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12/16: 174.5. In a holding pattern with the holidays having an impact. Probably going to be my last weigh-in of the year as I'm traveling the next few weeks. We'll see what I come back with after the new year. Given that a relative is a key person at one of NYC's top bakeries, I'm going to have a lot of temptation to wade through.
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Yeah, what P-RGK said. Potato starch is a resistant starch, so it's not processed by the human body. It's only used by the "good" gut microbes (in theory) and helps keep them chugging along. At the worst I'm adding powder to my water that is passing straight through and doing no damage anyway, I figure.
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It's certainly a concern to be aware of. I'm not an expert, of course, but it seems the complaint is more about ill-informed carb-restricted diets, like if a person decides "I'm just going to eat steak and bacon and have 0 carbs and life will be awesome," like Otis does when he tries a new fad. The first link says the dieters need to work in lots of nuts and avocado, for example, which seems to be totally in line with actual keto. Personally, I've been trying to be more gut-bacteria friendly and have been having a heaping spoonful of potato starch stirred into water every day. Along with