It’s not difficult if it’s just one meal a day and you make it simple.
It is not difficult. I use the carb manager app and can plan and register my meals a couple of days in advance.
Carb manager measures my carbs, fats and protein intake to a high degree.
There are plenty of online shops providing specialist low carb food, but cheaper is the raw basics. I am hardly ever hungry on keto even though I am on a 1500-1600 daily calorie restriction.
I went onto keto easily enough, have suffered no extra fatigue or “keto flu” so far.
Keto seems to suit me, but i am not going to do it long term.
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That was before there were Twinkies (a.k.a. Manna from Heaven).
Any time I try to stick to a virtuous diet for a long time I start getting really bored with it. The odd Twinkie now and then will keep you sane.
All those centenarians in places like Okinawa are poor people who have no choice but to do their own gardening and grow their own food. If they had a choice they wouldn’t be doing that.
When you and I were cavemen our lives depended on us saving energy at every opportunity. That’s why people take the elevator on their way to the gym.
Indeed. I try to make my own these days as they taste much better without all of the preservatives you get in the store bought ones. Also, having dairy in the homemade ones makes all the difference in the world.
A lot of writers and others point to ancient human’s diets, but fail to remember that there were reasons for the high protein and high fat diets.
Hunting and gathering was very labor intensive. Foraging for wild plants is as well. Man burned a lot of calories just looking for the same fuel that kept them going in order to find even more food.
They traveled constantly and needed the fat. They were exposed to elements more, ergo fat to stay warm. They worked to make shelters and tools. They were always moving.
We aren’t, so we have evolved to need a different, balanced diet. Our mouths are a prime example of this. Mouths are smaller than in the past so people often need wisdom tooth removal. I’m one of the people who have evolved further in this area and have no wisdom teeth.
We had larger jaws meant to pulverize harder and chewier foods and more back teeth. Dometication of animals and plants made foods softer. Note, not necessarily more nutrients. Wild foods have been shown to carry more nutrients in some studies when the foods were analyzed.
So for a true “cave man” experience, you’d have to forage and ingest the same plants and animal types available back then. The closest you can come to that is wild hunted venison, bear, elk, etc. Then forafe for qild plants and that’s difficult both in finding enough for multiple meals and for overcoming the taste profiles.
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Some indigenous tribes still exist, and their diets are health are studied.
The Masai for example. It’s not something relegated to antiquity. If you look at the evolution, we spent most of the time in the hunter-gatherer phase. The diets brought on by agriculture and industry are very new to our diet. Our bodies did not evolve to consume lenoleic and oleic fatty acids in large numbers for example (industrial seed oils). These fatty acids are suspect for causing metabolic dysfunction. The chronic disease is on the rise since the advent of the industrial food manufacture, and it’s well-documented.
Also there are so called blue zones where ancestral diets result in exemplary healthspans (Sardinia, Okinawa).
Appetite reduction is one of the reasons it works. Carbs require insulin spikes. Protein raises insulin only slightly. Insulin spikes are followed by a rapid drop of blood glucose in metabolic dysfunction as was discovered by Dr. Kraft (the pioneer in diabetes research, See Kraft insulin assay). Insulin crashes drive appetite.
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Indigenous tribes that exist today neither live in caves, nor forage for anything they can find. They have worked out their traditional diets. Take a look at the Masai for example.
Thank you. I stand corrected.
I’ve done organic grass-fed burger patties and salad for months once a day in the past, and was perfectly fine with boredom. Planning to repeat.
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I change it up with a pork chop, salmon fillet, chicken breast, lamb leg steak or chicken thigh. The small amount of veg changes. Breakfast has been the same bacon and eggs. Not keen on beef.
I am far from bored. 
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Lamb is grand. I am more cautious now about chicken and pork since they build up a lot of linoleic and oleic fat from corn and soy they’re fed (this also applies to eggs from corn and soy fed chickens. Pastured chickens naturally eat insects). Ruminants don’t store oleic and linoleic fat from their feed, and it’s impossible to feed soy or corn to lamb AFAIK.
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keto diet is for karens. whereas HCG diet is for the biggest losers
I’ve been following a low fat diet for a week now and have restricted my calories under the 2000 mark and have lost 7 pounds thus far.
Going to follow this diet permanently.
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Your heart, kidneys, retina, liver, gb and abdominal aorta will thank you. Thats awesome to hear, keep up the good work
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What does that mean?
Thanks @gcar 15
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What’s HCG? The old idea that dietary fat is bad for you had been debunked. Keto is neither high protein or high fat necessarily. Sufficient protein for muscle maintenance. Fat for satiety. Eating purely protein can make you feel very crummy without fat, it’s documented.
Fat had been unfairly demonized. Also since there are so many kinds of fat, it’s not fair to label all fat as bad, but linoleic and oleic fatty acids are suspect for causing metabolic dysfunction. They’re new in large quantities in our diet. We did not evolve to consume these in large quantities (industrial “vegetable oils”).
My visceral fat levels has reduced considerably thanks to keto. Now they are in a safe range.