Acceptance or Change?

[SteveinMN]

Steve - how long have you been on keto? I would estimate that I'm currently at 30 gr. Today I wasn't hungry at all and kind of had to force myself to eat breakfast at 10:30 am, and one of my salad meals at 4:30 pm. The Atkins book said don't go more than 6 waking hours without food, so tomorrow if I'm not hungry again I might try waiting to see how long it takes for my body to feel hungry as long as I don't exceed the 6 hours. Have you had days like this?

I've been low-carbing it for a couple of years now, but went to keto over the last two months. I seem to end up at 25-35 grams of carbs a day. I don't test for ketosis; I do figure if my blood-glucose reading is high, it's either carbs or something else that explains itself pretty readily (stressful day, an infection, or, for example, the antiseptic mouth rinse I'm using right now).

I do find that eating this way has knocked out almost all between-meal snacking. I run into the same issue of not wanting to eat something every 3-4 hours but I know my blood glucose levels are more stable if I do, so I push myself to eat a little something. Sometimes it's only an ounce of cheese or a few nuts or some slices of pepperoni or such. I'm also not generally a fan of eating breakfast as soon as I wake up, but I'm trying to tamp down Dawn Phenomenon and I'm finding that eating breakfast within an hour of waking up (so, for me, by 7-7:30) seems to help, so I do it.

Yeah, once I got over the no-carb hump, the days of "FEED ME!!" pretty much went away.

[Yppej]

Yesterday the first member of my high school graduating class to die passed away. He was maybe 400 pounds and had undergone two successful kidney transplants over the years but a heart attack got him in the end. This was a powerful reminder to me to stay the course with my diet. He leaves two middle school children and a widow, his college sweetheart.