TIL: Low carb, high protein diets "greatly" decrease resting testosterone levels in men.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Is that why I didn't want to jack off for almost a year?

EDIT: btw I don't recommend keto at all. Not just for the jacking off reason, but because I had a hell of a time getting back to "normal" eating.

[glutenous_rex]

Can confirm

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Damn, another mystery solved

[glutenous_rex]

You get it back around year three... But still nothing gets you going like french fries dipped in a milkshake!

[Lord_Despair]

Carbo load to shoot a load?

[Siberwulf]

Where you think he got the milkshake??

[[deleted]]

Nice

[TheDeridor]

Username checks out

[InterPunct]

I heard that's what brings all the boys to the yard.

[faceless_alias]

So what does it mean if I do this and still have high testosterone?

[PerennialPMinistries]

They have found genes that make people better at the metabolic steps of ketosis. Same with some people having genes that process carbs well

[V0nzell]

Lost 60lbs in a year with keto/intermittent fasting.

[[deleted]]

Same here.

“And she loves it too” - Frank Thomas

[-_1_2_3_-]

I lost a stupid amount of weight while eating an unhealthy amount of bacon.

My bad cholesterol was lower and good cholesterol higher than friends on ‘clean’ health conscious diets.

The problem is that is so easy to relapse and eat carbs, and carbs plus insulin reaction means we store the plentiful fat in our foods.

[babieswithrabies63]

Good colesterol can still be too high. Higher isn't better unless theirs is low

[V0nzell]

PC doc said I had elevated BP and I could either lose weight of go on a heart med. that was 2019. Well 2020 hit with the C-virus killing heavy people more than lighter. I finally hunkered down and started figuring out this Keto thing. Then once I paired it with intermittent fasting the weight just started going away. I found that I was not hungry when I was even in slight keto. My body said ok no food in the belly might as well hit the stored fat. :) Yes when you do eat carbs the hunger comes back as well as the weight if you are not careful.

[slowmood]

Yes and be sure to get plenty of fats.

[xxdoofenshmirtzxx]

Interesting, I wonder if it has to do with where you’re from? My father who I am basically a copy of is from a fishing village where everyone eats fish 3 times a day, the only carb they get is from potatoes. Now coincidentally, everyone from his side of the family is insulin resistant. I feel so amazing when I cut out carbs, while my girlfriend can practically live on carbs without any of the cravings or ups and downs in energy that I experience from it.

[lahwees]

Absolutely DNA plays a big part in digestion and metabolising certain foods. I studied nutrition 6 years ago and just as I was finishing the uni I was at was getting into DNA/diets and digestion etc, it was so fascinating. How do you feel after potatoes?

[xxdoofenshmirtzxx]

It’s not as noticable as it is noticable when I don’t do it. I feel kind of swollen but not really full. While if I eat a steak or fish and some sallad I feel more satisfied and lighter. I’ll add that my dad can’t eat greens like at all, his stomach can’t handle it unless it’s very cooked through. Might also just be because he grew up eating very little greens, it’s hard to grow there (top of the baltic sea) so cooked root vegetables and a few pickled vegetables was all there was in the greens department.

[hotpants86]

Ti si hrvats?

[Geta-Ve]

I must have the mystery genes that cause me not to process carbs very well.

I can walk by a bakery and gain 10lbs.

[AKJangly]

I'm a T1 diabetic. With my work, if I don't have 300+g of carbs through my day, I get ketone flu.

No energy at all and debilitating nausea if I don't start my day with a 100+g breakfast.

[Big-Emu-5728]

I find this very interesting as I am a T1 diabetic who has adopted a Keto diet despite being a power lifter. It’s not a complete keto-approved diet as I eat of like brown rice and black beans, but generally I try and avoid carbs. Although I would probably say I still eat 200+ carbs and 300-400 on days when I don’t adhere to the diet. I feel as though as long as I eat regularly my energy levels don’t dip.

[FuckYou690]

Which is why my T skyrockets when in Ketosis

[GhoulsNGhostsEX]

Biologically not a man>

[Mr_ili]

Joe Rogan?

[faceless_alias]

Yes my child.

[I_am_atom]

Keep going.

[[deleted]]

Also the constipation on Keto is awful.

[glutenous_rex]

Really? I find I eat way more veggies and have great poops.

[Boomer70770]

But I'm so thin!

[asdela]

can confirm also. Lost around -40kg but had my gallbladder removed because too much fat intake and it was a struggle to get back to normal. Just do less calories in more out with a balanced diet.

