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  1. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    I was taking caffeine pills for a while, I got tired of how long it took to make coffee in the morning and how bad I felt when I woke up until I had my coffee, so I started taking 200mg pillls,...

    I was taking caffeine pills for a while, I got tired of how long it took to make coffee in the morning and how bad I felt when I woke up until I had my coffee, so I started taking 200mg pillls, then after a while I cut them in half, and after a while I cut them into quarters, and eventually jumped

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  2. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    Amber O'Hearn (I think she is a computer programmer or something who eats carnivore cause it helps her bipolar) parodied Pollan's line, but made for her diet, "Eat meat, Not too little, Mostly...

    Amber O'Hearn (I think she is a computer programmer or something who eats carnivore cause it helps her bipolar) parodied Pollan's line, but made for her diet, "Eat meat, Not too little, Mostly Fat"

    I don't buy any of the keto/Atkins products, but I do use stevia a lot and make my own "junkfood", the YouTube channel Chris Cooking Nashville has a keto or carnivore version of every popular food, its fucking crazy what he can make from just animal products but he uses a lot of weird things like butter powder, protein powder, and stuff like that that's not really a whole food

  3. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    Compliance depends on the person, that's why i hate the term FAD diet, you can pick vegan, keto, Mediterranean, carnivore, paleo, or whatever, and there is some people who stuck with it long term,...

    Compliance depends on the person, that's why i hate the term FAD diet, you can pick vegan, keto, Mediterranean, carnivore, paleo, or whatever, and there is some people who stuck with it long term, and also tons of people for whom it was a fad, different diets will appeal to different people

    My cholesterol is probably higher, but I havnt got bloodwork done yet so maybe not, bit porbably, my blood pressure has actually decreased though cause I have tracked that using the pharmacy machine

  4. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    The biggest issue I have with that advice is what does balanced mean? Even to argue for the opposite side of the aisle of me, and I havnt read ancel keys book yet cause I barely read but my...

    The biggest issue I have with that advice is what does balanced mean? Even to argue for the opposite side of the aisle of me, and I havnt read ancel keys book yet cause I barely read but my understanding is he describes the macros of the foods the populations he studied ate, and those macros are what he called the Mediterranean diet, i think i seen said it wasa a certain amount of protein fat and carb, and the fat was surprisingly higher then youd think but low in saturated, and the protein was lower then typically consumed today, I'm pretty sure it didn't include the stuff we eat today on a daily basis in moderation, if that's what balanced means, idk, I need to read keys book so I can argue this better lol

  5. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    Well counting the macros I'm indirectly counting the calories because fat is 9 calories and protein and carbs is 4, so I know I eat typically around 1700-2300 a day depending on the day, like for...

    Well counting the macros I'm indirectly counting the calories because fat is 9 calories and protein and carbs is 4, so I know I eat typically around 1700-2300 a day depending on the day, like for the example I gave in the post

    70g protein = 280kcal

    15g carvbs = 60kcal (340kcal)

    170g fat = 1530kcal (1870kcal)

  6. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    I believe in logging, when I first switched to the 2:1 keto diet I logged every single thing in cronometer to get an idea of what my macros were, and also because I did that I also saw what my...

    I believe in logging, when I first switched to the 2:1 keto diet I logged every single thing in cronometer to get an idea of what my macros were, and also because I did that I also saw what my calories were

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  7. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    Coffee is very bad for sleep, weight loss isn't my main concern anymore, but overall health is, I figured weight loss will come as a side effect if you are in good health Coffees half life is like...

    Coffee is very bad for sleep, weight loss isn't my main concern anymore, but overall health is, I figured weight loss will come as a side effect if you are in good health

    Coffees half life is like 6 hours or something, so if you go to bed like 12 hours after your last cup, you still got a quarter of caffeine in you

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  8. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    I havnt seen a dietician, I did see a dietician in 2013 before I ever heard of keto, when I started to gain weight due to a antipsychotic, and this might be shallow of me but she was fat herself,...

