I think the best way to accomplish this is to eat a lot more fat calories in a day. Add as many fat calories as you want to keep from losing weight. At some point you’ll find a level of added calories that will prevent weight loss. And the extra fat will just enhance your ketone levels.

Just keep a stick of butter with you all day and take a lick or a bite from time to timel;)

I get it, I get it!

If you haven’t gone there already, Jenny at http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16162241.php (What They Don’t Tell You About Diabetes) has some good info about hyperglycemia-related tendon problems that may be of interest.

I don’t know if I’m considered a true low carber, but I have reduced my carb intake…allowing myself no more than 50% or less of my calories to come from carbs, and those mainly complex non-processed carbs as much as is possible…before I was eating a 90% carb diet with very little fat…I’ve increased my fat to 30-35% which was difficult for me, so convinced was I that fat was the enemy…Initially eating more protein, fewer carbs did seem expensive…but I find I don’t eat as much overall because I’m not hungry all the time, and I’m not buying the junk or the expensive processed cereals and such, so it works out to costing about the same and I’m healthier for it….I spend a lot more money on veggies now too, but they are still a bargain compared to the Frankenfoods.

Finally, I had migranies for about 10 years…at the beginning they were not diagnosed as such because I didn’t see an “aura”…but later it was determined they were migraines…this was back in the early 80’s….I remember the first migraine I had…it lasted 10 days, and it was debilitating…I went to work with Sprite and Pepto for the nausea, and as soon as I got home went to bed and stayed there…couldn’t stand the light…this headache lasted 10 days, no pain killer made a dent in the pain and I didn’t have the sense to go to the doctor at the time…had never heard of a migraine…thought I had the flu or something… Following that, I had, off and on, debilitating headaches, although none as severe as the initail headache, for a period of several years.. I was 31 when they started and in my early 40’s when they ceased and never returned…I think hormones played some role in the headaches…I also did eat a very high carb, highly processed diet too, devoid of important nutrients..that is when I began to self study nutrition, trying to find help for my misery……Said all this to say, perhaps at some point in time your migraines will go away like mine did…

nonegiven – thanks for the Bernstein link. Whatever it was, CTS or neuropathy, it is always much better when I stick to LC. The thing about this that really yanks my chain is that I think any doctor, when faced with a patient who exhibits multiple risk factors for diabetes AND displays numbness and tingling in the extremities, ought to order a GTT immediately.

Second, a ketogenic diet will add weight to a person who is too thin so I don’t think too much weight loss would be a big problem in the long run. It is healthy, not magic. It will often reconfigure a person’s body composition by helping to take off fat and add muscle. Many people have noticed their dress size or waist measurement getting smaller even when they aren’t seeing any movement on the scale. Kelly Bliss, a very large HAES (health at every size) and SA (size acceptance) advocate mentioned she eats a ‘high fat’ diet to help control seizures, so it probably won’t turn _all_ fat people into skinny people or she would be a lot smaller.