About a year ago, it felt like dozens of celebrities were promoting the Keto Diet as the best thing to ever happen to them. The Keto Diet, for those who don’t know, is a low-to-zero carb/high fat diet which… has some benefits if you have certain medical conditions, and you’re under the supervision of doctors and dieticians. The problem I had – and the problem Jillian Michaels had – was that Keto-followers were pushing this extreme diet as the latest fad, encouraging people to try it and giving testimonials about how it’s the only diet to work, etc. Non-Keto people were like: yeah, come back in a year and then tell me the same thing. The point being, you probably will see results quickly on Keto, but it’s incredibly difficult to maintain.
Jenna Jameson was one of the big Keto-defenders a year ago. She had gained a lot of weight with her last pregnancy, she went on Keto (and made her own Keto-diet food) and she lost a lot of weight. She devoted a lot of Instagram-time to shilling for the diet. And now, about 11 months later… she’s back on carbs and she’s gained weight. She wrote this on her Insta:
Confession. I’ve gained 20 pounds. Ugh. I decided to take a break from #keto and live my best carby life. The weight came back fast and furious. I know a lot of people are quitting keto because it’s hard to maintain and after a year and a half I concur. Not sure if I’m going to go back full force or just calorie count. What are your thoughts? Love you guys!
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until the mashed potatoes come out, or you suddenly want a big bowl of pasta. I feel like maybe the Keto-as-fad-diet thing is finally on the wane. Most celebrities seem to be talking up intermittent fasting these days, that seems to be the new trend. Anyway, to all of those Keto dieters who slide back into carbs… I’m not going to say “hahahaha,” because I’m not that big of a bitch. I will say “pass me the mashed potatoes” though.
Photos courtesy of Instagram.
Yeah, but more importantly: what’s going on with her face? What’s up with those alien eyes?
This is also my burning question
Came down here to say this. Did she get eye surgery? Are those contacts? What is happening?
Keto has been wholly unappealing to me. I’m not a fan of dieting, although I’d like to lose weight. I’ve tried to reduce carbs / balance with fiber, eat more whole foods and less sugar. These kinds of things. The only gimmick I’ve found that made sense to me and actually has worked was the Fab Four diet, which has easy to follow principles and the smoothies really do keep me full for hours. But even that is hard for me to continue to follow.
looks like a brow lift, it is pulled back from behind the hairline on the forehead and can really open up or brighten the whole face.
This is also the culprit of Ariana Grande’s YEARS of apologetic looking eyebrows, a crap brow lift. Many young girls, including both Jenner girls have started getting them as well.
Looks like she’s wearing those contact lens that enhance the limbal ring. Acuvue makes some called Define and the results are fairly subtle. I think whatever contacts she’s wearing are more extreme than the Define. The limbal ring is really exaggerated here and it makes her eyes look spooky imo.
I know right! I didn’t even recognize her at first in that picture. She looks like some ad from a video game. She needs to lay off photoshop or filters or what. But really, if you drown yourself in vats of pasta and starch anyone would gain weight keto or not. The key is always moderation.
I saw on Instagram last night some crazy procedure called fox eyes that basically makes your eyebrows slant upwards ( think Bella Hadid) and her eyebrows look very similar. Does anyone eyebrows naturally go like that or is it just some new impossible beauty standard?
Yeah that photo is really…odd.
Looks like some s**tty IG filter, she has it on in other videos (I checked, so you don’t have to :D). Her Keto obsession and obvious filter addiction bespeak image issues she’s not going to fix with dieting.
It’s like the alien from Splice! Scary!
It’s got to be a filter, right? She looks insane.
K-pop style “big eye” contact lenses
Mark Bittman tweeted this re: Keto and I think it’s something to consider: “Regarding keto: “We may safely conclude that the ‘health effects’ of a diet calamitous for the planet cannot be good.”