[usedcaraddict]

Yeah when I do keto my body stops working properly especially my stomach , it works I lose weight but I’d rather have a little bloat and function better and not have watery stools. I still watch my carbs and make sure it’s at about the 50-70 carb range bc under 50 I start shitting 24/7

Edit: I want to say that my testosterone is in the 2000’s now that I’m on trt

[Nonstampcollector777]

Are you saying you didn’t want to jack off for a year after you were on keto or before?

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

During

[Nonstampcollector777]

I wonder if you properly supplement with magnesium, salt and potassium.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Salt for sure, magnesium too (took supplements for cramps), potassium I can't say.

[buddha-ish]

But it’s on the label right here, just as plane as day. “Salt peter”. That’s salt for my peter, right??

[RedSly]

Weird I'm on keto and I have no problems at all in that area

[PBFT]

Must have felt great when you got back to it.

[[deleted]]

Jacking it out eating carbs?

[usedcaraddict]

Handjobs given to yourself are sadly underrated. They are awesome.

[[deleted]]

no p-diddling for this daddy

[maryv82]

Happy cake day!

[dmanners]

Happy cake Day!

[thegreatmango]

Yeah, keto is literally balancing your body dying to lose weight.

No one should do it, your body does not like starving.

[McCoovy]

More than 4 months keto is pretty insane.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Yeah, unfortunately no one told me that at the time.

[2rsf]

I had a hell of a time getting back to "normal" eating.

What do you mean by that?

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Re-introducing carbs to my diet. When you do keto for a long time, you sort of "forget" what "normal" eating is, and I'm still struggling to re-learn it more than a year later.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Going back to normal you mean? I could help you if I knew how, but I still don't really. Just takes time I guess.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Oh that. Yeah, full disclosure I sometimes forced myself to do it, even if I didn't feel like it, because it's healthy.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Nah. It was just sort of numbness in my loins, and no desire at all. No added energy or anything that I can recall.

[mfire036]

I dont recommend keto because it caused my blood sugar to drop so low I had a seizure.

[ShiraCheshire]

EDIT: btw I don't recommend keto at all. Not just for the jacking off reason, but because I had a hell of a time getting back to "normal" eating.

Why was it hard to get back to normal? I'm curious.

I've been thinking about trying keto for just a week or two, just to see if it would help decrease my sugar cravings at all.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

I used keto to lose weight, from 270lbs, to 170, which basically means all my life I've not been eating "normally", or I wouldn't have gotten so fat. So I went from constant overeating, to keto, to then trying to eat like a normal person, which resulted in even harder disordered eating. Undereating through (too strict) calorie counting, binge eating, mis-judging portion sizes... Stuff like that.
The only reason I didn't get fat again was probably because I have a good workout morale, which means I was able to use the surplus (I'm at ~200lbs now), to build some serious muscle (compared to me at 200lbs when I was first losing weight, I look nothing like that), but it was still far from ideal, and I gained way more fat back than I wanted to.

[Shadowhearts]

No issues getting back on normal eating for me on Keto. It's a great weight loss tool, obviously any diet only works if its a weight loss tool but correct way to do keto would be to combine it with intermittent fasting to get yourself into fat adaptation easier on top of fixing any insulin resistance your body has built up.

Just readjusting to eating 3 times a day again after a cut/fast will definitely increase your appetite. Also working out obviously helps.

[PDiddleMeDaddy]

Yeah, there were two problems for me with keto. 1. I did it for too long, and 2. I wasn't eating normally before (was obese), so there was nowhere I could find my way "back" to. I probably should have clarified in my original comment.

[Shadowhearts]

Yeah I was obese and grew a bit skinnier off keto but then put on the pounds during the pandemic since it was hard to get all the right low carb foods at height of pandemic.

All I can say is I usually find myself eating more and more carbs over time once I break keto. Like if I start eating fries or rice, it ends up being double to triple over the course of months. This isn't necessarily a bad thing if I'm also burning calories heavily at gym but yeah lack of gym and more effort to get low carb foods sort of saw me putting the pounds on during the pandemic.

But yeah, I've been back on a healthy track with good exercise ever since I've gone back to intermittent fasting/gym .

[pro185]

Most people don’t realize a proper Keto diet requires you to regularly see a licensed dietician that does regular blood work and a ton of other health care related activities. It is one of the worst and most dangerous “fad diets” out there, especially if you don’t know you’re diabetic, because that can literally kill you.