I'm glad there's a topic on this fantastic diet and not to many folk giving it a hard time.
It's Week 7 and I feel brilliant, lost over a stone and half and cured a ton of problems I was getting and the healthiest I've ever felt.
So here's my honest feelings about the ketogenic diet.
I think as a diet it's as healthy as it gets. Although I would consider taking some supplements mainly eletrolytes. Initially it was tough, giving up so many carbs, crisps, beer, potatoes and stuff and the keto flu was different, leaving me feeling like I was walking in mud with lead boots on, however after a few day I overcome it, by replacing eletrolytes and after 4-5 weeks my energies returned and gradually became much better than before keto. My joints felt brilliant and my mind concentration also improved pre Keto.
I've had a lot of negativity from folk at work and when you consider I work with in the NHS I was a bit surprised, although considering we are around ten years behind America and 5 behind australia I shouldn't have. Most folks and even some Dr (friends) were concerned about my cholesterol increasing (laughable as one of them put a Rolo in his mouth), however on the whole only your good cholesterol rises and that's a massive bonus.
I've also read a few articles trying to scare people off, however they're almost alway connected to the same bullshit diet beliefs and (poor) studies of the70s and 80s, when carbs were found to be a cheap substainable way to feed the world.
Using the substainable word again, I also heard that "It's NOT substainable"...well eating the shite I regular ate was NOT and I was heading for heart disease fast. So yes it it!
Besides theirs millions of people who have done it for 10 plus years and are still looking and feeling brilliant.
The proof is in the pudding...even if this pudding is a little bit less a pudding than several weeks ago...and for me thats good enough.
