Thread on my Lent journey 🚨 For years, I followed a low carb… keto approach. Consistent. Not dabbling. Not cycling. Then life changed. Stroke. Cancer. Aortic dissection. Two deaths in my family. Not a bad week… sustained stress. I didn’t “fall off.” No sugar binges. No fast food spirals. No obvious dietary collapse. If you looked at my plate… you’d say: “Still keto.” And yet… weight increased. What changed wasn’t the diet. It was behavior under stress. Subconscious shifts: • Eating a little more after meals • Eating more often • Fasting less No single moment. Just slow drift. This is where people get misled: “I’m still low carb… why am I gaining weight?” Because dietary framework ≠ immunity from behavior. Keto improves satiety. It does not override stress-driven patterns. “Healthy” and “compliant” foods became easy to overconsume. Then came Lent. I removed two things: Dark chocolate Nuts No calorie counting. No macro tracking. No added exercise. Result: -10 lbs. Why? Those foods were the leak. Not because they’re “bad” Because they were: • Easy to justify • Easy to repeat • Easy to eat without awareness This is the uncomfortable truth: You can gain weight on keto. You can gain weight on carnivore. You can gain weight eating “clean.” If: • Stress is high • Sleep is poor • Eating frequency increases • Intake drifts The body responds to behavior… not labels. Key takeaways: • Stress changes behavior before awareness • “Healthy” foods can still be problematic • Frequency matters as much as composition • Small daily excess compounds over time • Removing 1–2 high-exposure foods can reverse long-term gain This wasn’t a failure of keto. It was unrecognized drift under stress. Fix the drift… the weight follows.

Posted by Doctor Tro at 2026-04-05 03:07:58 UTC