Right, Monday... Like Garfield, I'm not a fan of Mondays.

So last week, I traveled for work leaving home around 6:30am on Sun. morning and got home sometime around 9pm on Fri. night. While traveling, I had difficulty finding exact MFP database entries, so I did my best to guess. I also bought some sausage snacks and some nuts for snacks, even after telling myself I wasn't going to buy any nuts until I reached my goal weight. I can easily eat several lbs. of nuts and that is a lot of calories... though I was able to choose mostly low carb nuts. One of the nuts had a glaze on it. The nutrition facts showed 2g net carbs per ounce (5g total carb - 3g fiber), but the resulting BG spike (13 oz. / supposedly 26g net carbs put my BG at almost 500 mg/dl within a few hours) says their nutrition facts are wrong. At places without nutrition facts, I chose dishes that I knew should be low carb... at an Indian place, for example, Murgh Tikka Masala with no rice and no naan.

Since I was so far over on calories, I decided I'm going to capitalize on that and continue over calorie this week in a "refeed / reset" attempt, but will be working on lower carbs and filling in extra calories from fat instead. I made a chili on Sun. big enough to feed me most of the rest of this week.

The other trouble with my traveling is that I'm exhausted. I got home around 9pm on Fri. night, left at about 7:30am Sat. morning (personal travel that day - a meeting for an organization I volunteer with on the steering committee, then an errand for my car, then my brother's birthday celebration before returning home - total driving of around 550 miles) and I returned home around 3am again on Sun. morning. So from about 6:30 am Sun. morning to 6:30am on the next Sun. morning, I was home a cumulative total of 13.5 hrs. and spent much of that time sleeping. I'm so glad to be home (at work now, but you know what I mean), but kinda tired.

You want to be fat adapted, in ketosis, not so much. And the hydration level effects the sticks. Most low carbers know the sticks are not a great way to determine ketosis and you are probably not going to get out of it with one meal or one component of a meal. The Launchpad threads have a lot of info about the sticks etc. and FA vs. Ketosis.

ProCoffeenator wrote: »

@bowlerae how long have you been Keto? After a month or two those strips will likely stop working for you. They measure ketones that are not being used by your system and in turn are spilled into your urine. Once you hit actual ketosis your body will be using them and you may only get trace readings. A blood meter or breath analyzer would be more accurate. As a general most people stay below 20g of carbs a day. The more athletic people may be able to do more (people who a exercising 5x a week).

I'm assuming you mean once I hit actual "fat adaption". Hmm let's see. I've been keto I guess since about January first after returning from a 3 week vacation where I went all out on carbs (after previously doing keto). I think I've had 2 days since January first where I've had a lot of carbs and fell out of ketosis. It's been about 4 weeks since my last high carb day. Ketone strips are still working for me. I have been looking at a blood ketone meter but the strips seem kind of expensive and also I'm not to keen on pricking my finger. I've heard about the breath analyzer but I haven't researched how accurate or expensive it is. Also, I already know I can stay in ketosis at about 30-35g net carbs.

johnnylew wrote: »

Thank YOU to the person who started this PRIVATE community. I am new to the community section of MFP. When I posted in the regular community about my success and positive experience with the LCHF diets I had some negative and not so motivating responses.

Omg I know it's horrible!! But also, please keep in mind we generally do not talk about the main forums here as we could get in trouble about it. Glad you are a part of the community!

Good Tuesday morning, everyone! I made some pigs-in-the-blanket with fathead dough yesterday. OMG. So easy and delicious. I think my next fathead dough adventures will involve empanadas - I live in the area where every gas station and convenience store has hot empanadas and pastelitos on display as soon as you walk in. Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

This is interesting, WHO changing their guidelines:
http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/2017/02/17/diet-and-cardiovascular-disease/

Hi and welcome newbies! @perfekta my fave snack is Freybe Double Smoked or Damn Hot Habanero pepperoni...... Orrrrr old cheese smothered in cheese and wrapped in cheese lol.