Jay Aitchsee wrote:Leptic, I know you are trying to do the hard core keto thing, but maybe you could ease your wife in that direction by adopting a "whole foods" diet first. Which isn't really a diet, it's just eating a little smarter. See if you can get her to see the wisdom of giving up processed and refined foods (most anything that comes with a label in a box, bottle, or can). Shop the outside aisles of grocery store for fresh fruit, vegetables, meats and maybe a little dairy. Choose high fiber low sugar fruits sparingly and above ground vegies. If the wife wants potatoes, suggest sweet potatoes. You won't go into ketosis, but you will lower your over all carb intake and high glycemic load foods automatically - which should result in weight loss, a fairly rapid drop in serum triglycerides.and an improvement in BG level. Once on this "diet, it would be pretty easy to move on to Keto-Ville just by eating less or none of the carbs on the table while your wife could remain in Real-Food-Ville by continuing to eat them. She might not even notice you didn't eat any of the potatoes.
Way too much common sense in this post
That's pretty much what I'm resigned to doing. I would be totally down with the full-on keto thing, but it is proving to be threatening in light of some control issues that certain members of my family need to deal with (and yes, I have plenty of my own issues).
To be fair, the pasta was
whole-wheat pasta and as many of you have very astutely surmised, this is not
really about carbs or no carbs. It will be interesting to see what my blood ketones are tomorrow, but they were at 0.8 mmol/L this afternoon anyway (I don't do the bone broth fasting thing on weekends).
To be even more fair, my previous diet was
so bad that the inclusion or exclusion of some whole wheat pasta is probably negligible compared with the exclusion of:
- large (read huge) plates of normal refined pasta, often with a second helping
- massive quantities of baguette (white flour)
- regular trips to the patisserie
- large-size milk chocolate bars, eaten whole at one sitting, several times a week
- handfuls of store-bought chocolate chip cookies, almost every day
- sugary desert after *every* meal
- 2-3 beers in an evening, several times a week
The above confessions will no doubt reveal me as the morally weak scoundrel that I am, and explain much of my wife's disgust. However I also suppose that the above indulgences were partly self-medication (dopamine fix) to help deal with chronic sleep deprivation and an extremely stressful home environment.
It's been a big achievement for me to forgo all of the above junk, and more, since around May 31 when I started this thread. I confess I am a bit sad that I have not had one single word of encouragement or support from my wife, despite the fact that I tried to include her in this from the start (I
know I should stop bitching about this but can't seem to stop).
