Glad you are out of your crash
@leokitten. No, I started this the day you posted it. Will have amazon keto sticks by Tuesday and will know then. However, my symptoms like nearly fainting on days 2 and 3 at end of glycogen stores, and then a slight improvement, but still having severe ME symptoms like weakness and buzzing in my brain and tinititus, tell my I’m in nutritional ketosis but not adapted yet and not getting quite enough energy from food. I’ve been pretty close I think to 20g carbs, if going over, only up to 30 or 35 tops with vegetables or nuts. It’s too difficult to be more accurwte as I’m in an extended crash because of this. My family makes meals and I can’t ask them to measure things out so am eyeballing everything!
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@Silencio - urine keto sticks are absolutely worthless and inaccurate (sorry to tell you this, also mentioned this in the OP). They will give you completely misleading info and then you will likely adjust your diet in the wrong ways.
Are you using Amazon.com, Amazon.de, or Amazon.uk in Portugal? I searched de and uk and there are dual blood ketone and glucose monitors for the same price as here in the US, approx 30-50 EUR. For example the "On-Call GK Dual Blood Glucose and Ketone Meter", although I don't know how well it's made and accurate it is, but I'm sure it's better than urine sticks. I'm sure there are other brands too and looks like very reasonable prices. Also, can you buy from Amazon.com in US and ship to Portugal?
Also another thing, and sorry to sound harsh, but I just want to ensure you are fully in ketosis for a month or so to know for certain if this diet will work or not on your ME. I truly think a lot of people try this diet in a handwavey kind of way and then when it doesn't work they think it's the diet.
If you can I would not have anyone, including family, make meals for you for the entirety the diet trial. If you are in a crash honestly the best thing to do is fast most of the time, lie in bed and watch tv, sleep, and only eat a few simple ketogenic things. Unless you are underweight or severe ME of course, but if you are slightly overweight or more then I’ve never heard of fasting or eating far fewer calories making ME symptoms worse if you stay in bed a don’t exert much.
If you remember from one of my earlier posts, you just have to eat
things not meals, food totally deconstructed. I never use or need a scale or really do any measuring.
Have your family buy all the ketogenic food items and variety you want to eat and then just use an app, serving sizes and simple math, and nutrition labels to know exactly what macros you are ingesting. That's what I do.
You don't measure, cook or prepare anything at all. If people are preparing entire meals for you then you have no idea what you are ingesting. I also think just eating things is simpler and less cognitively difficult once you've set them up in your app and know your serving sizes.
For example this is one of my "meals":
10 medium black olives
1 almond milk yogurt plain unsweetened
2 cocktail tomatoes
5 celery sticks
3 tbsp tzatziki
1 oz blue cheese
The only thing I had to think about was the 1 oz blue cheese. But all I did was take the number of ounces on the label for the entire cheese, e.g. 5 oz, and divide it into 5 pieces. All the other items were super easy in the app to get the macros. All my "meals" look like that.
for the compendium thread) if I feel like another crash is coming.
