I have my DD-214.
And I pretty much eat the Keto way these days. Voluntarily.
“I have my DD-214.”
Then you understand the idiotic lack of thought process concerning military and weight and fitness standards.
Back when they took notice of public appearance after Vietnam in the mid 70’s, they went overboard on an aerobic thought process combined with 1000 calorie diets that were designed to lose weight. They then further hammered the military member with monthly weigh ins that would hit a certain number or there was punishment from extra duty, to letters of counsel, to articles 15’s, to court martial for failure to follow orders. And all for appearance purposes and not to some field grade or senior officers or high senior NCO’s. I know of one extremely high army commander that was vastly overweight that had his personal recumbent bike within a curtained off area in one of the gyms at the post and no one but he was to get on it. And that is what kept him off the $hit list as he was trying to handle it. Did he? Not even close. So it was just a sham.
Keto is a low carb diet designed to starve the body into weight loss. You, as a past member, understand that exercise for a GI, especially a combat one, is essential for the job but only to meet minimum requirements of a one size fits all template. Sorry, but DNA screws that up alone. Furthermore, carbs for the body are like gasoline for the car. Bad gas, doesn’t run right. Lacking food essential for conditioning doesn’t either.
And by cutting out the glucose in the blood stream it is artificially creating a hypoglycemic scenareo in the blood thus triggering such possibilities as heart attack, stress, dehydration, and in it’s most acute situations from extended application, major illnesses, such as sepsis, pancreatitis, or myocardial infarction. Welcome to heaven.
I’m an ex-department of the army physical and combatives trainer from the early 2000’s and have seen these thoughts come and go leaving havoc in their wake. The military member doesn’t need to look like a gazelle. Gazelles can’t carry a 50+ pound ruck on a dead run for 100 years or more. This is why they are starting toward physical training geared toward more trunk strength. However, they are still working with the same weight standards as the soldier gets bigger. Just doesn’t seem intelligent, does it?
rwood