+1000000
We’re just not naturally meant to run on that much carb energy – at least not without constant activity (more than just getting up to get a coffee). But I’ll be damned if I can do zero- essentially that is also not entirely natural. I guess we just need more energy spent/more muscle mass. Counting calories means nothing– the body is not a machine. Its a web of checks and balances and will do whatever it decides to do with the energy- regardless of what goes in or out…
I’m not sure what you mean. When it comes to weight loss, calories in, calories out is generally exactly what matters. People talk about hormones etc but with the exception of severe imbalances, if you want to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume. That’s just it.
But that doesn’t mean that if you eat less calories you will automatically be fit or healthy obviously haha
Yes, this is the conventional wisdom espoused by just about everyone. But if you read Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes, a science writer, he makes a great scientific case for why this makes no sense. He carefully documents when people started getting obese: with the advent & introduction of industrially produced grain products, such as packaged bread, cookies, etc. Things took a deep turn for the worse in the last 40 years with all the alarm (based on a small faulty study in the 60s) demonizing saturated fats. All the health and food institutions are having a hard time walking back from this position. With fats demonized, packaged food producers turned to sugar to make food taste good. Look at the ingredients of canned foods, bacon, bread and what do you see? Sugar.
Anyway back to calories in, calories out, Taubes explains in great detail what makes us fat actually is the impact of carbs and sugar on insulin in our body, putting our insulin out of whack (spike in obesity and diabetes cases in the last 40 years, yes???) which impacts our bodies hanging onto fat. Whatever weight we are, our body wants to hang onto that weight. It’s programmed to maintain.
Think about it, before industrial grain production and easy access to sugar, where were our carbs coming from? Alcohol, small amounts of sugar, homemade bread, carby vegetables (squash, potatoes), fruit. These days not only do we eat way more sugar and grain products than our forbearers, we also eat way more super sweet fruit.
Counting calories totally works, at least for most people, but you have to make good choices for what your calories are.
I agree with the no zero thing though, I think it’s too hard, too restrictive, and unsustainable (unless it’s for an allergy or medical condition).
It’s harder for some people to cut stuff out completely, it’s harder for some people to be moderate. See Gretchen Rubin on moderator vs. abstainer.
That’s true, some people need to fully abstain because they can’t do moderation.
People’s bodies process foods in different ways, though. That’s my #1 beef with these “diet trends.” People with kidney disease, for example, need to eat more carbs and less protein to stay healthy. I feel like crap when I eat high protein/ low carb. It’s not like I sit around eating bread all day, but I have IBS and my digestive system cannot handle high protein/ high fat. I feel better and less sluggish when I eat some healthy carbs. Weight loss isn’t the be all and end all of health.
If you have Netflix, please watch The Game Changers. Everyone watch The Game Changers.
My brother has been doing the keto thing for a few months now, and he enjoys it, but he does allow himself some carbs (I think he said like 50g a day) and he does give himself days off as well. He has definitely lost weight, which he claims he needed to do.
Personally I’m not a fan of any diet that advocates cutting out something entirely, mainly because they’re rarely sustainable in the long term (never mind potential adverse health effects.) Keto reads to me like the 2018-2019 version of the Atkins diet that was everywhere about 15-20 years ago.
This is not Keto, it sounds like low card but not Keto. Keto requires 20g net carbs and you can’t take days off otherwise you effectively slip out of ketosis.
Yes. A woman I know has lost over 100 pounds so far with the keto diet. She was panicking the other day because a salad she ordered had breaded chicken instead of plain grilled chicken and she thought it would throw her out of ketosis.
I have a relative who’s hardcore into keto and they said it absolutely is Atkins. That was enough for me to just say nope to the whole thing. Atkins was an extremely unhealthy and unsustainable diet. Not interested in a round two version.
That’s sort of what I do. “Keto-inspired.” I’m a vegetarian who eats fish (pescatarian), too, so I’m not getting any of my fat from meat. I get it from avocados, nuts, dairy, and fish. I find that I’m eating way more vegetables now. Things like cauliflower rice instead of regular rice and zucchini noodles instead of spaghetti noodles. During the summer I ate a lot of salads. And the fruit that I’m eating tastes sweet to me, now, because I’m not eating high sugar foods like breakfast cereal, cakes, sugar in my coffee, etc. When I do try a slice of birthday cake at a party, it’s not very tasty anymore, it just tastes so sugary and makes my mouth feel dirty, so it’s not difficult for me to pass those things up. Everything I cook without bread/sugar carbs still tastes really good too because you’re not cutting out the fat. I couldn’t limit myself to 20g or less of carbs, that’s super difficult to do and highly restrictive of what you can eat—even restricting yourself to only very certain vegetables, fruits, and nuts, and other foods that we wouldn’t even think of as carbs. But I’m probably under 70 carbs each day. I’m 5’2” and lost about 30lbs in six months.
