Awake around 19:00?

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Something like that.  It is twenty after, and all I have done is... checked the front porch and lit the machine?  Right.  Still tired, but gently.  No great exhaustion as has often been the case.  I would like to get things managed, a bit.  Anything... something.  Food would be good.  A shower.  Chores.  Litter clearing and cleaning.  Possible?  Maybe.  Some of it.

I keep looking at ways to cook, things to eat, which are either lower calorie, lower carb, higher fat.  Even odd food.  I am not totally against, say, soy beans.  The problem with soy is, first, it does have to be non-gmo.  It really does, for human consumption at least.  Second, I would require anything soy to be fermented.  Fermenting handles the (mostly? so I have been told) phytoestrogen problem.  Raw, essentially, or fresh, will create man-boobs.  However, fermentation... may make it, by taste, inedible?  I just don't know.

I have been looking at the process.  And, to be honest, it isn't terribly difficult.  Nor is it expensive.  The thing is, I would rather try it before just making a glop of it then eating it.  First, how would I know if I made it correctly.  Of course, store-bought will taste different.  But, after trying things like home-made versus store-bought kefir, sauerkraut, yogurt, and else, I have... some notion of the vagaries between the two.  Still, I really prefer to have both available for trial.  Expense and availability are also a difficulty.  I could try some of the local health food stores.  

Then again, the problems with keto, regarding oriental foods, parallel the problems with European and American foods.  We use potatoes, breads, noodles, and other higher carb, high starch items.  They use rice and noodles like crazy, and beer.  I am amazed they don't have diabetes as bad as we do.  Actually, I suspect they do, they just don't worry about it.  How much of medicine has been weaponized, and how?  I suspect both the east and west has weaponized weapons to control it's people, just in different ways.  When 60% of your diet, or more, is rice and another larger portion is noodles?  Yeah, you have health issues.  But, when your medical consists of bandaids, and pretty much only the physical... and herbal, and other alternative... how many are given blood tests to see if diabetes is a problem?

Well, and that whole skinny thing?  I think that is going away too.  Certainly in some places.  I more suspect, in most places save perhaps Japan, people are skinny because food is both scarce and questionable, diseased, processed in ways which don't make it safe to eat.  As food is pouring in from the modern world, that is changing.  From, literally, turkey butts (to islanders), coca~cola everywhere, to other parts and cuts not typical to places, considered discard everywhere else, turning places into diabetes ghettos... it's crazy.

Everyone laughing at Americans, or Americans and some and more and more Europeans, to... suggesting the Chinese, Russians, and else, are still skinny peoples?  They aren't paying attention.  And those who are staying skinny?  How many of them are that way for starvation, bad food, or drugs?  Yeah... it's getting crazy out there.

I'm pretty crippled.  Junk foods are much easier.  I am trying to eat elsewise.  The honest truth is, eating well doesn't mean eating lean, but it does mean appetite control to some degree, the right fats, elimination of most sugars and fast carbs.  But lots of, if also limited, good fats, some proteins, and limited carbs, is the golden ticket.  Though, that requires burning calories, too.  Which is an added problem for those of us who are ill.

Basically, I can't be thin.  I can't even be moderate.  But I can keep from being worse.  Still, it is a lot of work, just the thinking and arranging part.  Cooking and cleaning and being able is a devil lot of work, not completely within my ability.  Still, I do what I can.

Now, to find tempeh and natto.  Why?  Because they are cheap, and easy to make, if I could handle them.  Beef is out of my cost factors, currently...  Hamburger is nearly six a pound.  They won't sell less lean than 83%, if that matters.  Prices are fixed, and set... probably by bureaucrats who neither know nor care.  Well, and to sort out alternative bases for those.  Salads?  Various veggies, say steamed broccoli?  Assuming I can end up eating it. 

Then again, being not vegan, I can mix these with meats.  I could see that as a calorie cutting method as well.  As well, I need to get back to true carb-counting.  That really was working.  Start with carbs.  Then, after ketosis is in play as well as it can be, then begin counting calories.  I can't do that by hand, but with an app, yes.  The problem with apps, is that they are terribly insecure.  Which does one wish to put at risk, their phone or their computer?  Or... more at risk.  Don't do both, just one per app, I say.  Though, whatever.