Welcome! I don’t believe we have any other members from Guam, so I’m glad you’ve joined us.
A lot of us here are not big fans of supplements. I don’t know what the possibilities are on Guam, but the more you can stick to real, whole foods, the better off you’ll be, in my opinion.
There are no real rules to eating a ketogenic diet, apart from doing the best you can with what’s available and affordable. Grass-fed ribeye steak is great, but hardly a requirement. One guy I heard of, who was homeless, managed to eat ketogenically on nothing but food from McDonald’s, because that was all he could afford (ate the burgers, threw away the buns), and did very well for himself. Lost quite a bit of weight, as I recall. The most important part of this way of eating is to keep your carbohydrate as low as possible, under 20 g/day, if you can manage it. The rest is negotiable, more in the nature of tweaking.
You don’t need almond flour and that sort of thing to eat a well-formulated ketogenic diet. Sometimes, in fact, trying to make “keto” versions of their favorite carb-rich foods only makes people crave the carbs even more. Not only that, but a lot of those ketofied recipes aren’t actually all that low in carbohydrate, and it is easy to exceed the limit when eating such recipes.
The point of a well-formulated ketogenic diet is to keep insulin as low as possible for as much of the time as possible, so that we can let our metabolism heal and gain access to our excess stored fat. Try to eat as much real, whole food as possible, avoid processed products that come in a box. If you like bacon and eggs, that is a great keto meal. Eat canned meat and fish, if you can’t get fresh, and so on. Feel free to post what you are eating; we’d be happy to make suggestions. And you’ll always get encouragement, too.
BTW, weight loss can be tricker for women. It sometimes takes a month or two for your hormones to sort themselves out, and sometimes there are things stored in your fat tissue that come out along with the fat and they can mess you up a bit. So try not to get discouraged, and keep on for at least another month before deciding that this way of eating is not for you.
