Thank you so much for all of your quick replies! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you.

The only carbs I'm taking in at this point are vegetables or in my shredded cheese--which is a problem I plan to solve when I get back to the store. I want any carbs I eat to be intentional. Though I was surprised that eggs have carbs. O.o

I'm SUPER glad to know that if I go over on protein, it's not the end of the world. I was drinking chicken broth with butter a few times to hit my fat goal, which just seemed excessive. I'd rather spend my calories on eating something with more substance, I suppose, than broth and fat. But I CAN say that I do find myself reasonably full with the fat. I haven't been hungry the way I was when I was eating carbs. And food that I take in is intentional, not mindless grazing, which is nice, too!

With all the reading I've done, I had read that too much protein can cause your body to use it as fuel, instead of fat, and it could drop you out of ketosis. Which was my concern.

As for sodium, I'm prooobably good. I salt EVERYTHING. I am that person that people yell at for oversalting. When I leave a table, it's covered in a fine layer of salt. (I clean up, though, I'm not a heathen.) So whatever I'm eating is salted. I'm also drinking Ketoade usually at least once a day. I have the Lite-Salt or whatever it's called, to make sure I'm hitting potassium goals. And I have pickles. Been drinking the juice, too.

I've also been used to drinking, at minimum, three liters of water a day. So that helps a bit. I'm trying to drink more, but at least I'm not SUPER dehydrated. And if I feel like I am, I break out the ketoade.

I really like the advice that eating to satisfy is cool and if I don't hit that fat macro, it's okay, I just need to be under my carbs. So, I used a calculator that I found on one of the keto sites? It provided calorie range and then suggested macros by grams, not percentages, which is what I'm going off of.

As for my motivations for doing keto, I'm in a therapy group that focuses on healthy eating and avoiding binges. When I started thinking about my trigger foods, I realized that I was cutting out almost all of the carbs I ate on a regular basis anyway--rice, bread, potatoes, sugar--it made the most sense to just drop into keto. I figured if I did keto, I would have to be more mindful and intentional with my eating than low carb, since the carb limit is so drastic.

Since starting, I've lost a lot of water weight. (Yay.) But I've also lost my daily migraines. I've had a few headaches and they all went away with either ketoade, water, or a combination of vitamins. Magnesium, Potassium, D3. I'm considering adding a calcium supplement, but since I eat a lot of cheese and sour cream, I feel like I probably don't need it, tbh.

As for upping my protein, will that throw me out of ketosis? I don't want to change my carb intake. I'm trying really hard to make sure that I'm not doing anything wrong. But it WOULD be nice to eat more than 4 oz of chicken or ground beef without worrying about having protein available for dinner after lunch.

Additionally, I'm trying to do intermittent fasting? Partly because I'm lazy and now I don't have to make breakfast, but also because I liked the idea that it worked well with keto? I have a lot of fat to lose, so I figured I'd give it a try. It's been a challenge to wait until 1pm to eat sometimes, but I seem to be doing okay so far.

My plan is to throw exercise into this mix tomorrow. I'm headed out on vacation in September where I'll be doing a LOT of walking and I need to prepare for that. I'm hoping the cardio will help with my weight loss as well. But in the long run, my goal is for a sustainable way of eating. Cutting out carbs entirely (besides those leafy green veggies) seemed like the best option for me right now as I retrain myself not to emotionally eat or binge.