Recovering from a cheat day

My excellent son, with whom I am well pleased, came to visit me from college this last week. Although he is generally lowish carb, we both started out the week ketogenic Paleo. This was actually a continuation of my recent months of keto and Intermittent Fasting, but I knew what was to come.

We have a family tradition of "Father Son bonding Pastry". This usually means a visit to a restaurant for some steaks followed by pie, although when he was a child it meant the one time a month we went out for donuts and chocolate milk. 8-)

This time it was Order-In sub sandwiches. At least it wasn't a sugary pastry, and hopefully the recovery will be easier. What I am doing is an extended fast, starting tonight, through tomorrow, and into monday.

Some folks, like my son, do not need to put in a concerted effort to get back on track, others, like myself, find that carbs have a definite addictive nature, and each cheat day is a Trial of Strength. My last one led to 6 months of me falling face down into the ice cream. It wasn't pretty.

I'm feeling much better now.

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