Crisis!

I’m talking about the one that hits midlife, assuming mid forties is midlife..seems too greedy no?

Anyway, my better half has decided to go Keto for three weeks- like I told him, I’d take that over an affair or a Harley any day. But, but, keto is trickier than Primal. Primal I’ve done with him and I am still trying to sustain with mixed results. Keto requires way too much vigilance.The carbs allowed in your diet is so minimal that inhaling the aroma of fries might count as carbs! So, you monitor the carb content of pretty much everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Does water have carbs? He might know.

He had decided to do the diet, but obviously needed my approval and accommodation to go ahead, because the ladle is in my hands and with a gluten free kid, a ‘white on the inside’ american kid, and a no carb self, I really didn’t need one more crazy food restriction to keep track of.

So we had a talk. I would cook what he asked for, within limits of course, the limit being whether I wanted to cook it, and he had to figure out the carb amounts. He had to give me a list of absolute no nos and I would avoid  them. I will not go too far out with crazy ingredients and cook up alien stuff- that was his job. Case in point: Yesterday for breakfast, he took a large avacado, scooped some flesh out the middle and cracked an egg into the indentation, baked it and ate the stuff.Yuck!!  I did not go anywhere  near it. And for breakfast he sometimes makes a chia pet...sorry, seed concoction with coconut milk. Obviously, I do not partake of that! Early on, he used to look up the carb content of everything that he ate, on some website, but that has abated. So we have ploughed on.

We are on week three now. Cauliflower rice is our new go to food. With chicken curry indian style.That works for me too.Plenty of salads, with fat loaded home made ranch dressing,and all variations thereof.Overall not bad, but I can’t do it.Staying off fruits completely- nope,can’t do that. No occasional splurging. With all the fat and stuff you can eat, even occasional splurging can throw you off. I am human and if I can’t do that, I might as well throw the towel in.

He’s lost weight, I can see that, but even that does not inspire me to go Keto. After all we live one life. And living it without rice is bad enough. To give up more? Uh, no...I’ll keep my love handles.

In the meanwhile, my midlife crisis is being handled, very well, with a lot of help from my friend Ramya. It involves, wait for it, dangling earrings!!! That’s it. No studs. Which means having to remove earrings everyday and therefore wearing new ones everyday,which  means you need quite a collection, which means  you need to go shopping...get my point?