God, still doing the LCHF thing. Not that I mind a diet of filet mignon and bacon, but it's a difficult diet to keep going. I generally have to go shopping 3.5 times a day in order to keep all the fresh food needed to feed six people in the house. There can be no boxes or cans.
And then, my children have gotten the idea from somewhere that home-cooked, fresh food is actually a sneaky substitute for the real food that comes out of boxes. OK, we ate a lot of mac and cheese in the old days. It's a challenge to keep them eating high quality food. So that's something to keep me busy.
Years ago, Denis Leary had this hilarious riff about the morphing of modern man into some kind of soft sandal wearing, tofu eating, meat shunning, full contact football abhorring, sun avoiding, Oprah watching creature. I think about that while I'm clicking through my three thousand paleo/LCHF web sites everyday. I think about it because sometimes an image of Paleo man comes unbidden to my mind, an image of a man similarly struggling to live forever.
Paleo man wears finger shoes when not earthing, wears special colored lenses to help him maintain his circadian rhythm. Only sprints. Moves often and slow. Lifts heavy things. Checks his glucose and ketone levels obsessively. Eats spoonfuls of organic unrefined coconut oil. Eats exactly five brazil nuts a day. Intermittently fasts (the thinner the faster, the more the fasting). Drinks bone broth. Eats the perfect diet which only requires supplementing with Vitamin D3, fermented cod liver oil, magnesium, iodine, CoQ10, resistant starch, probiotics, and prebiotics.
Now this sounds more like an eating disorder. Perfect control perfect life. And the acolytes all want the primal/paleo gurus to tell them exactly what to do to get themselves fixed -- what to eat, what to take, how to sleep, walk, breath, and think. It's kind of worrying. But they're just people looking to feel better, live forever, cure something. Like us all.
Of course, there're plenty of sciencey LCHF blogs out there too -- less orthodoxy and more studies. I like best the blogs by actual doctors and scientists. I like the blogs which are helping to disseminate the studies debunking the low fat dogma and trans fat insanity. And I still read all the others, just in case.
So, still in this for a penny in for a pound of pork.
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