@lovemyparrot, @julianna. In my own experience, it's the high fat foods that seem to do the trick rather than just low carb alone. Foods I find particularly filling are avocados and eggs. Right now I'm eating grass fed pastured duck eggs - they taste amazing. Macadamia nuts for crunch and high fat. Any fatty meat from large ruminant animals - grass fed and not given hormones or antibiotics. So wrap your chicken breast in bacon if you can't face steak, bison, pork, venison etc! Oils and fats are grass fed butter (Kerrygold) and MCT or coconut oil. Oily wild fish like sardines are great.
Let me give you an example. Half an avo is 80 cals and 15 fat grams and 9g carbs. A medium sirloin grass fed steak is 150 cals zero carbs but only 5 fat grams - according to MFP anyway. So eat the whole avo and you will probably find it as satisfying as a steak if you are in ketosis. Better still eat both. The difference from Atkins is that he advocated high fat, low carbs and high protein, whereas a keto diet tends to be high fat, low carb and moderate protein. I'm eating less than 0.8g per kg of body weight in protein per day and don't eat any protein at all two days a week..
@debs I think is into her double (heavy) cream and I recall so was @carorees when she was in losing mode. Today I have had 28g of carbs yet 1500 calories. The carbs are coming from my veggies. This is higher than my TDEE, so it will be interesting to see what happens at the end of this experiment.
Let me give you an example. Half an avo is 80 cals and 15 fat grams and 9g carbs. A medium sirloin grass fed steak is 150 cals zero carbs but only 5 fat grams - according to MFP anyway. So eat the whole avo and you will probably find it as satisfying as a steak if you are in ketosis. Better still eat both. The difference from Atkins is that he advocated high fat, low carbs and high protein, whereas a keto diet tends to be high fat, low carb and moderate protein. I'm eating less than 0.8g per kg of body weight in protein per day and don't eat any protein at all two days a week..
@debs I think is into her double (heavy) cream and I recall so was @carorees when she was in losing mode. Today I have had 28g of carbs yet 1500 calories. The carbs are coming from my veggies. This is higher than my TDEE, so it will be interesting to see what happens at the end of this experiment.