    I havnt seen a dietician, I did see a dietician in 2013 before I ever heard of keto, when I started to gain weight due to a antipsychotic, and this might be shallow of me but she was fat herself, so I wasnt too confident in her ability to eat

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  9. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    I don't know what my cholesterol is, but I have a baseline cause I happened to get bloodwork around a week or 2 into the diet, so I'll see how it compares to next time I get it I'm going to go...

    I don't know what my cholesterol is, but I have a baseline cause I happened to get bloodwork around a week or 2 into the diet, so I'll see how it compares to next time I get it

    I'm going to go back into a strict keto protocol once the winter hits and there's no fruit when inwalk the dog, but I'm not married to it, I kinda want to try 30 or 60 days only living off food native to my area next fall just for fun, grow dent corn, squash and beans, leech acorns, sunflower seeds, pemmican, berries,, I need to do more research as to what people ate before Europeans arrived, but I think it could make a fun experiment, and its kinda the opposite of keto, other then pemmican its all high carb low fat

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  10. Comment on Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories? in ~food

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    You hit the nail on the head with "stop the diet and continued with disordered eating", if you do stop keto you need to transition to something normal, and can't go back to whatever you ate...

    You hit the nail on the head with "stop the diet and continued with disordered eating", if you do stop keto you need to transition to something normal, and can't go back to whatever you ate before, if it didn't work before, it won't work this time either

    I hate when people say "you gain all the weight back when you stop the diet", its kinda akin to saying " oh I quit smoking and it got easier to breath, but then I started smoking again and I can't breath again"

    I may stop.keto one day, but what im not going to do is eat packaged foods all day like I used to, if I eat carbs it will be shit like rice and sweet potato and maybe occasionally homemade bread, not poptarts, and cookies and doritos, I ate enough of that shit to last a lifetime, its engineered to make you over eat, maybe some people can eat a single portion, but a lot of people can't, and the whole bag of chips, or whole.sleeve of cookies just vanish when they set out to just eat a serving

    Its also why I hate the everything in moderation advice, it may be fine if something is not addictive, but when it is addictive it places the blame on the person for having weak willpower, and not on fritos-lays where it belongs imo, these companies do weird fucking stuff like run studies on what will get people to eat more

    Sorry for the rant lol

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  11. Comment on A directory of websites in ~tech

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    Is there a list of all old forum websites? I deleted my reddit, they banned me for suggesting non-nazis learn to fight, and I didn't want to compulsivly keep checking while waiting out my 7 day...

    Is there a list of all old forum websites? I deleted my reddit, they banned me for suggesting non-nazis learn to fight, and I didn't want to compulsivly keep checking while waiting out my 7 day ban, so I hit delete account, the only forums I'm currently apart of is shroomery and detector-prospector, I saw a homestead/permculture type forum a couple weeks ago I'll see if I can find it again, but I'll need more sites

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  12. Anyone have any ketogenic diet stories?

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    Good or bad, I'm interested I got into fasting back in like 2019 maybe a bit earlier I forget, I was watching some some crazy dumb shit like snake diet, but it seemed to work for weight loss, but...

    Good or bad, I'm interested

    I got into fasting back in like 2019 maybe a bit earlier I forget, I was watching some some crazy dumb shit like snake diet, but it seemed to work for weight loss, but I never changed my eating so when I stopped fasting I gained all the weight back, in 2020 or 2021 I tried carnivore diet, but I went into psychosis (I have mental health issues) and I thought god wanted me to eat with my family so I started eating what they eat (which is mostly SAD junk) and I gained all my weight back

    In maybe 2024 or 2025 I forget, I started watching a bunch of self help stuff, and one of the creators I watched on YouTube was Dr k (healthygamerGG) and with that I started meditating and trying to prioritize "sativik" foods, so for breakfast I would eat something like oatmeal with turmeric and cumin and vegetables, and I lost some weight on that diet, but I fell out of that routine and returned to SAD junk and gained all the weight back and then some

    Last April I hit 300 pounds, the most I ever weighed, and it was a wakeup call, what really told me it was a problem might seem silly but its because my bicycle has a 300 pound weight limit lol

