[willyb]

Thanks, Michelle. You know, I really need to step up the water intake. I drink lots of coffee with Splenda and a diet coke once in a while. Most of my food consists of green salads covered with BBQ pork or chicken. For breakfast I usually do a cheeze omelet with bacon. I eat several handfuls of nuts and sugar free Jello with whipped cream. I still can't see going much over 20g of carb in my routine, and I have been in the middle purple zone on the keto strips so I know lipolysis is underway. Since I have had several 2-3 day attempts at Atkins over the last couple of years I think my system is as you say, something in a starvation mode. I had to fast 24+ hours last week to prepare for colonoscopy and after drinking that nasty NuLytely stuff I was not hungry much at all so yes my eating has been way down overall. Maybe I need to eat more eggs cheeze meats, etc. I probably need to increase my treadmill runs from 350 to 450 calorie burns and go from 2 -3 times a week to 4-5 times. At any rate I may need to kick out of the starvation mode and ketosis for a couple days to reset my system and then go back into it.