Watching the British Who Do You Think You Are? One episode has the comedian Ruby Wax, who discovers that the reason her parents were so volatile and abusive were because they barely got out of Austria before the Holocaust, they weren't able to get family out, and her mother suffered from severe heredity mental issues that Ruby herself suffers from. As she said "One conversation where my mother told me just a little of this would have re-written my entire life." She just thought her parents were horrible people, not people who had suffered horrors.

but I would lose my goddamn mind if all I could eat was meat and cheese, with a handful of salad for variation. Also, that sounds like a recipe for nutritional deficiencies.

That is the nutty hardcore version of ketogenic, which I can't just do and raise my eyebrows at. I eat a lot of veggies (roasted cauliflower, om nom nom) and berries along with my meat and cheese.

Okay, I thought keto allowed more non-starchy veggies than just a handful of greens, and allowed some fruit. Because my brother did keto for a while and mentioned eating keto pumpkin pie, yum.

Well, my friend says she loves the diet, so as long as she doesn't get scurvy, good for her.

She just thought her parents were horrible people, not people who had suffered horrors.

I mean, both can be true.

I mean, both can be true.

She did say that just because she understood them, she didn't forgive them for everything.

Keto when you're actually in full-on ketosis at all times is a lot more restricted than what a lot of what's called keto these days, is. Not even a huge amount of protein in that.

Oh, Amazon. I've recently purchased a couple of Tana French novels and I just looked up the series boxed set of Orphan Black. The "related items" Amazon is now showing me are a whole lot of knives. That's dark, man.

Ha, aurelia! That's kind of awesome.

Omg aurelia I love that

I do ket o for the diabetes, but I do eat veggies, although not a lot of them at a time and always with lots of fat. Cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini are the mainstays for me.

I stumbled upon it searching for something to eat that didn't raise my blood sugar (I test 2 hours after every meanl). I wouldn't recommended as a lifestyle of a weight loss diet because it is too restrictive if you don't want to cook. Also, to stay in ketosis you sort of have to obsessively track your food intake, which is annoying, but I was doing it anyway for The diabetes, which is how I realized that it I ate a lot of fat, my blood sugar didn't spike.

The challenge is trying to eat enough fat to keep your macros right, and I am having some trouble right now because I've gone off eggs and bacon. Oddly, my cholesterol went from very high to normal.

I have a weird relationship with ket o because it really does help me, and I am glad there are all the resources, but I hate talking about diets and weight loss which has been a challenge, since I visibility weight. I was a fat acceptance girl in my mind, so losing weight felt like betraying my ideals but I am so much less tired. Like, I just thought it was normal to get home from work and pretty much to go sleep. But that wasn't the keto, it was just not having blood sugar in the 300s all the time. Also, I hate being small, I feel like a who in Horton Hears a Who No one sees me or hears me. I don't take up space in the world.

To sum up, I don't think keto is for everyone, but if you are careful about nutrition and have certain health issues it is helpful- I think Atropa does it for different issues. Definitely not for everyone, and as I said I am in a bit of a crisis since I let myself have some potato chips- I don't do moderation I think since I am done with theater for the year.

In terms of greens, when I go out I tend to get a salad with steak or a hamburger, and hopefully avocado and blue cheese. It looks like I don't like veggoies, but I just don't like salad and most restaurants don't serve things on cooked spinach or cauliflower, so it s the best option.

Meat, cheese, and a handful of greens sounds like induction-phase Atkins before the diet allows you to start escalating carbs back up to a break-even plateau. I can handle it for a few weeks since the meat and cheese helps satisfy my craving for savory breads, but it's hell for anyone with a sweet tooth.