Couple updates on my minor keto quest... Conversion to coconut oil from olive oil. CHECK.
Giving up potatoes every morning with my egg...CHECK.
Surprisingly easy too, Jon, and maybe it's just psychosomatic, but I've felt more energetic the past couple weeks.
well with you it could be some type of psychosis that's for sure but lets give Keto
the credit! lol.
hey, you know what we do and it's a win-win for breakfast?
sweet potatoes are keto friendly so we cut them up and fry them real good and
brown in lots of the coconut oil and they are really really good once you get
used to them not being white. and that has really helped me get away from
the white potatoes but anyway that us super news my friend!
you're already off sugar so decreasing potatoes is huge, you're already
half way there.
There's no sugar in SWEET potatoes...?!?
yes there is sugar in sweet potatoes but if you are not going for the total Keto diet then they are a good substitute. For instance, when we first started we went total Keto to get the whole effect but after a couple months you can start adding carbs back in so we added sweet potatoes because they have alot of carbs. They do have sugar also but with a meal they don't throw the ketosis effect off for most people.
so I wouldn't worry too much about it unless you are really going in full strength and then like white potatoes they are out. You can also bring back white potatoes after awhile but not everyday.
But having said all that they have test strips that you use to see what throws you out of the Keto zone and it's different for different people, very personalized so everyone has to experiment. we don't worry about that though, if we
do Keto 5 or 6 days a week that is super healthy and good enough.
Now if I was fighting cancer or something I'd be more strict because cancer thrives on sugar and strict Keto has no sugar.
Thanks for the explanation. Sadly, sweet potato is the one food (outside of poorly made porridge) that I still, to this day, do not care for. I'll just try to stay away from as many carbs as possible as often as possible. That's about the best I can do for now....
ok @mepatriot what about regular bread?
and what is porridge, just soup?
Anyway my wife and I found another bread that tastes good but it's not totally Keto
friendly but would be a nice compromise and it's not bland like Ezekiel Bread.
It's made by Alvardo Street Bakery and the one we get is called Sprouted California Style.
just in case you ever get to a market that carries it but not many do. If you have Sprouts
stores up there you can pick up a bunch and freeze them. greatly reduce the sugar your
body makes from the regular bread or you can choke down Ezekiel bread! lol
I'm just cutting back on the multigrain bread I eat for now, from 3-4 slices a day to 1.
Porridge is another name for oatmeal.
@mepatriot what the?? 3 or 4 slices a day?
what are you daft man?! lol! just teasing, no that's an excellent and very
logical, practical approach. what else would we expect from @mepatriot?
lol...Well, I haven't actually been doing the one-slice thing for long yet...
Resteemed!