Wrapping up week 2 looking for buddies

[mozelle]

Looking for others that want to connect for support. Just finishing my second week. I have a few questions. Like is any kind of alcohol exceptable for special occations

[blacksylvester]

About 2.5, 3 weeks in myself as well!!

[liklism]

I’m about a week and a half in myself and dealing with the ups and downs of water weight. Thought I was 10 lbs down then weighed myself the next day and was back up 5 lbs.

One thing I can say is that my numbers (T2D and HBP) are both down. I was taking 20 units of insulin and a glyburide pill and I haven’t taken either the last couple days based on my meter. This after being told by my PCP a couple weeks ago that my pancreas would never make insulin again. Keto works!

[liklism]

Oh and I’m not drinking alcohol for other reasons but there are low carb options like the harder liquors. So I would say yes its ok for special occasions.

[mozelle]

Tomorrow will be day one of week 3. I don’t weigh. Afraid of the scale. So I will have to believe it is working . Congrats Mike and both your great loss and getting your numbers under control. How are you doing Sylvester ? One question that I have - Is alcohol of any kind ever allowed ?

[liklism]

Yeah as far as the scale is concerned, I was feeling a little lost last week and decided to weigh myself two days in a row. I won’t be doing that again because like I said before the results were so discouraging. I do want to see some quantifiable results though so I wii be weighing myself once a week.

[blacksylvester]

I am with you, my number on the scale wasn’t changed too much, but I believe I lost some inches off my waist. Others on the forum have recommended getting a body tape measure instead of scale to track improvements!

[mozelle]

Day one of week 3. Whew. I have been makeing a recipe for low carb muffins It is the best I have tried .Made withh coconut flour. Will share the recipe if anyone wants it. Happy to be finally sticking with something How you guys doing ?

[Nathan_Toben]

little over 2 weeks. focusing this week on keeping stress levels very low and eating fat to satiety. couldn’t get to sleep until 4:30amlast night i think due to overeating.

[Wheelz]

Hi there ! I drank vodka with soda water and a lime/lemon and it didn’t any impact on my ketosis at all (i have a blood meter) . I have heard not to drink at all for the first month…but it was my birthday . I will say that It did hit me a bit harder than usual and I was a bit hungover the next after only 2 drinks heavily watered down with soda water. I drank some bone broth with ACV, salt, cayenne pepper. MACA powder and lemon and my hangover subsided:-).
I am always looking for a buddy as well!! This all so new and strange… Good luck!

[mozelle]

Nathan I had a hard time with sleep too But that has seems to have resolved now. Happy Birthday Ruthann. We are buying a house the day it closed (last week) I had a glass of wine. Gotta live right ? I will switch to vodka next time I think that is a better choice How do you get a blood meter to check for ketosis ?

[Wheelz]

Thanks for the birthday wishes and Congrats on the new house! You definitely needed to celebrate! I bought my meter on Amazon, but it is expensive to purchase refill strips. I bought the keto mojo meter (search on Amazon , you will find it). There are many others that might be cheaper, I just used the one Thomas Delauer has (I like his youtube keto videos). I only test it about 2 x week and I always come up with 3-4 mmol/L -which I am not sure if its too high or ok to hang around that number. .My blood sugar is always 81, so I am good there…I find conflicting info on that…find lots on too low ketones, but not on what to do if its higher than optimal (if anything at all). I have a tendency to be a bit obsessive so I try to keep from doing it every day…but some people have a hard time staying in ketosis so they might check it more often. Maybe I just won’t check it anymore and I won’t think about it…LOL.