Six common beliefs addressed, Part 100

1. You can still do "keto" without meat. 

No, you can't. For this reason, you will have to find another type of diet, as swapping one high energy diet, like a carb based one, for another high energy diet, like a fat based one, wouldn't change a thing. 

In fact, you won't be able to follow any low carb diet because all low carb protocols are centered around animal based protein, as plant based protein is the center of high carb diets like vegan/vegetarian diets. So, it's an oxymoron to try and do a ketogenic protocol without meat. That's like trying to do a vegan diet without plants. 

I recommend you explore plant based alternatives and leave the low carb realm alone. 

2. After you lose weight, you will have to continue eating low carb forever. 

You must continue eating properly or you will go right back to how you were before. You should have learned your lesson by now. When you eat incorrectly, you turn into a 400 lb obese person. When you eat correctly, you remain lean. The only metric for what "correct eating" is, is your blood glucose response.

Notice that I used the words "incorrectly" and "correctly", rather than "unhealthy" and "healthy" to describe diet. That is because "unhealthy" and "healthy" are subjective. You can still be a 400 lb obese person, while eating a relatively "healthy" diet, if that diet continues to interrupt your blood glucose homeostasis. If you read my posts, you will understand how that's possible. 

3. "Keto" can cause weight gain. 

Yes. Some ketogenic protocols can be used for weight gain. 

But if you are trying to lose weight and "keto" is not working, then you have to get off "keto" and find a legitimate, true low carb protocol. If you don't, you will continue to be a member of the "obese keto" crowd. At least, that crowd appears to be jolly, when they aren't flogging each other over the carb content in a pimento. 

You should never continue following a failing protocol. Things don't change, unless something changes. 

4. "Cheat days" are allowed and necessary on any dietary protocol.  

Treating metabolic dysfunction and/or overweight/obesity is not a "game", so there is no "cheating". If you are just playing around then you can cheat all you want, as long as you are willing to accept the losses. 

5. There are "keto" ice cream recipes for people who would like a treat.  

No. Low carb ketogenic protocols are used for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction and/or overweight/obesity. For this reason, they do not prioritize "ice cream". In fact, "ice cream" is not part of the treatment, so it's not part of the dialogue, but it absolutely is part of the problem. 

6. Treats are allowed as long as they are "low carb" and/or Atkins.  

If you are casually following Atkins, and don't mind the impending failure, then you can go ahead and take advantage of their "treats", but if you are following true Atkins and want success, then you won't. 

Serious low carb living is not only about "diet". It's a lifestyle. In this lifestyle, "treats" are not recognized, as the person should not be "eating treats". You are not a pet. That is a very obesogenic habit to have and so this type of eating habit is not practiced or condoned on this blog. You are either living an anti-obesogenic lifestyle of a pro-obesogenic lifestyle, but there are no in between.