Sat, Jul-09-22, 08:30
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,074
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Plan: Very LC, Higher Protein
Stats: 227/186/185
BF:
Progress: 98%
Location: Herndon, VA
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Originally Posted by Dalesbred
Thank you, will listen to this. Interestingly, I ate more fibre on keto than on a carb-heavy diet as all the carbs come from veg rather than white foods so the negative comment about gut microbes doesn’t quite wash in my case (although YMMV as ever).
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Agree, I get most of my carbs from vegetables and a few berries. No shortage of fiber. While I'm not fearful of fat, I heartily eat the fat that comes with healthy protein. The issue I have with the "keto" term is the belief that emphasizes replacing carbs with fats. I've never done that, so I'm able to run on and alternate between fat and glucose as fuels on a daily basis. While strict keto diets are excellent for treating health issues like seizures and resolving BG issues, I don't believe in a strict keto formula; rather, I like the simplicity of eating healthy proteins and vegetables to enable endogenous fat burning as energy for maintaining health.
I've come to the conclusion that over the years since the beginning of the low fat craze, any amount of dietary fat today is perceived as too much. The bar has been set so low, that what in the past was considered normal fat consumption is now defined as abnormally high. It's a distortion borne from the mistaken tendency to treat any fat consumption as unhealthy.
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