Ask Paul: August 9 (Premium)

Greetings from Sweden. This week's Ask Paul is a day early because we're flying home tomorrow. It's also one of the longest yet.
Keto and Europe
drjohnnyray asks:
Do you have problems staying Keto on these 3 week visits to Europe?
Short answer: No, not at all.

Longer answer: This requires a bit of clarification.

I marked the 20-month anniversary of my dietary change while in Sweden, as I started this diet on December 4, 2016. And while it's fair to say I was on a fairly strict keto diet for the first half of 2016, it's even fairer to say now that my diet since that time is really "low-carb" and not keto.

The non-keto things I consume include corn (on the cob) and rice (with sushi only), which are both interesting exceptions because the way your body processes these items prevents the normal insulin spike. I also drink alcohol, meaning wine and hard liquors, but never beer in any quantity. About four weeks into a heat wave that, for us, spanned both the US and Europe, I figured I could have a beer as it had been such a long time. But I couldn't drink it. It was just too filling.

And that's the interesting thing about keto/low-carb. It's not really a restrictive diet. When you remove sugars from the food supply---sugar is not food---you stop craving them. And beer just holds no interest to me now.

There are things I would eat, I guess. Like bread or pasta or potatoes or whatever. But I don't really crave them either. And with the keto/low-carb thing gaining in acceptance, ordering food without bread or potatoes is never really that confusing to people anymore.

And Sweden specifically is very meat-centric. In fact, I have added salads and other vegetables to meals on multiple occasions here since these things are often hard to find (potatoes, which are terrible for you, are most common).

Anyway. No, no issues at all.

Unrelated fun fact I learned just this summer (not in Sweden): You can eat corn on the cob raw, and it tastes great. It's a bit like eating an apple and seems more like fruit than a vegetable.
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