Sat, Mar-31-18, 17:43
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Plan: No gluten, CAD
Stats: 196.0/158.5/149.0
BF:36/29.0/27.3
Progress: 80%
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Originally Posted by dcc0455
I have seen enough attempts at defining a ketogenic diet to conclude there is no definitive answer. In my mind, any diet that shifts your body to using ketones as its primary fuel is ketogenic. However, ketones as a primary fuel is not the same as the presence of ketones. As an example, I did a test on myself where I increased carbs to about 80 to 100g per day, and cut fat. That resulted in eating about 1000 to 1200 calories per day for a couple weeks. Because my calorie intake was less than my calories used, my body had to make up the difference by creating ketones from stored fat. During those weeks of eating low calorie, I was surprised to see a more consistent presence of breath and urine ketones than I measured eating low carb "keto". Even so, the ketones were only supplemental to the primary fuel of glucose, so I would not consider that a ketogenic diet. Those couple weeks not only convinced me that low calorie was much harder than low carb, but also gave me a better understanding of how ketones are used.
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Cool experiment. I figured it would work that way, my friend lost about 80 lbs eating 6 meals a day, sandwich, yogurt, granola bar kind of diet. I'll never forget the day he told me my salad didn't have enough protein, I glanced at his meal- pizza and lucky charms.
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