Quite good.

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The rabbits are all still in food and water aplenty.  I refreshed the duck pond.  The girls have been fed and their water refreshed.  I am not even going to have tea, which I generally dose with liquid sucrose... which, on occasion, will spike insulin.  I have cut that back to three fourths what  used to use... and then some at times.  I have tried less.  And I have tried none.  I just can't quite do that, usually.  Sometimes I can drink plain tea with a meal.

I am down to between one and two gallons a day.  Yea, I have been up to as much as five gallons.  Heat or higher blood sugar, worse?  Both.  But most of this winter I was at four gallons.  A few times I dropped lower, and am dropping lower again.  Medicine helped last time, this time it is just kefir.  It acts as a diuretic, at least to me.  Otherwise my ankles would be huge.  They do swell, from time to time, but nothing like in the worst or even usual cases.

Okay, one odd thing about kefir?  It has been creating a crotch itch I can barely stand.  I think it makes the urine acidic.  Which, with even just a tiny bit getting into unders (impossible not to have that happen, no matter how long you shake that damned thing, trust me).  So?  I... tried an adult baby powder, and an actual talc powder.  Those, slightly, helped.  Not enough.  So?  I went commando!  And, yes, that actually works.  Zippers are my new fear.  :p  Hmm, perhaps my long johns will work?  No, I change underwear twice a day, whether I shower or not.  So... I tried three changes a day, but it just didn't help.

Then again, I am drinking... was drinking... three, four, perhaps even five glasses a day, probably averaging 12 ounces per.  I have cut back to three to four, and am trying to drink it only when I eat something else, save morning, and sometimes at night if I am hungry before bedtime.  But, too, smaller doses... from 14 for breakfast to 6 to 8 ounces before a meal and at night.  I might even be cutting those.  Difficult to keep up on kefir production.  I might try to get two more gallons of milk this week, maybe next too?  Then start backing it all down.  I have enjoyed, will continue to enjoy, just not at that level.

A shower, after I catch my breath.  A shave too, sooner or later.  Then setting pretty much the rest of the dishes up, and hitting those a few times.  Soup, too, if the meat still smells good.  I am so hungry for soup.  But, if not, a quick trip to the store soon, for fresh veggies and meats.  Plus maybe milk and... a few other things?  We will see.  Later.

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Better still.  I checked blood sugar after a bit more than an hour.  Any rise should have been seen, and at it's highest, at that point.  There was about a 4% rise in blood sugar, after sixteen ounces of kefir.  So... I'm calling that good.  I won't worry about kefir.  If... I would like to check it a few more times.  In the various ways I serve it, and as I did tonight... plain.  As well, I would like to see if it alters other foods.  Since I eat soup for a week at a time, that would be a good thing to use as a study.  I'd place a small wager that four to six ounces of kefir, before a meal, makes even a keto meal more keto.  A theory is made to be proven or disproven, or conditionally either way.

I am pleased with the kefir.  I had... some worries.  Just, something, in the back of my mind.  And, others have voiced some wonder... concern?  At least preliminarily it seems kefir is good.  Everything has limits.  Well, and there is the commando thing.  But... Geronimo!  :p  Just watch that zipper, or whatever else.  And... shake that thing and wipe really well.  It's... all good.  Later.