If you haven't eaten in 4 hours you should eat anything, even if it's a "cheat item". Creating rules about what food is or is not permissible is how you give yo

If you haven't eaten in 4 hours you should eat anything, even if it's a "cheat item". Creating rules about what food is or is not permissible is how you give yourself anorexia. You feel good, sure. Your brain doesn't have enough glucose to function. It can't run entirely on ketones. The way we cope is throttling unnecessary brain activity. One way to lower the caloric expenditure is to answer complex questions with simple, fatalistic responses. Thinking you're being punished and nothing will ever change is a lot easier of a conclusion to reach if the neocortex only has ketones for fuel. It's kind of impossible for me at least to deal with my ADHD / anxiety / depression if my brain is running on fumes Besides that, poverty is one of the largest risk factors for obesity, to the extent that your zip code is a better determinant for it than your genetics. The US has some of the most extreme wealth inequality of any "1st world" nation, with 1 in 5 of its children experiencing food insecurity. But we only ever talk about what individuals are at fault for, not the system that relegates millions of us to live in food deserts and/or in poverty