Aaaaaand i caved (cheated)

[gingersmommy]

Huh? You lost me at kreb cycle.

[Taka]

There are lots of videos on youtube that explain it. But it really is one of those too big charts to memorise, which is why I intend to learn it as soon as I have a chance to calm down a little from too much happebing at once.

[bokkiedog]

Why did he lose you? Because you decided you were the sort of person who can’t (won’t) understand things about your body when someone like Richard takes the time to explain them clearly? Just because a word or phrase is used?

If there was some aspect of Richard’s explanation you didn’t understand, it’d have been good specifically to outline where you felt clarification was needed, and I’m sure he’d have provided it and then - guess what - you wouldn’t have been “lost” at all!

This is self-destructive behaviour, IMHO. I know I’ll be attacked for daring to opine on self-inflicted anti-intellectualism, but I strongly believe we’ve got to get out of the habit of being pre-emptively afraid of learning about our metabolic processes - deciding immediately that because we aren’t the priestly class, it’s pre-ordained we’ll never understand things.

That’s how the vested interests have gotten away with their nonsense for so long. It’s time we empowered ourselves - and each other - with the default presumption of intelligent capability, rather than the presumption of dumb insufficiency.

[bokkiedog]

It sounds like it’d be useful to do a version of my 2018 Ketofest animated-molecules presentation, but focus on ketogenesis this time?

[gingersmommy]

Seriously?

After Paul’s comment above mine, it was meant to be a joke, hence the laughing face. I consider myself very lucky to have been blessed with an intelligent and sharp mind, so, yes, I was able to understand Richard’s explanation completely and quite easily.

How you could interpret from one phrase, complete with emoji, that I am self-destructive, not invested, lazy and comfortable acquiescing my power to the “vested interests,” is quite a stretch to me - and well beyond the protocol of a civil and supportive forum. I know the written word can sometimes convey misinterpreted meaning, however, when in doubt, how about excercising caution and giving the benefit of doubt?

For your information, I have been following keto for seven weeks now - all the while doing and enjoying extensive research on the topic and seeking advice from supportive people on this forum. I sought this WOE because of the science and because I love myself and want to do better for my body, mind and spirit. I have not cheated once, eat cleanly and have not deviated from my plan whatsoever. If people, myself included, were to ever stumble and falter for a bit, I would stand ready to build them up and support them, not attack them as being weak, unmotivated and self destructive. I love myself enough to have the courage to say shame on you.