Keto meal

Tuna salad, beef pot roast with chunks of fat, olive oil, spinach, salt, pepper.

My muscles feel taught and I feel like lifting some heavy crap.

Back doing the keto: tired of being a bitch

I need to take back control of my life.  I've been doing rice and pastas and potato chips for the past month. As a consequence, I've lost control of my appetite. I'm always hungry. I gained fifteen pounds. I'm sleeping eight or more hours per day. I feel sluggish. So it's time to go back to being strong.

How do I do that? Ketogenic diet of course.  No more rice, pasta, bread and the like.

Planning will be the most important thing of course. Since I'm on the road a lot, I'll have to stock up on natural uncured deli meats and store them in my vehicle somewhere.  I'll also have to bring with some almond butter to round out my snacking.  A couple of tablespoons with each helping of salami seems to help with satiety and provide energy.

The majority of my meals will come from Subway Sandwich Shop and grocery store salad buffets, the kind that charge per pound.  Of course the regular all you can eat buffets are okay too provided you don't eat too much.  If I go to restaurants, it'll be salads and fatty meats.  Hopefully, they'll be spinach but iceberg lettuce will be acceptable too.

The name of this blog is strengthtraining without steroids but there aren't any feats of strength on here. To correct this, I'll post videos of me lifting heavy crap like stones or concrete blocks or maybe even a car or whatever heavy stuff is laying around.

I got this theory mulling around in my head.  It's that strength is best achieved on a high fat diet.  So the plan is to go keto and lift big things and capture it on video.  Wish me luck.  If you're a hater of mine, you know where you can stick it.

Ketogenic meal plan

Why the ketogenic diet sucks

The ketogenic diet is a solitary undertaking. This means you're probably going to be the only person within a ten mile radius who isn't sucking down carbs.

If you have a significant other, more than likely they're not going to be on a diet like you so they're going to want to eat more frequently than you. They're going to eat three or four times a day whereas you're going to want eat two maybe one time a day with six to eight hours between meals.

Do you let them go off by themselves and eat? Or do you go with them to a restaurant even though you're not even thinking about eating? I guarantee you once start smelling that food cooking in the restaurant you're going to get hungry.  Then you eat and put the fat you worked so hard to shed right back onto your body.

Also expect to go through a ton of disbelief and shock when you tell people you're on a low carb diet. Go into any restaurant and ask if you can substitute the hash browns or fries for a spinach salad and they'll look at you like you're asking for their left leg and end up charging you an extra four or five dollars. If you don't want to pay and skip the carbs, you end up paying full price for half a meal.  It's a hard pill to swallow walking out of a restaurant still hungry even though you coughed up eleven dollars for a meal.

crap I ate while on a low carb diet

Subway Sandwich Shop spinach salad with tuna salad as my protein was the best meal for ketosis. I would get gobs of oil and that mixed with the fattiness of the tuna salad and the crunchiness of the spinach leaves provided a nice full feeling while tasting somewhat pleasant.

Note: if you're going to eat salad, make sure it's dark leafy greens and not iceberg lettuce. Spinach and the like all have a couple grams of protein and it helps with satiety. Anytime I eat iceberg lettuce salads I usually felt hungry afterwards.  The best food combinations to adhere to while maintaining ketosis are vegetables that have protein and fatty animal proteins.

In between snacks were sardines, salami and almond butter.  The sardines are halfway bearable if they're headless and skinless.  Salami is okay if it's the natural kind without the nitrates and nitrates.  Hormel makes a salami for around four dollars that's only made with salt and some other basic ingredients. My heartburn doesn't act up when the meat is uncured.  As for the almond butter, I would only do two tablespoons at a time because it has a lot of fiber and I get indigestion or even worse if I ingest too much fiber.



Occasionally I would do almonds and nuts but again they had too much fiber which inexplicably caused constipation. I didn't eat that much while on almonds but I was getting severe stomach aches at times.

Weight loss is pretty much about feeling full while restricting calories, and the low carb foods I listed lend themselves in that regard.

Ketogenic diet failure: I'm back on the carbs

I failed at the ketogenic diet.  Not because I don't know what I'm doing or any ignorance of the biochemistry of food and how our bodies use it to sustain us.  My problem is one of variety.

