21 Day Keto Reset Diet
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Mark Sisson, an ex-endurance athlete, has written this very informative book on Keto dieting. This book shows us how to eat right in a world full of unhealthy food choices. This book teaches you how to make better choices and how to burn fat faster. It is a step-down guide in getting rid of sugars, sweet beverages, desserts, then eliminating processed grains, bread, pasta, cereal and rice. I really enjoyed this book, I learned a lot and loved the recipes.
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Just get the recipes and the index. I feel like I would go crazy if I followed this diet. There is so much measuring of food and checking the keto and so so much soft science. I mean, I already do intermittent fasting and I already don't eat that many carbs, but this book seemed both over the top and not super rigorous. Read the Obesity Code by Fung or any of the Gary Taubes books instead. This one seemed a bit too gimmicky. Also, there's like three pages at the end about "Women." Ha! The whole time I was reading it as though it applied to me!
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I like Mark Sisson's blog so I was excited to read this book when it came out as I was already eating a keto diet and thought I could get some good additional info. This book was okay but it felt incredibly repetitive in every chapter. I'm not sure if he really was repeating the same sort of info often or if I'd read it all many times in other places. A lot of it was trying to sell someone on the cause of a keto diet which I guess was not necessary for me as I was already on board. This book would be good for someone scared of and unaware of the benefits or functionality of a very low carb/high fat diet. This book does have quite a few recipes and I look forward to trying them. I think I'll read Mark Sisson's primal books and see if he shines any better in his preferred wheelhouse.
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Bodies are ... interesting. When we're dreaming, daydreaming, meditating, or even immersed in a good book, we experience a reality that has nothing to do with our physical bodies. You've flown in a dream, right? It's such a delicious experience, in large part because when you're in a dream, flying, you're totally unshackled from your physical body, from the physical laws (gravity!) that are otherwise an inescapable consequence of being "in" a body. Even in normal, everyday states of consciousness we tend to think of ourselves as separate from our bodies. We live in our heads so much of the time. Our bodies run themselves automatically. What's my spleen doing right now? I have no fricking idea. The textbooks say I have once, so I suppose I do, and I suppose it's chugging along doing its spleeny stuff. But whatever that is, it's completely alien to my subjective experience. And yet we also can't shake the fact that our "not body" selves and our body selves are intermingled. If I'm in pain, it affects "me" in a completely subjective way. It's like living with a roommate who happens to have an over-large and in-your-face interpersonal style. If you're roommate's happy, life is soooo much easier. On the other hand, when your roommate's cranky, look out. You're going to have a bad day. I've been noodling on these kinds of thoughts for a long time. I have one of those stick-in-your-head memories from when I was a kid: I came in from playing outside and looked down at my arms and thought, "oh wow, I'm an animal!" It felt revelatory and a bit thrilling. And it set a kind of base point for how I'd think about my body for the rest of my life, which evolved finally into a kind of bargain or partnership. I try to be at least as kind to my body as I'd be to any other pet. I try to understand it. I try to give it what it needs and to not get overly frustrated with it, which can be hard when things go wrong and I can't figure out what it needs to feel better. Given that understanding my body is so important, it's no surprise that I gravitate toward thinkers like Mark Sisson, who advocate that we open the lens a bit when it comes to thinking about diet, exercise, and lifestyle. It's easy to forget, sometimes, that our current eating and lifestyle habits are really, really new. Even two hundred years ago, we weren't eating seed oils, or vast amounts of refined sugar. We weren't staying up way past sundown staring at artificially-lit screens. Most of us were more active. Go back a bit further (20,000 years, say – which is a blink of the eye, evolutionarily speaking) and our diets were a mix of game and/or "heritage" livestock (including organs); fruit (but only in season and it was typically smaller and less sweet); and foraged leaves and roots. That we ate unwashed. It's not that we can't survive if we deviate from this framework. Obviously, we can. We can survive quite a while on a diet of cake and cola. But if we want to keep our bodies content, it makes sense to emulate, as much as possible, the conditions they're adapted to biologically. I've been reading Marks' blog (Mark's Daily Apple) for many years, now. I'm a fan because he is so careful to ground his thinking in science; he has a strong point of view yet is never dogmatic. The fact is, there's a lot we still don't know about how the body works. We often have to make educated guesses, and Mark's comfortable letting us know when he's doing so. This is all a roundabout way of explaining why this book deserves 5 stars. If you're interested in forging a decent working relationship with your body, you can't go wrong studying Sisson's work. I bought this particular book when it came out last fall, and today I'm 10 days in to the recommended 6-week Keto regimen. The book presents its subject matter clearly, as you'd expect if you follow Mark's blog posts. The recipes are well-done and the results are delicious. My transition to keto was fairly easy, since I've been on a primal/paleo diet for years. Adopting primal/paleo did wonders for my relationship with my body. I can already see that Keto is an exciting new tool. Ten days, and the pain and stiffness in my fingers that has been creeping in as I age has suddenly begun to recede. How cool is that?
