Ukpoohbear
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Just an update on my Keto journey.
First of all, I am now in Ketosis! I haven’t officially measured it by checking my blood sugar levels (although that is something I might do in the future), but I am experiencing symptoms of Ketosis, that there really is no mistaking it! This is things like feeling lightheaded and brain fog. Plus, I have lost a lot of water weight in the space of a week (3lbs). Before I felt these negative symptoms, I was feeling really clear-headed and focus was sharp, so I was really enjoying the feeling of Ketosis. Actually, I’m starting to think of the ‘bug’ I had last week, was actually the Keto flu, and my body was adjusting to no carbs and sugar.
I actually had a false start with this diet because I relied on ChatGPT to give me a diet planI ended up making two soups that it recommended to me, and then downloaded a Keto app and put the two recipes in, just to find that they were both very high in carbs! I was really annoyed and couldn’t bring myself to chuck out the 6 small plastic boxes of soup I had ready made, but two days later, I threw them out, determined to stick to the diet!
I will post the two Keto friendly soups below I ended up making when I did a batch cook again. While I was waiting to be psychologically ready to chuck the previous two sets of soups out, I had a really nice dinner of marinated baked tofu with cauliflower rice, and another night I made a scrambled ‘egg’ tofu and made a mini vegetable skewers to go with it. So I still managed to stick to a Keto diet, even though my first batch cooking was a fail.
So now, despite the false start, I have enough recipes under my belt, I can easily stick to the Keto diet for as long as I can sustain it. I do plan to treat myself on Xmas Day.
So far, after one week of official ketosis, I have lost 3lbs. I checked my BMI and the aim is to lose 10kg.
Once the feelings of Keto flu pass, I expect to be feeling clear headed again. I’m taking magnesium supplements and putting a pinch of salt in my water to help with hydration, since the Keto flu is essentially just dehydration. This is happening due to the body switching from burning glucose (carbs) for energy, into using fat. This is why there is so much water weight loss at first.
I’m posting below two Keto friendly (vegan too, of course) soups. Apart from that, the next update will be any more significant weight loss, or recipes.
Oh, and because I am following a fairly restrictive diet, or three restrictive diets in one (vegan, low Fructan/GOS and now Keto), I have started to take a high quality multivitamin, I’m taking Inessa advanced multivitamin. Although the smoothie I take at 12pm is really nutritious and is basically allowing me to be so experimentative at dinner time, the multivitamin is an extra caution, but a necessary one I would say, at this level of restriction.
The two soups I made:
Dairy-Free Low Carb Creamy Broccoli Soup
It has been freezing in my apartment lately, and all I've wanted is to eat rich, warm soup. Usually, my go-to low carb vegan soup is my faux-tato leek soup, but I had approximately zero leeks in my house and somehow even less desire to go out to the store. So, I decided to make a low carb vegan...meatfreeketo.com
Cauliflower & Turmeric Soup - Keto Vegan Recipe
This Turmeric and Cauliflower Based Recipe is both Vegan and Keto. It's the perfect cold remedy if you are feeling a little under the weather.www.brokefoodies.com
Making this one in the next couple of days:
Keto Vegetable Soup
This flavourful keto vegetable soup makes a wonderful light yet filling lunch or dinner. Super easy and ready in just 30 minutes!sugarfreelondoner.com
Just an update on my Keto journey —
**** that. I lost 5kg, which I am very pleased with, but there was so little that I could eat, that I would still feel hungry even after my dinner. Apart from my smoothie at 12pm, the only other thing I was eating was a 1 cup portion of a Keto friendly soup in the evening. I was starving.
There were a couple of things that went wrong - first of all, my third and final instalment of my live bacteria drink arrived. I signed up for a 12 week programme and each box arrived in 28 day increments. Even though each bottle was only 100ml, they each contain just under 3g of carbs, and my Keto plan was to allow me only 10g of carbs a day, which is why I could only eat 1 cup’s worth of a low carb soup a day.
The other thing that went wrong, is I had purchased a sugar alternative, monk fruit with erythritol, but it ran out, and I love a sugary cup of tea in the morning, so I started to use real sugar once it ran out. I reasoned that since I was already drinking a 3g carb live bacteria drink, I might as well.
So these two things together prevented me being in Ketosis, I think. But thanks to a great reduction in calories, I still lost 5kg of weight in 2 weeks.
Well, now it’s December, and I am going to allow myself carbs again. In January, once the final increment of live bacteria drinks are finished, I’ll try Keto again. I guess the good thing is, I will be going into it with a better understanding that I did to start with. Basically, limit carbs, and you don’t need to supplement with fat, because you want to get rid of fat from the body, so just eat extremely low carb and high protein.
I’ll keep an eye on my weight and see if I still lose some over December, but I doubt it will be as much as an average of 1kg a week.
