Just had an annual diabetes checkup - blood test review from last week.
Been on the keto diet for about 5 weeks.
haven't noticeably lost much weight and as far as the energy thing goes - I'm convinced it's a myth
I could still sleep 20 hours a day.
BUT - my blood glucose is down to 7.5 (almost normal) and even my cholesterol has dropped to 5.7 - the lowest from any blood test I've ever had.
Given how much cheese I'm eating - that one is a bit weird, but who cares
Kinda weird given my current diet.
Now as far as bread substitutes goes.
I've cracked that
From a nutritional point of view I'm basically making elven bread.
Low calorie this stuff isn't.
Almond flour, eggs, gluten, milled flax.
I make it in small loaves that can be sliced really thin.
You don't realise how much you miss toast !
What you do is make it with equal amounts of almond flour and gluten. Given that gluten has less carbs than almonds. You gain there - but you do put the protein up a fair bit.
But you can use yeast ! so you get proper texture, rise, structure and crumb.
I even made some cinnamon 'buns'/whirls on saturday
For the filling I used cream cheese with a tiny amount of calorie free sugar substitute, vanilla extract, melted butter and mixed spice (it's heavy on the cinnamon).
And when you haven't had a bun or cake for close to a year - you really don't care that they aren't very sweet
Warmed up they are great !
So from one point of view, the diet isn't really delivering - but from the point of view of the overall objective - going well !
And once you know things are going in the right direction - it's much easier to maintain the whole process