You’re right Randy. My main focus 57 pounds ago was to lose weight as fast as possible but after hitting that 3 week long plateau at 50 lbs I’ve shifted more into just eating healthy, not worrying about the level of ketones in my blood stream. I’ve been only eating meat once per day, and that meat has been either chicken or fish. Last week I did wonder if my potassium level might be low so I “cheated” and ate one banana a day for 3 days. That’s actually when my weight loss picked back up. There are 27 carbs in a medium banana and I didn’t check my blood to see what effect that had on my ketone level but I don’t really care because I lost weight anyway. I’ve cut way back on trying to eat lots of fat and not using meat as a fat source. I’m just glad I finally thought to drop the pressure on my CPAP because I felt worse last week than I did 57 pounds ago.

Incidentally, I decided to check my ketone level while I was writing this post because I haven’t checked it in probably a couple of weeks. It was 2.7 mmol/L. That’s the highest it’s ever been. I guess cutting back on meat/protein has raised my levels from 1.8-2.2 where they’ve been running. I know protein can be converted to glucose.