Going Keto!

Careful, it's not good for all body types. I lost a lot of weight, but gained 8 stents...

Does that mean that once my stent work has healed (plavix for a year) that I can resume keto with a high fat diet?

My cardiologist nor primary care know diddley-squat about nutrition as far as I can tell, Both are pill pushed* (*, big-pharma friendly). I am also concerned about the health of my circulatory system, hence my fear of fats.

Can eating a diet that would keep my body using ketones as fuel be "heart healthy"?

Whatever. The same thing doesn't work for everybody.

I've done keto successfully in the past. My main advice would be to eat plenty of low carb vegetables. Don't go too high fat, just eating a sensible balanced diet with about 20 grams of carbs a day worked perfectly for me. Filling your plate up with veg instead of the pasta or rice or potato and then meat or fish as you please is really all there is to it. Don't concern yourself with fats, just do what feels right and forget all the fat is the work of the devil messaging we've been bombarded with.

Also don't be in a rush. It will work over time.

Thanks Karen. I appreciate your feedback. As I only discovered Dr. Phinney last night through this Forum, this is all new information to me. My frustration is due to the fact that, since beginning my Keto journey almost 3 months ago, I have experienced regular fatigue, weakness and poor sleep. I added sodium to my diet yesterday and I already feel better. The fact that Dr. Phinney appears to be one of the leading authorities on a Science-based Ketogenic Diet and his studies show that if you're on a Healthy Ketogenic Diet, you MUST increase your sodium intake as your kidneys are expelling sodium and potassium at a greater rate. This is science-based stuff, so I would have thought that any Cronometer Keto settings would take this into account. It does appear that if you limit your sodium to the "standard accepted" values( approx. 2000mg/day), you are likely decreasing your life expectancy and increasing your chance of heart attack. Thought I would share as I would hope you would not want your users to be potentially compromising their health. If nothing else, I would highly recommend you check out his article on Sodium and Ketosis here:
https://www.virtahealth.com/blog/sodium-nutritional-ketosis-keto-flu-adrenal-function.

It does appear that this is pretty basic Keto protocol, hence my disappointment that I've spent almost 3 months ingesting less than HALF the sodium I should be and, as a result, feeling the ill-effects of it. Hindsight is 20/20 but your users should really know this. Thanks for your tips all the same. Coincidentally, this morning I switched back to my Custom settings and realized I could adjust my Sodium, Potassium and any other settings to be reflected in my daily Diary. I LOVE your App. It's simply incredible, but I would really recommend that, at the very least, users should have some advice regarding Sodium if they're choosing your Ketogenic settings at all. There really should be a default of 5000mg/day with the caveat, if you have heart disease or high blood pressure, that you consult your doctor before applying these settings.

The salt rules are a bit nonsensical anyway. Even for the carb eaters, the restriction only applies to those with high blood pressure, which is less than 50% of us. Of those only 60% are actually salt sensitive - as in, their hypertension gets worse as salt goes up. They are the only group who benefits from salt restriction. 35% it makes not difference to, and the last 5% are reverse salt sensitive - their blood pressure goes down as sodium increases.

It is not a blanket thing we should all watch. For most people it makes no differences (or even harms them if they eat too little salt), and for a couple of people in 100, it's definitely harmful.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/salt-sensitivity-sorting-out-the-science