#cantarguewithidiots

[mellyhatchet]

Sometimes a person just needs to be deleted. #shegone #fuckoff Don't fucking tell Me to shut up when I was defending black panthers to someone who believes in caging wild animals for human reasons. I was only pointing out facts about why that poor animal should be set free back in his jungle. #cantarguewithidiots So, wanna call me out like that? She's now deleted from every social media account I got. I don't need friends like that. #endthecruelty #tileverycageisempty

[sweet-apples-and-cinnamon]

Ketosis is so misunderstood. Most of the people who are against it don’t even know what it is. We eat a high fat low carb diet. No, that doesn’t mean we eat only bacon. Half of my plate is vegetables and the other half is whatever I’ve made for that day.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes and an avocado.

Lunch: a homemade lasagne. It was minced beef, my own tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes and some other stuff (like mushrooms), and then for the ‘pasta’ I used a homemade tortilla that was made from flaxseed, eggs and almond flour. You know, WHOLE FOODS. The white sauce was made from cheese.

Dinner: Salmon with sauteed veggies and a small handful of sweet potato fries.

These are all foods that my grandparents grew up eating. That was a time when obesity was rare! So why don’t we eat that now? Because saturated fat is bad, right? Wrong. Check out Ansel Keys; he’s the guy that led the world down the low fat pathway. Read all the research articles that shows that increased saturated fat =/= high cholesterol nor does it cause heart disease. In actual fat, SUGAR has been identified as the main cause for heart disease by promoting inflammation. I don’t just spout this shit willy-nilly, I actually *READ*. Trans fat? Still bad, which is why we don’t eat it! All those processed foods that other people eat? It’s not possible to be in ketosis and eat them so we avoid them.

If high fat is so bad, why has Sweden changed its nutritional guidelines to recommend high fat low carb eating? Oh, of course, a firefighter knows more about nutrition than the researchers who spend their lives on this: Phinny and Volek (they have awesome books by the way), Noakes, Attica, Davis...

If high fat low carb eating make you obese, why did I lose a significant amount of weight eating like that? Why have I kept it off? How would it make you lose fat and then make you obese? It doesn’t make sense, especially when you consider that there are formerly obese people still eating this way decades later who are STILL at their healthy weight.

If high fat low carb eating gives you diabetes, why do Type 2 diabetics find that ketosis HELPS their diabetes to the point where they either need less insulin or can stop using it altogether? Diabetes is provoked by increased blood sugar levels and you just don’t get that if you’re limiting your carbs and replacing them with fats.

Mostly though, what pisses me off is that people think there’s a ‘one diet fits all.’ There isn’t. I’ve tried loads in the past and they worked in terms of weight loss but maybe they didn’t help with energy levels like I wanted or maybe they took too much preparation time. Ketosis works for me because the work is minimal, I don’t count calories, I enjoy the food and my energy is through the roof. I’m not some fatty chowing down on comfort foods. I’m 5′5″ and weigh less than 130lb!

And what else pisses me off? That some people are so close-minded. Most of them don’t even know what ketosis is but they think it’s bad. They’re totally unwilling to read about the subject because they know they’re right. In reality, I think they’re scared to read about it in case they find out they’re wrong. They spout the same tired dogma of ‘saturated fat is bad for you’ but have never stopped to question whether this assertion is actually true. They’ve never bothered to read the numerous research articles on the subject. If there’s anything I dislike the most, it’s deliberate ignorance.