[thenayr]

I was diehard keto for over a year straight. Chronic inflammation that I’ve lived with my entire life disappeared totally after a few weeks. I became pretty dogmatic about the whole thing and eventually my body started to suffer. I don’t believe it to be a long term sustainable diet, at least not at the level i was doing it (sub 20g carbs a day).

My blood tests got very worrying towards the latter part of the year and I started to have regular panic attacks and what I can only presume is chronic low blood sugar that ultimately left me feeling pretty lifeless and scared.

Anyways just my personal anecdote to remain cautiously optimistic

[Modified3019]

My mistake was I gravitated to eating mostly fatty pork and chicken after a year. Turns out those are very high in omega-6’s. Does not play well with my mental health, skin (exacerbated my pollen allergy related eczema), resulted in starting to regain weight around my stomach despite maintaining a loss of 50 pounds for two years, and becoming cold all the time (yes, my thyroid and calories were fine).

After some research on wtf might be going on, I had my suspicions and took an omegaquant test which revealed my circulating phospholipid omega-6 levels were crazy high, just a few percent below their max reference range. Moving to beef only halted my issues after 1-2 months.

I like beef and monotony, but even I can’t eat just beef. I now cycle between keto and carbs (mostly potatoes, carrots, onions and glass noodles, sometimes pasta or bread buns). I generally have carbs near workout days. Now that I’ve shed the omega-6 pounds, I have some tolerance again but end up still mostly use beef, eggs, and frozen seafood blends (no fish, which when farmed tends to be high in omega-6).

Oh, and if you are looking for a salad dressing that isn’t just flavored vegetable oil (high omega-6), give the “skinny girl” brand a try.

[voxgen]

I'm at 3 years with occasional breaks. At a certain point my weight wouldn't go lower and I started feeling terrible. I think I was producing more ketones than I could use. I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but now I'm sustaining a low-carb, low-but-nonzero-ketone mode, and still getting 50-75% of the mental/energy/anti-inflammatory advantages.

I think it was either changing my diet to focus on veges instead of meats (still 15-30g net carbs/day though), or adding artificial sweetener to maybe fool my body to making insulin? The science says that shouldn't happen, but idk what else it could be.

[123yawaworht456]

all exclusive diets (vegan/carnivore/keto/etc) are deficient in some vitamins, minerals, and maybe other things (omega-3, specific amino acids, etc).

were you using supplements? on keto in particular, a decent multivitamin and some extra vitamin C, magnesium, and potassium are a must.

[declan_roberts]

What did you see in your labs?