Ketosis testing.

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I just found a device which will test both blood sugar and... ketosis.  I am ignorant about, exactly, what it tests.  Simply that it seems to be accurate, it has good reviews and I have seen it recommended (with or without quid pro quo is anyone's guess these days).  The thing is the keto strips, which are on top of the glucose test strips, are very expensive, at about $5 per.  How often should you test that?  Even once a day would, adding in glucose test strips (didn't check the price for theirs, which are probably proprietary, and possibly more expensive for the extras involved)... and, when I'm working it, I like to test blood glucose fairly often, twice a day is about right, more if there is an issue, a bit less if it seems to be leveling.  It is amazing what is out there.  It's just too bad I can't afford it.  I will look around a bit, see if there are other options... perhaps look for other, similar, less expensive devices.  Or just put it on my long term list, to watch for cost changes... not so much sales, I don't want to get roped in, and even on a good sale couldn't afford long term supplies.  Neat but too pricey.

I could have started the longer intermittent fasting this weekend but I really felt the need to eat, to repair and heal.  Along with down time and slowing down I am beginning to feel better.  In one of my haiku, I mentioned the return of salmon to their spawning points.  Often, depending on the fish and exact breed, the return kills them.  Even if the species doesn't necessarily die, it may yet for the effort and damage taken while swimming upstream.  That, a bruised inside, and even outside, is what it felt like.  A severe case of it.  I am much better if still a bit sore.

I would like to take this week a bit slowly as well.  Assuming nothing comes up.  And, should I begin feeling better, enough that I feel "out of the woods", I may begin doing daily fasting.  If that goes well, this coming weekend I will do a three day fast.  After that I will see what is what, sort that out, and either keep it weekly, or perhaps add another in there.  I just don't know.  At least with the more pressing tasks done, and the weather and season closing in, as well as a return to health, I'd like to hit it again.  Yeah, but I best get potassium and other medicines back on track and do a bit of shopping.  Extra cat food and litter as winter sets in.  Just... if I can't get out for a couple of months I will still be okay.  I worry more about the girls.  I can go without, they can't.  Not nicely.  Fierce little critters when they go feral from hunger.  Doesn't take long.  But it's more than that too.  A duty, a promise, a responsibility.  I brought them here.

There are a lot of things I'd like to work up in the kitchen.  The problem is I just don't have it going.  I need to do some cleaning, catch up.  So I will be keeping cooking to just the skillet for the most part.  I would like to make more mayo, but that is about it.

Of the dressings I made?  The slaw dressing was good.  Nothing fancy but very serviceable.  I really like the ranch, but it still seems to be missing something.  The blue cheese was a bit of a bust.  I know what some of the problem with the latter is.  The ranch?  I... hmm... I just don't think I have the right herbs and spices.  Or... something.  And it was a bit watery, if most are.  I want to tighten that for my own tastes.  I just don't care for watery dressing.  As to the slaw dressing?  I might just be missing something... something small I think.  Either that or I don't care for those as much as I remembered?  Tastes change.  Maybe I am used to it with sugar?  More vinegar?  I may ask my mother.  She is a whiz, or knows a whiz if she doesn't know.

Hmm... a few boxes, in the living room, while I watch a show?  I'm sure hungry, I wonder if I can get anything going that way?  Yeah, or sleep.

Later... or to bed.  I need to get the trash out, though I don't really have enough to cart all the way out so... I may just wait until tomorrow.  Double bleh.