In one sense I feel like I've totally succeeded in getting back onto the keto diet since coming back from holiday. No sugar, no carbs, fasting between 18 and 20 hours a day. I'm not quite down to one meal a day, but I frequently have one proper meal at lunchtime and then a strawberry milkshake before the end of my eating window.
On paper this is all good, and from a weight loss perspective it seems to be working — I'm almost at the 13st target weight I set myself when I started this whole thing.
But I'm also conscious that as my familiarity with keto has grown I'm probably not doing it as healthily as I used to. When I started I just ate, like, chicken breast and avocado in a salad of leaves and raw pepper (because I didn't know what else to do), and because I was ravenous I was delighted to eat whatever I made.
Now I feel like I'm gaming the system a little. Portions that are bigger than they ought to be; lots of fried cabbage, which probably isn't as good as fresh greens; more meat, but it's not very high quality.
This week I was thrilled to realise that pork scratchings are available to me as a snack option. I guess my thinking was: "hey, people eat fat bombs, right, it's pretty much the same thing". But even searching around right now for a link to "fat bombs" I'm seeing the emphasis on healthy fats. A packet of scratchings has, like, 1000 calories! I also just discovered the Gin Rickey cocktail, and have probably over indulged somewhat (by recent standards at least!).
So you see what I'm saying here: it's not like I'm pigging out at KFC or anything, but there's a drift towards "dirty" keto in a sense, and I'm just, y'know, acknowledging it. That's what this blog is for after all!
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