Gravy's Cooking Thread

I always find knowing I'm going on a vacation helps me lose weight. Never fails, as soon as I have a goal my hunger magically fixes itself to the point where I have to remember to eat sometimes. Just plan more vacations!

Tuco said:

None of what you just said is true.

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you keep talking about your keto diet in the past tense, so you cant blame people for assuming you're back to your carboholic 3200-cal/day face-stuffing ways.

here's a tip: get a fitbit and install loseit! or some other food journaling app and turn your fat jihad into an ENGINEERING problem. track your baseline caloric intake, diff it with the best-case low cal days that you can sustain and build a diet you can live with that doesn't require extreme willpower.

Tuco said:

I'm hungrier now eating 3200 calories of pretty healthy mixed food (heavy carbs, protein, some fat) than when I was at 1500 calories of keto.

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That's a lot of carbs. Do you work out?

Tuco said:

Yes.

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lol what is your favorite food that you are utterly helpless from keeping out of your face?

pharmakos

Sorry man, I forgot to add some stuff last night but I'll correct that now.

When I am on Keto the biggest issues for me are bread/sugar cravings, I want bread all the time and would usually get two low carb tortillas for dinner to help with those cravings.

Lemon Pound Cake

This recipe is amazing, I couldn't find the sweetner stuff they referred to so I just used splenda and it worked well enough for me. I couldn't believe how good this tasted and I made it often.

Keto Bark


This shit is amazing, zero sugar and very low or no carbs (Can't remember). Doesn't taste weird and is a live saver for cravings. I'd eat one bar a night and never got out of Ketosis. If you order from their direct store they will ship it in dried ice so it won't be melted. It comes in Almond, Hazlenut and Coconut. All three are really good with Hazlenut leading the pack.


Pizza


This is really good for those pizza cravings, and when I didn't have time to make the crust I'd just make a pizza bake with whatever toppings I desired. Line a small pyrex bowl with foil and layer with sauce, cheese, toppings and bake. Very little mess with the craving smashed. Rao's Homemade pizza sauce was the only store bought I could find that had no added sugar.


Pastrami Wrapped Cream Cheese Pickles


These were fantastic snacks, pain in the ass to make but worth it. If you have a wife maybe you can sweet talk her into it.




If you're looking for some kind of drink that has flavor check out Trimino, they have a variety pack you can pickup on Amazon. I only liked the coconut/pineapple one so ymmv. They have a lot of protein in them so that will help as well.

I'll add the rest of my Keto section here, but I didn't get to try a lot of them. They were just highly rated recipes I found around the interwebs. I kept wanting to make the cheddar bay biscuits but never got around to it. I did have a recipe for a badass Alfredo brocolli bacon dish but I can't seem to find it. I'm sure you can locate it on the webs.

Sous Vide also made Keto diet much more enjoyable. You could easily cook meats all the time.

The rest of my Keto recipe section This link is not working for some reason, I will PM it to you if you want it.












EDIT: Amod what the hell is going on with my google drive links?

Eh, the thing with these diets is less about the diet itself and more about the fact that you're actually paying close attention to what you eat and generally eating healthier because of it. I did paleo a few years ago (which really isn't very different from keto) and had a lot of success, but ultimately I think it was just all around healthier eating.