We never eat junk food, except for rare occasions where someone might bring some chips.  I live in the neighborhood that is basically the Brooklyn of Montevideo, and we're surrounded by fabulous restaurants that we can walk to or have delivery.

Lately we've been on an empanada craze, because of one truly amazing artisanal empanada-place that's a block from my house.

Quote from: CRKrueger;909537Atkins like for weight or full blown epileptic therapy if you don't mind the question?

Sorry for the long response - been on staycation!

Weight. I have fantastically good genetics, I used to be in great shape up until after college. Then I went straight to shit. I wrestled and played football throughout high-school and a little into college before I started writing full-time. Yeah eating 5k calories a day for years was fine when I was burning it all off...

So last April I decided to "get serious" about my lifestyle change, and went ketogenic. I discovered I'm very sensitive to carbs, more than most. So I have to keep my carbs down to about 20-grams a day. I didn't walk into this lightly, I did a shit-ton of research, which of course a lot of it was spelled out by many on Keto Sub-Reddit - but I work at one of the best healthcare and research centers in the nation (if not the world) so I have my pick of nutritionists and metabolic specialists to bounce my questions and concerns off of. Long story short - keto was the way to go.

I've dropped 52lbs since April 18th. With ZERO exercise, and very little effort other than changing my diet. It freaks people out that I eat so much fat and protein, but I also devour a lot of green-leafys too. My blood pressure has never been high - and it's completely normal. All my bloodwork is perfect.

As a corollary - I keep my calorie intake to about 1800-2k a day, 20g carbs, and I aim for higher fat than protein - because if you overdo protein your body will convert it into sugar and toss you out of ketosis.

Coffee is your bestest friend too while on keto. Thankfully I'm almost as big a coffee nerd as I am a gamer (I roast, and brew with different methods, and can talk with the best snobs - though I break several coffee-nazi rules regularly).


How does this impact my weekend gaming feasts? Not much. When you eat BBQ, sausage, etc. - it's right in line with Keto as long as you plan for it. Easy peasy.