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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
thoughts on ketosis... how can you stay on it? Never eating fruit? Never picking up a slice of pizza again? Never having pasta? I agree that foods like this have a lot of sugars in them and in excess lead to weight gain but cutting them out completely wouldn't make life very enjoyable in most peoples opinions I'm sure.
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Your appetite largely disappears.
Multivitamins should always be a part of ones daily routine no matter what.
I take everyday:
Multivitamin
B Complex
C
D3
Calcium
Flax seed oil
Glucosamine
BFAA's
- the things you've described as "chemicals" to which i would respond "these chemical compounds regulate every single process and function in your body and fail to do so, when one is deficient"
Your cravings disappear (largely a product of insulin highs and lows which becomes a non-issue in ketosis). Once you stop thinking about food, its easier to keep to a strict plan.
I mean people could also think "how can i live without ice cream and cake and cookies" while they are trying to diet and depending on how they are eating/exercising, cravings for those things can be quite intense. From experience, i can tell you "intense" in the sense that you can't think about anything else and then when you eat that stuff, you get high - a sort of euphoric feeling.
Bottom line... I tell people the same thing everyday "you will never lose weight and achieve your goals without some degree of discomfort. Pills/stimulants/appetite suppressants make you jittery, less food makes you hungry, running is no fun, lifting weights is hard, eating well is a bitch and requires planning and effort and so on..".
You can eat fruit. Just very limited quantities and you really have to do the math and know what you are putting into your mouth because fructose in small quantities of course will cause an insulin response. Ideally, you want to be under 30 grams or so of carbs per day
Also, there is typically the weight loss part and the maintenance part. Hardcore calorie restriction to achieve weight loss goals, then slowly increase carbs up to 40-50 or so or whatever. A green apple is like 20 grams of carbs (some from fiber though). I guess its better looked at in the "fat loss" phase and "maintenance phase".. .fat loss is strict Ketosis and maintenance is just "less carbs" (no starches, sugars etc)
LL Cool J has been in ketosis for 5 years,... he says
