I’ve lost 153 pounds on the ketogenic diet. I really don’t think carbs are the enemy, it’s usually how people mix carbs and fats that makes things bad.
I lost that much weight by exercising (weight lifting) 6 days a week, and biking close to 70 miles a week.
I switch my diet and introduce carbs every couple of months or so.
]]>If you actually DO STUFF then carbs are a damned fine thing to eat.
]]>Not sure if your use of capitalized ACTUAL is meant to imply that my own PCOS, depression, metabolic dysfunction and obesity were not ACTUAL PCOS, depression, metabolic dysfunction and obesity?
I do, in fact, know what it is like to not be a slave to my mood or blood sugar, to have energy, and to not want to kill myself every minute of every day. I know what those things are like because I have normal insulin sensitivity and healthy metabolic function, now, and all my previous illness and dysfunction have resolved. I remember all too well what it was like living that way, and am glad I never need to again.
]]>My issue with this “diet war” is that those of the people who are pro-starch have to characterize those of us who don’t as if we are somehow deluded and as if we all we want to do is bathe in lard. I am an ACTUAL obese person, with ACTUAL bipolar disorder, and ACTUAL PCOS. I feel like a normal person on keto. So many of my symptoms clear up when I eat this way. Do you know what it is like to not be a slave to your mood or blood sugar? To have energy? To not want to kill yourself every minute of every day? I am super active, live in urban environment, and walk everywhere. It is life or death, not vanity weight or self-hatred. So that is why some of us treat it like a war. Because it is.
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