Breakfast:
A whole avocado smashed up and mixed with onion powder, salt, cayenne pepper and lemon juice. Using cauliflower as a dipper.
Beef broth with butter

Lunch:
"Tabouli" chicken salad (Riced cauliflower, parsley, lemon, garlic, onion, olive oil and seasoned chicken breast)

Dinner:
Salad with (or without) protein (chicken or tuna), avocado, pecans, onions. Homemade vinaigrette.
Beef broth with butter

Dessert:
Small amount of 85% chocolate with Bengal Spice tea.

Keep protein to around 60g or slightly less makes the hunger MUCH better. Going up to 70g I noticed hunger returning.

Nancy , you are paying close attention to your hunger and the foods you are eating. I am finding that I am much more satisfied if I include really high fat dressings and oils. I shop at Wegmans a lot and they have an olive bar. I looked on their nutrition break down of all of their already made foods. I highlighted all that met my high fat , low carb, mod. protein. What a great variety of foods we can eat. I went to Sams Club and bought some basil pesto to smear on all of my meats. I also got 72 pieces of cooked bacon for 9.98. They also have great prices on heavy whipping cream and sour cream. How do you make the cauliflower rice?

Fat certainly helps, but not by itself. At least not for me. I need fiber to go with it. For instance, yesterday I made a smoothie with a whole avocado, berries, olive oil and egg yolk (yeah... didn't taste great, but I drank it). I never got full. It had a ton of calories and fat.

Today, a whole avocado and cauliflower was super satiating and about half the calories.

I don't know why but drinking my calories has never worked for me.

I do find olives VERY satisfying too. I often grab a handful when I'm too busy to eat a proper meal.

I use my food processor and shredding blade to "rice" the cauli. I use that as a basis for all sorts of things, like Pad Thai or that salad I mentioned.

Wow! BG under 65?? Gee, I thought 69 and under was considered hypoglycemic? I started to feel yuck when mine drops under 70. Even Dr Bernstein doesn't recommend levels that low. Does he think our cancer risk is higher if your bg gets that high?

Do you mind sharing what this book is by Ellen Davis? I've tried searching Amazon but didn't notice anything diet related. Thanks!

I'd love to know what you put in your pad thai. I love pad thai.

I think the idea is that your BG dropping really low won't feel bad if you have sufficiently high ketosis. I certainly didn't feel bad when mine got into the 70's and 60's, but my ketones are really high at those times, like 5.0+.

My Pad Thai is just a conventional Pad Thai recipe but I substitute cauliflower rice for the noodles, or shirataki, or kelp noodles. Sugar is substituted with non-caloric sweetener, I use a gluten free tamari sauce.

Thanks! I'm in NK right now. Started lowering carbs and protein to do it less than 2 weeks ago. But the other night I felt nauseated and weak and took my bg and it was 69. I don't know if I felt bad because I was just hungry or if it was because my bg was low but I was in NK at the time. Those are some amazingly high ketones you had there!

Just out of curiosity, what are your ketone levels, if you know.

Sorry, I had this in a post on research:




Again, this book and the protein level quoted is aimed for cancer patients trying to achieve a Seyfried level of Ketosis (55-65 BG and 3-7 Ketones), a goal even more strict than "Nutritional Ketosis".

I'm only taking mine every other day or so in the evening because of cost. But 2-3 evenings ago it was 2.4 iirc. It had been steadily going up each time I took it so far.

Thanks for sharing that. I'd missed the initial post. I'm very interested in the idea of ketosis for cancer treatment and prevention. I've always heard so much about raw food and vegan diets for cancer. This is such a different approach. But one I'm very interested in because I've found I personally need to be on a really low carb diet.

There is quite a bit of good information on using ketogenic diets for cancer treatment on this new foundation website, particularly Dr. Seyfried's presentation at AHS: http://www.singlecausesinglecure.org/
As a cancer survivor, I tried the vegetarian Cancer Project Diet and gained 60 pounds, had skin rashes, arthritis, etc. Very happy to have lost most weight gained and much healthier now on LC Paleo. I just keep my carbs in the 30-50g level; ketogenic, but not the strict goals suggested for active treatment.

Nancy, ive found protein to be my main culprit as well!

As a matter of fact, I can increase carb consumption to kwasniewski levels as long as my protein stays down. 50-60 carbs, 70-80 protein (im 5 feet 11 inches tall] and basically unlimited fat.

I really only eat that much starch 2-3x per week anyway, but im at 200lbs and sliding under 10% bodyfat.

Its easy for me to over eat carbs or protein. Coconut milk, bulletproof coffee and guacamole are my basic meals now.

KEEP PROTEIN LOW!

Well, I didn't lose any weight despite being in really rockin' ketosis. I think I might be Peter Attia's Thought #4:


http://eatingacademy.com/weight-los...ons-of-fat-flux
I'm trying to cut back on fat and not increase carbs by too much. I figure I'll eat 60-80g protein, strive for 30% of calories from fat, and the rest will be carb from LC veggies.

Boy... this is tough to do after having been LC for about a decade.