Pre-keto I'd have maybe a quarter cup of milk in my coffee. I decided to switch to the coffee mate french vanilla zero sugar creamer, and I was loving it until recently. I kind of can't stand it now? When I did keto years back, I remember putting cream in my coffee and I didn't love it, so I just put milk and used it as my carb allowance. I don't particularly want to do that this time. I want my carb allowance for my food.

So coffee lovers, what do you do? Is there a better way to add cream to coffee?

Im 1 week into ketosis, pissing a bunch, muscle soreness all that,Yes I've already been drinking Keto electrolytes and plenty of water I'm not sure what else to do I've been having a three day long headache now I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions I've mostly just been eating chicken steak Avocados Broccoli asparagus and some chocolate keto bark at night

When people talk about keto, the focus is usually on weight loss. But I'm curious about the changes you noticed beyond the scale. Did you experience fewer cravings, better focus, more stable energy or something completely unexpected?

I am on my 2nd attempt at keto. I am also taking low dose HRT. The first time I tried keto, I made it to day 6/7 and then had what I can only describe as frozen shoulder - took me to urgent care the pain was so bad. Here I am attempt 2 about a month later - I’m on day 9 and just like before I am having major left shoulder neck pain. It’s like I can’t even turn my neck or move and I do feel a lot of tension at the base of my neck. I am going heavy on electrolytes - make ketoade and use salt and lite-salt heavily, I do an electrolyte drop that has magnesium.

Is starting keto somehow causing this neck/shoulder pain…like hormones shifting suddenly or muscles cramping due to hormones? It just seems odd it happened the same way two times in a row. I want to stick with it, but the pain is so bad.

I don't know if this is the right space to share this since it's a bit all over the place, so sorry about that. I'll be participating in my first marathon in around 12 weeks and I'm training like it's the only thing that matters, maybe because after some ups and down in life it might as well be but that's not the issue here.

Thing is, I'm struggling a lot with eating right and staying consistent with keto while also dying of exhaustion and everything else that's also going on. It's gone so bad that the other day someone unknowingly stopped me from eating toast and peanut butter when they asked if I wasn't doing keto any more, lmao. This also led me to a bunch of my friends sending me a ton of ads for those meal delivery services and while I know that they mean well and are trying to support me in whatever way they can, a lot of them aside from maybe one or two like cookunity and some others don't even offer keto options or don't appear to label them properly.

I don't know what to do without giving up and taking a break, maybe, but as I said before that's not something I'd like to do at all. Maybe just need a push in the right direction and some motivation as well. Thanks!

I tried it before and was very pleased with the results. Sadly these past 2 years i had fallen in to a deep depression and didnt care for my self image and binge ate most my weight back (i was around 240 now im back to 289) and am looking to diet again. My financial situation is dfferent so i only have about 100 to 150 dollars a month to budget for Food. What are some budget keto meals/foods you could suggest and stuff to snack on. I was big on beef jerky and almonds for snacking back then but im sure theres other options. Im not a picky eater so any suggestions that are viable on a budget, im all ears. It should be noted im generally not crazy about cooking so simple stuff appeals to me more

In the past I've done keto and when I was adapted I remember feeling limitless energy, even when doing intense exercise. I'm going back on keto again and maybe in a different spot healthwise than a decade ago, I'm a few weeks in and feeling better overall but exercise still feels difficult.

I figure I need to get deeper into ketosis and become more "adapted" again but also at one point I was so adapted that I could go off keto and the limitless energy would come back after 1-2 days low carb, or even after 20-22 hours of intermittent fasting... so it just makes me wonder.

How long did it take you before you could do moderate to intense cardio or strength training, and not feel like you're low on energy?

I do believe my electrolytes are fine atm.

I'm hugely motivated to lose weight. I used to train a lot, spent years in gyms until I tore off my ACL. One year waiting for surgery, 1 year physiotherapy, then life got in a way and I gained 20kg in the process. I obviously had to stop most physical activities, and I also WFH so that doesn't help. The time has come to get back in shape because I can't look at myself anymore.

I'm new to keto and never been on any diet before, it's only been 2 weeks. I'm keeping track of what I eat and stay in a 500kcal deficit and under 20g of carbs. I eat wholefoods, it's mainly steaks, bacon, eggs and veggies. I dont eat seafood. I've lost about 8kg so far and I know most of it is just water, but this is the only thing that keeps me motivated. I still have about 11-16kg to lose so that's at least 3-4 months of hard work I guess.

I miss my old food so much. I can live without pasta and rice but I would kill for a slice of freshly baked bread. I miss lidls apple turnovers. I miss chocolate, cereal and fruit. I miss milk and milkshakes. When I go to Lidl I literally have my eyes closed walking through the first aisle, it's fruit and bakery - all the things I love and not one thing I can eat. Is this ever going to change?

Are there any keto friendly foods/hacks that can help me go through it? I don't care if it's dirty keto, I just don't want to go out of ketosis at least until I reach my target weight.

Another victory and plus for the keto diet. It’s helped me tremendously as a diabetic. AND my cholesterol numbers are all within range again( I was worried about the cholesterol) just very happy and wanted to share a non scale victory.

A1C down from 10.0 to 5.3 in 4 months ☺️