I can believe eating one big meal a day. If I do that, I lose weight. I have tended to eat more veges and chicken and it keeps my disbetes in check as well as weight.

I'd drop the diet soda...that stuff will kill you.

This sounds like BS to me. Meat would be the most expensive thing you could eat, so one would have thought this diet would have been approved by the economic powers that be a long time ago.

Ketones are alcohols. That's just chemistry. Alcohols are pollutants to the blood stream, which is why the liver works to filter them out. Long term, a high-ketone diet stresses the liver by over-working it. Diabetics are particularly sensitive to ketoacidosis (high ketones in the bloodstream) because their livers and kidneys are already taxed by high blood sugar levels. That doesn't mean that ketoacidosis isn't a problem for normal people, just that the threshhold for a breakdown (ie liver or kidney problems) is higher usually in absolute terms as well as onset time. This is straight from a nephrologist.

PS. I am a big proponent of fasting because fasting helps the liver and other organs complete filtering out all the garbage in the bloodstream. Even fasting for 24 hours once a month has proven health effects on the body.

There are ZERO requirements to consume carbohydrates!

This is where you're starting to turn into an evangelist, because the science on this directly contradicts your assertions. Carbohydrates are the best source of energy for the common human body.

Excess Carbohydrates CREATES TYPE II Diabetes!

A misleading statement at best. The body turns excess carbohydrates into fats for storage. Type II Diabetes is caused by long-term obesity in the absence of healthier eating and even minimal exercise because the body is over-taxing the pancreas. If Type II Diabetes persists for too long, it can actually turn into Type I Diabetes where the pancreas stops making insulin altogether. The mortality rate among those who were Type II and turn to Type I (like my wife's uncle) is extremely high and one of the most preventable conditions.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm glad you found something that works for you. But having spent extended time (due to family members) with dieticians and endocrinologists (the list of various conditions is extensive and varied), I don't appreciate advocacy because advocates make the cardinal mistake of trying to apply their specific situation to everyone else. It is quite simply a false assumption. That's why I suggest consulting with an actual dietician (and possibly an endocrinologist) if you have weight problems. But not all situations are the same, so not all solutions are appropriate for everyone. As I stated previously, I'm glad you found something that works for you. It would kill me because I have a different body type, different hormones, etc.

Thanks. I will look into it soon.

blarman,
Your information on this is WRONG, this was disproved a long time ago. Ketones (and ketosis) [watch the Dr. Fung Videos I referenced],
are REVERSING T2D, and HEALING Livers. Also, if you are in a low-level state of Ketosis, which FASTING helps bring about, your A1C goes down, as mine did.

There are ZERO requirements to consume carbohydrates! Your body (Liver) can create Glucose from the protein you eat! And it can burn fat directly.

Prior to changing my eating to basically an All Meat (Carnivore) diet, I had Low-T but okay thyroid. I am scheduled for a 1yr checkup on my Low-T and other things, especially with all of the changes. So far, as I said, ALL Blood markers have improved. Looking forward to continuous tracking.

I appreciate the concern, but KETONES are ONLY BAD For Type I Diabetics, because they cannot produce insulin, EVEN THEN, they are being put on a Ketogenic diet (But not ketoacidoses levels, which is EXTREME levels of ketones with glucose present, and a lack of insulin). Because it evens out there energy.

My LIVER Markers WERE BAD before the diet. All cleared up now that I don't eat carbs! (Again, everyone is different, but there are certain things we KNOW. Excess Carbohydrates CREATES TYPE II Diabetes!)

I have been a carnivore my entire life eating beef, venison and chicken almost daily. I got out of the USN at 22 and weighed 170 pounds. Today at almost 67 I weigh 178 and a good carpenter always builds a shed over his tools. I do not watch what I eat but I don't like sweets and am not big on breads. Bacon is a treat reserved for maybe once a week. I am hypoglycemic and have been all my life. Actually very easy to deal with if I have some food stuff to snack on throughout every day. Rare that I drink soda but common that I drink a beer or two daily. I had a heart attack 10 years back and got a stent. The doctor has me on statin drugs and BP meds which I absolutely hate and want very much to stop taking them. Doc thinks my diet is terrible but as far as I am concerned it works great for me. My wife cooks for me and eats like a bird herself with salad being her main staple. She weighs more than me yet eats less than half of what I eat and thinks her diet is good for her. Turkey last night, venison chops tonight and a rib eye on Friday and the doc can go straight to hell.

Blarman, I could NOT agree more.

I want EVERYONE who is struggling with their current diet to try it, and to learn to feel there way through it.

