Keto alone?

redearththeory · 2016-12-10T13:48:50+00:00

Alone. I'm 7 weeks in 15 lbs down and I haven't even told her about it. I just make vague excuses about having had a big lunch, or not eating before I lift. Fuck what your wife thinks. No one puts food in your mouth but you.

discobolus_ · 2016-12-10T13:57:21+00:00

Alone.

Your wife will test your commitment to diet changes like its her job. Easiest shit test to recognize.

Mrpnewb · 2016-12-10T14:54:44+00:00

Keto is magic. I did it without my wife. She lives off of carbs but keeps her calories down and stays thin. While I dropped 50lbs in 6 months. Don't be a bitch.

This is your journey. Just do it and stop worrying about her. Go grocery shopping without her and buy the shit that you need.

FireTempered · 2016-12-10T18:37:27+00:00

Not only do you have to Keto alone. You are alone in this life and you will die alone, no matter how many people are around you. The sooner you realize it, the sooner you can be happy.

SteelToeShitKicker · 2016-12-10T14:36:54+00:00

The whole point of MRP is that you must lead. You are clearly looking to your wife for guidance / help, when it is you that should be directing the way.

Now, that said, you just worry about you. You can't make her lose weight, but I will say that after I started getting noticably muscular, the wife started to get really serious about fitness.

Lead and realize that she will attempt to break your frame by trying to get you to cheat. It's a shit test.

InChargeMan · 2016-12-10T16:34:41+00:00

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Scubastyles · 2016-12-10T14:55:28+00:00

Yea man, she's testing your resolve. Hold strong.

My ltr will compliment my physical improvements and simultaneously bake cookies; that I won't eat. It seems fucked up but they don't even know they're doing it; awalt I suppose.

Hold strong.

JackGetsIt · 2016-12-10T15:14:52+00:00

The ketosis diet is a pain in the ass because everywhere you go you will have to fucking explain yourself to everyone. "What? You don't eat bread?" "One treat will throw you off?" "Isn't red meat bad for you?" After you start to explain the diet to people they want to pin you as a conspiracy theorist because the keto wisdom goes directly against the bullshit Big agribusiness-government partnership pyramid with grains as the foundation.

Then when you get home the keto diet is difficult because most women don't know shit about nutrition and even the ones that do squirrel away chocolate and candy all over their living spaces.

All that being said ketosis is the only way I've personally ever been able to lose weight and keep it off. It's also the only diet that's kept my ravenous food cravings at bay. Every girlfriend I've ever had and my ex wife all eventually started keto dieting because they saw how effective it was. My only word of warning is just an echo of what others have said in this thread. Lead by example. Don't ask your significant other to do it with you. She will eventually come along for the ride on her own when she see's you executing with consistency and not giving in to her or friends and family high carb eating habits.

The only girlfriend that I successfully keto dieted with was after I was deep in the diet and could have like 50 high fiber carbs a day. She would still cook her traditional meals but substitute some higher fiber carb options and cook and serve a lot less of them.

To this day I still only on and off keto diet because of my biggest Nemesis. Beer. Fancy Fancy Beer. Beer and keto do not go well together and I can't bring myself to completely cut it. Right now I'm doing 6 keto days and one carb up day with beer in the mix. It's working out OK. I'm about 10-15 pounds above goal weight but it much better then giving up and being 60 pounds overweight all the time.

BluepillProfessor · 2016-12-10T17:08:10+00:00

You are alone in your own house brother. Wife will think about following when you soar past her SMV- which doesn't sound like it will be that hard.

that_italia_guy · 2016-12-11T01:29:52+00:00

Alone. Your wife will just slow you down.

BobbyPeru · 2016-12-11T01:18:13+00:00

I did it by cutting out and refined sugar, eating more organically, avoiding processed foods, and getting plenty of proteins. Overall caloric input needs to decline - that's the bottom line. I've never worried about carbs and all that stuff, just tried to eat balanced

ford_contour · 2016-12-11T01:50:09+00:00

Since I didn't marry a close relative, my wife and I have significantly dissimilar genetics, and so my wife and I have to figure out our unique dietary needs separately.

I support her efforts to figure out gut discomfort issues by stocking whatever foods she had been eating most lately, when I do a grocery run.

She supports my efforts to eat clean and stay lean in lots of ways that I'm too focused and self centered to regularly notice.

That said, she wasn't even aware I had changed my diet until I had lost like 20 lbs over the course of six months. She knew I had made a change, but not how significant it was.

She briefly freaked out at the dangers of ketosis when she first found out I had started Atkins, after hitting a wall. But my wife knows l'm an adult who knows how to listen to his body, and seemingly accepted what I told her from what I learned from the Atkins book, or maybe she just realized I was feeling and eating healthier than ever.

Disclaimer: I'm not naturally a really communicative guy. This is as often a flaw as an advantage; and I have very little ability to tell when it's helping or hurting me. I'm not recommending you do as I did.

