keto today

[smalltime7]

so i had been on a fairly aggressive low carb high protein diet after reading some posts i decided to convert to a keto starting today (thursday) so far diet as of today as follows.

8 am: 2 whole eggs 6 whites 2000mg fish oil
10:45 am: 6 oz chicken 2000 mg fish oil
1:00 pm: 8 oz lean beef with cheese with yellow peppers and zucchini and 2000mg of fish oil.

I will post the rest of my meals for the day tonight.

I am a bit lethargic but no worse than the 100 grams or less of carbs per day.
my biggest concern will be my carb loading that starts friday night as I have not researched yet the best way to do this and how much to intake but hopefully I can get some input here to help. Thanks ST

[Damienm05]

so i had been on a fairly aggressive low carb high protein diet after reading some posts i decided to convert to a keto starting today (thursday) so far diet as of today as follows.

8 am: 2 whole eggs 6 whites 2000mg fish oil
10:45 am: 6 oz chicken 2000 mg fish oil
1:00 pm: 8 oz lean beef with cheese with yellow peppers and zucchini and 2000mg of fish oil.

I will post the rest of my meals for the day tonight.

I am a bit lethargic but no worse than the 100 grams or less of carbs per day.
my biggest concern will be my carb loading that starts friday night as I have not researched yet the best way to do this and how much to intake but hopefully I can get some input here to help. Thanks ST

Keto dieting is about a 40/60 give or take pro/fat calorie ratio. Your 3 meals so far look to be 60/40 protein cals. The cheese is your only fat source other than 4g of fish oil. For example, your 8:00 AM meal should be like 5 or 6 whole eggs. Your next meal should be 6 oz. chicken breast with 1.5 tbspn. olive oil or something. Your third meal should be 6 oz. lean beef with no peppers (sugar) and 2 oz. of cheese (although I'd choose a healthy fat).

As for your carb load, I'd wait until NEXT friday. Let your body establish ketosis before you stuff yourself full of carbs after only 1.5 days of keto.

[smalltime7]

thankyou I will work to adjust this around to get it right I am very concerned about keeping muscle so that is why i was concentrating on protein i need to learn more about the math that is involved

[smalltime7]

do you think it will take me that long to go keto when i have had less that 100 g per day for the last 17 days?

[Damienm05]

do you think it will take me that long to go keto when i have had less that 100 g per day for the last 17 days?

100g daily isn't enough to keep your engine firing on all cylinders but it's also not enough to shift you from a carb-burning engine to a fat-burning machine. It won't take long to get into keto but I think you should give your body some time to adjust is all.

[smalltime7]

cool thanks for the info I really appreciate the help I only need to drop 3% to meet my goal and I am motivated to do so.

[smalltime7]

ok my day finished like this

8 am 2 whole eggs with 6 whites 2k mg fish oil
1045am 6 oz chicken 2k mg fish oil
1 pm 8 oz lean ground beef with cheese yellow peppers/zucchini 2k mg fish oil
530 pm 3 whole eggs
645 pm 12 oz fish 1 cup spinach 2 string cheese

any more input is appreciated I will adjust tomorrow as suggested earlier I expect to follow this routine through next friday at which point i will start carb loading please suggest any carbs that will work best for this. thanks again ST

[Damienm05]

add a before bed meal. either 4-6 oz. steak or 1 scoop of casein w/ 2 tbson. natty pb.

[smalltime7]

ok thanks man I will do!

[smalltime7]

well this is my 3rd day minimal carbs. with adding more fats my energy has been sufficient and my wife is about to kill me because of the food I consume I was @ 13% on monday one week ago tomorrow I will test again in another week I feel like im dropping fat belly fat seems to be going and my ketostix says trace of acetoacetic acid so hope soon i will be in a complete state of ketosis. thanks for all the help. ST