Keto and Intermittent Fasting

[Hawkeye OG]

How many grams of carbs/day would be acceptable on a 'low carb diet'?

 

[didshereallysaythat]

How many grams of carbs/day would be acceptable on a 'low carb diet'?

Depends on your calories. 20% carbs would be low carbs.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Sea salt macadamia nuts were $$18 for 24oz

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I sure would appreciate a link to that deal. Thanks in advance.

 

[Burque]

I sure would appreciate a link to that deal. Thanks in advance.

Costco

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[Warrior Spirit]

Keto and Intermittent Fasting

How many grams of carbs/day would be acceptable on a 'low carb diet'?

Probably around 100-150 and you’d still want to avoid the refined carbs. Probably the healthiest way to go would be sweet potatoes and veggies and 1 serving of fruit. Still would want to avoid all the breads, cereals, fries and junk food most high carb eaters endulge in to become fat fucks.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Costco

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Lies. Must be in some POS mixed variety cause I’ve never seen such a deal in Costco.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Probably around 100-150 and you’d still want to avoid the refined carbs. Probably the healthiest way to go would be sweet potatoes and veggies and 1 serving of fruit. Still would want to avoid all the breads, cereals, fries and junk food most high carb eaters endulge in to become fat fucks.

Cool. I've been doing IF for about a month and seen pretty solid results. I thought it was going to be much more difficult. I'm down about 7lbs, but would like to lose about another 5 then just maintain. Would put me around 165lb. Being 'low carb' has proven to be much more difficult. I'd say on a normal day I'm around 75g - 100g, but I've had some bad days too. Mainly from fruit (I like bananas and apples), but when I travel for work it gets tough because I eat out every meal. I think <150g/day is more than attainable though. I'm of the mindset that I want to be healthy and see the benefit in being low carb, but I also don't want to live life and enough glorious foods. It's a delicate balance as I'm finding out.

Edit: I hope this post is on topic enough for @TL1969

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Cool. I've been doing IF for about a month and seen pretty solid results. I thought it was going to be much more difficult. I'm down about 7lbs, but would like to lose about another 5 then just maintain. Would put me around 165lb. Being 'low carb' has proven to be much more difficult. I'd say on a normal day I'm around 75g - 100g, but I've had some bad days too. Mainly from fruit (I like bananas and apples), but when I travel for work it gets tough because I eat out every meal. I think <150g/day is more than attainable though.

If you do cardio or other exercise a good tip would be to have your fruit before that workout because of the way its sugar is stored by the liver and used as ready energy. It would be the first thing to be burned off.

 

[Burque]

Lies. Must be in some POS mixed variety cause I’ve never seen such a deal in Costco.

I can only tell you what I bought and how much I paid. They were the Royal Hawaiian brand. 100% Macadamias with sea salt.

 

[Ares]

I made a keto/atkins meatloaf replacing the breadcrumbs with crushed up pork rinds.

Turned out pretty good.... In adding my recipe to the food tracker, I was surprised there were so many carbs in garlic.

 

[Burque]

Cool. I've been doing IF for about a month and seen pretty solid results. I thought it was going to be much more difficult. I'm down about 7lbs, but would like to lose about another 5 then just maintain. Would put me around 165lb. Being 'low carb' has proven to be much more difficult. I'd say on a normal day I'm around 75g - 100g, but I've had some bad days too. Mainly from fruit (I like bananas and apples), but when I travel for work it gets tough because I eat out every meal. I think <150g/day is more than attainable though. I'm of the mindset that I want to be healthy and see the benefit in being low carb, but I also don't want to live life and enough glorious foods. It's a delicate balance as I'm finding out.

Edit: I hope this post is on topic enough for @TL1969

Eating out is a struggle, but steaks and veggies is easy. Salad with protein and ranch is easy. Getting a burger with a side salad instead of fries and wrapping in lettuce is easy. Also, Naked wings with ranch and celery.

These are probably the four easiest eat out meals that you can get at least one of just about anywhere.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I can only tell you what I bought and how much I paid. They were the Royal Hawaiian brand. 100% Macadamias with sea salt.

I don’t know what’s wrong with these stores around me then. Never seen anything remotely close to that deal. If I did, I’d stock up on them like a bear preparing for hibernation.

 

[Burque]

I don’t know what’s wrong with these stores around me then. Never seen anything remotely close to that deal. If I did, I’d stock up on them like a bear preparing for hibernation.

It might be a regional thing. I mean we are close enough to the west coast (Albuquerque) that we may be in the same shipping region for stuff from Hawaii. That is my only guess. Although I have heard of people finding 505 brand (Local to ABQ) chiles and salsas in the Chicago Area stores. :shrug: who knows.

They are pretty much always available, I cannot think of a time that we were looking for more and couldn't find them.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I made a keto/atkins meatloaf replacing the breadcrumbs with crushed up pork rinds.

Turned out pretty good.... In adding my recipe to the food tracker, I was surprised there were so many carbs in garlic.

Just looked up the carbs in garlic and am shocked myself. Would not have thought it was that high. Good thing I’m too lazy to chop them up clove by clove.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

If you do cardio or other exercise a good tip would be to have your fruit before that workout because of the way its sugar is stored by the liver and used as ready energy. It would be the first thing to be burned off.

Since the beginning of the year I've been running 3-5 miles about 4x a week so I could probably do that, but I usually work out in the last hour of my fast as it's the best time for my schedule. Might have to adjust my hours.

 

[TL1961]

Depends on your calories. 20% carbs would be low carbs.

Keto recomends around 5% carbs.

20 g a day starting out (first two weeks), then you can up it. Some places say 50g a day, but that doesn't seem low carb to me. 30g or so would be far better.

 

[TL1961]

12 bucks a pound is expensive, but it's similar to all other nuts. Like pecans almonds cashews etc. It's in the same price range.

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I bought Macadamia nuts at Trader Joes and thought I got a decent size bag for $10. But I just looked and it is only 10 oz.

 

[TL1961]

Eating out is a struggle, but steaks and veggies is easy. Salad with protein and ranch is easy. Getting a burger with a side salad instead of fries and wrapping in lettuce is easy. Also, Naked wings with ranch and celery.

These are probably the four easiest eat out meals that you can get at least one of just about anywhere.

I luck out at a local pub. Trivia Night Tuesdays include a steak special - small steak, I sub broccoli for potato and caesar salad for the beans. I have avoided eating out other weeknights. On weekends, it takes a little creativity, but it isn't too bad. While I have always liked fries I often found muself eating them all even when they weren't very good. Subbing a steamed veggie is no sacrifice. I like that every bit as much.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I always liked fries too but now my idea of going heavy carb would be to have a whole sweet potato. I'd take it over fries any day now. Hell, you can make fries out of 'em too but just like it as is with, of course, BUTTER! I swear if there's any in the kitchen tomorrow I'm having the biggest one. Gotz me licking my chops as I type about it.

 

[SilenceS]

Meatballs and red gravy tonight. Delish.