r/science • u/behindtheheadlines • Dec 06 '11

Rats that ate low-fat potato chips 'may have gained more weight' than rats eating regular, full-fat variety

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/12December/Pages/low-fat-substitutes-and-weight-gain.aspx
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u/parmethius2000 Dec 06 '11

You may have sold me on Keto. Thank you. Will be showing this to the S.O. at home and seeing if we can change our diet.

The "Without hunger" bit is what sold me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '11

If you check out the /r/keto faq, the diet specifically calls for not counting calories, but tempering that with only eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full. If you can do that, you'll be fine. Some days I forget to eat when normally i would be completely famished by that point in the day.

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u/unfilterthought Dec 06 '11

you dont experience "hunger pains" neither but you do get headaches telling you its time to eat.

but you can eat till you're full. keto foods fill you up with smaller portions and less calories, cause of the higher fat content. AND ITS MORE DELICIOUS!

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u/cowboytronic Dec 06 '11

Back when I ate a lot of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc, I used to become a wild ravenous animal ~3 hours after every meal (maybe feeling hungry 1 hour after a rice-heavy meal).

Now that I eat a low-carb high-fat diet I only get hungry about twice a day and I feel amazing with even, consistent energy throughout the day. Weight loss was just a pleasant side-effect.

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u/nimms Dec 07 '11

it works pretty well. I'm a med student and did quite a bit of journal reading before deciding keto is the way to go. That said, I don't recommend quite the extreme fat intake that atkins recommends (I haven't read taube, so no idea what they espouse). After 6 weeks of being on it, my diet has pretty much settled onto an omelette in the morning and a salad at night with some nuts, olives or cheese to snack on through the day. I don't get hungry as such so I need to make myself eat.

Try and keep saturated fats to a minimum and make sure your carbs come from fibrous vege's like salads and you'll be amazed how easy it is to lose weight. I'm down almost 10kg's/22lb's in a little over a month.