Please start a food vlog and I will happily follow!
I did keto for almost 2 years, and I felt absolutely amazing. AMAZING. I had so much energy, my skin, everything….I also have pretty severe PCOS and while my obgyn didn’t think that had anything to do with why I felt so great cutting carbs I find it interesting a few others with PCOS also felt amazing off carbs. However…it is so hard to sustain and I recently went off. I feel disgusting, heavy, bloated….I largely went off because I hated how much animal products I was eating, but I’m not into cooking so I often took the easy way out. I think had I approached it from the angle you took I would have been much more successful. As for the long term health consequences….well, after two years I had great blood pressure, was down 50 lbs, my cycle was regulated, no cysts…I think there is something to it for sure, and likely not for everyone (just like I’ve known it historically to treat seizure disorders), but your post inspired me to try it from a different angle. I think I’m one of those people that has to accept carbs, even healthy ones, have to be kept on a tight leash.
That isn’t keto – you can’t have that many carbs or have days off.
My sister was testing her urine to ensure she was in ketosis.
She lost a lot of weight (after pregnancy), but she kept it off with intermittent fasting
I think Keto works best if you cycle it, maybe a few weeks every couple of months. Eating lower carb (less than 100g) most of the time and doing some intermittent fasting really helps keep the weight off. We aren’t meant to eat a high carb diet, most of our evolution was meat/berries/seasonally leaves. Best way to get your carbs is lots of veggies and some fruit.
I tried Keto for a summer. I know I was not following it as religiously as I should for wait loss (checking for ketones, etc.) It was more a lazyketo. I found it extremely boring and repetative. However, I could eat all the cheese I wanted, which was extremely liberating.
This is why “diets” in general are a problem. The weight only stays off if you stay on the diet. It’s important to make what helps you lose weight sustainable. Keto isn’t.
I really hope the next trend will be intuitive eating with a healthy dose of rejecting diet culture. All diets are unnatural. Eat what feels good when you’re hungry. After the initial weight gain and metabolism readjustment you will ease into your natural weight. I ended up at about 7 pounds heavier than my diet “ideal” weight. It is worth it to not have to think about food anymore (beyond “what do I crave most right now?”) And my hair is thicker, my skin glows. Research backs up Intuitive Eating. For those interested, check out the book by Evelyn Tribole that started the movement. She goes through all the science and is extremely pragmatic in helping people recover from diet culture,
It’s so true… it’s amazing how a lot of us don’t listen to our bodies.. I’ve been in recovery for years now for an eating disorder, and through my therapy I had to ‘unlearn’ how I approach food which tbh I also realized that a lot of people do this too…. Sometimes, you just have to listen to your body and listen to what it wants – carbs, fat, veggies, salads, ice cream, whatever.. and also one of the things I noticed that really contributes to unhealthy eating is we never take the time to actually eat and enjoy our food!!! We eat on the go, we eat the whole plat at a restaurant (which is usually bigger than what your body can handle), we eat watching TV, etc. Distraction often leads to overeating… And I understand that not all lifestyles can give us that space and time to enjoy your food…
Now I eat everything… not all the time and not every day, I just don’t ban myself from eating anything and I eat so slow now, people are always waiting for me to finish lol, but I think tbh it’s actually the best way to do it, I noticed that I get fuller (in a good way, not in a I can’t breath way) and with less food. Your body knows, and I guess this is what intuitive eating is!
Eat what feels good, what does that mean?
A person addicted to sugar and fast food and salt, etc. will crave sugar, fast food and salt, etc.
