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Hi @Nick1974
Thank you for your comments and I appreciate the effort you put into your post, but much of what you say does not apply to my situation.
To answer a few of your points,
- no I am not new to ketosis. I have been Low Carbing for 30+ years and Ketoing for much of that (since long before anyone had heard of either by their current names). So I know exactly how my body reacts to it, in various different variations of ketogenic eating.
- yes, some people do have rapid responses to calorie restriction. I do, and I am not alone. In my case it stems from doing several very low calorie diets, for extended periods, as a teenager - around the same time my hormones went seriously wacky. There are other people on the forum in similar circumstances.
- and no, I don’t bother to go hell for leather at anything nowadays. Far too much effort and rarely sustainable. This is a long game, and I am only half way through it. I hope.
You asked why I eat ketogenically, suggesting that it was because I was trying hard for weight loss and T2 reversal. That is an incorrect assumption.
While some weight loss would be nice, my personal combination of health issues make other things higher priority. The main reason that I live in ketosis is because life as a glucose burner is miserable for me. I only feel well when fat adapted and reliably in ketosis.
Edited for typos.
Thank you for your comments and I appreciate the effort you put into your post, but much of what you say does not apply to my situation.
To answer a few of your points,
- no I am not new to ketosis. I have been Low Carbing for 30+ years and Ketoing for much of that (since long before anyone had heard of either by their current names). So I know exactly how my body reacts to it, in various different variations of ketogenic eating.
- yes, some people do have rapid responses to calorie restriction. I do, and I am not alone. In my case it stems from doing several very low calorie diets, for extended periods, as a teenager - around the same time my hormones went seriously wacky. There are other people on the forum in similar circumstances.
- and no, I don’t bother to go hell for leather at anything nowadays. Far too much effort and rarely sustainable. This is a long game, and I am only half way through it. I hope.
You asked why I eat ketogenically, suggesting that it was because I was trying hard for weight loss and T2 reversal. That is an incorrect assumption.
While some weight loss would be nice, my personal combination of health issues make other things higher priority. The main reason that I live in ketosis is because life as a glucose burner is miserable for me. I only feel well when fat adapted and reliably in ketosis.
Edited for typos.
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