Is anyone here doing a Ketogenic Diet?

Would you recommend this diet for a daily 15 mile commute for loosing weight?

Also, what do you eat everyday? Or all week.




Feel free to use this thread if it gets started.

I wouldn't recommend a ketogenic diet unless you have diabetes, cysts on your ovaries, or some other problem with insulin. If you're healthy, I'd recommend avoiding woo and fad diets. If you want to lose weight (and not gain it back) you should do something you can keep up for the rest of your life: portion control while banning no foods.

I'm prediabetic, and keto is the only way I can keep my blood sugar under control without medication. I've been on it for over a year now. I've lost a little over 40 pounds in the past year.
It's a high fat, low carb way of eating, and if you have prediabetes or T2 diabetes, it's anything but a fad diet. I agree with Seattle Forrest, though -- any way of eating you can't do the rest of your life is basically a "fad' diet, i.e., one that you'll eventually abandon.

I don't have any problems with it for bicycling, as long as I don't push it too hard. If I am pushing it, then I find I have to have something to eat about 2 1/2 hours in -- a Kind bar (dark chocolate + nuts is around 10 grams of carbs), or a bag of nuts. If I'm just cruising along, I can go 50 miles with no problem.
You have to be careful maintaining your electrolytes, because you'll get dehydrated pretty easily, especially in the beginning. I use Hammer Endurolytes (0 carbs) and find they ward off cramping pretty well.

If you have no problems with blood sugar / insulin resistance, then keto may or may not help you. Some people respond to it very well; others just can't stick to it. Many in the latter group end up in trouble, because they've acquired a taste for fat, and then they add back in the carbs, leading to significant weight gain and often problems with their lipid panel.

Speaking of lipid panels, mine was super bad when I was diagnosed. Three months into keto, it got worse, which often happens when you're losing significant amounts of weight. Seven months into keto, I had reached my weight plateau, and my lipid panel was that of a 30 year old (I'm 68): LDL - 84; triglycerides - 48; HDL -51; overall cholesterol - 145.

By the way, Chris Froome is on a low-carb diet. I'm not sure if he's keto, but he certainly doesn't gorge on carbs.

Many people think keto = high protein. Not true. Keto is moderate protein, high fat, and very low carb.

Typical meals:
Breakfast - 2 eggs, veggies sauteed in butter, some kind of protein -- salmon, bacon, buffalo burger, etc.
Lunch - generally a salad with olive oil and red wine vinegar dressing, plus small amounts of protein
Dinner - protein (steak, fish, chicken, etc), vegetables, and salad.
Dessert - only about 2x per week: strawberries w. 0 carb whip cream, cinnamon, and nuts
Snacks - nuts, mainly hazelnuts, pecans, and macadamias.

Search this forum for "lchf". (Low Carb High Fat). You'll see many threads on this subject. For cycling, it's controversial as you'll see.

For the record, Chaco is someone with a legitimate medical reason to eat a low carb diet. Not just "I heard about this thing..."

Congratulations on your weight loss! That isn't easy, and 40 pounds is incredible.

I'm on keto diet, about nine months. Frequently ride 100 miles with very little food, but a can of coke toward the end.
Daily food is varied, plenty to choose from. Give it a try. And spend the money for blood test strips.

Give it a try for yourself, your experience will definitely not be the same as others, especially others who have not tried it claiming to know what is good for you. Look at Ben Greenfield's experience with nutritional ketosis and the results that he got from it. The also do some testing on him and a muscle biopsy after he is in an extended state of nutritional ketosis. He is also healthy and does not suffer from diabetes.

Nothing wrong with Keto despite what people believe. Did Keto (sub 40g carbs/day) for 6 weeks while doing intense weight training 6 days/wk and lost 30 pounds.

The easiest way is to just go Paleo, or semi-Paleo. Cut out grains, sugars, processed crap, etc. Replace those calories with quality fat and protein. Paleo-Leap is an incredible resource.