I feel pretty good today and ironically I lost some more weight Weight: 269.8. I say it's ironic because I'm waiting to hear from my doctor and depending on what I hear back, I may have to trade this diet for something else. I've been eating 500 calories a day for 7 days now and my blood sugar levels have not normalize. My sugar was 215 this morning. I am also not producing keynotes, which means I am not burning fat. If the weight I am loosing is not from irregular fat than this diet is not a good fit for me and I will have to reconfigure my approach to loosing weight. I believe that part of the problem I am having is that I am eating about 30 carbs a day. While I love the fruit, apples are high in sugar as are oranges. I know from doing maintenance on Atkins that my personal threshold for carbs is 50 a day. So while my calorie count is low, the sugar and carbs are keeping me right up near my personal threshold and so my sugars are high and I am not in ketosis -- which is the kiss of death for a ketogenic diet. I have been thinking about the foods I'm eating and this particular formula for dieting and I have a number of questions. Some of the food choices seem arbitrary and the view on fat seems archaic. I'm fairly certain I could design a better weight loss approach that allows for more food and more nutrition and that's what I am going to do, if my Dr does not have a winning strategy for this diet for me. On the up side, I feel good today. I'm in good spirits and I know I have the tools I need if this tool proves to be a bad fit for me. Tomorrow I'll either be on a diet of my own creation or on day 10. until then...