I am new to this lifestyle too ; Just under 2 months. I dont count calories or macros. I just make sure that my carbs are low and i eat only keto friendly food. Still i have lost almost 14kgs (31 lbs) down from 112 kgs (246 lbs).
Whenever i have cramps or leg pain i put salt ,lemon and apple cider vinegar in water and drink that. It always helps.
Gavin. I am a 63-YO hormone deranged female who is sedentary as all getout (5’-5”, 236), and I eat close to 1500 calories many days. You’re not eating enough.
I know this thread started out about hitting the head too much, but if you want to get your metabolism straightened out and lose that weight once & for all, you need to learn that 1) fat is our friend and 2) CICO is a crock of shit.
Use a macro calculator (there’s a link to one in “Newbies”), set it to MAINTAIN, not lose, and follow it. You need to be eating more until you are fat-adapted. Eat to satiety each meal. Then, don’t eat again until you are hungry. Make sure at least 70% of calories come from fat. And keep the carbs under 20 grams so your body is forced to go elsewhere for energy.
If you really want to get comfortable quickly with how keto works, I suggest some binge listening to the 2ketodudes podcast (from episode 1).
Yep exactly candy, I’m about 3 inches shorter than you, weigh 229 but I get around 1400 calories usually which for how sedentary I am and the fact that I am 3 inches shorter I feel that isn’t bad. Although sometimes I do eat more!
In my 50s keto for over a year female. I did have issues with getting up at night before keto but the first few months (lost 35 lbs between April and September) were awful. It was bad during the day too. I am either home or out driving so I would plan my major beverage consumption when I knew I would be home. It took me awhile to figure that out. I try to limit night beverages to before 8 pm. I am not sure if it was my weight loss stalling but on nights where I do not drink a lot I am only up once. At the beginning I was up every 2 hours
Thanks again for the input folks!
I really appreciate it.
I have downloaded an app to track my eating and I will try to enter all the food I eat into it, but I have a pretty good track record of not sticking to such things 
I just ate breakfast and counted up the calories afterward. I had 2 thick cut bacon slices (smoked and salted) and 3 scrambled eggs. The fat in the pan was a touch of ghee onto of the little bit of fat from the homemade burgers I made yesterday. The eggs and bacon came to about 480 calories, plus the fat then (the eggs soaked it up).
As I said earlier, I am not struggling with this. I am not hungry often and I am not craving anything, apart from maybe something other than water on occasion. I was going to get carbonated water but I decided to drink water with a slice or 2 of lemon and a tiny squirt of one of those Robinson’s flavoring 1 calorie squirty things. It’s sugar free (Sucralose). I would only drink that once a day…MAYBE twice if i’m feeling dangerous The rest is just water water water.
I don’t want to sound naive or arrogant but I find it hard to believe that my body is not getting enough calories to use as fuel. I have plenty of body-fat on my body, and considering I don’t push my body into anaerobic mode, my body should have no problem turning to that fat to make up the deficit. I feel far better now than I did eating a general carb/fat/protein diet. AND my weight is dropping which is shining a long and much needed ray of light onto my life. I will keep what you said in mind though and proceed with caution. But again…isn’t the evolutionary reason behind fat storage to use it at a later date? I am overweight for quite a while now, so I think it’s high time that I allowed my body to use what it worked on storing.
If I was feeling hungry and terrible then I would suspect too low of a caloric intake but as I said, I feel great! I never got those early keto symptoms either. Keto flu, headaches etc… Again, I dont want to sound arrogant or naive, but could I just be one of those who adapts to it very well? Then again, I felt so bad prior to keto that even a bed full of nails might be an improvement
Let see what the keto/glucose monitor says later.
I received my ketone and blood glucose monitor today.
My ketone level was 2.0mmol/L… which if i’m not mistaken is decent?
less than .6 being normal ketone levels.
I need to do a bit of research now to see where the optimal level is generally speaking and then balance that with where I feel best.
Have not weighed myself in about 8 days or so. It’ll be interesting to see where i’m at.
Still feeling good but was very shy with the water today.
OK, from what I can see, 2.0 is pretty good.
3.0 is the threshold to too much seemingly, so if I can stay between 1.5 to 2.5 then happy days.
The next step of the plan is to incorporate some intermittent fasting while in ketosis so that it’s by body fat that its using for fuel.
I think I will start with 1 x 24hr fast per week and take it from there.
Realistically x2 per week but I’ll see how I feel.
The 24hr fasts are largely to encourage autophagy as i’d like to minimise the amount of sagging skin that I may or may not have.
The way I’ll do it is to eat at 3-4pm one evening and then I only have 7-8 hours before bed, followed by what should be 8 hours sleep which gets me a long way to the 24hrs
I know this is an old thread but I thought I’d add this for anyone reading.
I experienced really bad cramping (4-6 bad cramps per night), and frequent urination (5-8 times a night)
For me the solution was ‘keto aide’ (essentially salting my water with 500mg lite salt and 500 mg Himalayan salt) and taking a potassium supplement.
I read on here where people are saying it’s easy to reach your potassium RDI - that’s around 4000mg - I eat a lot of greens, avocado, etc I without supplementation I’m lucky to get close to 2000mg
I’m really curious about what people are eating that’s makes it easy to reach the RDI