I haven't read the post in a few days, been too busy at work!
On the Moon topic, isn't the Moon made out of cheese?
how do we land on cheese? Do we jump from the flat earth?
Keto Breath sucks, mine smelled like rotten cauliflower farted in my mouth, but it went away quickly.
I have been cheating off and on the past few weeks. McDonalds, Chinese food, cookies, chips, etc. My excuse is my fiance started Keto this week, so I have been eating all of the "bad" foods in the house so she wouldn't be tempted. Not sure how I justified 4 candy bars in 1 day though since I went out and bought those! oops!
I don't count carbs/calories anymore, but I have been snacking more on keto stuff, so I am probably around 40 grams of carbs a day and 2500 calories roughly and seem to be maintaining my weight. Dirty keto seems to work for me to maintain and if I cheat for a day or meal, I don't get violently sick.
I do Keto sweets all of the time using Erythritol or however you spell it. Keto cheesecakes, cookies (snickerdoodles, ginger, chocolate chip using Lily no sugar chips with stevia, with almond flour), cakes, no bake cheesecake type stuff, etc. Polar Ice drinks or Coke zero when I want a soft drink. I use the Skinny Mix drink mixes to flavor water. Yeah, they have sucralose and other chemical sugars, but they don't seem to bother me with maintaining weight, giving me sugar cravings or anything like that.
I have good recipes for Keto Lasagna using zucchini in sheets or cabbage leaves, killer seafood lasagna, baked cauliflower ziti, good tortilla recipes to do soft tacos, etc. I do a lot with cheese sauces, which I love. I have a recipe for a killer General Tso type sauce that is great on chicken, shrimp, salmon, etc. Good Honey Mustard sauces with erythritol.
My typical meal is skip breakfast, salad (3-4oz greens, 2oz protein, 1/2oz cheese, 1oz pickles, 1 oz olives and 2T salad dressing) for lunch. Dinner is 8-12oz protein, 10-16oz veggies roughly (brocolli, zucchini, cauliflower, cabbage, rutabaga, turnips, celeriac usually) and usually a cheese sauce or general tso sauce or just spices. I have been doing a lot of casseroles lately and cauliflower crust pizzas. Grilled food is great, too. I eat almonds, pistashios and pork rinds for snacks. I found popcorn flavor powders work great to flavor pork rinds or nuts to give them a different taste so they don't get boring.
I started Keto in Oct 2018 when I weighed 360#. 54 weeks later, I was down to 200#. Since Oct 2019, I haven't been tracking foods and usually try not to cheat on the diet, but do have cheat meals occasionally. Last time I got weighed a couple months ago, I was around 215-220# or so, and have been at that weight for several months.
Unpopular opinion: Cheap knives can often perform almost the same as a knife costing several times more