In software development, they have a concept called Technical Debt, or Code Debt . It happens when a developer chooses an easy, short-term solution (messy code) instead of the correct, long-term solution. It saves time today, but it creates a "debt" in the code base. Eventually, you have to go back and fix it (refactoring). The longer you wait, the more "Interest" you pay in the form of bugs and crashes. I see some people treating their diet like a buggy software launch. They embrace the "Cheat Day." They think: "It’s just one meal. I’ll burn it off tomorrow." That is a calculation error. They are only calculating the Principal (the calories). They are forgetting the Interest (the systemic inflammation). The Invoice: What You Actually Pay When you have been "Clean Keto" for months and you suddenly introduce a massive load of gluten, sugar, and seed oils, you don't just "gain a pound." You crash the system. Here is the it...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.