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I don't do diets. I don't have the need for diets most of the time and I know I don't have the stamina to keep one up. But I wonder a lot about dieting.
Paleodiet, where you eat like a caveman. Only raw things and eggs and stuff. Completely overlooking the fact that cavemen died at 30-40 years of age.
Waterdiet, where you drink shitloads a lot of water to keep your stomach full so you won't feel hungry.
The flight attendant-diet, where I have no idea what you do but involves lots of asparagus and lemons.
But I've been wondering a lot about one of the longer lived diets, the one where you put yourself in ketoacidosis by not eating any carbs at all. Not one. In the beginning you're not even allowed to eat lettuce and greens because apart from water they apparently contain carbs in some way. I'm not that good on nutrition. You only eat fried/boiled eggs and a lot of meat, chicken and fish. This is supposed to help the body burn fat instead of muscle while you diet.
I've always wondered about 2 particular things with this diet: how can you lose weight by frying everything, and how hard could it be refusing bread and pasta? I could easily do that!
So, with the jaw being what it is, I have had a nicer period for a few weeks where I haven't needed painkillers at all. To keep it that way I have been eating mostly soft and small things. Trying to keep healthy, and trying to remind myself of the only nutritional fact I believe in (a grown human needs to eat 800g - 1,2kg in a day to feel content) I've tried to add fruits and veggies. I've eaten a lot of chicken, which is soft and comes in convenient cubes in salads, minced meat (again small food), fish (soft) and fruits like bananas, grapes, pears (even if I have a hard time gripping this round fruit with my teeth, but it's soft too) and so on. I've been doing fine.
Until.
I saw a little old lady carrying 4 baguettes in front of me, and suddenly my brain froze me, climbed out through my nose, positioned itself right by my ear and shouted "CAAAAAAARBS!". It was very hard not to tackle that arthritic little old lady right then and there. I hadn't even noticed that I had gone a few weeks without eating practically any pasta, rice, potatoes or bread. But let me tell you, even if I didn't try this on purpose: when that carb-craving hits you there's no turning back.
So I went home and had tons and tons of spaghetti (<3 Barilla) and baked. Sami had a piece of cake and I had a cake.
And then there was light.
