![]() ![]() I usually end my veggie stints being seduced by cheeseburgers… It’s like a switch turns on in my brain that suddenly says: ‘animal protein bad…do not eat…’ and the appetite naturally switches gears. I’ve always found it simple to cut protein out of my daily diet – I’ve been fully veggie (not vegan, as I’ve always allowed myself eggs & cheese) a couple of times in my adult life – with timeframes in years each. Not that I can’t cut out enough protein to get down to my macros, but because I can’t consume enough protein to get UP to that target number. Protein, oddly enough, is where I hit my snag. ![]() Kopp’s, incidentally, makes Milwaukee’s BESTEST frozen custard, and the SQO & I have a long history with them □ Or get a single lick of frozen custard from Kopp’s – letting D enjoy the rest of his cone. I can now grab a single kernel of popcorn out of the SQO’s movie theatre bag, and be happy with the little bit of salty, carb-y crunch. Turns out, fat wasn’t that big a problem once I got off the “fat…makes you fat” guilt-rollercoaster, and found acceptable methods of incorporating more of it into my diet…sautéing my evening veggies in a generous dose of real butter – good egg salads with real mayo – heavy cream instead of milk – full-fat cheeses & the world of fat bombs.Ĭarbs, oddly enough, were also not that big a problem, once I cut out all the uber-processed junk masquerading as food & got over my body’s attempts to blackmail me with cravings. Our ‘body’ industries love fat – it’s the big, scary devil on your plate they’ve used to terrify more money out of the average American Consumer than any other scapegoat ever conceived.Īnd we all swallowed it – hook, line & sinker. What – you think any of these groups care about YOUR health? These recommendations allow our Public Health Advisory Boards to moan about how Americans are getting fatter & fatter & sicker & angrier…thus paving the way for the Health Industry to sell us more pills & procedures & therapies (greatly enhancing THEIR balance sheets) while lobbing the ball back to Fitness (who sell more gym memberships, workout apparel, and self-torture DVD’s) who deftly deflect it to Food (who sell more low-fat, high-carb, nowhere-near-natural frankenfoodstuffs) where the defense is “We’re just following the set nutritional guidelines.” Lather, rinse, and repeat ad nauseaum. ![]() The fitness industry follows hot on Food’s heels with a maniacal grin – advising millions of people to eat more fruit stuffs & products containing whole grains (and dontchaknow – we have just the thing!) while trotting out their patented, revolutionary, extremely expensive lines of hand-crafted (by blind Tibetan Nuns!) smoothies, cans of sludge, exotic waters, and tubs of strange-smelling white powder…most of them packed with, yup, you guessed it, easy-to-digest simple sugars with names 20 letters long and profit margins 20 digits long.Īmerican Nutrition Recommendations (produced by the US Department of Agriculture) continue to recommend heavy grain/fruit/veggie/LOW-FAT dairy intake patterns (about 80% of your total daily consumption) with 15% lean (again, LOW-FAT) protein, and extremely low (5%) solid or liquid fat intake. The food industry has sold this guilt-trip with utter abandon, making everything leaner and drier and stuffed full of inexpensive (read: more profit!) fillers and carb-heavy sweeteners to make up for the lack of flavor that happens when you strip out all of the fat. My first concern was, quite naturally, howinhell am I going to eat THAT much fat in a day when I’ve been 1) trained since the 70’s to eat less of it – and 2) trained to swallow any fat that does manage to sneak in my diet with a large side-order of guilt? My macro numbers (as calculated by this handy-dandy Keto calculator) came out toġ20 gram fats, 100 grams protein, 25 grams carbohydrate per day. This is called (in the keto world) your macros. You consume the three major contributors to nutrition in a pre-determined and monitored ratio. Keto, like everything else in life, is all about balance.
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