I keep looking at lowering carbs.

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The medical field suggests keeping carbs in the 30 to 60 grams, per meal, area.  Which, according to ketosis pros, is way too high.  Keto gurus suggest 30 grams as a maximum, for a whole day.  If with some give for actual size.  Not quite weight, but weight at a specific height.  Which, for me, means somewhere between 45 and 60 grams, perhaps more.

Have you ever really looked at what foods are available in that carb range?  Cheese, if it is done correctly, has zero carbs (if you can believe the labels).  There are foods with low carbs, such as eggs, meat (unprocessed meats, mostly though sometimes deli meats can be low or have none, or a lot).

What I am suggesting is low carb foods are difficult.  As well, usually it means cooking from scratch, and being very careful with additives.  I think even worcestershire is questionable.  Every additive, from mustard to mayonnaise, either has to be homemade of very closely examined from the store.  Including testing whether it will spike insulin or kick you out of ketosis.  If there is probably always a chance, at either... just... because?  Something like that.

Even the easier "doctor recommended" is excessively complicated, as I see things.  Easier to purchase, whole, or in whole parts.  But these meals are nearly industrial.  Either you are buying these parts and ingredients for meals for many, or you will still have a very difficult time to keep the parts of the meals both on hand and in date.  There is some amount you can go out of date, but quality and flavor can drop very quickly.

Well, and try to find actual quality meals out there.  Most restaurants really don't like making keto adjustments.  If, too, I'm not sure their food can be made keto.  More keto?  Sure.  That is assuming their hamburgers are actually hamburger.  Well, and skipping fries, and else.

Oh, and a final thing.  Mass.  For my size, even disregarding excess weight?  I am allowed almost double the amount of carbs, and food in general.  But the world doesn't really work that way.  I may need, say, 1.75 percent of most meals.  But they don't come in that size.  

They discuss learning to eat by actual satiation.  Part of my problem is I either eat too little, too often.  Which also leads to an inability to know when enough is enough.  Well, and part of it is having difficulty getting used to low enough carbs.  So tired, shopping, cleaning, and cooking, has been so off, for so long.  I'll keep working on cautiously feeling my way toward right satiation.

I will try, again, to get back to things.  It isn't just carbs, it is also calories.  Yes, there are apps.  But keeping up on groceries is such a trick.  Just out of a realistic understanding, I have to buy foods which aren't the best.  Between food going bad, or me wearying of what I can buy that stays good, my ability to keep up on cooking, and other issues, I simply can't, currently, keep up on the keto meals.

Still, I keep trying.  And, yes, some push in that direction is good.  And trying to keep up on the from-fresh is good.  I keep trying to find resources which will help.  If nothing else, I keep it in my mind.  As well, I know that proportions help too.  If I eat way too many carbs, say 60... but then proportion fat out using cheese and sour cream?  It... isn't perfect, but will help.  Especially when I am otherwise starving myself.  It's not a perfect world, especially for those of us who are dying in our chairs.  But it can be better, a bit better, or a lot better.

I definitely need food.  I do better with lower carbs, a lot better.  Though, with meds absolutely beating me into the dirt, just getting enough food is an issue.  All I can do is try.

I went looking, tonight.  I found, of course, cheese and deli meats.  Four slices of cheddar, at at most 80 calories per four slices (?).  The deli, beef, was 60 calories per four slices, if I ate extra.... perhaps six to seven slices per sandwich, or (at max) 280 calories if there were seven slices per sandwich.  As well, I found fried pork rinds, fried in it's own fat.  That and a fatted coffee, plus water, made for a pretty good last meal.

Earlier, I had a few pork rinds and just water, for an early snack.  So... I guess I do have some things around.  And I should have meat.  Plus I have found various ways of cooking meat and much more easily.  I may be more able to keep up on keto than I had thought.  I think the real problem is staying awake and aware.

I will, as well, go looking for very easy meals, recipes, ingredients.  If I get some excellent vids, I'll share those as well.  It is worth trying to live better.  Even if I am in crippling pain, confusion, and with other problems, I'll keep at it.

I am feeling a bit better.  Still tires, ribs are sore, but lungs are breath well... most pains have diminished.  Some confusion remains.  But, really, better.  Medicine has been caught up.  I'll be ready to take Friday medicine, on Friday.  Yeah.  Doing better.  

I'll try to get the girls fully caught up.  Just need to do their litter, I believe.  Perhaps I will get out and do chores.  Perhaps I can get a shower in.  I have put some of the packages which arrived away, though a few more would be good to get put up.  I'm doing better than I have in a very long time.  And I thank God for it, because it wasn't my doing.  Later.