@ProCoffeenator , hang in there, and focus on how you feel! Keep doing what has worked and your body will catch up! The scale will play games with your head (read about the lying scale in the Launch Pad)! Don't ever allow that number to dictate what you choose to put in your mouth!! Hoping for some stress free days for you too!!

The hints on the launchpad weren't working for me I ended up calling off of two days of work because I couldn't stand. Apparently I can't handle that little of sugar in a day. I need to re work my goals I think to make it a little healthier for me!

I can relate with the non moving scale. I did lose 1 pound since yesterday so hopefully this is a downward trend. I started the intermittent fasting yesterday so I am thinking that has helped. I'm on day 2 of it. I'm going to sit down and look at what I'm eating. I may need to cut nuts out and maybe dairy too. I'm going to try one, then the other, then both and see what happens.

@ProCoffeenator this is a wonderful thread. I'm coming late to this, but I'll jump in regardless.

I'm Alex, from the Netherlands, Rotterdam in fact, the biggest European port and 3rd in the world, I think. Been married for 30 years, to someone exceedingly lovely. A son, 19, who's at university studying business administration. He's about to leave the hosue (stays in the same city, fortunately) so that's an interesting change in our circumstances.
I work primarily in Brussels (heart of the EU, ) in a pan-European program developing data solutions for smart energy grid. For instance, what we develop would enable all european citizens to install solar panels on their roof and sell and buy electricity mutually, with neighbours nearby, in the same street for instance. My specialism is data privacy, and that's why I'm on board there.

Last year I was one of the founders of a communal bakery (but withdrew from that, the load was just too much to deal with) and I'm pretty active in a communal kitchen garden where we get most of our vegetables.

I've always struggled with metabolic syndrome, most men in my family die young from its effects, and I decided to heal myself through keto. That was a year ago and I never looked back. Going keto enabled me to do the thing I love most in sports at a fairly high level: ultra-cycling. I'm training pretty hard now, putting in 400km/week and have entered my first really long event on september 1st: Borders of Belgium, 1000 km in 75 hours. The time limit means it is primarily a mental game, very interesting.

Some questions:

1. Go to exercise: cycling, and yoga to strengthen my core
2. Friends: only in real life do I call them friends. I've been a Hare Krishna for about 20 years now, and I've made wonderful friends there, met some amazing people who I wish would be friends
3. Animal: the humble and patient, yet strong and sensitive donkey
4. Recipe: my way of making ratatouille
5. Motivation: staying healthy well into advancing age
6. Country/City: I'm a village boy who came to the city, and although sometimes I become a bit nostalgic in the country, I know that only "city air makes free"
7. Go back: to when I was about 25 and sure I would never fit in anywhere, in terms of work. I could have been a bit more relaxed, because I landed pretty well, it turned out.
8. Move: Funnily enough I'm starting to like Brussels a lot. It's got a great vibe, really interesting!
9. Fave LCHF Veggies: did I mention I make a mean ratatouille?
10. Fave book: all time: Middlemarch by George Elliot; at the moment: Hell On Two Wheels by Amy Snyder about 2009 RAAM
11. What is your favorite season/month?: summer, even though here, at the moment, that is more like fall.
12. Improvise or plan? I always thought I was an "improvise" kind of guy, but I turned out to be a pretty meticulous planner. Surprise!

So I am at the IA State Fair and had decided to cheat and let myself have some donuts on the way and then stay with low carb foods at the fair. I always seem to underestimate roller coaster effect with carbs. Unlike normal people, who have the same drop after carbs, I find it difficult sometimes to estimate insulin and end up way higher (BG), panic, then dangerously low. I was kinda worried about stumbling around and getting arrested for being drunk (if cops didn't know the difference) because I went from being high to nearly fainting in such a short time. Then I treated with cookies and pizza, so I know I will go high again and hopefully not over-correct the other way again . I love the taste of carbs, but the effects suck.