How many calories per day?

I can't help with the ketogenic diet....but I eat until I'm full (not overfull)

Does the ketogenic diet have enough calories?

When I lost my weight...I ate anything and everything and only managed to gain a couple of lbs in a year's time.
I mean junk food .... cupcakes...pasta...
(I didn't know what the heck was wrong with me)

It was treatment that fixed that issue.

The Keto diet is designed to burn fat and leave the muscle. I don't eat it, but my husband is a body builder and he is on the keto diet right now to cut some of the fat from his last bulk. Do you think you're eating enough fat?

•60-75% of calories from fat (or even more),
•15-30% of calories from protein, and
•5-10% of calories from carbs.

Hi, MA10. I do pretty hard core keto, actually. It's fairly new to me as it's only been 2 weeks, but I'm working with my doctor, so I'm giving it a go.

I measure glucose and ketones from blood multiple times per day. I need to lose weight, so my calories are lower. Per day my perfect calories are around 1450, with 70-75% fat.

I log all of my food, which I thought would be brutal, but it actually isn't and I can see what nutrients I am putting in. It's going great so far. I feel a massive burst in energy and my workouts are crazy good.

I am not in consistent ketosis yet. It hasn't been long enough and infection may make it more difficult, but I am absolutely enjoying it. I am eating 500 or more calories than I was before. My glucose is still fluctuating, but my ketones are spot on.

Feel free to message me if you want to discuss further...

Post Edited (3HumpedCamel) : 4/7/2017 9:28:54 AM (GMT-6)

You are farther than I am, but I am using a food logging tool that is amazing. I thought it would suck, but once you create a recipe, it's so simple to get food logged and see the nutrients. This will likely be what you need to understand calories etc. When you enter your weight and glucose and ketones it adjusts your daily calorie needs on the spot, along with protein/carb/fat amounts.

This Lyme junk has killed my metabolism and my ability to turn sugar to energy. Hopefully I am still in the adjustment period where my glucose numbers are all over the place... I was never so high as to be diabetic, but I was always borderline high. I jump now from that borderline high to super low, but from what i am reading that is normal... I am normal when I go to bed and high when i wake up which point to metabolic hormone issues and likely still some infection. All of this is such great info for my doctor though.

I guess the next biggest question would be if Lyme patients need to strive to maintain weight or lose if they're overweight. In my thinking, if you're losing weight, then you're not getting enough food for your body to be able to fight the infections. Would that be an incorrect assumption?

Thanks for all of your help!

Julymorning, you are correct. BMI is a major factor in calorie intake. But, you have to also take into account more than BMI, at least with Keto... you need to measure your ketones and your glucose, and your exercise, BMI, weight and ketones/glucose are all a factor. My needs are ever changing as far as grams of net carb to protein to fat.

I think striving for ideal weight and BMI is part of finding health. Nutrition is a major cog to wellness.

But, not everyone can do Paleo or Keto or the like... we have to find our place where we feel the best. And, then 6 months from now, we will need to make adjustments to that... and so on and so forth.

I know this hard core Keto is temporary and will change dramatically once the body stabilized into fat burning.

BeKindPls, I have recently found out about parasites as well. For some, it could be that there's another infection not being addressed. My doctor just gave me a recipe to start making fermented foods to combat.

BeKindPls, you can email me. I can send you the recipe.