I believe that Healthy Vegans can exist. YOU are 100% correct. Every person has a diet that will make them healthier, they have to find it.
There is ZERO chance a diet good for ONE is good for EVERYONE. A Dietary Approach of fueling your body, monitoring your body's reactions, and adjusting is the ultimate goal.

Exercise you speak of, I now refer to as MOVEMENT. The body NEEDS movement daily. (Exercise that most people do is too much, too hard, and is wreaking havoc on knees and joints). In 6-9 months I will make a posting of my results with Body Building/Weight Training/Endurance Training which I am looking forward to. 2 Phases, reshaping my body (adding muscle/function back at age 52), and then toning and maintaining.

I prefer the Slow Slow resistance approach (2 times/week, 1 set until muscle failure) for MAINTENANCE! 20-30 minutes at the gym, and done. Then regular movement.

Carl, I eat bacon A LOT... But your comments on pork make me want to give it up for a bit and see how things go.

The great thing is that I can test it out and see what helps me feel better!

Switching to OMAD was a great TIME and MONEY saver. One big meal a day. I only have to do dishes 3-4 times a week, LOL. My food costs, despite eating a 12-18 steak is way below what I used to spend on food, eating all the time!

Just one note here: ketones are chemically alcohols. They are "emergency" fuels. The body was made to run on carbohydrates as a primary source because they are easy to break down and provide solid energy with a minimum of waste products. If your body is creating too many ketones (as a diabetic's does when it breaks down fats because it can't use carbohydrates), it is actually destroying your liver just as if you were a chronic alcoholic. (I have a Type I daughter and this comes straight from her dietician.)

My daughter takes an A1C every few months to check for long-term blood sugar levels. High long-term blood sugar levels lead to really bad things like sugar crystals forming in capillaries (leading to hemorrhaging - especially in the extremities) or the cornea of the eye (leading to blindness). It also leads to renal failure or kidney disease if not managed (excess sugar in the blood is treated as a pollutant by the kidneys just like alcohol).

Last thing is if you have some kind of problem with weight control when on a normal (food pyramid) diet, I'd actually recommend going to get your hormone levels tested - especially thyroid as it is a control hormone for the rest of the body. Proper hormone levels can absolutely contribute to proper health.

Congrats on finding something which works for you.

Here's my caveat: no single diet is appropriate for everyone. Why? Because we all have different body types, metabolisms, enzyme levels, hormone levels, etc., etc., etc.

The Food Pyramid works for some people. Paleo works for some people. Adkins works for some people. Weight Watchers works for some people. If you are concerned about your health, consult with a dietician (rather than a doctor) about what you are eating and what you want to accomplish. Most of them will review your diet and then test for specific conditions and disorders which may be causing problems for you. Then structure your dietary regimen around that.

And don't forget to exercise. Exercise helps improve the health of your circulatory system (heart, blood vessels, lungs) and tune it up - aside from helping your metabolism. Just walking one mile every day has huge benefits (which is one of the reasons my parking is 1/2 mile from my office building).

Laughing...you are as bad as I am...concocting a host of protocols together. I am always trying something new but stick with the basic O type diet...using that as a place to start and to which all should be measured.
Blood agglutination is blood agglutination no matter what the causation is mixed with.

I did the strict O diet for a year, it was really hard and expensive. Then I graduated slowly to the genotype diet which allowed me to eat somethings that were on the fringe. example...I can now eat spelt products, (an ancient wheat that was never made into a poison), some cheeses etc and a cob of corn or two during the summer months.
Besides the obvious, wheat, milk, tomato sauce, corn, oranges, soy and peanuts, Pork was the biggest change...no longer get sick...why? because pork mimics A type blood and to an O...that means a fight to the finish and to hell with germs, viruses or pathogens.
Miss my bacon though.

Thank you Carl...

Yeah, I did the O Type diet and it helped.
But again, not knowing I had sever food allergies really prevented continued success...

But I kinda combined a BUNCH of Programs:
- Eat Right 4 Your Type
- Dr. Gundry: Plant Paradox
- Dr. Perricone: Anti-Inflammation Diet
- Dr. Fung: Intermittent Fasting/KETO
- Hungarian Doctor: PKD (Paleo Keto Diet: much like mine)
- www.DietDoctor.com KETO Resource (No exercise required, and great recipes I can't eat, LOL)
- Dr. Fung: Time Restricted Feeding (Every Meal or snack releases insulin, so FEWER meals is best to manage your blood glucose level, especially when you are obese AND unhealthy)

Great stuff... Glad you mentioned some A's need this approach. It's not as simple as "Do X".
It really is about how YOUR UNIQUE Body Responds.

