I know a woman in her early 60’s, she’s been doing this way of eating for longer than I’ve known her which is 25 years. Her skin looks awful, wrinkled and droopy. She’s slim, but has NO stamina or endurance when we’re hiking. She’s also become scatterbrained and forgetful.
While this diet can be useful to get the fat off, I wouldn’t call it the fountain of youth for some women.
I’ve always wondered why people on keto have funny looking skin. It looks so paper thin and wrinkly.
Not me. When I was on keto, I made sure to get my vitamins, electrolytes, and collagen. My skin looked amazing and everyone guessed me at 5 years younger.
I don’t know, but she looks dehydrated, drawn and haggard. Like I said we’ve known each other for 25 years so I know what she used to look like.
I did low carb and eventually no carb for three years and I felt like my skin took a turn for the worse. I also was freezing cold all the time, woke up at 3 a.m. every fucking night and couldn’t achieve an orgasm if my life depended on it. But since my libido was completely tanked it didn’t matter. Also could no longer tolerate any alcohol whatsoever. It was a total drag. I know it works for many, but I look and feel better eating cheese AND fruit 🍎 🍌 🍒
It’s definitely interesting how it affects each person differently. I did keto (kinda dirty at times) for 5-6 months. Felt the best I ever felt during it, was eating a ton but never gained any weight, my libido was strong, and somehow my strength shot through the roof in the gym. I’ve always been kinda weak on all of my lifts, but was plowing through PRs on keto. I also had less crashes/fatigue mid-day and never had to worry about feeling hungry. I ended up quitting it though because it’s so difficult to avoid carbs in modern day. However once I came off of keto and went back to a regular diet with carbs, j had libido issues for 2-3 months. Was the most bizarre and frustrating thing ever.
Now I’m trying to find my sweet spot of plenty of good fats & protein with a smaller amount of carbs. If I eat freely, especially carbs, I put weight on extremely easily. I have to lift + stair master 3-5 times per week just to keep a stable weight. Frustrating because I have friends that smash carbs and junk food all day everyday and never gain a pound, nor do they workout.
Why can’t “science” figure out how to modify metabolic rates so my body can just churn through food and body fat? LOL.
I hear you! I’m old enough to remember when we called this “Metabolic Syndrome“ and indeed it is an issue of each individual’s metabolism.
It’s precisely why one size fits all does not work for everybody. There are far too many variables such as gut microbiome imbalances, various stressors from jobs to family, exercise differences, hormone issues, nutritional deficiencies, age, gender, geographic location etc etc etc.
The best advice seems to be eating nutrient dense food with enough healthy SATURATED fat for proper hormone production, enough high quality protein for muscle growth and metabolism and enough nutritious carbs for LOW STRESS energy production.... unfortunate that combo looks different for everybody.
There’s healthy keto and then dirty keto. Does she also eat a lot of greens and veggies? Maybe she’s deficient in vitamins or maybe the diet isn’t for her ?
I know a woman in her early 60’s, she’s been doing this way of eating for longer than I’ve known her which is 25 years. Her skin looks awful, wrinkled and droopy. She’s slim, but has NO stamina or endurance when we’re hiking. She’s also become scatterbrained and forgetful.
While this diet can be useful to get the fat off, I wouldn’t call it the fountain of youth for some women.
I’ve always wondered why people on keto have funny looking skin. It looks so paper thin and wrinkly. Any idea why that is?
Not me. When I was on keto, I made sure to get my vitamins, electrolytes, and collagen. My skin looked amazing and everyone guessed me at 5 years younger.
I don’t know, but she looks dehydrated, drawn and haggard. Like I said we’ve known each other for 25 years so I know what she used to look like.
I did low carb and eventually no carb for three years and I felt like my skin took a turn for the worse. I also was freezing cold all the time, woke up at 3 a.m. every fucking night and couldn’t achieve an orgasm if my life depended on it. But since my libido was completely tanked it didn’t matter. Also could no longer tolerate any alcohol whatsoever. It was a total drag. I know it works for many, but I look and feel better eating cheese AND fruit 🍎 🍌 🍒
Oranges, especially FTW 🍊🍊🍊
It’s definitely interesting how it affects each person differently. I did keto (kinda dirty at times) for 5-6 months. Felt the best I ever felt during it, was eating a ton but never gained any weight, my libido was strong, and somehow my strength shot through the roof in the gym. I’ve always been kinda weak on all of my lifts, but was plowing through PRs on keto. I also had less crashes/fatigue mid-day and never had to worry about feeling hungry. I ended up quitting it though because it’s so difficult to avoid carbs in modern day. However once I came off of keto and went back to a regular diet with carbs, j had libido issues for 2-3 months. Was the most bizarre and frustrating thing ever.
Now I’m trying to find my sweet spot of plenty of good fats & protein with a smaller amount of carbs. If I eat freely, especially carbs, I put weight on extremely easily. I have to lift + stair master 3-5 times per week just to keep a stable weight. Frustrating because I have friends that smash carbs and junk food all day everyday and never gain a pound, nor do they workout.
Why can’t “science” figure out how to modify metabolic rates so my body can just churn through food and body fat? LOL.
I hear you! I’m old enough to remember when we called this “Metabolic Syndrome“ and indeed it is an issue of each individual’s metabolism.
It’s precisely why one size fits all does not work for everybody. There are far too many variables such as gut microbiome imbalances, various stressors from jobs to family, exercise differences, hormone issues, nutritional deficiencies, age, gender, geographic location etc etc etc.
The best advice seems to be eating nutrient dense food with enough healthy SATURATED fat for proper hormone production, enough high quality protein for muscle growth and metabolism and enough nutritious carbs for LOW STRESS energy production.... unfortunate that combo looks different for everybody.
No shit.
There’s healthy keto and then dirty keto. Does she also eat a lot of greens and veggies? Maybe she’s deficient in vitamins or maybe the diet isn’t for her ?
Cpleb is right. Dirty keto is exactly how it sounds.
Grass finished red meat and wild caught fish is the way to go.
I balanced my veggies for additional vitamins and took organic supplements for hair or whatever else.
Reishi mushroom tea at night. (Everyone should try this regardless of diet)
Fountain of youth != fountain of beauty. If that old ugly broad manages to out live you by 20 years then she might be on to something.
She eats very high quality food, prides herself on it even.
I should mention that while I eat plenty of carbohydrates, I do not eat manufactured garbage/junk food (except Red Bull 😂 on occasion)