Whether it was tracking at first, expanding recipes, routinizing when and how to eat meals, what did you do in the first months of keto to develop your intuition about how to live a well-formulated ketogenic lifestyle?
Becoming An intuitive Ketonian
lfod14
#2
First step is going into this with REAL food, not eating tons of keto junk food and things that arenāt really for us like Halo Topās garbage ice cream and things with 37 different type of fake sugars just because they āfit your macrosā. Gotta do a real detox of that stuff. Once youāre run dry for a while on that stuff and your brain starts become trustable again just eat a little slower and youāll start noticing your full feeling coming and finally saying to stopā¦ and when to start! If itās lunch time, yet youāre NOT hungryā¦ donāt eat!
Biggest thing most people screw up with eating intuitively is the part when you DONāT eat! Many people only make it about the stopping part. Goes both ways! When you force either side of that equation youāre no longer eating intuitively as your ignoring what your body is telling you.
Jezza
(She had one feck to give and that feck is gone.)
#3
All of what you said! 
It does take some courage to eat intuitively. I am not hungry, but itās lunchtime, but Iām not hungry so no need to eat, but what if Iām hungry later and I canāt eat then or what if I find I donāt have the stamina for what I have to do? I can see how I could do it, but this is how my thought process is working at the moment. One would just have to give it a go and find out that itās ok a couple of times to trust the process.
PrimalBrian
#4
I call it āmicro-choicing.ā I only focus on that particular moment of eating at that time - what is the lowest carb, most keto, option I have in front of me. Sure, Iāll pre-check some menus online before going somewhere to eat, but for the most part, I donāt micro-manage or try and over-plan, because plans seem to derail or go off-kilter. So, I just focus in day-tight compartments and make those āmicro-choices.ā I complement that by having tons of keto friendly items stocked at home (sardines, mayos, bacon, pork rings, vegetables, etc.)
SlowBurnMary
#5
Being that I had already been into developing intuition and personal cultural change for most of my adult life - I mainly just focused on the sense & simplicity of this way of eating, along with deepening my primordial relationship with water & salt.
Iād been on a longtime path of preventing the metabolic disease and iatrogenic events that have plagued my family of origin, and this was a NEW DIMENSION of practice that I found reassuring in both its nourishment and its durable change.
In the very beginning, I did track my food - for only a couple days before it drove me cray, lol. 
From that point onwards, I intentionally focused on the simplicity of avoiding starches/grains, counting up non-veg carbs very seriously, being sure to eat enough greens/veg and moderate protein, and as much tasty good fat and spicing as I liked.
For me, I felt pretty safe and secure in my intuitive keto from the get-go - and it just got better - due in part to my longtime critical analysis of the S.A.D. and industrialism in general. (I did have a phase of transitory anxiety and panic attacks that arose around month six, which I attribute to a sort of healing crisis from accessing neurogenesis Iād not ever had before and having new āpost-traumatic growthā).
My self-care orientation was encouraged in a few ways, namely A) I was already centered in awe for Mother Nature and a deep trust of biological processes, and B) I had studied up to mentally prepare for my adventure - and understood the switching process to fat adaptation was a biologically coherent restoration of ancient physiology, not some kind of modern construct or cosmeticism, and C) taking measurements that āprovedā my body was shapeshifting!!!
I kept things really simple for my first months, then intentionally increased complexity with new keto foods experimentation. Of course, when my first natural Intermittent Fast happened (which I actually never expected, Iād assumed Iād never be a faster, due to my gusto!) it invoked a whole new realm of āsimpleā and āeasyā and āroots-orientedā and was astonishing.
OMAD feasts with 50g of carbs felt like a holiday!
Another things that helped my Ketonian Becoming was to keep to the simple and steady, and study while doing so. I sought out a few of the cornerstone LCHF/keto books, and kept them in my reading area or on my desk - books I mention a lot around here: The Art & Science Of Low Carbohydrate Living, Protein Power, and Ketone Power: Superfuel for Optimal Mental Health and Ultimate Physical Performance. I dove into them frequently, reading and re-reading sections. I still do! 
They were very helpful companions/mentors whenever needed in my ongoing study & practice towards rejuvenation & antifragility (my brains are so well nourished nowadays that I just started reading the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb which includes sections on dietary stuff and the veracity of low carb for metabolic healing).
And of course, this forum has a way of helping Intuitive Ketonian encouragement and good cheer!
Tmdlkwd
(Troy)
#6
All what was mentioned above
More or less for me, just to Simplify
Just to take one day at a time
Mentioned by someone b4, but food is for fuel
I can run on empty now ( IF ) and perfectly be fine and content 
No panic
No stress
No need to go thru a drive thru
No need donut shop
No late night grocery store rampage
No convenience store stops, just to get junk
No eating just to eat.
When my body tells me, I can fuel upš
The less time eating ( like the above noās ) , the more time I can spend enjoying Life!! Yippee
Like wasting time on this forum
Jkš
Simple folksš¤£
Sossie
(Rachel Nolan)
#9
And try to listen to podcasts and tweets by Ivor Cummins on the science of ketosis! Heās @FatEmperor and heās a rock of sense 