Keto was a great platform for me to re-evaluate my eating habits. For example, I went Strictly keto for 2 months and then slowly started adding things back in. That was 2 years ago but I still eat far less carbs/sugar than I did Prior to trying it. My problem is how we made it so…AMERICAN. You shouldn’t be needing bacon wrapped butter to maintain a “diet”. Try salmon, avocado, etc. I can’t abide by a mentality that says bananas and apples are bad but fat bombs are good.
TL;DR – everything in moderation. The less your food is “touched” the better. Do it because it makes you feel better, not for how you look.
Absolutely to your first point. Paying attention to the carbs that hide in everything is what really helped me. I can’t believe how little I knew about what I was eating. It showed me I actually do have self control too. And the lack of sugar cravings since I went keto has been amazing. Ultimately, it hasn’t been the miracle diet some people say it is, but it’s helped me so much. I’m not a big meat eater, so it’s actually been a super healthy change for me, even if the weight isn’t melting off anymore.
Yay!!! I think a lot of people think keto is butter, bacon, avocado and keep eating meat. It’s actually a lot of vegetables AND meat and healthy fats.
Yes, me too! I started off keeping myself under 30g carbs a day, plus I counted my calories. I used an app that tracked my nutritional info and calories and that made it much easier. It was fascinating to see what is in all of the food I eat and buy. I ended up cooking more for myself. I lost 30lbs in 6 months. I slowly started eating more carbs, and I stopped counting my calories, but since I had learned how many calories were in what things, I have a good idea of how many calories I’m eating. I’m mostly just not being so restrictive about the vegetables and fruit and nuts I’m eating, but I’m also eating small portions of ice cream or having a popsicle when I want to. It’s been another six months since I lost the 30lbs and I’ve kept it off and lost another 5lbs or so. I just feel better and enjoy what I’m eating now. It doesn’t make me feel like I need to go lie down after every meal. I was eating a lot of carbs and sugar before I started and now I’m just not interested in those foods so much anymore.
I am a big fan of keto, but I didn’t just do it for vanity. I was getting sick from my high carb lifestyle and was most likely pre-diabetic and had all the symptoms of fibromyalgia. I don’t eat all bacon or anything, but I do eat lots of guac, eggs, chicken thighs, and green veggies. I had a little bit of pumpkin pie on thanksgiving, and a scoop of mashed potatoes, but I know for me it’s a treat and not an every day thing. Yes I lost weight, but I also lost the pukey migraines and inflammation in my body, so it’s not always vanity that makes people try and stay on a keto diet.
This is why I’m contemplating trying it even if it’s Keto-lite.
Yay!
Agree so much, my food intake on keto is 1000% better than it has ever been. I eat primarily a ton of vegetables, berries, meat, olive oil, eggs, fish, very little dairy (determining whether lactose intolerant or not) anyway, have lost weight, lost my (insatiable) craving for crappy sweets like skittles and shit, and can have a treat/cheat every once in a while. I had a pretty awesome Thanksgiving w/out feeling deprived at all (including wine). Oh, other side benefit…I can eat until I’m actually full rather than subsisting on air and lettuce when watching calories like a hawk.
I did Keto for months and lost 64 lbs! It was hard but I loved the results. BUT there were side effects. After about 2 months I began to bruise easily, my legs would randomly go numb, and my hair began to fall out.
Oh, and it knocked my cycle off! My husband and I had basically just used the rhythm method for years because my cycle was clockwork. But dieting knocked it off and I was pregnant before I realized it…. anyway we love our daughter very much and I gained back the 64 plus 20 more. No offense but I am very fat. •_• I cant return to keto and I don’t have the first clue what to do about it now.
People will give you 100 different “you HAVE to do this” if you want to lose weight. My experience says different things work for different people. So i have no advice for you. But that is kind of a great story and congratulations on your daughter!
Thank you!:)
I don’t know if I should say “oh shit” or “congratulations” to you. 😂. Maybe both😊
Wow, what a story!
