Fatty liver can be reversed in about two weeks on an absolutely 0 sugar diet, if the disease was the result of fructose consumption. Diabetes can take years to go into full remission, even though you can lower blood glucose rather quickly on a low carbohydrate diet.
2. “Keto Chow" are good products to have when following "keto".
The only “keto chow” that I recommend is meat and vegetables with a side of body fat.
3. If your blood glucose readings are stable from following low carb, you can go off insulin.
This needs to be discussed with a doctor. People who aren't doctors cannot prescribe insulin nor un-prescribe it.
You need to take your blood glucose readings to your healthcare professional, along with your current diet, and discuss this with them. Then they can tell you what would be the best way to proceed with your glucose lowering medications, including any insulin you might be taking. This is precisely why you should discuss any dietary changes with your doctor before you begin.
Low carbohydrate diets effect blood glucose, almost immediately, so do not start any protocol without discussing it with your doctor first. Especially if you are taking medications that already lower your blood glucose. You can die from hypoglycemia. It’s basic common sense.
4. Can you go on carnivore after gastric bypass surgery?
Gastric bypass shrinks the stomach and doesn’t allow you to eat much. This means that you have to be on a special post-surgery diet to ensure you are getting enough nutrients. You need to discuss your diet changes with your doctor and see what supplementation you require. You might not be able to do carnivore, at the moment, and will have to wait.
In the meantime, you are under calorie restriction by proxy, since your stomach won’t allow you to eat enough, much less in excess. You will have to sustain this for a while, until you can actually eat normally again. Then you can shift to a more long term protocol like carnivore.
5. Is it normal to lose ten pounds on carnivore and not be hungry?
As long as you’re losing weight, not being hungry is good. It means you are getting enough energy from burning your own body fat. Of course, ten pounds is very little weight and mostly water based, so you will have to monitor this and see if you continue losing weight beyond these ten pounds, as the goal is to lose body fat, not body weight. It takes a while to get to the fat.
If you aren’t hungry and you stop losing weight or worse, start gaining, then you are up poop creek, because this lack of hunger is a sign of active obesity. Your metabolism is simply not burning enough energy to cause hunger and is actively sparing its fat mass. That means something is going wrong with your dietary protocol.
6. Going on a hiatus from the ketogenic diet only causes for my aches, pains and allergies to return.
Ketogenic diets are not a pill, like aspirin, that you take when you are feeling symptoms and then drop when you are better again. These diets are very powerful metabolic interventions for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction, including obesity. They require commitment and consistency in order to work properly because when they don’t work properly, they can create a metabolic nightmare. Their goal is to improve blood glucose regulation and that takes time.
I suggest you go to your allergist or rheumatologist if you are having "allergies and pains", so they can offer you a better treatment, for these conditions, that you can actually adhere to. They have medications for these ailments, which require no commitment except going to the pharmacy and picking them up. You don’t have to struggle through a ketogenic protocol, which you obviously cannot sustain, just to feel some temporary relief from these conditions. You can have 100%, long term, relief with a medication.