Saturated fat causes heart disease, eh? I wonder who told us that?

[nolabear]

19. I spent a couple of months on a ketogenic diet recently. I'm hoping to resume it.

And yeah, I blew out of it after a couple of months because it's so damned hard not to eat more than 20g. carbs a day. Also, I didn't lose weight, but that's another issue. What did happen, I believe, is a great reduction in inflammation and once I got over the initial couple of weeks, which admittedly had a cold turkey "keto flu" feel to them, I felt good.

That said, you're right. Sugar is in EVERYTHING. I ate a lot of greens and green veggies, meats (non-processed), a shocking amount of bacon, eggs, I learned tricks to make "bread" based on almond flour, lots of salmon, and enough coconut oil to lubricate a truck. And cheese. And Chichironnes, which I recall from my Southern youth but still can't quite get over them not being poison.

Chocolate...I managed to develop a taste for ricotta cheese with a little stevia and dark cocoa powder, which will be your best friend. Stevia is one of the only artificial sweeteners that's not actively bad for you. It's meh, but you can get used to it.

I lost it at Mr. Bear's birthday party. A friend makes a mean cake. Usually though the hard things not to eat are rice and potatoes. My usual diet isn't bad but it's not ketogenic. I say I want to get back on it because I think it did me some good, but that 20g.might be undoable. Atkins is 50g. I wouldn't be surprised if the average daily diet,and I don't mean a junk food diet, isn't in the hundreds.

Btw, vodka and Scotch have no carbs.