If Susceptible people gave up Grains, SNACKING and SODA... We would probably see our obesity problems dissolve, an our NATIONAL health care bill drop by 80%

I am hoping to start collecting DNA of Carnivore and KETO proponents (anonymously) and Vegan Vegetarian proponents, and try to sift through the differences! I bet there are a handful of markers that would tell you what is best for YOU to eat...

Clean Red Meat is a medicine, a miricle, for those with O type blood and some A's with a brown eyed extreme northern heritage...and they want to take away our red meat when 60%+ of the population are O's...think about that!
Sounds like you are a secreator as well. (secreting your bloodtype antigens is all body fluids- prone to be overweight.).

I practice the bloodtype diet for O type blood and it changed my life.

I would erge you to check it out and perhaps, slowly merge the two protocols because of some of your food allergies.

http://rightforyourtype.com
And your are correct, cholesterol is not the problem, excess calcium is...do not let your cholesterol go below 200. Every heart attack patient had cholesterol below 150 at the time of their attack.

Happy you found your way to good health.

Thanks!
I have done liver cleanse fasts a couple times. 14 to 21 days on lemon/maple syrup drink to give my liver a break. Lost about 10% body weight each time.
Summer of 2017 I did a very low-carbs diet and lost about 10% of my weight without any limit on intake of food. I'm "normal" weight but my clothes fit better at the 10% lower weight ;^)

My friend, the nutritionist, recommends the ketogenic diet. I'm glad to hear you have fixed your own health with it.

Abaco, Thanks...
And good for you. I am jealous. But you are a great example of someone who is metabolically healthy. The normal rules can apply...

PLEASE get a Calcium Score. My brother could have avoided his heart attack. He was never fat, had low cholesterol. He had 99% blockage and was one of the lucky 50% that survived his first heart attack.

This video explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Xd9...

Certainly.

KETO = KetonGenic => means your body is running on Ketones instead of Glucose. It is 90% Atkins, but it RESTRICTS Proteins. It turns out too many proteins at a meal, and your body will turn them straight into GLUCOSE. If you are obese, then this excess glucose triggers INSULIN, which tells your body to store fat (ie, convert the Glucose to Triglycerides, which are what is stored in your fat cells for future energy). This is done by your liver. I experienced this on Atkins. Eating only protein, I got kicked out of ketosis, and could not explain why! (Being allergic to eggs and cheese made Atkins fail... Had I known).

Carnivore = Eating only Animal based foods/fats. Now, some will add eggs and dairy, I allow myself some coconut OIL, coffee and Egg Yolks. Which are really filling. A good 12 egg yolk omelette will have me not eating for over 24 hours!

IgE = Immune Response, representing an ALLERGY. Skin Prick Testing, and some blood testing. This is where my Dairy/Egg Whites show up.

IgG = Inflammation Response. It's "New". It is overly sensitive sometimes, reacting to things you eat every day. Joe Rogan does not believe in this test, because it tells him EVERYTHING he eats is causing inflammation. But his lack of understanding could be that he has (like myself) lived with the inflammation so long, he does not feel it, because he has NEVER felt it's absence! Some people believe them, some people don't. Since I was struggling, it made sense to test myself, and sure enough if I eliminated those foods, I had better results across the board. Unfortunately, it included ALL YEAST and Lettuce and almost all nuts...

OMAD (One Meal a Day) = Means eating once every 24 hours. This is Intermittent Fasting (IF) by definition, but ONE form of it. My brother started by cutting back his dinner time, then giving up breakfast for a cup of coffee. He had to move his lunch earlier for a week or two, and then moved it back. Eventually he got to the point where 1 day a week, he does not eat at work (An One Meal Day, or a 24 hr fast). He has skipped that meal, and tries to do that once a month. He does not have the same weight problems I have. But he has seen SOLID improvements, and feels better!

MWF = My regular eating days. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Yes, on a normal week, I do not eat anything (but drink water and black coffee/tea) on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. (I am changing this to help spend Sunday time cooking/eating with my daughter. I am changing to Eating on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday now... And then not eating Mon, Tue, Thu, and Sat. Actually I am fasting as I type this from Sunday night. My Blood pressure normalizes better the more I fast. This is partially because so many foods cause my BP to spike.

BP = Blood Pressure.

BTW = By The Way...

T2D = Type 2 Diabetic. A disease of EXCESS Carbohydrate Consumption. In 1815, they had the first published way to control Type I Diabetics. Because they did not have insulin, they limited their carbs, and this worked to extend their life (although, they could not store fat, and grow properly because of not having insulin... They did not die from TOO Much Glucose!). Up until 1920, doctors told patients to not eat sweets, bread, pasta, etc. to manage their weight. We have lost our way!