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This book lays out a plan for how you are going to get from point A to point B in a keto diet. You don't have to crash into keto and experience horrible and sometimes downright scary side effects of dropping your carbs by the 100's of grams overnight. Many keto advocates promote the "all or nothing" approach. Sisson teaches you how to gradually and safely enter ketosis, how to adapt, and then offers thoughts on where to go next to make this a whole life plan. You leave this book with an action plan, including a test to know when to go full keto (so you have no doubt when you're ready), and the motivation to believe you can do it. There are two different meal plans inside and many fantastic, nutrient-dense recipes. Just looking at the recipes will squash any concern that you're going to suffer from lack of flavor or nutrition when you go keto. Full Post: https://stylishbrunette.com/2017/10/2...
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**1.5 Stars** DISCLAIMER: I thought this book was cookbook. When I saw that it was a full diet, I read the plan in its entirety anyway. That being said.... This book is written for someone who is relatively fit & with a few pounds to lose, so if you're looking for a weight loss plan, look elsewhere. Also, there is WAY too much math to do on your own in order to figure out what you should eat (Why aren't there some basic ratios of carbs, protein, & fat for each phase of this plan?? And how the hell do I figure out my lean muscle mass??), and absolutely NO footnotes or bibliography to back any of this up. (Sorry, but naming a bunch of your Dr friends as your 'science' doesn't replace actual scientific data.) Lastly, the plan is convoluted at best. You are lead to believe that fat- & keto-adaptive eating and nutritional keto are the same thing. (It's not, btw, but it's hard to tell.) I could go on, but.... I've read my share of diet/health books & this is one of the worst books I've read in a long time. I am so glad I didn't waste my money on this book.
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This book contains valuable information for anyone seeking to improve his/her health. The constant journaling and measuring to make sure one is hitting the right ratios (65-75% fat, 15-25% protein, and 5-10% carbs) would drive me crazy, however. I want to just eat, and enjoy it. I came away feeling informed, but very unsure of whether or not this is something I would want to follow. I gave four stars though because he isn't dogmatic (which I appreciate) and he hit on a few things that I've either read elsewhere or am already doing, which I know improve health. 1. Peak fasting (or compressed window of eating), where all eating is done in a 6-8 hour window. I would recommend this for anyone struggling with health issues, particularly autoimmunity, who is looking to use food as medicine.
2. No grains, No refined oils, No sugar
3. Good hydration
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Interesting, but not made for real life. This book contains a lot of mandates to "follow this rule precisely or else." Yes I am supposed to start all this when things in my life are perfectly calm. (So... never?) What do I do if something happens midstream? Yes I'm supposed to sleep until the sun rises and go to bed when it sets. Sounds lovely except for those pesky 7am work meetings I need to get up for and the fact that I have clients on the other side of the country. In an ideal world, life would be ideal. This book fails to account for the fact that it's often a shit show instead. Can I be a fat burning machine despite that? Maybe. This book doesn't say.
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Dietitians are just like theologians or politicians or philosophers. They have a great idea with a seed of truth, but then if they sell out to it and make it their whole deal, then they tend to take it a little to far imo.
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I am a bit of a health nut. Although I eat out or eat junk food occasionally, I am always immediately reminded of why I don't do it more often because, almost instantaneously, my body rebels against what I have put in it. It has recently seemed to me that everyone and their dog is going Keto. Curious about this supposedly more healthy way of eating, I picked up this book on recommendation by a friend on Keto. Keto is a low-carb, high-fat, moderate-protein diet. There are a lot of misconceptions about the diet as well as misguided justifications for eating all of the toppings off of pizza. Sisson makes it clear that Keto is not about consuming unhealthy fats and that it MUST be high in vegetable consumption as well as moderate protein. He makes his case for Keto quite well, though sometimes haughtily, implying that anyone who does not accept it as a valid diet is close-minded. I really don't see where there has been enough study or research to warrant such an attitude. He does say that Keto may not be the "best" long-term approach to eating. Basically, I appreciated his holistic focus on health and made a few modifications to my diet. Although I exercise a lot, I think I have still been eating too many carbs. I can see Keto as being a great way to transition from an unhealthy carb-dependent eating lifestyle to a more moderate, healthy, caloric-restricted way of life. If you are thinking about going Keto, this is a good place to start. And it has some fantastic recipes in the back!
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