What about alcohol? I drink beer but not a ton.I first did keto 6 years ago for 7-8 months and dropped 54 lbs... I was looking at having to move up to 40 inch waist pants as my 38s were painfully tight. Now 34 waist. At the time, I only did it because my wife (then GF) was doing Profile, so me being keto supported her.
Now, I do keto 3-4 months each year at the beginning of the year, both to shed the holiday (and fall birthday) pounds, and also to ween off insulin for a couple months.
No more mid-afternoon "low sugar" shakes.
No more falling asleep at 7-8 pm due to carb/crash coma.
Pretty sure with the above and my old weight I was insulin-resistant, on my way to diabetes, but never had A1C tested back then. But, I also never had anything close to normal triglyceride levels prior to keto, even when I played basketball twice a week, ran/walked 25 miles a week, was "normal" BMI which for my frame looked scrawny, and my only carbs were "complex" (whole wheat, brown rice) with only red meat once a month. Still, alarmingly high triglycerides! Doc went through the whole list... yup to every last one of them. Well, it must be genetics, sez he, lol!
Now with keto, my A1C measured every July (well after my annual keto stint) is stellar. Good triglyceride levels for the first time in my life, even if I've been lazy on the exercise.
And, on keto, I eat reasonable portions... not because I measure them out, but because I eat a portion then am no longer hungry and just stop. No will-power battle, lol! No "I could eat a horse" hunger cravings.