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Getting Back to More Strict Keto

GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727

Pretzels, Wheat Thins, Doritos, banana nut bread, and other stuff like Smart Ones and soups with pasta or rice and eating out to have a little bit of a social life!  I have bought all of these foods due to sales and a little desire for something different.  I want to get back to more strict Keto.  That should help with my energy level and the 2 to 4 extra pounds that I am carrying.  When I get to Walmart, I am buying celery and flavored cream cheese, frozen blueberries and maybe some pepperoni.  I have also almost doubled my snack sizes.  When I was little, my parents joked that I must have had a tapeworm because of my big appetite.  I have my 4 year anniversary of being on a diet on January 1st.  I didn't start out with Keto.  I went on Keto at about 20 months in.  I really like being at around 140.  My lowest weight was 138.  I think my face was too sunken in at 138 and I had no figure.  I think that I will get back on track.  I love all of my Goodwill and yard sale clothes so they are part of the incentive.  Sorry to go on and on!  I live alone.

GirlinCalif
GirlinCalif
Good luck with your diet!
It's weird, I have found that pretzels make me gain weight. Even though it says no fat. When I quit eating pretzels, I lost 8 pounds. I think it's the salt. I know someone else who gave up eating all chips, and they immediately lost 12 pounds. I have no idea why this is. It has to be the salt.
How does the keto diet work?
GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
Good morning Girl! Those things that I listed are all non-Keto foods. I also have cereal in the house. I just fell off the wagon a little. I can't believe that you lost 8 pounds from stopping eating pretzels. That's fabulous! When I was 20 months into dieting, I went to an endocrinologist. She did tests and it turned out that i had insulin resistance. She put me on Keto. She gave me a list of foods that I had to stay away from. The main culprit is sugar. Other foods, like pretzels, turn to sugar. So I don't have the list handy but i know that it included pasta, rice, oats, bread, corn, potatoes, sugar and carbs. I just found the list from 2023 in my Google photos. So I changed my diet quite a bit. It's tricky at first but it works! Because I missed some foods and they were on sale, at really good prices, I bought them. I had more energy when I was doing better on Keto. One of my favorite snacks is a nut and dark chocolate mix that I get at Aldi. Delicious! I bought snack bags and they help me to control what i am eating. But like I said, I have almost doubled what I have been putting in the snack bags. So I am trying to be better at Keto. Oh, yes, dark chocolate is okay on Keto. So a normal day for me, on Keto, would be 2 eggs with either breakfast sausage or cheese on top for breakfast, an egg salad or tuna salad wrap (I use 2 eggs or a whole can of tuna) for lunch, a snack bag with the nut and dark chocolate mix for a snack, chicken and salad or cooked veggies for dinner and I try not to have a nighttime snack but if I do, it might be a bowl of frozen blueberries. For my coffee, I use Stevia for a sweetener. I have been bad with creamer too but it's so good! I also drink Arizona diet green tea or water with lemon. The only bad thing is that I lost about 1/3 of my hair and I'm not sure if it is just from Keto or not. My brother, a hair stylist, said when you go on a diet, so does your hair. I hope this answers your question.
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