The problem is the idiots who are responsible for producing food and distributing it to grocery stores are stocking the shelves with insulinogenic fat producing poisons in the form of carbohydrates.  Go into any grocery store in the United States and more than likely ninety to ninety-five percent is carbohydrate and sugar laden edibles that are the death of me.  Potato chips, cookies, low-fat breads are some examples.

To find any fatty foods you are basically limited to fatty beef or chicken or pork, processed meats, oils, almond butters, skinless boneless sardines in extra virgin olive oil.  I'm severely intolerant of dairy products so cheese, butter, and cottage cheese are off limits to me.

To further complicate things, I'm out on the road a lot because of my work so I'm limited to what's available in fast food restaurants and pre-cooked food at convenience stores and grocery markets. Most of what's available there is carbohydrate laden meals with lean meats--basically nothing to promote ketosis.

There's a simple solution to the lack of fat in the food supply:  put it back.   Instead of stripping the fat off the animal proteins, why not leave it on?  Instead of stocking the aisles of the local food market with row upon row of potato chips and cookies and breads and snacks made from wheat, why not supply the shelves with ultra low carb foods?

The answer to these questions is obvious to me:  there's no profit in making fatty foods without carbohydrates.

When I stopped eating corn and wheat products for six months, I was stronger and leaner.  My acne went away.  I was sleeping five or six hours a day, and I was focused when I was awake.

Without eating carbs, I got rid of several industries.  The first is wheat and corn producers. The second is the dermatology pharmaceutical manufacturers. Although I can't prove it, I think there is a direct cause and effect link between carbohydrate ingestion and acne. The third is the weight loss snake oil salesmen.  I lost forty pounds by eating fatty animal proteins and spinach salads.  I was rarely hungry after eating this. Lastly is the government.  If you were were trying to put one over on a populace, would you want them alert and asking questions about why things are the way they are or would you want them lethargic and weak and sick?  What does that have to do with money?

Don't you think there are trillions of dollars at stake in maintaining the status quo?  If people started sleeping five hours a night and maintained concentration on issues confronting them, they would start asking questions about why tax payer dollars are being allocated the way they are.  They would start pressuring their elected officials.  They would start demanding change.

In conclusion, my failure at the ketogenic diet is built into the system.  Big Brother wants me to eat carbs. If you don't believe me, then why is this crap being taught in schools:

More Ketogenic diet propaganda

Ketogenic Diet as it relates to Strength Training

 Here's a video on the ketogenic diet. I didn't watch the whole video but it seems relevant to strength training and how it relates to the ketogenic diet

Progress Report: Ketogenic Diet

So I stopped lifting weights for now.  My cashflow is tight so I need to divert all time and energy to making money.  However, I'm still on the Ketogenic diet and I plan to stay that way until I lose more weight.

The biggest problem in following the ketogenic lifestyle has been finding an abundant potassium source that has no carbohydrate.  For some strange reason when night falls, I get weird heart palpitations due to low potassium levels in my body.  To remedy this, I measure out a level teaspoon of Lite Salt and mix it with a glass of water.  I drink it down and then drink another glass of water to wash down the salty taste out of my mouth.  This seems to calm my heart down.  You may need more than a teaspoon of Lite Salt, but it's best not to overdose on it because you could experience indigestion and diarrhea if you take too much.  Just try to find a sweet spot that'll stop your heart from beating rapidly.


My daily eating routine:

Breakfast - Almonds until full.

The almonds and for that matter any nut is good for the ketogenic diet unless of course you have nut allergies.  Nuts are mostly fat, moderate protein and ultra low carb.  They also have a good amount of fiber.  You'll need to defecate at least two times a day if you intend on losing weight, and the fiber in nuts helps keep things moving along.

Lunch - Subway Sandwich Shop spinach salad.

I usually get the Italian BMT.  That includes salami, black forest ham and pepperoni.  I'll also add tomatoes, cucumbers, black olives, pickles, gobs of oil, and salt and pepper.  I'm allergic to milk products so no cheese either.


Dinner - More almonds or another spinach salad from Subway

When I go to Subway, I only aim for fatty meats.  When I was working out, I would go for a double chicken salad because I needed the glucose and protein for post workout recovery.