Dr. Jason Fung
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Because there must be a reason.
You have to get back to the reason why you're doing it.
And maybe it's because you feel that you can and it's a free food.
And there was this term that got popular a while ago called free food in the keto world.
And I'm like,
there actually is no free food, right?
Like if you take olive oil, yes, you're not stimulating insulin, but the fat that you eat, the olive oil, still gets absorbed.
It goes into your chylomicrons, which goes into your lymphatic system, which then gets deposited as fat, right?
So you're eventually gonna have to burn that off still, right?
So yes, you're going to have to be mindful of that.
And that's where something like mindfulness is very, very helpful, right?
Because then it's like,
okay, what am I doing here?
Like, why am I taking this extra?
Do I really want it?
Or am I just satisfying some other need, right?
Because it's pleasurable.
Maybe that's what it is, right?
I'm just doing it.
Or maybe it's because I'm just bored, right?