Yep, this sounds wise. We are different, even our needs regarding electrolytes.
And… Not everyone gets the same amount of them on their diet! It must matter a lot too.
I use extremely little extra salt but many of my staples are salty and my sodium need is low. I would get sick eating as much as recommended for keto but I can’t do that anyway, I get sodium aversion and drop all salty stuff first! While others need more sodium while eating not very salty food, it’s normal they need to use much more extra salt.
Extra salt and extra fat is something I almost lost already. I used much before but now? My fat and salt is my smoked fatty pork. And eggs doesn’t really need salt anyway, I still like them with a tad but it’s not important. But as I eat them with cheese and salty pork, I obviously don’t add any unless I use more eggs than usual, maybe. And my normal days have no added fat at all.
I like simple but I will need some change as just eating my fatty protein is too satiating and I undereat. But I will watch the happenings for a while first… I know I will add fat eventually but I don’t want to go against my habits and taste and eating normal food. I could add fat almost only if I started to eat desserts or fatbombs (fatty desserts, I mean… I eat desserts but they are just like my normal food. they ARE normal food, actually). My normal food is just perfect without any (or super little) added fat. My food with more added fat is way less fatty than my normal food as it requires lean protein like fish and the extra fat is a tiny fragment of what my normal food has or else it would be disgustingly fatty. Hmmm, maybe not disgustingly but I surely wouldn’t like to eat it like that.
Why can’t it be simpler. Maybe I just observe and don’t overthink this. But some changes must be made later, I can’t avoid that. I won’t ever eat crazy high protein especially not now when I simply can’t afford it. My egg supplies could be better too, maybe we really will need to buy from a shop, from better sources, of course but still, I don’t know even the owner of the hens personally let alone the hens! At least my eggs should be proper if I dropped everything regarding liver.
I think I have my liver phase now. It’s awesome, simple, tasty even from probably not very good sources and even very cheap for some reason. Don’t people love it? But why? Oh well.
The only downside it’s very lean but as I may need more extra fat in my diet, it’s good as it’s not like fried chicken… One can add a ton of fat… Alvaro complained he can’t spread it on its bread like in his childhood. So I double the amount. 200g fat for 1000g liver, it sounds good and modest, right? I never could add nearly this much to any lean stuff but liver is special (it’s the animal kingdom’s eggplant once a 300g eggplant absorbed 100g fat and maybe it wasn’t the end but I had enough) . Alvaro’s Mom used way more for sure but I don’t want fat with liver pieces, not like there is anything wrong with it, of course.
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My scales (in my room, my bathroom is tiny and somehow it never occured to me to weigh myself there) show almost always the same number, for years and years, every day, no matter what. Carbs could change it first, +/- 2kg when I went off/on keto… Then 1… Then nothing. Is it the thing I read about, I can have filled glycogen reserves even on very low-carb…? What else if I have no water weight changes? And my cycles never did anything with my weight.
And if I am hungry, I eat even if I am heavier than any time in the last 8 years (I still can gain fat, just very very very slowly and it requires serious overeating and probably much carbs too. as time passes, I worry less and less about gaining fat and I never really worried about that fat gain was always extremely hard and slow for me. but I had skills and patience
) and I already ate enough for 2 days. Alvaro is the one who suffers hunger (basically every day) because of his figure (even on maintenance), poor thing and now not even totally slim (at least he eats pretty much - not enough for him but still much - and doesn’t have much restrictions and those don’t bother him too much. it is worse for many people). Too bad it doesn’t seem a woe change would be possible for him (he tried for a whole meal and got unwell, I am sure extra fat without carbs caused the problem. I fed him some very low-carb, no or little extra fat meals and he liked them and felt fine after, it’s just super rare to find something that can’t be eaten with carbs as if it can, he will do just that then. only baked goods and sweets have a chance… and some soups too).
But it’s simpler to gain more muscles (and cool anyway :D), maybe that will help him - me too but my satiation doesn’t require more calories than what I can afford…
Sorry, I keep trying to stay away but I have some severe addictions and at least 3-4 meet here.
Whatever, I continue with my efforts.