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 fasting is the key, but i've not yet cracked how to fit it into my life

i know it is the key because i did manage to go 4 days without eating, and i started to go into ketosis for the first time and it was quite alarming at first, but what is it?

burning fats

so, i think you can take a slower path towards it by steadily increasing your fats, and when i say fats, i mean focus on tallow and cacao butter and coconut oil

it's hard because these days it's all seed oils, but only coconut, cacao, avocado and olive are good seed oils, and they basically are, and the common feature of all of them is they are soft enough to press under 50`C

the other thing you have to do is start fasting

i had such a good experience from finally passing the 3 day mark two months ago that i want to arrange my life so i can do this again... still don't have a plan, there is an aspect of the "just gotta do it" to this, but the duties of the quotidian regime make it harder... much easier to succeed if you literally can just lay down and read a fun book the whole time, and i think maybe part of it is i want to soak in a hot bath at least once a day and haven't been able to do that in a year now