Cracking some numbers.

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Yes, I am eating far too little.  Three hundred calories a day just won't do it.  Even when I have eaten out, those meals while seemingly quite large, were only in the thousand calorie range.  Nice, but even that is too little food to boost metabolism enough to lose weight.

According to some of the more, to me, trusted sites and advisors, I ran a few numbers.  To maintain my weight, the recommendation is 2,400 calories a day, give or take a bit.  I have found, for me, I can get away with less.  However?  The less I eat, the less I do, and can do.  There is a price for caloric deficit.  And, below thirty to forty percent deficit?  I become crippled.

Of course, figuring out how to eat that much.  Keeping up on cooking, shopping, and dishes?  That's a whole other trick.  Though, that was mostly on keto... the balanced keto.  Of course, I couldn't lose and keep weight off, on that.

Now, going carnivore, I can eat more of a deficit and still have some capacity.  Even so, the closer I get to a fifty to sixty percent deficit, the worse it gets.  And below that, nearing catatonia.  Which... is where I am now.

I would like to figure out a calorie intake of between 1,800 and 2,000.  My problem is eating enough.  My most recent guru suggests higher fat.  I should look up more on her, and other gurus, about how to get that much intake.  I won't do butter, or not that much.  But, I can add duck fat, and/or tallow.  Those are more edible.  Butter is iffy.  Though, if I could figure out ghee, that might work too.  For whatever reason, as with bacon, butter just doesn't set with me well.  Though I am experimenting with much better quality butter.  Just haven't been eating regularly or rightly enough to really test that lately.  Ugh.

However?  In spike of eating far below the calories suggested, on a carnivore diet I was able to lose a lot of weight, and over an extended period.  Losing sixty pounds from Thanksgiving to about two months ago.  When the accident sort of put a stop to the carnivore diet... that and running out of propane.  But... I couldn't stand to cook either, so it didn't really matter.  That is, what, 60 over four to five months?  Twelve pounds a month, and it tracked at about that, consistently.  And, with nausea making so I couldn't eat much for the first three months, and weakly even after that.  Even now.

Yes, I need to get back to it.  With the collagen, compression socks, various herbal teas (with lore of healing properties), and else, I am hoping to get the wound healed up, get back to eating more and better, and back to losing weight again.  Ugh... what a life.  But... we'll see.

I think I can do it.  Oh... the recommended weight, for my height (if I don't trust that fully) is from 180 to ~214.  Ah, and another thing?  I... actually am considered big-boned.  Had to laugh, but... yeah.  Wrist bone size, at 8" to 8 1/2" ish?  My friend is only 6'2"(ish), but has an even bigger wrist, and wears the same size shoes... 15s.  Crazy.  Anyway, so that means I am at the heavier end of that scale, or even higher than it.  Will find out.

Oh, and I did buy the cheaper scale she (Kelly Hogan) recommended.  I have it in the bathroom.  But need to put the batteries in and set it up first.  Hoping, if I get a shower tonight, to use it first.  Then after out of curiosity to see if, what, the differences are.  With a normal scale, there is no difference in weight before or after showering.  But this one tests bmi, hydration(?), muscle mass, and some other things.  Or... so it says.  Who ever really knows.

Just... thinking out loud.  Making plans for getting back to the feedbag.  And thinking of how much, and how, what, to eat, cook, and else.  Later.