If at first you don't succeed, ...

Try, try again. Right? UGH

I was on day three and just had a failure of willpower. Something stressed me out and I reverted back to my old behavior of eating my feelings. Carbs, of course. *sigh*

I want to just vent for a minute. You know what really bugs me about keto these days? Everyone is "into" it. There are experts everywhere. Hollywood is into keto. It's the big thing in fitness right now. But really? My first foray into anything remotely keto was Atkins induction back in 2000. Then, after my diabetes diagnosis in 2010, I discovered keto when doing more research on Atkins and diabetes reversal. In 2014 I was one of several admins on one of the largest T2 diabetes groups on Facebook - over 30,000 members! I was doing great. Then one of the admins hijacked the group and shut it down because of a disagreement with other admins. That totally destroyed my faith in humanity at that point, and sent me into a spiral of depression and carb binging. I'm not blaming anyone but myself, but the circumstances were there, nonetheless.

Okay, so fast forward five years and suddenly everyone is in love with keto. What happened? Five years ago if you brought up keto everyone thought you were crazy and going to have a stroke or heart attack within a week, lol. I don't know what happened. Perhaps the exposure from Hollywood? Perhaps is was the proliferation of food companies that began catering to the keto movement that pushed it into the mainstream view? Whatever happened, I'm not so sure it has helped. If anything, the advice and information space has become more cluttered with so many variations of the facts that it's hard to distinguish fact from fiction any more.

Anyway, for me, today, it's back to square one. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.