Thank you for sharing and yes, congratulations on your daughter.
keto messed me up, too, cyclically. i suspect it also amped up my tendency for anemia as well. now i find when i keep my iron levels up i keep the weight off. one way i do that is infusing the tincture “yellow dock” in blackstrap molasses.
for some, just eliminating breads, pasta, and seed oils can kick start weight loss and MORE than weight loss, a return to health. some may find its something simple – and that we almost know it about ourselves, something we’ve intuited in the past. some vitamins are not absorbed without a little help. for instance, are you lacking in the b vitamins? find out what helps absorption. do you crave the hideous nutritional yeast 🙂 thats a tell.
sometimes we need a systemic kick. your immune system will get a boost from a regular dose of golden milk, or alternately cook stuff in coconut milk with generous turmeric and black pepper added.
Um, isn’t she a right wing porn star?
I couldn’t care less about her being a porn star. But yes she is a VERY racist right wing Trumper. And it bugs that she’s being covered on CB tbh.
Okay so then this is who I thought it was. I am so out of it, I only have a very bare knowledge of her. I thought she was a trumpster. I don’t know anything else about her. But that’s all I really ever need to know. Oh you know what, I think one of her tweets must have crossed into my TL, and that’s what I am remembering.
She wrote her memoir many years ago which I actually read and was actually really interesting and she famously had a run-in with Bill O’Reilly in his old Fox News show. But in 2015/2016 she started tweeting and saying really vile racist white supremacist crap and came out as a Trump supporter. I couldn’t care less about her damn Keto diet. She’s a vile human being.
Exactly. SMH. 😑🐞🐜
Cosigned.
Yeah, she is also rabidly anti-vaccine and is trying to co-opt the term believe women to say believe women that vaccines are horrible. She’s gross in my opinion on many levels and I could care less about her diet.
Anything that cuts out an entire food group is not sustainable and not healthy. Type 1 here who has to watch my sugar intake and literally everything has sugar even healthy foods that are essential to your body (fruit) but dieticians do not tell you to completely cut it out because to do so would be dangerous medical advice. Instead they tell you to Read labels, become informed what exactly you’re eating and eat items in moderation that are carb heavy and sugar loaded… be smarter about what you’re putting in your body and exercise to ensure your body is using that fuel efficiently. But nobody wants to hear that. They want an easy out and if it involves bacon and butter even better! Also the beyond burger is not healthier than real burgers, the calorie and fat is equal to or more than a regular meat patty. Do your research ppl and stop letting marketing fool you into thinking the latest fad is the answer… do what works for you.
Keto is totally unsustainable and it’s good that she took a break I think the break she really needs is from social media and her fans, though. She strikes me as someone who can’t get healthy in the spotlight at all.
I have been on very low to zero carbs for months and lost a shit ton of weight. I did not enjoy the fatty foods so much so have been just doing baked or boiled chicken and veggies. It is boring as hell but I love chicken so not too bad. I give myself a carb cheat day a couple times per month but I actually don’t miss it much. Since I eat no sugar at all I can barely tolerate it. Tried to eat a small piece of chocolate and could not handle the sweetness. Strange cause I loved chocolate. It must change something in your chemistry
Yes, something about ketosis curbs sugar cravings.
Ugh, I’m so tired of these conversations when so many people all over the world are malnourished and are lucky to eat something once a day.
YUP.
100 % agree. The Western world wastes so much food it’s disgusting.
My basic Keto eating plan – breakfast is scambled eggs and bacon or sausage, maybe avocado if I’m not feeling like cooking meat. Omelettes if I have time. Lunch is a salad with chicken or eggs, or a lettuce wrapped ‘sandwich.’ Dinner is protein + vegetable + green vegetable. Snacks are nuts, beef jerky, and sliced veg with dip. Keto does not necessarily mean unhealthy. I will admit it can be boring af, but it’s not all ‘bacon double cheeseburger no bun.’ I haven’t had fast food in months, and it was an Unwich from Jimmy Johns. I had two bites of mashed sweet potatoes at thanksgiving and they were so sweet I almost spit them out, completely reset my tastebuds.
Completely sustainable, been on it for over a year, and the difference in my health far outweighs any cravings for pasta or cookies.
