Health based (not weight) Keto diet - Lifestyle

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Anyone living day to day on a Keto based based diet?
I would like to pursue but have a couple of questions:

• Vegetarian here! Do you manage variety, manage to get in the flow of making convenient / easy meals?
• Do you break it occasionally?

(holidays / Festive seasons) How do you manage those breaks?

• I’m a keen gym goer / Weight training preferably, I know gaining a good amount of protein and fibre can be hard this way… Any tips?

Really hoping a few can give me their experience around this :)

Thank you

Bump! Really interested if any are managing this successfully.

Healthy and keto seems a bit of an incompatible thing

Hi @childofthe607080s
Can you explain what you mean?

So my view is around creating an environment within my body where it reduces the chance/risks of certain types of disease. Now, no judgement on that please as this is purely fact finding and I’m aware that can come across as highly health anxious.
Though, lots of evidence out there that this diet can support those risk factors but maybe there’s a better more sustainable split.

As I say, this is fact finding :)

I eat very low carb and am mostly vegetarian as I eat a small amount of fish it.is much more difficult to eat a ketogenic diet without meat. I do eat a lot of eggs, nuts and high protein yogurt to try and maximise protein without too much reliance on eating fish. I like the metabolic mind channel on YouTube they do focus a lot on the potential benefits to mental health but there is also content on diabetes and Alzheimer’s

@TheOliveFinch Amazing! Thank you, the exact kind of content I’m looking for and just essentially looking at ways to keep a healthy mind and body, reduce chance of disease and be around for as long as we can really 😅

When you have kids, it’s all the more consuming! So, just interested in real time/real life experience.

I intermittently do keto. I try and do it as clean as possible but this means (for me) oily fish like salmon and trout. If you keep your fat sources healthy like oily fish, nuts, avocados and eggs etc I don’t see why it’s not healthy. Gorging on full fat cream will not be. I do do it for weight loss but I love the lack of brain fog. The first time I did it I checked my cholesterol before and after as was worried about the fat - my cholesterol DID go up, but it was the good cholesterol. I break keto for dinners out, social occasions and I find it easy enough to get back into ketosis after a couple of days. You do need to drink all the water! In short it’s the only diet that works for me, it’s easy and it has added benefits like mental clarity and I read the research into other emerging benefits with interest.

Just started transitioning to keto and have the same questions (although I eat meat so easier for me). I think I’ll transition in and out rather than be too strict.
l listened to diary of a CEO podcast with Dr Georgia Ede. She looks at the benefits of keto for mental health and reducing anxiety. Worth a listen.
I feel I’ve slept better (been a perimenopause symptom for me). Good luck!

@Backtodevon , I’ve listened to Georgia Ede quite a bit and also read her book , she has appeared on the metabolic mind channel I mentioned above many times . Dr Christopher Palmer is another one who is very interesting to listen to