Keto is interesting though it seems like it could be hard with social activities. Have you had any difficulty?
Best of luck!
Best of luck!
I just don't follow a diet "strictly at all times". If you're (truly) following your diet 95% of the time and go out every-other Friday (or hell, even if it is every Friday) for a social dinner, 1 meal of 21 or 42 meals isn't going to completely ruin your dieting any more than forgetting to brush and floss after lunch on Thursdays is going to completely ruin your teeth.
If you go out for social dinners every single day it might be a problem - but that is pretty atypical.
I feel most people could benefit from "following a strict diet 95% of the time" over "not dieting at all because I like pizza during my weekly Saturday D&D nights".
You can certainly have a "cheat" meal of higher-than-normal carb intake, but you might get knocked out of keto for a few days. If you cheat every week, you could be screwing yourself out of progress.
Any progress at all is better than no progress. If being able to deal with social interactions by utilizing a cheat day helps stick to the diet -- helping to shutdown excuses, helping to be the "weekend" at the end of a long work week, etc -- then that's a useful model to adopt.
(But weekends are a problem since I don't have work to distract and tend to have 4 big meals with the family...)
When out socially, I just eat the salad and the protein and politely pass on the bread. Hard alcohol without mixers also helps.