How bad was this?

[David_Stilley]

Carl, you and I aren’t trying to make a living selling structured plans so our perspective is different

I comend you for all this and I wish you was on my books because you would be an ideal candidate for me.

I guess that I would since reading and learning how to do this by myself being dedicated to doing what I needed to do would have made “your work” easy. I guess that I am a DIY kind of dude and always have been. A salesman says we need their kind of service or coaching to be successful. Maybe I am just stubborn and want to be in control of myself. I guess even with me just fumbling though the last 9 months eating meat, eggs, high fat dairy and leafy greens with commitment was just dumb luck when it fixed my borderline diabetic condition and by some ridiculous luck I also lost 1/5 of my body weight.

I struggled with trying to limit foods and eating low fat and getting fatter anyway before keto.

Oh and I forgot to do any training mostly because my body is pretty busted up and I decided that resting was more important for my body to heal. Oops I screwed up again.

But after 6 months of feeling good and loosing weight I gave in to the concept of a tracking app, mostly just to see how my body signals had been working… Surprise! I had been eating pretty much exactly the same macros that the calculator said I should have been eating and I started tracking my weight and nutrients and Cronometer told me I had been doing pretty damn well at taking care of business letting my body guide the way.

You mentioned Dave that people’s bodies just want to gain weigh and store fat. I think our bodies actually want our composition to be optional if we give the body the correct fuel and stop thinking of food in terms of its entertainment value which food was never meant to be. Something to do when we’re bored or binge watching television that becomes an addiction.

“I can’t go to a movie theater without a tub of popcorn and a 40oz soda.”

“I have to have my 9pm ice cream sundae after dinner settles and I can get more food down.”

“OMG…I just ate half a pound of M&M’s without thinking about it while watching Game of Thrones!”

This is the problem with the modern world where people think this is a normal and acceptable behavior. Eating completely unhealthy commercial junk and loosing control of appetite signals because we’re on the processed sugar and insulin resistance train to nowhere good.

You really can’t have your cake and eat it too.

[atomicspacebunny]

Then, this morning at 3am, on the way home from a 15hr day of driving, I had not eaten anything for close to 12hrs. So, I got the big idea, of swinging into a 24hr Mexican food place, and ordering one of those big bombing breakfast burritos, which had “only” eggs, bacon, and cheese (I should have added sour cream). Grabbed a spoon out of my glove box, and ate all the good stuff, then threw the whole tortilla away. Still it was a pretty big meal at 3 am.

How bad are these cheats ?

Sounds like that burrito was TexMex and they do not put any any additives at all in this type of food. The tortillas are usually super thin (with no additives or preservatives).

When I first started doing keto I would get one of those huge TexMex (“open 24hrs”) burritos sometimes, like chorizo or steak and egg w/cheese once a week and eat the tortilla too, surprisingly it did not put any kind of a dent in my ketogenic state, which really shocked me considering how big the tortillas are; when I checked them constantly (being blood ketone strips are so expensive) the ketone readings remained steady.

I proceeded to test this several times at $5.00 dollars per keto strip through out the day on many more occasions and results were the same; NO getting knocked out of ketosis? I got the same results with the Carne Asada Quesadilla (like a cheese crisp with steak and avocado/guacamole; w/ onions & tomato’s only); dripping with so much butter that you could slip and break your neck if you moved the wrong way from all the hot butter dripping off your fingers…lol

One other thing about those TexMex foods, they have a lot of fat dripping off the food and soaking into the tortilla and maybe that’s why? The food is always real real fatty!

I’m guessing the reason for not getting knocked out of ketosis is because there is no sugar or preservatives in the tortilla itself which are very large and I am not eating a bunch of sugary foods or highly processed carbs on top of it?