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50 Posts Later: The Things I Haven't Said Yet

 Welcome to Post #50. In the blogging world, fifty posts is a milestone. It’s a modest body of work. If you’ve been reading since the beginning, you now know a lot about how I eat. You know about gluconeogenesis , mitochondrial biogenesis , and my disdain for soybean oil . You know the "what" and the "how" of my Clean Keto lifestyle. But I realized recently that I haven't spent enough time on the "why." The truth is, you don't end up weighing over 400 pounds because you simply like the taste of cake. You don't survive five heart attacks and keep struggling with food because you lack information. To understand why this " reboot " at 53 means everything to me, you have to understand the ghosts I’m leaving behind. The Armor For decades, I didn't just eat food; I ate my feelings. I carried a deep, simmering anger from my father leaving the family when I was young. I carried the constant, vibrating sense of being an "outsider...