"THE Keto Diet" is a Myth
I changed what I ate for a while, back at the end of 2019 and early 2020. I started out wanting to lose weight, and having heard so much about how effective "the keto diet" was I did a lot of reading. I discovered that there's no such thing. Before you start yelling that of course there is such a thing, let me clarify. The problem I have is that those writing about keto dieters all assume the worst about food choices made to maintain ketosis, and they use the definite article (*the* keto diet), where in reality it's an exclusion that guides a person's diet, i.e. it's *a* ketogenic diet, using the indefinite article. If I come across the definite article used in relation to keto diets I move on to the next thing, because there are probably millions of keto diets, and most are entirely undocumented, untested, and unique to their dieter. Talking about this eclectic and messy mass of individual eating habits as "the" anything is really reaching. I did...