Fat-Adapted

Learning to cook keto style is not too hard, as long as you know a few tricks. There's a bratt with very little sugar: Johnsonville Beer Bratts. There's a marinara with less sugar, Rao's Homemade Marinara. You can use zucchini instead of noodles, flat or spiraled. Shrimp is carb free! Dry cooking wines are great additions to sauces, just make sure you find a brand with little to no carbs. It's possible! Meijer white cooking wine qualifies. Alfredo sauces can be made with cream cheese, heavy whipping cream and a little shredded parmesan. (I also add that white wine!) "Chips" can be made from baked parmesan piles, or... zucchini discs (which I have the recipe for but having had the chance yet to make). My point is... food on keto is not lacking. In fact, it's delicious! One of my favorite breakfasts, pre-keto, turns out to be a perfect keto breakfast: fried eggs and half a mashed avodaco, mixed up with a little Bragg's Sprinkle and sea salt. mmmmm I made my first lasagna, my first cheesecake, my first pecan desserts, all with keto recipes and I am never lacking for yummy things to eat. The thing is... I'm less and less hungry, so I don't get triggered to go raid the pantry as much. Hours go by and I don't even think about food. I'm SATISFIED. I love this WOE (way of eating). It was so worth the temporary symptoms from my body begrudgingly switching over from carb-adapted to fat-adapted energy production. That's not a fun week or two, but you get through it. You continue onward. And out on this side of being fat-adapted, this WOE rocks! Yummy food, whole food, not feeling starved, easily and consistently dropping weight (I am not even working out yet!), allergies disappeared, acne cleared up quite a lot, don't feel drained after meals, can stay full feeling for hours and hours and hours... and did I mention yummy food??? I feel pretty darn good. And I love knowing that lowering the inflammation in my body HAS to be helping my gut health. My bowels move better. Though I still assist them some, I had been trying that pre-keto and not having consistent success. Now I have consistent and easier success. My lactose intolerance seems GONE (I don't have any low fat milk products -think lactose/dairy sugars- anymore. I've pulled my belt in a notch. The scales says I'm down 10 lbs in nearly 6 weeks, a nice slow but consistent weight loss that should continue. And I just don't have that nagging feeling of, "gawd, I hate dieting!" I can seriously see myself eating this way for the rest of my life, for the most part. I say "for the most part" because I have potatoes and tomatoes that will be harvested soon, and year after year. I won't let them go to waste. They will get canned, pickled and preserved. Then I can crack one open and eat a sparingly. In the future, I intend on focusing my gardening on things that are more keto friendly. I love being fat-adapted! Whowouldathunkit!

Edit: Here's the typical weight loss pattern of Keto...