With nuts I’ve gotten smart. I get out my handy 1/4th measuring cup and just eat the peanuts in the cup. Nuts and cheese I can get enough of easily, but back when I was doing WW or counting calories on my own I would physically have to throw away cakes in the trashcan outside to keep from eating them. I could probably eat a whole cake on any given day, even now, and THAT is one major reason I must do low carb, to keep that from happening. Cake cannot exist in my world, at least until I’m 2 sizes smaller, then maybe a little on my 1 cheat day a week. (O/S) Does one cheat day a week really set us back much? I know Atkins said it does, but I don’t gain on those days, I just stay the same for a few more days after.

ALSO, I like low carb dips (I have a great 7 layer dip with s/c, guac, taco meat, refriend beans, mixed cheese, tomato soo good) but the tortilla chips add up. Any good low carb tortilla chips out there?

Good idea about consuming nuts only after having to shell them; bad idea about taking up online gaming. Good idea about limiting consumption of alcohol; bad idea about taking up online gaming. Why is it a bad idea to take up online gaming? I don’t know, and since I don’t understand it, it just sounds like a bad idea.

Cheers–

MRE

I know you meant it to be funny about not understanding it so it sounds like a bad idea, but that’s just the attitude with most people about low carb. Don’t understand how it works, so it MUST be bad!! Right??? If it’s not CALORIE IS A CALORIE it’s evil
Well, I used to do silly games online in college for HOURS when I could waste time like that and I was a hottie size 6! It WAS a good thing instead of snacking! Except I would end up staying up half the night playing online pictionary with strangers around the world, drawing terribly with my mouse…wasn’t get that good growth hormone being up like that, though! Guess there is a good and bad to everything…

So true, so true.

I think you’re right on the money. I’ve looked at it like that for years, which doesn’t mean that I don’t sometimes go off the reservation, but only for brief periods. Then I check back in and lose what little I’ve gained.

MRE

I’m on a lc diet (lifestyle change) and feel great. Every week I’ve lost weight, some weeks a lot, some a little. And, yeah there have been times where I’ve cheated a little, but I realise now that it was only because I seriously craved fat.

The weeks that I DIDN’T go to the gym, I lost more. Strange that. I found aerobic session to be outstanding performance wise since the change in diet, but cycling (intense classes) fatigued me and the muscles in my thighs weren’t coping so well. Cycle classes only became harder. Some didn’t understand this when I explained, but those who exercise hard will know what I mean.

I figured that the weight loss in the weeks that I didn’t exercise 5x week for 1 hour very intensely, was due to the fact that the extra ketones weren’t needed by my body and tissues and I was able to pass them out with breath and urine. When I did exercise, the ketones were used to fuel my body.

The weight loss kept up however, and I found the diet more efficient with walking every day.

I’ve read a few of your other comments to posters on other parts of ketosis and wondered if after the three or so months when your body gets used to using ketones, you can switch in a few good carbs for a couple of weeks to keep your weightloss on the hop and break it out of the stable state. Then, switch to lc again…. Which would explain why on the weeks that I have slipped out of lc, I lost a lot of weight after rigid adherence.

Which is what has also happened to people I know on a lc diet. They stick to it rigidly for ages, then their weight loss slows, they eat things they probably shouldn’t for a couple of days or even a week or so, keep losing during that week, when the week before of sticking to the diet they lost nothing, but gained.

Anyway, it would help to understand why this happens consistently.

Regards,
Nat

My danger food is peanut butter. No portion control with that substance. I suspect it has some sort of secret addictive compound, like the opioid peptides in dairy products. My rule is that peanut butter always has to go on or in something–no snacking from the jar!

My wife was prescribed a new product called Evamist (bio-identical estradiol), and reading the documentation, they actually “advertise” that it does not transfer to partner… (14.3)
http://www.evamist.com/pdf/Evamist_PI.pdf

Thanks for the heads up. MD’s no longer transfers to her partner now that we’ve taken precautions. I would probably have trouble getting her to switch, since she likes what she’s using so much.

