Ketogenic Diet

Ketogenic Diet's are quite the fad, but I'm proud (??) to say that I got on board that train before it was popular. It's how I initially lost that first 60kg. Anyway, the problem with diets (all diets) is that people tend to put on weight when they go off them and I've certainly done that. I stopped eating ketogenic and started gorging on carbs and beer (more carbs). This went on for about 6 years now, causing me to put on an average of about 4kg a year.

Obviously this is a trajectory that I'm going to try to reverse, so I'm heading back on the keto train.

This week I'm going to "eyeball" the calorie content of my food, but be strict about keeping carb/sugar consumption to a minimum. In addition to this I had a long discussion with my wife last night and we're both going to start following a strict ketogenic diet starting next Monday.

The terms of the diet are this: I will meal prep 6 days worth of meals for us on the weekend. We'll eat those meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, then on the 7th day we shall rest (basically cook whatever we want - within reason). Then back on a 6 day pre-planned meal schedule.

This entire "strict" phrase of meal prep is supposed to last until the New Year (101 days from now, or about 95 from the start of our diet). I want to lose 12kg by then, at which point I will move to a more "maintenance" type of meal plan cooking (still following keto) but focusing more on exercise for weight loss (running and some cross training with weights).

I should be fine with this. Believe it or not, I'm a very "boring" person when it comes to eating - my habits are more around convenience than anything else. I'm notorious for eating the same lunch every day for years. Basically I am banking on using a strange personality quirk of mine to help lose weight.

It worked for me once, right?