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Summary of plan for this lent: One meal every other day, or fast Monday Wednesday and Friday. No sugar (no desserts or fruits). No seed oils. No milk. Heavy cream allowed in beverages. Four meals per week, max. Excerpt from this morning's writing: Ah! Is triggering a binge an indicator a ‘bad’ for me? Appears so! What other food categories, besides desserts, trigger a binge in me? - milk - beer - half and half - sodas - fruit juices - alcohol What they have in common is that they are ways of drinking calories. They likely raise blood sugar and insulin, as well. They should arguably be banned this lent. Perhaps allow kefir, as it has a medicinal quality, but no longer allow myself to sweeten it with un-kefired milk. Allow heavy cream, I think, because it does not break ketosis, but deny myself the vice of drinking large quantities of it straight, on a soft of keto dairy binge. OK, I feel we are getting a plan here: - no desserts, including fruit, (even in social situations) this lent - no caloric drinks, except heavy cream in moderation I’m feeling an urge to disallow any foods made with industrial seed oil as well, like the “garlic bread” made with margarine – I’d love to go through lent without taking any more of those poisons into my body. (Of course, there’s the complication that nearly all of the animal foods I am planning to allow myself (and can afford) come from animals that were fed industrial food like soy and corn, so I am unfortunately downstream of that pollution until/unless I somehow move my life to a Joe Salatin sort of environment. But cutting out the poisons that have not yet been run through an animal will still clean up my inputs, IMO). I judge we are getting to a plan for this lent, a plan we can commit to, feel good about, and actually be able to carry out. - We will avoid falling into the temptation of sugars and alcohol. - We will avoid anything directly contaminated with industrial seed oils. - We will allow animal foods (even when their diet was not ideal). - No more sweet milk. - We will fast from all carbs and proteins every M W F, (or perhaps every other day?) - On days we do eat, we will eat only one meal implies One meal every other day, or if trying to maintain a steady weekly schedule (without the days flipping every other week), we have meals on S S T T. Other desired conditions: facilitate good fellowship, imagining that cream in my beverage (may need to have decaffeinated to avoid caffeine overdose) will be sufficient to sit with my fellow parishioners). Find a way to facilitate birthday celebrations. Writing that, I imagine that Jason does not allow a birthday to become an excuse for harming himself with desserts… This leaves us with protocol of four meals per week whe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB6IWaOTc9g