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If people's willpower is influenced by glucose levels, I wonder what willpower is like in ketosis...
Interesting question. People doing ketogenic diets tend to report a mental fog for the first two weeks. I'd like to see some of these studies repeated on ketogenic dieters who've stuck with it long enough to get past that initial fog. I wonder to what degree diets are inherently difficult to stick with, sense they both tax willpower and reduce the amount available.
Also, if I ever become a salesman, I'll make sure to do the reciprocity trick from Cialdini--but only bring diet sodas for the customer.
If I understand correctly, ketogenic diets tend to be easier to follow because you're less hungry. This squares up pretty well with my observations of my current high-fat diet.
I should chemically test whether or not I'm in ketosis though, I remember a haze, but I had assumed that it was the results of travelling, drinking, and barely sleeping (two days of bussing + ferry through the Balkans, drinking and staying up late at a wedding (and taking notes on the experience), then a sleep-free transatlantic flight before a car trip from Maryland to North Carolina...) Lots of confounding variables there.
I'd be interested to hear the results of a keto stick test, and perhaps a willpower/glucosepower test.