I have been Keto for 30 days. I have stuck strictly to the plan. My macros have been on point. My calorie intake has fluctuated but the macros have been in line. I am taking magnesium at bedtime, sleeping very well, putting MCT oil in my coffee in the am, drinking bone broth periodically…
I have tried to think of everything that you guys would throw out at me that I am not doing. My head feels funny a lot of the time- that’s when I drink the broth in the hopes that I needed sodium. I also drink plenty of water, so its not dehydration. My energy just feels really low throughout the day. I don’t have ‘sinking spells’ like I did after eating a high-carb lunch and wanting to take a nap but I just feel sluggish. By 8pm, I am DONE! Cannot get in bed fast enough. My bowels are great (told ya, I was trying to think of all things you guys would ask). My joint stiffness feels better. I am not diabetic. I have lost about 9 pounds in 30 days. I would like to lose about 19 more.
Why do I not feel like a million bucks like the rest of you??? I know that this is a better plan for me that how I was eating. I know that I have some insulin resistance. I have been in ketosis for 27/30 days that I have been on the plan.
Help!!
I feel like yuck!
Ok. I am willing but how long are you thinking? I kept thinking 30 days was a pretty good trial. I am not going to quit. I just want to feel great!
There’s no set timescale I’m afraid, sometimes weeks, sometimes months - you’ll get there 
The one MAIN thing to remember is that every person is different. Your body may react differently than mine or @Shortstuff or anyone else.
I had a lot of long-term stress at the time which no doubt dragged it out as I’ve not heard of anyone else taking as long.
Do some experiments. Try skipping the MCT oil and breakfast in the morning. I feel more energy when I don’t eat in the morning at all. Then if feeling the same, try skipping the bone broth and do some pickle juice or straight pink salt.
Breakfast is usually MCT oil in my coffee, sometimes HWC too. Maybe two boiled eggs. sometimes, just the coffee for breakfast. I have a serving of almonds sometime through the day. Pork skins in the afternoon. Peanut butter or Choc chip cookie dough fat bomb after dinner. Lunch and dinner are usually rotisserie chicken, avocado, low carb lasagna, brisket, low carb soup, some cheese, cottage cheese with whipping cream some times… I have not been eating hardly any veggies. Occasional small salad with iceberg lettuce. I was worried that I was eating too many calories so I tried to cut back on calories. For the past 7 days, I have averaged 1600 calories, 6% total carbs, 71% fat, 23% protein. I am hungry at times but not like when I was eating high carb.
Much of what you are eating is potentially processed - I suspect that you have carbs creating in.
Consider:
- reducing the chicken and replacing with tuna canned in oil
- making your own salad dressing from scratch at least once a week
- making your own soup from good ingredients
- validate the cheese for carbs
- the cottage cheese probably has added sugar
- whipping cream is different from half-n-half and again different from heavy cream, check the label
- drop the low-carb lasagna
Add in (more fat):
- 1/4 cup of avocado or olive oil
- olives
- few more walnuts over pecans or almonds
- bacon
- consume all of the juices from the brisket drippings
Try eating one meal a day, will actually increase your metabolism and help trick your body into a defensive mode of starvation which is fantastic.
Just my ramblings. Obviously, change things up once in a while and do what works for you.
Also, select your peanut butter wisely as there is significant risk of added sugars and higher carbs.
I think I was fat adapted less than a month simply because I was lo-carb for more than 5yrs prior to Keto and was probably moving in and out of ketosis naturally. You just have to stick to it and it will come, grasshoppa!
It looks to me like you are eating too often, try to eat full meals, 1, 2, or 3 times a day, whatever your preference, but no snacks in between. If you snack, you aren’t giving your insulin a chance to lower between meals.
It took me 6 weeks to become fat adapted and I was already living a low carb lifestyle since 2003.
Other things that stood out to me: peanut butter is not very low carb. Also be sure to eat enough calories, one of the symptoms of not eating enough is sluggishness. Wishing you well!
Do you eat veggies? How long have you been Keto? What benefits have you personally seen?