Well spotted!!! 
BTW don’t you find that concept of eating often is in fact restrictive? I feel that being fat adapted enables me to skip meals( IF) and be FREE of cooking/planing/eating/cleaning/worrying…whenever l choose to. l really love doing those things (except cleaning) but the extra time gained is so precious!
So true!
I just posted a photo of my fasting dishes in the humour section. (A bunch glasses.) You will not be seeing a photo of my dishes while not fasting.
Beautiful explanation.
Although I would add one thing - no idea if I am unique in this, but I doubt it!
My skin is only oily when my vitamin D is too low.
I discovered this after decades of suspected D deficiency, when I started megadosing with D3. It took a few weeks but then I noticed that for the first time in my adult life, my nose wasn’t shiny. Later I lapsed with the D supplements, and became shiny again.
Nowadays I take it as a perfect barometer of whether my D levels are sufficent, or not.
My favourite expression is going to be “fasting dishes”. It’s surrreal but also grounding. In fact, I’m going to chose my fasting dishes soon. And maybe a fasting place mat too. I like mind things like these.
Precisely! 
As a recovering alcoholic explained to me once, when I told him I wanted a drink, "You don’t want a drink. You want something, but given what you know alcohol does to you, you don’t want a drink!" I believe it was at that point I began to really understand that real freedom lies in being able to say no, not in being able to say yes.
I mean, I try to avoid processed food as well, but so many common Keto recipes call for stuff like Xanthan gum, coconut/almond flour, artificial sweeteners, etc. I’ve even made soups from scratch, but I had to use Xanthan gum in it. I’m sure it’s safe, but it’s kind of inescapable. Any recipes more complex than “steak with salt & pepper” or “steamed asparagus” seems to use some kind of processed ingredient.
Well, it’s 100% my own experience, and I first started Keto 6+ years ago. If I had more time, money, and natural cooking ability, it might not be so bad, but for me, it is. My choices of meat are usually tilapia, chicken breasts, pork tenderloin, bacon, eggs (much of which I’m burnt out on), and veggies are asparagus, squash, and zucchini (also burnt out on). Fast food options are hot wings (expensive) and salads (hard to find a large salad with more than just lettuce and strips of chicken). I’ve never been able to make a salad at home without the lettuce tasting weird.
I live in the middle of nowhere where there are FEW choices except for whole foods. No fancy substitutes.
I never get bored or feel my diet is “restrictive”. I occasionally choose to have a carb meal and then fast to compensate but most of the time I am happy staying keto.
Salads don’t have to have lettuce. I make a avocado, cucumber, feta cheese, lemon juice salad that is delicious. This past summer I was using my garden cukes (Japanese variety) so doubly delicious.
Other veggies are Brussel sprouts, green beans, wilted spinach. etc.
Lots of fast food options besides wings. Bunless burgers, taco salads sans shell, etc.
Thanks.
I don’t understand the comment about salad made at home tasting weird. If I bought pre-packaged lettuce that has been gassed then yes - weird after taste.
But I avoid it like the plague and buy real romaine, real baby spinach and make my own dressing so I know what is in it besides a bunch of chemicals.
I don’t know about “gassed” lettuce. Never heard of it, actually, but it certainly doesn’t sound like any beneficial thing. On the added chemcicals - oh yeah…
I am sensitive to smells and Taco Bell uses the gassed lettuce in its foods and I can detect it.
Anyone who can’t be bothered to buy a head of romaine lettuce and wash/dry/break off for a salad needs to re-evaluate their priorities. Convenience comes at a price I am not willing to pay.
Yep. Big Food looking to fool us into accepting their fake foods as “nutrition”.
I partake due to convenience but only rarely
Gassed? Is that why the pre-packaged salads have that weird smell?
Gassed? Yuck! Why? I always worry because the pre-packaged stuff has had more than a few e-coli recalls. Not that regular produce doesn’t, but I always worry in particular about the packaged stuff. My favorite salad - cabbage! - it doesn’t wilt after three days in the fridge! I have some greens coming up in my garden right now, so in a few weeks I won’t have to depend on other people’s produce.
Jane.
Taco Bell, in my opnion, is the poster-child for “messing with food.”