Anyone else here on the keto diet?

I've been putting a concentrated effort into weight loss for the past six months. Over the past month and a half, I started doing keto for extra appetite suppression, but also becauce glycogen encourages water retention and I've had issues with that. I'm doing kind of ok. Got a blood ketone meter that's sort of jumping around. I'm finding it pretty easy to maintain a calorie deficit. The problem comes that being autistic and having reduced options of what I can eat... well it's harder to enjoy food these days.

Texture is the worst for me when it comes to food. I ordered these keto pizza bases the other day and made a simple pizza. Took a few bites and enjoyed it reasonably well. Until I found a large seed in it. Suddenly my appetite was gone and the pizza bases are unusable. I really hate having too many textures in my food. And of course the diet itself isn't the cheapest. Right now I'm snacking on some cheddar and iberico ham, but that's a rare treat.

Anyone else here on the diet? And if there are, how have you found managing meals?

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  • I did the Primal blueprint for around 3.5-4 years. This was not to lose weight but as a result I did and had to introduce more carbs as I wanted to maintain my weight but be healthy. I don’t follow it as strictly now but still do a pretty good job. It was basically no processed foods and no refined sugar. I feel terrible for the first 2-3 weeks and then really felt the benefits after that.

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  • I did the Primal blueprint for around 3.5-4 years. This was not to lose weight but as a result I did and had to introduce more carbs as I wanted to maintain my weight but be healthy. I don’t follow it as strictly now but still do a pretty good job. It was basically no processed foods and no refined sugar. I feel terrible for the first 2-3 weeks and then really felt the benefits after that.

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