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I read your experience and it is indeed pretty incredible and I'm happy for you. I've used ketosis strategically for athletic reasons, to cut weight. So we both had strong motivations to use it. But for your typical obese person, it is a tremendous challenge to stick with it and at the end of the day, it's adherence that matters.

Put simply, it's easier to adhere to a drug than to a specific, somewhat anti-social diet.


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arijo10/11/2024

It really helps if you use some LLM tool like ChatGPT or Claude to generate the keto recipes (sometimes with the ingredients you have available).

If you stick to cooking keto recipes for a few weeks you end up internalizing the recipe patterns and you start cooking without even thinking about it.