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<blockquote data-quote="AdamJames" data-source="post: 1716023" data-attributes="member: 459333"><p>Great post and I totally agree.</p><p></p><p>I've realised I need to take my own advice on this. We are all different. Other people's input is extremely helpful as it lets me know what has worked for others and therefore what *might* work for me.</p><p></p><p>But I'm stopping the experiment of not calorie counting. Maybe if I kept up the keto-and-not-counting-calories thing for another month something amazing would change, but right now, the evidence I see before me is that I've been piling on the pounds. Since we all agree weight loss is a good idea for overweight people, that's not right. I've put on about 5kg quickly and my stomach is making it's presence horribly felt when I sit down! I'm not going to risk carrying on in this direction. Keto, I suspect, I can stick with, but not ignoring calories. I have a huge appetite, I love food, and I'm going to have to consciously monitor calories.</p><p></p><p>I also agree with varying meals and calorie intake. This is what I had effectively been doing for a few months (through lack of discipline rather than it being a plan!) and it worked a treat. My general focus for months had been calorie restriction and modest exercise (often just a small local walk in the evenings) and it was working a treat. In spite of some days of over-eating, and too many carbs, I'd always switch back to monitoring calories. I'd eat to maintain, or to restrict modestly, or to restrict hugely, and generally never stuck to anything for more than a week, which probably helped my metabolism to stay high. The weight fell off, independent of carb content.</p><p></p><p>I don't think there is going to be a magic bullet for me. Anyway it's not a big deal, calorie counting isn't exactly hard. For a lot of people, even without Type 2, it's normal. I think we all have bodies that are designed to live in a world where calories are hard to come by, but most of us these days are surrounded by an excess of food. The battle has changed curiously from a physical one of procuring food, to a mental one of avoiding too much of it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AdamJames, post: 1716023, member: 459333"] Great post and I totally agree. I've realised I need to take my own advice on this. We are all different. Other people's input is extremely helpful as it lets me know what has worked for others and therefore what *might* work for me. But I'm stopping the experiment of not calorie counting. Maybe if I kept up the keto-and-not-counting-calories thing for another month something amazing would change, but right now, the evidence I see before me is that I've been piling on the pounds. Since we all agree weight loss is a good idea for overweight people, that's not right. I've put on about 5kg quickly and my stomach is making it's presence horribly felt when I sit down! I'm not going to risk carrying on in this direction. Keto, I suspect, I can stick with, but not ignoring calories. I have a huge appetite, I love food, and I'm going to have to consciously monitor calories. I also agree with varying meals and calorie intake. This is what I had effectively been doing for a few months (through lack of discipline rather than it being a plan!) and it worked a treat. My general focus for months had been calorie restriction and modest exercise (often just a small local walk in the evenings) and it was working a treat. In spite of some days of over-eating, and too many carbs, I'd always switch back to monitoring calories. I'd eat to maintain, or to restrict modestly, or to restrict hugely, and generally never stuck to anything for more than a week, which probably helped my metabolism to stay high. The weight fell off, independent of carb content. I don't think there is going to be a magic bullet for me. Anyway it's not a big deal, calorie counting isn't exactly hard. For a lot of people, even without Type 2, it's normal. I think we all have bodies that are designed to live in a world where calories are hard to come by, but most of us these days are surrounded by an excess of food. The battle has changed curiously from a physical one of procuring food, to a mental one of avoiding too much of it! [/QUOTE]
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