The other option to keep high fat, moderate protein macro targets is to eat fat bombs. A bulletproof coffee can also help with the targets. The fat will help you stay satiated.
Too much protein can stop ketosis.
Seasoned keto people: judge my first few days? Am I getting enough macros?
CandyLindTX
(Candy Lind)
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Sorry in advance, I’m gonna get verbose again.
You can eat an awful lot of veggies & stay under 20 carbs, especially counting net. I had a ginormous salad with iceberg-romaine mix, spinach, tomatoes, celery, olives, flax seeds, & blue cheese/olive oil/ACV dressing tonight; along with incidental carbs in my pork rind pancakes, bacon & macadamias at noon that put me at 23.5 total carbs, 12.7 net. My tummy & mouth loved that crunchy salad.
I see a few things in your diary I’d be careful with because the carbs can sneak up on you: “French onion?” What was that? Onions can smack you in the head carb-wise; so can garlic. Use judiciously and in small amounts. Sometimes dried/powdered onion and garlic products can work well with less carb impact.
1/2 cup cheese with no carb counted? What kind? Cottage? Shredded? Be careful. Carbs are often added to shredded to prevent caking. Dressings can stack on carbs, too. Read your labels. The ones in produce are almost invariably better than those on that inner aisle.
“Seasoning” 6 carbs?? Did it have sugar in it? Make your own, don’t use carby seasonings. Those 6 carbs could have been a huge salad or serving of a vegetable with your beef.
I doubt you really needed to count 2 carbs for 3 romaine leaves. When it comes to green leafy veggies and brassicas (cruciferous), you’d have to go way overboard to mess up, especially if you’re keeping other carbs to a minimum. Have a nice salad, with full fat dressing, and ENJOY IT. Have a cup of spinach swimming in cream or sour cream. Have some cabbage fried in butter. Think of those veggies as your “fat conveyors!”
It’s a matter of knowing where the hidden carbs are, and labels are sneaky devils. If a label says <1, you should probably count 1. If it says zero, there are cases where you might want to count 1/2. Did you know eggs have .4-.6 carb each depending on where you look it up?
There’s a thread on hidden carbs on these forums that is very informative when you’re first starting out & learning to count.
You are wise to be careful, especially at first, but if you learn where hidden carbs lurk, you can save them for some larrapin’ good salads & sides that will pack a great nutritional wallop, thus alleviating your concern about whether keto is healthy or not. 
Questions? Please ask! We all started out learning the same way. 