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This is me, too. Days I don't work out I fell foggy and sluggish and blah. I try to workout every day.

This is the way to go. I've been running for a decade and I still fartlek.

I do not think your body will readily cannibalize critical organs if there are fat stores available. That strikes me as preposterous.

It actually isn't. This is not that kind of therapy nor do I want it to be. With my kind of long term trauma, somebody telling you a bunch of things that you should do can easily shut you down. It has done in other therapies. This kind is much more about building trust and a feeling of safety and helping me figure out how…

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This is also my way. I can't let myself even think about whether or not I want to do it or feel like doing it. I treat it like brushing my teeth. It's just a thing I do every day because it's what I do every day. Want and motivation don't really come into it.

I'm doing ketosis after years of just low carb. You could get everything you want from a dietary change just from going low carb, I'm sure. I also think it's possible you could try low carb, then try keto and feel you get no benefit from either. I think that finding the right diet/exercise plan is a lot of throwing things…

There is actually a growing collection of studies that indicate a ketogenic diet could be used to treat a wide array of neurological disorders. There is also some compelling evidence that your gut microbiome, which is really only affected by your diet in adulthood, could be largely responsible for your mood and even…

Shabooya!

I'm not a big breakfast eater but I find boiled egg and avocados are very quick/easy foods.

I'm having super positive effects like @bjwoozy and @GaleHawkins. It's the reason I'm doing this, actually. I have struggled with depression and anxiety for most of my life. This diet has been more effective at treating those things than any prescription drugs I've been put on - and I've been put on a lot. I've been put on…

So, these are basically exogenous ketones? And they have the same benefits to mood and energy as being on a ketogenic diet? Is that what's happening here? That's crazy! Do you feel happier, more energetic, clear minded, all that?

Me too. If it weren't for my husband, I'd eat the same thing every day and love it. I'm a creature of habit, that's for sure.

You can say all of these things about gamblers, though. I addressed the topic of the physical aspect in a previous post if you're interested. I'm not sure what you mean about responsibility. I think we're all responsible. All of us. A heroin addict is completely responsible for changing their own life. No one else can do…

I see what you are saying. Consider this, though. Once you have detoxed a person from cocaine, they are no longer physically addicted to the cocaine. That doesn't seem to have any effect on the risk of them going out to get more cocaine once you've let them out of your site. You have to continue treating them as a cocaine…

I would as well. In fact, I used the word "compulsively" in the post you replied to. Where we part is that I think saying something is a compulsion and not an addiction is kind of a distinction without a difference. I would call hourly cocaine use a compulsion.

An addiction is often defined as a substance or activity that you can't stop even though you want to and you notice it has deleterious effects on your life. I think that's a workable definition, but I'm interested in thoughts that disagree. There are people who lose everything because they gamble compulsively. They lose…

I said that checking sunflower seeds for sugar content is how off sugar I am. Avoiding veg because they contain sugar would be beyond that, I think. So, no, I eat vegetables. Your body can even convert protein into carbs. I'm doing the upper carb limit of keto which is about 40g/day net carbs. That's actaully a lot of…

They've done studies on this and have found that eating breakfast doesn't seem to help anything. Observational studies found correlation between being a breakfast eater and being thinner but it's confounding. Controlled studies found that eating breakfast leads to greater calorie consumption throughout the day, which is…

I am doing keto. I have gone cold turkey, no sugar. I check the ingredients of sunflower seeds to make sure there's no sugar, that's how off sugar I am. No bread, pasta. No fruit. As far as the addiction thing, I definitely see similarities. I have never been a junkie or into cocaine so I can't speak to that. I have quit…

You think this person is eating so few calories that it's causing insomnia but not few enough to lose weight?

The sleep thing sound like another problem, though. I dint think op is choosing to sleep so little. So, if the insomnia is causing the food logging problems, we would still need to find what's causing the insomnia.

If you think you still have adrenaline spikes and you're also having trouble sleeping, you could have ptsd. That would cause all sorts of problems with memory and concentrationcwhich would impair your ability to accurately log your calories. Accidents are a common cause of ptsd. It might be something to look into.

This is why I eat the wasabi almonds. It's not easy to eat too many of those.

I had a similar problem when I quit smoking and have found mindfulness to be a great help. See, I was using the smokes to self soothe, I had no idea how to do it otherwise (I didn't have a spectacular childhood). Once the physical addiction was under control, I started to really see how incapable I was of regulating my own…

I think it depends on how overweight you are. For instance, if your weight is noticeably affecting your mobility, over 2lbs/wk may not be that difficult, even. If you're trying to get from a size 6 to a size 4, 2lbs/wk may not even be possible unless you live on the treadmill and have an Adderall rx.

300g is not excessive. I am doing keto. I try to stay under 40g net (not counting fiber). 40g net is usually about 60-70g total. To do this, I obviously have no sugar, no bread, no pasta, nothing like that. I allow myself almost no fruit at all (like only a handful of blueberries), almost no dairy at all (like, half a cup…

How often do you weigh yourself? If you've only weighed yourself once, I wouldn't get discouraged. Weight fluctuates quite a bit. I weigh myself every day just so I know what the trend is. Doing it once a week, if I catch myself on an off day, it's too demoralizing.

Hah, I'll tell you what, none of this: Is really that hard to pronounce, especially if there's a bag of flamin' hot cheetos in it for me.

Oh boy howdy, did it. Probably the biggest example is a blog called Dances With Fat by a woman named Ragen Chastain who makes some really bonkers claims. It's a shame because: ...this for real happens, overweight and obese people being treated like they don't exist. And it's shameful.