Today was just another unseasonably warm lovely day around 70, and it’s 68 indoors this evening with no external fossilized help. But the leaves are mostly on the ground now and a new front pushes in tonight. The dawn should be rainy, and still above freezing outside; high of 62 eventually.

On Sunday the winds come to start piling up the leaves and to bring back nights that do freeze.

So today, already well stocked with meat, I bought from the produce aisle exclusively.

Here is my well-curated list of things for salad. The top end of it is perfect (low-carb micronutrient-rich things). Toward the end it trails off into items with a few more carbohydrates, but essentially delicious ones–to me a salad without tomatoes is pretty meh.

• Feta, and olive oil (using picual, plus balsamic), and I splurged on organic walnuts
• Romaine and/or arugula (also very permissible are lettuce, chard, endive, kale, mustard greens, sprouts and watercress)
• Celery
• Cabbage, green preferred (I’m trying Napa)
• Bok choy
• Cauliflower
• Cucumber
• Avocado
• Chili peppers (I got serrano, anaheim, and habanero)
• Onion (I believe white is said to be preferred but I have all three)
• Tomato
• Olives
• Slaw: shredded broccoli and dreaded carrot (mostly I got this for fish tacos)

Also falling into the Good camp, but not very salad-like according to my current tastes: zucchini, brussels sprouts, french green beans, mushrooms, eggplant, asparagus, and bell pepper

I could chef it up with things like eggs or ham, but my intention is for the salad to be the main dish, with a ‘side’ hunk of meat for the average typical hardcore keto dinner (with things like those tacos, and pintos, and squash taken off the menu short term, to be reintroduced in moderation over time).

All a work in evolutionary progress of course.

I also got rewarded by scanning (though not buying) in the meat aisle. They had store-branded organic turkeys. I saw a 13 pounder for fifty bucks, which is under four dollars a pound. I’m pretty sure that by the time there’s room in my fridge for such a monster, the option will evaporate, but …

The price of small town living.

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Okay. Keto yes, (Intermittent) Fasting yes, low-carb high-fat plus veg roughage yes. Certainly if you’re on board with the Why of all that, and possibly even if you’re not–I have a guy you want to watch.

Dr. Cywes the #CarbAddictionDoc

He’s on board with the Why of all that too, but there’s a really important value-added bit that he uniquely brings to the dietary table.

Dr. Cywes thinks, and I am sharply inclined to agree, that Carbohydrate Addiction is a serious problem. For myself personally as well as many others. Maybe you too.

Here let me provide you with a crash course in his thinking from over the last five months.

Ep:306 FASTING ESSENTIALS ON A KETO-CARNIVORE DIET – FACTS V INTERNET NOISE

Ep:307 FASTING 2: INTERNET GIMMICKS – DON’T BE A VICTIM. SURVIVING, THRIVING AND BREAKING A FAST

Ep:317 CARBADDICTION PART 2: ROAD TO RECOVERY

Ep:331 KETO-VEGETARIANISM – EVEN CARNIVORES WILL LEARN SO MUCH
Especially useful if you don’t like the feeling that keto is too carnivorous for you.

Ep:332 CRITICAL INFO: HOW TO STOP SNACKING FOREVER
To me this is the single most important part of his value-add. He defines snacking as an emotional event rather than a dietary one, ties that in to the concept of carb addiction, and suggests replacing it with zero-calorie ‘bridging’ of fasting periods with things like coffee and tea instead of cookies (or even carrots).

Like many of his videos, this one is slightly marred by a gentle pushing of various powders and tonics, but I haven’t found it too hard to take, and he makes clear that they’re deeply optional. I like him, I think he’s really smart and practical, and I hope you do too. There’s a bonus in here for those of us addicted to other things as well (with a wink toward the Denver sisters).