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I broke my keto/intermittent fasting today. I have clearly been auto-digesting both muscle and fat and that means I'm not absorbing enough energy in my diet.

When the space between my cheekbone and edges of my mouth becomes concave it means fat has been lost from the skin on my face and I am approaching anorexia territory.

I figure that after so much abuse that it might take a while for my guts to recover to anywhere near normal. I am only just past the threshold where it was so bad I was getting intense allergic reactions to many common foods.

So I have to keep up the starches for now. I think that means I'm going to buy bulk beef dripping and chips, and my 200-300g of mostly pork chops.

Potatoes are anyway one of the lowest protein vegetables there is. Tapioca is another low protein starchy food. Good for getting a bit fatter. I think I previously had confirmed it was a low allergy food.

Now that my allergy has calmed down I should be able to venture into the taters/meat/leaves/berries paleo territory. I just have got to underweight and I feel it in the utter lack of energy as I even lose weight.

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Loki 2y ago

We can digest fats and sugars because the sugars become fats and allow us to weather a bad time with low quality food, but long term it is a higher oxidation load. Healthy carbs always are loaded with vitamins and phytochemicals that help mop up that oxidation.

But as a doctor told me when I was 20, and quite badly underweight - being underweight causes other things to go wrong and if it's happening, you need to pile on the carbs and get the blubber back before you return to a normal diet.

It shows that in a healthy human body there needs to be times that prompt autophagy and that those times you need to be ketogenic so it hits the fat and not the muscle. Muscle readily releases sugar but only about 20% of the mass is sugar the rest is waste. And the amino acids that get oxidised to sugar obviously leave behind oxidative radicals in the process, and ammonia.

We need to starve ourselves a bit from time to time, but if you get rapidly below healthy, stop it immediately and get your glow back.