tend to trust health gurus because they are invariably flogging something and nine times out of ten that is what their main motivation is - and fair enough I suppose - they want to make a living. But I have the attitude that this is a life change and a new way of permanent eating and so it needs to be workable the same way as 'normal' cooking and eating is. So I start from the cooking and recipes angle and stay there.

Which means you need to be able to have a set of ingredients you know are suitable for you and then you need to find ways of making those ingredients into food suitable for you and in my opinion you shouldn't be needing to get out a calculator to work out stuff like 'macros' etc it should just make sense that you shouldn't eat massive portions and as long as you eat moderately from meals made using suitable ingredients then it should mostly work out.

That is how I've done it. I have a hope to keep carbs down to under 20g a day and I make sure I check the percentage of carbs per 100g weight of product and then guesstimate through the day to aim in that ballpark when I make myself food.

Most food has the info on the packaging and I just don't buy anything that has high carbs or even moderate ones.

This is a post from August 2019 - as you can see I was finding my way. I was diagnosed towards the end of January 2019 so this is only about six months into my journey.

 

[Veenorthants]

@NotWorriedAtAll thank you. I will investigate and read further