I have been practicing low carb for awhile now (maybe 2 years?) because I have pcos and I have been working out twice a week with a personal trainer. I haven’t lost a ton of weight to be honest. This may be due to my increased muscle mass coupled with my slow metabolism. I am however a size 10 now whereas when I was this weight beforehand, I was a size 14, so clearly I have more muscle and less fat. I also have very little back fat now. I don’t miss a huge amount of carbs because it always gives me a bloated feeling and what I call a burrito belly.
Jenna looks better 20 lbs heavier TBH. She looked TOO thin when she lost all that weight initially.
you’ve definitely lost fat and gained muscle. do not base your improvement on what the scale says, use clothes and sizing as muscle weighs more but takes less space than fat.
I have an anthropometry done every six months to check my progress.
What is an anthropometry?
a doctor/nutritionist measures your body (weight, bones, fat, muscle) and gives you a % of each in terms of what your body consists of. For example, I am “heavier” compared to 5 years ago (7 kilo difference) but I now have more muscle than fat (15 kilos more muscle than fat). I have this done every 6 months and it allows me to keep everything in perspective.
I’ve seen a lot of before and afters were the person’s weight stayed the same or even increased, but their fitness and body composition totally changed as they changed their diet and started working out. Sounds like you are kicking butt!
Thank you @lucy2!
Here is what I say over and over again- let people decide what’s right for me. If Keto works for them, great. If they find calories in a calories out a better method, also great. But don’t tell people what is and isn’t sustainable when you are not the one eating that way, or that wasn’t your experience. We are not monolithic in our first and we don’t need to be.
Lol this times a million. I’ll never understand why people get so worked up about someone else‘s diet.
You know what works? Balanced eating. Working out even if it’s just walking 4 times a week.
Keto seems kind of extreme to me, at least to stay in for life. I think low-carb with the occasional ‘binge’ is enough.
She should wear sleeves more often, not a fan of the tattoos.
I reallllly wish people would promote the magic of … moderation and mindful eating!!! After years and years of struggle with weight and body image (ballet related), developing a healthy attitude toward all food and eating based on what my body feels it needs is the only way I’ve been able to maintain my weight easily. I hate fad dieting!!!
Fad diets never work long term. Watch what you eat and exercise are the only two constant methods.
It’s tempting to do Keto because the results are so quick but the weight will come back. Not sure if it’s good long term. I know people who’ve done it, lost weight, then just gain it all back or get cranky and preachy when they’re missing bread, pasta, alcohol, etc. Maybe limiting sugar and refined carbs is better but really want to jump start my weight loss in the new year. Usually end up trudging back to Weight watchers but that’s just not as fun and more of a slog.
I have the most unsexy “diet” on the planet but it works. I eat three effing great meals a day, don’t snack and don’t eat sugar (ice cream, cookies, cake, etc.). If I eat sugar I wind up face down with a bag of confectionary sugar like Al Pacino in Scarface. But I do eat fruit like a beast.
There is always gonna be a fad diet that catches the attention of the masses.
Wow at the hate at keto diet. Many misunderstand the diet and do it wrong. It’s not about eating deep fried butter all day and night, not at all. If done correctly, it can be a life long woe and ppl can live just fine on it, go to gym, run marathons and so on. People have managed to get of diabetes medication with it and live much healthier lives. It’s also very common and absolutely natural to gain some weight back when eating carbs again since carbs do retain water and once carbs are back in body, so is certain amount of water weight as well.
It’s not like we had bowls of pasta, cakes and all these sugary treats always around us, we’ve actually been living in this fast carb and sugar crazy world like maybe 50 years and it shows. Of course, balanced diet is optimal, eating everything in moderation and exercising also. But it seems pretty crazy the amount of hate and misinterpretation keto diet gets.
Everyone out here is doing macro. Intermittent fasting isn’t great for our hearts as women. The new trend is using nutrition to fuel your body. I know, crazy, but it’s the trend right now in SoCal.
I know I’m an awful, horrible person, but I’m just hopeful that whatever new fad diet schtick she jumps on makes her feel like sh*t, look even worse, and cause her all manner of problems and hardships. She’s a rabid anti-vax MAGAt and deserves all the badness that Ma Nature can chuck at her dumbass self.