Veto the keto (Week 16)
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." I think Julia Child may have been promoting the keto diet without even knowing it. For those of you who haven't jumped on the keto bandwagon (yes, both of you!) it's the no-carb diet that sends you in search of a nirvana state called ketosis. Once you're in it, the pounds come dripping off. You get to heavy up on the meat and the high-fat high-protein foods like avocados and eggs. Seems delicious, right? Well, here was my experience over 7 days of being on it. Fat-head pizza So, the maybe-not-so-surprising news is that the keto diet works. Val and I were very strict about following the no-carb program and I went into ketosis early in the week. I know it was mostly "water weight" but it sure felt good to see those winter pounds just blow off my body. By the end of the week (yup, in just seven days!) I had lost a full 7 pounds, down from 184 to 177. But all is n...