If you make pemmican, it would be very handy. Raw meat is also a convenient choice. Or cold meat left-overs. Even summer sausage or something like that would probably be healthier than eating a lot of nuts or seeds. I think fiber is also a problem, not just the carbs. Nuts aren’t as satisfying as meat or eggs to me. When they are roasted and/or salted, they’re less satisfying. Most nuts aren’t raw, unless you get them unshelled. Even then, they are sometimes cooked. Plus, there are enyzme inhibitors and anti-nutrients in raw nuts and seeds. And many of them are rancid, but most people aren’t sensitive enough to detect this. So I think it’s best to stay away from roasted and/or salted nuts. They will make you eat more.

0.9 total carb
2.8 protein
7.0 fat
0 fiber (less than one gram I guess)
79 calories.

So, about the same as any decently ‘low carb’ salad dressing – a bit of fat, few carbs. But, hey…it’s crunchy! Something that’s often missing in a lower-carb way of eating. Come to think of it, the two tablespoons sliced natural almonds is lower in carbs and calories than my Annie’s Naturals “Goddess” dressing. So yeah, it’s a bargain. Hopefully, I won’t have to keep them in my car or anything…

I am going to slip in a few questions after giving my calorie torpeodo. Cheese, cheese, cheese – specifically mixed into my raw tartare – I can easily go through half a tub of gorgonzola. So, I simply don’t use any.

For my questions (if you can please answer). I got a sudden high fever this week (103F, I am 34 year old male) and went to the doctor. As I am rarely ever sick, I was pretty bewildered because I knew I was hot but not that hot as I didn’t have a thermometer. Pretty scary because I went to the doctor on Wednesday after I cooled down, I don’t want to know what my temp was on Tuesday.

The doc (actually a young girl from college i knew) was concerned because I didn’t have a sore throat but had a high fever. So I took a urine test and blood test and was told to watch the fever to make sure it came down and that I probably had the early onset of some strange viral illness.

Well, I went home and sweated and popped extra strength Tylenol for the next 24 hours and my temp dropped. On Friday, I got a call from the doctor indicating that the tests didn’t show anything and that it was good my fever went away. However, they want a repeat (in case of lab error) because my platelets and hematocrit were a bit on the low side (touching on the anemic) and that there was a trace of protein in my urine. I being a worry wart, asked her, let’s assume it is not a lab mistake, is it the end of the world? She said no, but wanted a retest anyways.

My questions. I am puzzled because I just gave blood a month ago and they test for hematrocrit and platelets to make sure you are ok – my scores according to the Stanford Blook bank were fine. Could my anemic-like readings have possibly, possibly, anything to do with the iron storage mechanism during a viral infection as described in PPLP? (the story of your friend with the girlfriend with the peg pig). I find it hard to believe that after a year of eating a pound of beef a day that I am suddenly slightly anemic after one blood donation.

Also, I didn’t share with the doc that I am on an essentially zero carb diet. Do ketones or protein by products show up as ‘trace protein’ in urine? Of course, now my parents are freaking over the organic grassfed meat I eat and want me to ‘eat by my blood type’, which being A+ is an opposite diet of high carb, low fat, veggie stuff… (my concession to them for my next test is to eat a lot of chicken and more salads – this I can do, no way i am eating carbs for health)

Can I get your thoughts on these topics Dr. Eades? I know it is not medical advice, I just wanted your thoughts. If one is on a low carb diet, can one simply eat a bunch of carbs in the morning of a afternoon blood test to not have ketone state by the afternoon?

I can’t possibly diagnose what’s going on with you based on the information you’ve given me. But, fevers, such as the one you had, that come out of nowhere and have no other symptoms are almost always of viral origin. And these viruses can definitely cause some iron sequestering, but that’s an acute thing that would most likely show up as a low iron level and not anemia. Anemia takes longer than just a few days to become evident. But were you my patient, I would simply recheck your blood in a week or so after all symptoms have gone.

MRE