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I’m on a United Airlines flight from the US to Barcelona. My wife, who loves me very much, dipped into her store of frequent flyer miles and got me a business class seat, with flat bed, the whole deal - I’ve never had the experience, though I could definite get used to it.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get any sleep, because the old guy across the aisle was having heart attack or stroke symptoms. The cabin crew asked for any doctors or medical professionals. And luckily there were two who came forward. With everyone talking and the lights up, I didn’t get any sleep, sorry to say.

But the pic is breakfast in business class. Little egg white medallions, plus sausages. Other stuff that I stayed away from. The sausages had some sugar in them, I don’t think too much (?).

The old guy, the doctors concluded, might have suffered a very mild heart attack, so the flight went on to Barcelona, and they took him off on a stretcher. but the doctors thought he’d be just fine.

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Dinner tonight: salad of chopped romaine, shredded Parmesan, avocado, roasted chicken, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, Allulose with citric acid, chili powder (sugar free).

I worked out with 30 minutes on the Peloton bike, which, added to body weight exercises and stretching, served mostly as a warm up for my barbell squat workout.

I’ve mostly gone up and down in place during the past year - not consistent, incremental gains, but two steps forward … two steps back, lol.😹

This is a big goal of mine for 2025 - get back to what I was lifting a couple of years back, and go up from there.

My weight has been slowly dropping to around 192 lbs. I want to get down to the mid 180s lbs. I’ve lost some muscle along with the fat, but it could be much worse. I’m down a couple of pants sizes, which is always a good feeling.

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Ella (the cat supermodel of the catwalk) contemplates the recipe for homemade cranberry sauce. She is highly in favor of a ketogenic diet since, being a cat, she is an obligate carnivore, and doesn’t eat carbs at all.

But Ella knows that her supermodel pals - the human female ones - do eat carbs and, like any human girl, would like to eat yummy sugary things. But we all know the consequences of that … hence the attraction of the rare sugar Allulose.

It turns out that Allulose substitutes great for sucrose, just as Ella guessed. She plans to share the recipe for cranberry sauce with Allulose with the other supermodels when they get together in New York City to do a charity fashion show to benefit the no-kill cat and dog shelter organization, Pets Alive.

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These are cookies my wife makes at Christmas. They are a dark molasses cookie made with bacon fat. I’m afraid the bacon fat is the only “keto” thing about them, lol. They are wonderful, but, well, they are Type 2 diabetes with a satisfying crunch.

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A slice of my Thanksgiving pecan butter pie … it’s keto-friendly, but I’ve been trying to stay away from nuts and nut butters, even when they are pecans.

It’s pecan butter with cream cheese, topped with melted chocolate, and a crust of pecan flour and hemp seed flour. All of it sweetened with Allulose.

It really is delicious and is not very many net carbs. Neither it nor dinner of roast beef and salad has budged my blood sugar levels more than 10% up or down after an hour or two hours.

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Thanksgiving Day dinner. The turkey was cooked in beef tallow, which worked really well.

Stuffing made from fried pork rinds. Green salad with avocado. Green beans sautéed in butter with garlic. Sautéed mushrooms and onions. Cranberry sauce made with Allulose. Brussels sprouts fried in bacon fat and butter. Non keto squash.

Dessert: pecan butter pie made with cream cheese. Rebel keto friendly ice cream made with Allulose and heavy cream.

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My keto dinner: boneless chicken thighs cooked in beef tallow, salad with Caesar dressing, olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

I did 40 light minutes on Peloton bike, some body weight exercises, then 3 sets of 5 reps deadlifts, at 200 lbs, trying to get back to where I was a couple of years ago. I (try my best to) follow the Starting Strength method of barbell training

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My keto dinner: store bought roast chicken and cream sauce with olive oil, sour cream, cider vinegar, salad of lettuce, Caesar dressing with Parmesan cheese.

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My keto dinner. Pork ribs and salad.

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Gary Taubes, "Why We Get Fat" Youtube 2014

This 1951 obesity diet is still pretty much the low carb keto diet for weight loss followed today. I'd say for people like me with a lot of insulin resistance, fruit needs to be only occasional berries like blueberries in season. Cheese also needs to be limited, and nuts as well.

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Gary Taubes, "Why We Get Fat," Youtube 2014.

We know in 2024 that for many people trying to lose weight, control diabetes, and overcome insulin resistance, it's not enough to not eat refined grains, starches, and sugars. That works fine for some, but for people like me who have been insulin resistant and obese for decades, this requires a much more strict approach - no grains at all, for example.

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Slides from Gary Taubes lecture, "Why We Get Fat," YouTube video, 2014.

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Gary Taubes lecture on "Why We Get Fat," 2014.

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Fried pork rinds just delivered today.

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Key takeaways from the Gary Taubes lecture, “Why We Get Fat,” YouTube video linked earlier, from 2014.

A lot has been learned in the 10 years since this lecture and Taubes’ book. This includes much more about the different effects and actions of the two distinct sugars that make up sucrose or table sugar, which are glucose and fructose.

But the basic message is the same: carbs drive insulin; insulin drives fat storage and fat accumulation in the fat cells; and a reduction in blood insulin is required to allow fat to flow back out of fat storage and be used to fuel the body.

One slide above refers to refined grains, starches, and sugars as driving insulin. Another 10 years of experience has shown that people like me, with many years of insulin resistance to overcome and long-present obesity, have to be much stricter about restricting and, really, giving up nearly all carbs apart from green leaves and vegetables and fiber.

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My keto dinner: salad of romaine lettuce and classic Caesar dressing with avocado oil mayonnaise and Parmesan cheese. Olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Fermented pickle and pickle juice. Butter broiled shrimp. Allulose with citric acid.