Also, listen to a doctor or something, or at least read the whole book before you start any new diet.

alpha_as_chiwawa · 2016-12-18T20:44:46+00:00

Intermittent fasting works great for me. I basically don't eat between 8PM and noon. In between I don't count calories, but I don't eat sweets and avoid carbs (but not to the level to be in keto). E.g., I only eat whole grain pasta, absolutely no white bread and no pizza, no rice... Shoot for high protein foods, usually they are rich in fat and protein. Peanuts are my snack of choice.

Works great!

Your food is your choice. If there's something you don't eat on the menu, you leave it. Simple.

ImSteveMcQueen · 2016-12-12T15:39:01+00:00

We had soup for lunch yesterday. Had a choice between tomato and mushroom. I looked at the labels. Tomato has a ton of sugar in it. Mushroom has 1/3 the carbs and almost no sugar. I start opening the mushroom. She comes along and says the kids and her don't like mushroom soup. I point out the nutrition information. She says "You are neither credible nor knowledgeable on nutrition." I just STFU. I'm strong, fit and very healthy. She can't do a single pushup. Not sure what you can say to someone like that.

Later last night she sends me an unprovoked email on keto.

"Decent article, if you read the whole thing. Starts with some positives I'm assuming your book would have alluded to. Has additional information worth considering. http://www.healthline.com/health-news/keto-diet-is-gaining-popularity-but-is-it-safe-121914

I lost about 20 pounds this fall and look great. Good luck with that shit test.

ImSteveMcQueen · 2016-12-12T17:15:26+00:00

People freak out when they see my diet.

4 eggs with mushrooms, onions and cheese for breakfast. With 14% sour cream and cottage cheese. I have the leftovers for a snack. No toast, no cereal.
I drink whole (3.25%) milk and water. No juice, no pop. Maybe a diet coke once in a while.
I eat real whip cream (35% MF). I never eat sugar icing.
I eat peanuts, peanut butter and cashews for snack. Never granola, never fruit bars, never raisins.
I eat the fat on my pork chops.
I eat cheese when I want it.
Candy for me is an orange. I love the taste of them. No chocolate bars, no cake, no bananas. I don't even crave those things any more. When my blood sugar is low, I eat an orange.
I order a burger and eat everything but the bun. Mayo, mustard, no ketchup. A cream soup instead of the fries.

I get all sorts of comments. "Bread isn't that bad." "Your arteries are going to clog."

If you want to start a fight, tell people that sweetened yogurt is pretty much the same as ice cream. Or that dried fruit is pretty much the same as jube jubes. Or that chicken wings are good for you. Or that rice cakes are the worst thing you can eat when you are craving food. They flip ! WTF ???

ReddJive · 2016-12-12T18:15:51+00:00

your diet depends on your goals.

Rapid weight loss. Keto style will do but it won't support muscle growth long term.

I eat 7 times a day. My meals support a total macros of

150-bodyweight grams of protein a day.
100-200g of carbs (higher on heavy lift days)
25-35g of fiber
No more then 30g of sugar
30-40 grams of fat from healthy sources.

mtdog · 2016-12-15T14:55:09+00:00

My wife has done well on low carb diets, but eventually cracks and eats a bag of Cheetos. I don't do well on keto - I feel sick and low energy.

Intermittent fasting and portion control are working for me. Down 50 lbs. since last December. Still a fat fuck, but at 49, I am looking at a sustainable lifestyle change, not a quick cut.

Bottom line is that different approaches work for different people. Maybe keto isn't the diet for the Mrs?

ex_addict_bro · 2016-12-10T14:02:20+00:00

As for my personal experience with dieting changes, see my other comment.

As for keto... no. I tried it a few times. Perhaps it has something to do with my gall bladder, which was removed from my body few years ago. I'm not feeling well on keto. Currently I'm on a kind of IIFYM.com calculated diet, sometimes I eat more fats, sometimes I refeed with carbs, including sugar. I felt like shit on pure keto. Maybe I'd need to stop lifting and doing HIITS and just stick for week or two to keto and low-intensity cardio to burn fat.

But you know what?

Fuck burning fat. I'm not trying to burn fat.

I'm stressing my body. I apply uneasiness to it and see how it reacts.

Of course I keep the diet, I calculate it almost every day, I prepare my meals. How do I know I ate enough protein if I don't.

But I'm not exactly trying to burn fat.

Godspeed.

druganswer · 2016-12-12T02:29:42+00:00

i did 100% strict keto 6 days a week. 1 day a week i would stick to my calorie limit, but eating mostly whatever i wanted.

no soda or pure junk food.

this kept me from ever feeling the need to cheat, but i got pretty shredded.

DaisyDucksdaughter · 2016-12-10T18:08:58+00:00

Just a thought: Keto is known for causing bad breath. Maybe she is afraid of that? It would certainly put me off. Assuming the worst is not always necessary. Maybe Paleo/Primal might be better suited to her.

Title	Keto alone?
Author	prematureredpill
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Date	December 10, 2016 1:25 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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