i eat eggs and bacon for breakfast.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork. Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat, typically from the pork belly or from back cuts, which has less fat than the belly. It is eaten on its own, as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), or used as a minor ingredient to flavour dishes (e.g., the club sandwich). Bacon is also used for barding and larding roasts, especially game, including venison and pheasant. The word is derived from the Old High German \"bacho\", meaning \"buttock\", \"ham\" or \"side of bacon\", and is cognate with the Old French \"bacon\". Meat from other animals, such as beef, lamb, chicken, goat, or turkey, may also be cut, cured, or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon, and may even be referred to as \"bacon\". Such use is common in areas with significant Jewish and Muslim populations, both of which prohibit the consumption of pigs. Bacon is cured through either a process of injecting with or soaking in brine, known as wet curing, or using plain salt, known as dry curing. Bacon brine has added curing ingredients, most notably sodium nitrite or, less often, potassium nitrate (saltpeter), which speed the curing and stabilize color. Fresh bacon may then be dried for weeks or months in cold air, or it may be smoked of boiled.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hey there!  I'm on a ketogenic diet and I eat eggs and bacon for breakfast all the time.  I miss toast sometimes.  No carbs!  Do you have opinions on bacon?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am actually a vegan so I'm not a huge fan of bacon, but I think it's awesome that you are doing the ketogenic diet. I wanted to try it, but I'm a bit worried since I don't eat animal products."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My wife was a vegan for about 7 years, but her diet changed back after we got married.  She's considering going back eventually.  The keto diet is tough but I feel a lot better during the day, plenty of energy, and I'm losing weight!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's amazing. Do you not eat any carbs at all, or is it just very low carb? I get a bit weak when I don't eat carbs, and I am obsessed with fruit and veggies these days."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Under 20g of carbs each day is the goal to remain in ketosis.  If you overeat carbs you feel REALLY unpleasant.  It really helps you stick to the diet, haha.  It would be tough to try it without animal protein in your diet, and maybe nearly impossible."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I eat a lot of plant protein, especially soy, which I know some people consider unhealthy. When I lost the most weight in my life, it was super low carb and very high protein, but I was eating a lot of meat back then. I was in constant ketosis."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think low-carb is really the way to go for weight loss, and I'd say a major factor is that you can't really drink beer, haha.  Once that was cut, the pounds started dropping off.  I'm looking into a cyclic ketogenic plan for when I stop losing weight as quickly."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yeah, cutting out alcohol is hard, but I can just stick to skinny vodka! The hardest part for me is anything sweet. I have a major sweet tooth."}]