A1C = Hemoglobin A1C = Blood Measurement that tells you your AVERAGE glucose level over the last 60-90 days (The life of these cells). This number is far more STABLE than a glucose reading, because those go up and down every time you eat!

TRF = Time Restricted Feeding. This is about ZERO SNACKING. You ONLY eat at meal time. You limit your meal WINDOW (Eating Window), to 30-60 minutes. Because this limits the amount of insulin the meal will cause. If you eat for 40 minutes, your body produced SOME insulin. But when you keep eating, another INSULIN cycle hits. And you could get a second round of insulin. WORSE, if you continued eating with a sweet DESSERT, then your body will give you a bigger second INSULIN hit. And you will probably be like most Americans. Overfed, and Hungry at the same time. It's the INSULIN!

Finally, when I say I am fixed for life. This is because this "Way of Eating" (WOE) is now my default way of eating. It is true, IF and only IF I continue on this WOE. I will. Because I NEVER want to go back to the way things were.

If anyone has specific questions ask away... I am on a mission to help spread the word about the benefits of a KETO diet, as it is:
1) Life Extending (when you add Intermittent Fasting)
2) Anti-Seizure (John Hopkins uses this foe Epileptics)
3) Anti-Alzheimers (Ketones are shown to be usable by Alzheimers patients brains IN AREAS that DO NOT FUNCTION with only glucose!)
[So much so, there is a movement to call Alzheimers "Type III Diabetes"]
4) Anti-Cancer: Cancer cells LOVE glucose. In fact, one thing that makes a tumor dangerous is if it can trick the body to give it new blood vessels, so it can consume glucose. Cancer Cells CANNOT live on KETONES, they lose that ability in the process of hyper cellular division. This diet is being used to treat people with Brain Cancer, as the LACK of glucose starves the brain tumor, but the brain can run on Ketones just fine!
5) Anti-Inflammation. Inflammation is our silent killer. I suffered from it. If you have Edema You have inflammation. Arthritis? Same. I also believe that High Blood Pressure is a sign of inflammation (But it has other KNOWN causes).
6) Anti-Heart Disease (Chronic Inflammation of the arteries damages them, repaired with PLAQUE, creating a time bomb)
7) Anti-Diabetes (Obvious if we are reversing T2D diagnoses with it)!
8) Pro-Health. I have not felt better in many years. I WISH I knew about this 30 years ago! I would have easily maintained a healthy weight, and good exercise.

Finally, lost all of this weight WITHOUT high levels of exercise. In the beginning I did NONE. I only moved when my body told me to. I went from a couch potato, to someone who ENJOYS a 2.5 Mile Walk around the neighborhood, while listening to an Audible, Book on tape. When I want to listen, I have to walk. It's a great trade off.

I am not running, and I am not even walking right now. Because I am recovering from a pretty major Hernia surgery. (As I lost my huge gut, my hernia hurt MORE. The doctor explained it is common, because the fat was protecting my intestine from pushing through the hernia!)

I will be completely honest... The only drawback has been realizing that there is a FOOD Commercial every cycle, and every TV show has at least 2 meals being eaten/consumed/prepared while the show is just going on. NOTICE how much of ANY family show takes place at kitchen table. If I was Naive, I would think it was coincidence, but now I think there is an orchestrated effort to make us fat, dumb, and lazy. I miss the handfuls of wonderful vegetable dishes, but I don't miss the migraines they cause me! I miss having a handful of things... But not enough to gain 100lbs or more, if I start eating them.

I look forward to hitting my target weight, and going back to OMAD. I will probably fast 1-2 days per week, just because I no longer need to eat all the time, and if you are well fed, you should easily be able to go a couple of days without eating, In fact, if you can't go 24 hours without eating... THINK about how you would have survived 100,000 years ago when we did not have so much easy access food! Are you enjoying your bread or are you Addicted to it?

Good job. Effective measures. I have seen other examples of people who lose such weight and, suddenly, they don't need any meds anymore - no more diabetes, cholesterol, etc...zilch.

Somehow, I've stayed at my college weight for 30 years. I eat all kinds of stuff but work out hard 2 to 3 times per week, not including golf. I feel fortunate. But, I've always said that if I hit a weight that's 8 more than where I'm at I'm immediately instituting substantive changes.

Congrats on your success, Captain!
I know two good friends who have also had great results with a ketogenic diet; one is a nutritionist.

For those of us who aren't familiar with the conditions and tests that you described using acronyms, would you please post a reply with what the acronyms mean?