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This may seem like a silly question, but if the point of a low carb diet is to live off our own fat for energy, why do we eat at all? What benefit is there in it?
If you do not eat, you will die of starvation.why do we eat at all? What benefit is there in it?
I know this came across a little stupid, but I haven't explained myself very well. I mean more in terms of on a day to day basis. Obviously we need to replace the fat/vitamins etc, but when we eat our meals every day, does it serve any purpose other than the replacement of that fat. Does it then make no difference if we go a day without food?
The reason the keto forums say this is because its so much easier to fast when you are used to eating keto. The higher fat intake keeps you feeling fuller for longer so its far easier to skip meals. If as a carb burner you try to fast the hunger pangs are very strong so you are far more likely to fail or say "this isn't for me". Once your body is used to running on fat then its easier to miss meals. There is a huge amount of knowledge out there which people are happy to share. Sometimes you have to take them as trying to be helpful. They usually know because they have been in your shoes.A lot of keto forums talk about the need to eat regularly at first, and I was wondering what, if anything this actually achieve s given that the aim is to use our own fat. Is eating a piece of fat better than simply not eating in the short term, is there any short term advantage to eating that fat or is purely to make sure we replace some of the fat our body needs?
I do this all the time.Once you get used to eating low carb it is very easy to just forget to eat. I did that a few days ago. It came to 8 o'clock at night and I realized I had not eaten anything. It was not a deliberate fast, I was simply busy and forgot.
Not about fasting, but about the 'why eat?' question in general.
I'm going through one of my massively obsessively meticulous phases at the moment, and one pattern there is the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. So if I've got a perfect line on my Libre graph I terrorise myself with the decision of whether to even bother to add food and insulin to the equation - two factors which in their opposing ways will potentially upset the line - or not.
My break was over this morning by the time I'd decided whether to allow myself coffee or not. Coffee spikes me. My line was perfect. I wasn't sure how much insulin to take to cover it as I'm doing different stuff to normal today. So I didn't bother with the coffee.
I don't mind the not having something. But I do massively mind the amount of time and energy I waste beating myself up about stuff like this.
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Gosh, reading your words has made me realise just how very very hard we are being on ourselves - it's okay being aware of this in myself, but gosh, somebody else saying it has put a whole new light on it for me.It really is stupid and is allowing diabetes to control me.