A year ago I stayed at a Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan that had really weird rules around food. Each day we fasted for around 18 hours, with a six-hour window where we could have lunch and dinner.
We were permitted coffee in the morning – but there was no milk allowed.
One of the guests, who had been at the monastery a really long time, and found the fasting made him feel ‘clear’ – would do something really weird with his coffee each morning. He put lumps of butter in it.
“You are totally gross,” I would say to him each day. “That food combo makes no sense – it’s like drinking port with Fanta.”
Now I know that he was on the forefront of the hottest dietary trend 2017 – keto.
It was even written about last week in Goop!
But first – what is it??
Keto is a very low carb, high fat (hence the butter in coffee) diet where deprived of carbohydrates – and its by-product, glucose – the body raids its fat stores to burn energy.
That process is known as ketosis – where the body switches fuel sources from sugar to fats.
I stumbled on “Keto” by accident. Needing to lose a few kilos – and finding it increasingly tougher as I got older, I teamed up with a buddy who assured me he had a sure fire weight loss method.
Both of us travel a lot – and had heard the siren song of the breakfast buffet enough times to need a plan on our return from frequent travels.
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Weight loss on keto still depends on not eating excessive Calories. The point of the eating plan (for those who's goal isnt ripped body building or elite sporting performance) is effortless, voluntary calorie restriction due to the satiating effect of fat, the appetite suppressant effect of ketosis and low insulin levels without yo-yoing blood sugar levels