Vitamin K2 why am I taking it for keto dieting?

 This first week on 400mcg of Vitamin K2 have been a revelation.

Perhaps I am normal after all!

All my life I have had these afternoon and evening overeating sessions. Even when I am trying so hard to lose weight and not to eat outside meal times.

Even with keto dieting and 2 meals a day which is touted to reduce hunger I still has the need to hunt for food in the afternoon.

Because of the green list I would choose my foods from the meats, cheese, nuts etc. But I still felt my eating was out of my control, something would just take over in the afternoons and I would find myself eating foods without any sense of control.

So how has this week been different since I started the K2 last Tuesday.

Weight has been stable and showed a small decrease this morning. So that means I am finally doing something right.

I dont have to try and distract myself from food in the afternoons, to try and keep 'busy'.

I wake up every morning knowing I will not self sabotage and finally I will get to the weight I have always wanted to be and stay there for the rest of my life.

I have been doing more research on Vitamin K2, it seems to be responsible for so much it is amazing that it is not mainstream the way Vitamin C is. Maybe because it is found in foods that the dietary 'advice' said we should avoid. Grass fed cows, butter, cream, milk and meat. Egg yolks from hens eating grass and bugs.

My pills are derived from natto which is a fermented soya beans, but contains no soya. Go figure!

I am certainly recommending taking Vitamin K2 to all my family. Especially the men as it is also good for them for heart health, blood sugar issues and wards of Alzheimer's.

My fasting blood glucose has not changed so far. But my 2hrs after lunch is much lower and so is my after evening meal test.

I will not continue to test 3 times a day but it is interesting when I have made a change to measure any alteration to the glucose test. My ketones have also been up, especially the breath meter which is interesting.

Here is a pod cast that talks about Vitamin K2 for those that are interesting in finally finding a solution.

https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1453181214/the-fat-emperor-podcast/want-to-reverse-your-calcification-and-heart-disease-heres-how-ep21

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K2 vitamin and keto dieting

 Having downloaded the book Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox I decided to see what the effect would be to increase my dose of K2.

I have been taking 1 tablet of Vit K2 mk7 for the past 6mths. That is a daily dose of 200. The suggestion in the book was to take the oil based supplement. I have ordered this and plan to take 1 tablet and 1 oil capsule a day when the order arrives. In the meantime 3 days ago I started taking 2 of the tablets.

From my reading it seems that Weston Price who wrote the book about the teeth and diets of remote tribes compared to the teeth and diets of the West where grains had replaced a lot of the traditional foods, found a missing substance in western diets.

He identified a vitamin X that was present in the traditional diets and absent in the western diets. 

It has now been shown that this Vitamin X is Vitamin K2. Not vitamin K1 which is linked to blood clotting.

Vitamin K2 is not found in many foods. It is high in natto which is a fermented soya bean dish served in Japan. Also in butter, cream and cheese from grass fed cows and egg yolks from hens allowed to free range. Also present in liver pate and animal liver. ( Not foods that a low fat dieter is likely to consume!)

Many of our modern day food sources now have very little K2 or we have been told not to eat these foods. Butter and fats went off the menu years ago and are only just being reintroduced. In the meantime many cows are now grain fed rather than grass fed so have very little Vit K2. Liver is not eaten regularly in many households.

I was interested in the many benefits of consuming adequate levels of K2 from supplements.

Improved insulin resistance.

better glucose control and helps with T2 diabetes

Moves calcium from the heart arteries into the bone

Improves bone density

Works with calcium and Vitamin D to improve bones

Better jaw development in the fetus

Helps with rheumatoid arthritis

For brain and neurological health, may protect against dementia

For cancer prevention

For fertility both men and women

I was particularly interested in the insulin resistance improvement.

The book claimed that vitamin K2 would make insulin more efficient so less insulin  would be produced by the pancreas.

' The second highest concentration of vitamin K2 is in the pancreas. Only 1 week of Vit K2 supplements in healthy nondiabetic trial participants significantly reduces their 2 hr post meal insulin level by half.'

This was very interesting to me. If I could stop the 2 hr craving sessions after a meal I would feel more in control of my eating and less likely to suffer binge eating. Whether micro binge or macro binge.

So I thought this worth a try. To see if I could control my insulin/glucose levels better during the day.

So far I am pleased with the results. Only 3 days now and counting but certainly the urge to drift towards the fridge has not occurred on any afternoon. It did a bit last night and I made a decaf coffee with cream instead of eating something.

The proof for me that this is working is whether I can finally get control of my afternoon and evening urge to eat after a meal, and that the weight starts dropping again.

Am keen to finally get below that 80kg mark.

Would I recommend others to try this approach? As Prof Tim Noakes says we are an experiment of one. So give it a try and see how your body reacts.

I have ordered the Weston Price book and also a hard copy of Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox.

I now have an email set up if anyone wants to make contact.

ketomichelle2020@gmail.com

Keto Eating or Keto Dieting?

 I have realized what I have been doing over the last 4 to 5mths is keto eating.

So I have been bobbing up and down around the same weight. Sometimes feeling in control and sometimes feeling out of control.

Keto eating is maybe still fasting in the morning. I find this easy to do as I am not hungry in the morning. So my first meal is at 11.30. I was eating an omelette with butter cheese and vegetables. After that as long as it was keto I did not worry about what I was consuming. I made some keto bread with macadamia and flax and peanut butter and would toast slices of that. Then in the evening I would have a keto supper of meat and vegetables, followed by evening snacks if I desired them.

The above regime might do for a keto maintenance diet where I was trying to keep the weight stable, but as a weight loss diet it was a non starter. I stayed within 2 or 3 kg of my lowest weight but was certainly not going any lower.

In the last week I am formulated a keto diet. I have my coffee cream and collagen powder in the  morning.

Brunch is now 3 poached eggs, small amount of butter and a few green veg for flavour. I plan to have no snacks in the afternoon or evening and have my main meal of meat and veggies at 6.

If I think I am tempted to walk to the fridge in the evening I will rather walk to the bath and have a bath and go to bed early!! My danger zone for eating is 7pm to 9pm. Better not to even eat keto foods such as cheese at that time.

My jeans are definitely feeling they are fitting better since last week and the scale is going down again.

So feeling much happier with myself.

Keto that works for me

I have renamed this blog to Keto dietinglady as keto is the only thing that works for me.

I have remained around the same weight since Dec 19 at about 22kg lower than my heaviest weight. That is success in my book.

I am still working towards getting another 10kg off and being able to fit into 'normal' clothes even though I know my eating will never be 'normal' according to the dietary guidelines.

About time those dietary guidelines were changed to reflect the damage that uncontrolled glucose consumption can do to the health and body shape. When I say glucose, I am including, bread, potatoes, rice, grain products. All of which are broken down into glucose in the digestion process.

Fat, including saturated fat, is a much better option for energy for the Insulin Resistant. When I consume good fats, I am satisfied with less, eat less often and have more energy for activities.