Keto diet

[Humbug202202]

Hi guys!

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with adopting a Keto diet?

Did it help your fibro? Or, not?

Or, was the faff not worth the results? Or, did it help with weight loss?

I've heard good things, but basically it is an elimination diet and people might just be removing 'triggers' for their diet and it isn't actually the 'diet' per day.

Thanks in advice x

[DanielleGemma]

Hey Hun,

As a general rule; I find whenever I try and remove things from my diet I end up not feeling that great. It's more difficult losing weight by just a normal healthy diet but that is the only way that doesn't interfere with my fibro. For me carbs are my guilty pleasure so I try to not have them for 2 meals and only have them for 1 so I haven't removed them completely just cut down. Also, if you try and cut things out temporarily when you have them again your body ends up storing them!

I'm no expert but have had a few sessions with a nutrionist but everyone is different xxx

[ukmsmi4]

Not yet Humbug202202 but it is my intention to try following the diet regime recommended by Dr Sarah Myhill, which (as I understand it) is basically a mix of the keto diet and the paleo diet.

A lot of people do seem to get good results with her diet and there is a lot of science out there that seems to more and more be backing it up.

But then I have ME as well as Fibro and I think the science is more in relation to that. It does seem as if ME people have issues burning sugar carbohydrates and instead turn to burning fat which is less efficient and is thought to be partly responsible for the reduced energy levels. As such sugar based calories are empty calories for us and best avoided. My own experiences would seem to agree as I do notice that sugar is having an increasingly adverse affect on the balance within my body's systems.

Given that there are so many similarities between ME and fibro it's not impossible to believe that a similar diet could help some people with fibro too. It's got to be worth a try but I would do as much research as you can first to try and see if you can get to grips with what it is about the diet that you think might have some relevance to your own particular set of symptoms before you start anything too drastic. Perhaps just start off trying a normal sensible healthy eating diet first, cutting out junk food and processed food as much as you can. After all that is seemingly the foundations of such diets.

Good luck, hope you find something that works for you.

Gentle hugs, Margaret. xxx

[Jofullofiron]

Just started again this week. I do find the first few days tough but then it gets easier. I lost half a stone before the summer holidays but then while awhile carbs were easier to eat. I'm also coeliac and allergic to cows milk so for me this diet is pretty easy to follow. Drink plenty of water and take a multi vitamin and multi mineral. I also found that because you are allowed a fair amount of fat that it helped the dryness of my Sjögren's.

Carbs do not suit me and if I have gf pasta or bread I found my pain is more and I feel rougher.

Good luck.

Xxx