    I decided to try carnivore again, but this time I slowly transitioned into it, because in 2021 when I tried it, I went from SAD one day to Carnivore the next and god dman I had diarrhea for 30 days lol, so this time I simply started by buying 2 cases of sardines and adding in a can every day at lunch, slowly removing other foods and adding in meat and eggs, I was probably fully carnivore by may 1st

    For the first 30 days, probably all of may, I ate eggs in the morning, can fish at lunch and a pound of meat at dinner, until I got a KetoMojo (glucometer) around the 30 day mark, I was expecting super low glucose and super high ketones since I was eating carnivore for 30 days at this point, but its not what I seen, my fasting glucose was (ever so slightly) high and my ketones were constantly between 0.8 and 0.9 (at least they were rock steady I guess)

    But as I was seeing these measurements for a few days I had also stumbled upon the medibolic mind YouTube channel and people using ketogenic diets for mental health issues, so I figured let's try a medical keto diet

    medical keto diets are actually kinda hard to find any info on, but as far as I can tell they seem to be really simple, you can boil them down to a ratio, like 2:1 or 3:1, so I chose 2:1, so for every 1 part protein + carb I eat, I would eat 2 parts fat

    So for example if I ate 70g protein and 15g carbs, i would need to eat 170g fat, which is kinda harder then it sounds, I feel sorry for epileptics who need to eat 3:1 or 4:1 every single day and never fucking up to control seizures, you basically need to chug 35% cream to hit those numbers

    So added in fat bombs I'd make with nut butter and tallow to increase my fatI play around with what I add but I may do something like melt tallow in a pot, whisk in some stevia and and cacao to taste (basically a chocolate bar but tallow In stead of cacao butter) pour into a foil lined dish, drop in a few whole nuts for crunch and sprinkle some salt, and then freeze, eat straight from the freezer and top with some but butter

    I also lowered my protein, I would try to aim for between 70 and 80 grams a day, and I loosened up and ate some vegetables, technically fruit, stuff like tomato and cucumber and olives and peppers, (I love a horiatiki)

    From the beginning of April till about the end of august I dropped from 300 pounds to 255, this probably wasn't diet all alone, because I went from completely sedentary, I would almost never leave my room, to walking the dog for hours a day, and lifting weight once or twice a week, being in heavy ketosis just increased my NEAT (non exercise activity) like I would find myself just jumping up from.the couch for no reason, and I started to roll with it and do stuff

    In September I started eating the wild fruit that grew around town, crab apples, wild sour grapes, chokecherries, hawthorn fruit, nanyberries I basically take a picture of every plant I find and my phone tells me what it is (plant.net) and then I google uses for the plant, I also tried many teas, mint, lemon balm, wild bergmot, catnip (all those are mint family), goldenrod, rosehips

    But since I started eating the stuff I find on the ground my weight stalled, I went from 255 in august to 257 as of right now, I also had some other effect, my scalp got itchy again, my armpits got more smelly, more aches and pains I notice, I feel more exhausted from my walks, some of this like the scalp and smell may be candida or something idk, others might be inflammation or negative effects from constantly switching between normal metabolism and ketosis

    Oh and the heart burn, before I started (pre-april) I had VERY BAD heartburn, like it would keep me up in the night, I would.sleep with a bottle of water/baking soda solution beside my bed so when the heartburn woke me up I could drink it, this was going on for like a year maybe, the main driver was sugar, when I ate a sweet it would.act up, but I couldn't stop eating sweets, but when I started carnivore it got dramatically better fast, fat would still trigger it a bit, but sugar was like a 8/10 pain and fat was 2/10 pain, but after some time the fat even stopped hurting, and now I never have heart burn anymore, even if I eat the fruit like I have been, which would have preciously been horrible pain

    Oh and some other things, i try not to drink coffee often, I have gone months without coffee at all, but the last 3 weeks I have had some more then I'd like, I need to start tapering it again, and ditto for tea, even when I had no coffee at all I'd have tea once or twice a week so I wasnt completely no caffeine

    If you like rap music check out Inpatients album Asylum, its Ren and Chris Webby, Ren is one of my favourites, Chris Webby has made some controversial statements but as a Millennial that grew up in the before times I'm not about canceling people

    What's your keto story?

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  13. Comment on Hair loss open discussion in ~talk

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    i started noticing some hairloss at 26 or 28 or something, 2019 i think, at like 30 if that year is correct, i started taking finasteride and it halted and MAYBE THE TINIEST BIT reversed my...

    i started noticing some hairloss at 26 or 28 or something, 2019 i think, at like 30 if that year is correct, i started taking finasteride and it halted and MAYBE THE TINIEST BIT reversed my hairloss

    idk about sideffects cause around that time i started taking anti psychotics as well

    i dont even care about my hair now at 37 really, maybe i should stop taking the fin, my hair is buzzed shorter then a millimeter right now, although i do like that i have shadow all over and not a bald spot in the middle, but i dont even grow my hair out any more like i did when i started taking the fin

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  14. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    for number four being exahusted from work/school not having time is a thing also, the other day i had an idea to try and set up a dht node for my jami app to use, so i didnt have to use the...

    for number four being exahusted from work/school not having time is a thing also, the other day i had an idea to try and set up a dht node for my jami app to use, so i didnt have to use the default ones offered by saviore-faire linux, or use the phone with jami as one cause it kills the battery, and as someone who never set up a dht node before, it took me like 4 hours or maybe even longer before i got it working right, so like, not everyone can just spend 4 hours yelling into the void which is gnome terminal or w.e. terminal one uses

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  15. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    yeah i was thinking it was debian, it is mostly yes, but the partitioning gives you choices, the DE gives you choices and theres checkboxes for system tools and ssh gentoo, while i never done it...

    yeah i was thinking it was debian, it is mostly yes, but the partitioning gives you choices, the DE gives you choices and theres checkboxes for system tools and ssh

    gentoo, while i never done it myself, i believe is compiling every single piece from source, or at least just compiling the kernel from source, and arch is an inbetween i think, not as click yes as other distros, but i belive its installer is unpacking tarballs under the hood or something? idk i never used arch either

  16. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    i would argue the majority of people have never installed an operating system, so it feels like something you dont do, its something the manufacturer does and ive myself never installed windows,...

    i would argue the majority of people have never installed an operating system, so it feels like something you dont do, its something the manufacturer does

    and ive myself never installed windows, but i imagine its mostly clicking yes, is that true? when someone installing linux gets to a screen that says , configure the lvm, configure luks, auto partion on one partition, separate /home and /var partitions, i could see them getting a little overwhelmed, ive myself confused the heck out of myself trying to manually set up partitions cause i wanted a /storage partition on the root

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  17. Comment on Do you have your invite request email? Post it and let's find out what drives people to want to be a part of Tildes. in ~tildes

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    nope my comments wernt even making it to automod, i got zero automod replies even

    nope my comments wernt even making it to automod, i got zero automod replies even

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  18. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

  19. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

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    yes that would probably be simpler

    yes that would probably be simpler

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  20. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

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    jellyfin is great but the feature i could really use is chromecast integration, i dont know why i can cast from vlc but not jellyfin, i guess vlc uses some nonfree libraries? anyways its a real...

    jellyfin is great but the feature i could really use is chromecast integration, i dont know why i can cast from vlc but not jellyfin, i guess vlc uses some nonfree libraries?

    anyways its a real jerry rigged system i have for watching shows at my friends hosue, the server is sitting in my livingroom at home, so i use tailscale to tunnle to it

    but my friend dosnt have internet so i set up a minicomputer with a data sim to broadcast a hotspot for her

    but the mobile lte dongle isnt as good as my phones wifi even though they are on the same network, and the jelly fin app skips and buffers hard on the lte dongle, but not my phones

    so i set my phone to have the same SSID and password as her hotspot, so when i come over the chrome cast grabs my wifi

    now jellyfin has a cast button, but it dosnt see the chrome cast, just other computers and browsers with jellyfin open

    so i have to use vlc to stream the jellyfin url

    and vlc can cast to the chrome cast

    voila that was way to complicated but yay for shows

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