Hi. I've been on ketosis for about 2 weeks. Works fine, a lot of energy, good mood, exercise works well, etc. However, after my first meal of the day (lunch) I feel really bad, almost as I have fever. Low energy, creeping in the body, brain fog, etc. A couple of hours after the meal I feel better, but not really back to the morning feeling.

• What's the reason for this? Why after meals?
• Is this a sign of keto-flu? Can I expect this issue to be resolved when my body is more adapted to ketosis?

Hi All,

I recently started keto and generally am feeling great. However, I keep waking up too early before I have had enough sleep. Keep in mind that I also increased my activity level and may not be eating enough calories quite yet, the high fat is taking some getting used to. Are there any other keto-related reasons why I might be waking up too early? Much appreciated

Best, Anthony

Heya!

I've had great success with keto for weight loss (more than 5 kilograms in 4,5 months).

As a very welcome "side effect", I've found that ketosis manages and helps me with my health condition. Within a few weeks, the symptoms cut into half, and with a month or two, they vanished. However, now they've returned.

I've got a hypothesis (unproven), that stricter keto could possibly help. Now I'm looking at how to cut my carbs reliably to under 20 in a sustainable way.

What I did eat when my symptoms were at lowest:

• Spontaneous intermittent fasting.

• Lots of water with lime, or Vichy

• Coffee with a lot of heavy cream in the morning.

• Lunch 11ish, 200-400g of minced meat with mushrooms and 1 spoonful of ketchup, a little cheese

• Dinner 16ish, same as lunch.

What I've been eating lately.

• Lots of water with lime, or Vichy

• Coffee with heavy cream in the morning

• Breakfast, 300g of Turkish yoghurt, with 1 spoonful of raw cocoa powder

• Lunch if I remember, 14ish

Varies, often chicken breast with yoghurt, or minced meat, or cheese & deli meat

• Sometimes snack of half of an apple

• Dinner at 19ish

I've been operating with a rule of thumb to eat stuff with less than 5g of carbs/100g, and been cutting down vegetables such as bell peppers as they require counting of carbs to not go over. Now I've started using chronometer again (don't have much of data of the last few months), and i consistently hit 30ish carbs a day with intuitive eating to ketosis. I don't have a reliable way to track, if my ketosis breaks, as in feeling level it hasn't felt like it. I might get some leeway in choosing veggies if I am ready to give up my yoghurt breakfast. Clean keto except for some days 0,5 liters of coca cola zero (never drank that thing before keto so might be easy to cut down!

My goal is high fat, moderate protein, low carb (under 20 a day). Clean keto,

Any best recipes?

Hey loves! Had my first cycle on Keto and I feel like absolute rubbish. I am hungry but have no appetite. What do you ladies eat when aunt flow comes over? Something that doesn’t take much effort please

Hi all,

Im reading conflicting reports about the effect of a keto diet. Can someone help me see trough this?

I started a keto diet because I have a nafl (but average weight, maybe a few extra kilo and dadbod but no obesity) and high tryglicerides. Its been two weeks, it was very hard at first (like stopping to smoke and i was unhinged). I feel better for 3 days now, but i start to feel a lot thirstier than usual.

I lost 4 kg, dunno if i should stop or keep going.

I've had trouble finding a reliable monitor.
I have the Precision Xtra blood monitor: every day the range is 0.4 to 0.7. It's consistent when I try different fingers immediately after another, and the time of day doesn't matter. I know it should be higher, because I'm tracking carbs. I'll go a week at sub 20 carbs and still be in this range.

At the same time, when I use Keto Mojo urine strips, I'm showing 1.5 and 4. I know the urine is less reliable, and a more precise number would be nice. I'm guessing this is closer to accurate.

I also tried the KetoBM blood monitor and the results were all over: 1 finger is a 0.7, another is a 2.5, another is a 1.4, etc.

Any recommendations on specific monitors or approaches?

I started keto 4 days ago and wondering is my NAFLD stopping it?

Also if one is in keto do you stay in keto if you eat avocados or pecans, or whey protein?

Does one need to fast to get in keto?

Thanks

For context, if it’s important, I am a 21 year old female, 5’7 and 147 pounds, I run about 25 miles a week and do strength training once a week, my maintenance calories is 2,245. I try to avoid calorie counting because I am recovering from an eating disorder, but I think I may be at a point where I am able to incorporate it back into my lifestyle.

My issue is that most fatty keto foods seem super high calorie and I don’t know if I know enough about keto to be able to eat keto and low calorie without eating tons of processed shit.

I would love some advice about how to do that, maybe some things you like to eat if you’re counting calories? Also, I was thinking about doing 1500 calories a day as my deficit. Of course I am the only person to know for sure and I will try to listen to my body if it’s full or too hungry, but do we think that 1500 calories is a good amount? Is that too much or too little?

1 cup keto carnitas 2 zero carb tortillas 2 eggs scrambled 2 pieces of bacon chopped Quarter tablespoon sour cream 1/4 cup shredded cheese Cilantro Tiny sliver of onion finely diced Hot sauce of your choice

Context , on IF and also lifting 4 days out of the week. Keto tortillas don’t work for some folks so sub out for some cauliflower rice if it doesn’t work for you.

If you want the calories way lower you can cut out the tortillas and the bacon and the cheese landing this at around 500 ish calories for 2 tacos but my appetite pretty much only allows me like 1.5 meals a day so getting up to target calories a day is actually difficult. Yes fat loss is the goal but it’s important to remember that too extreme of a deficit can also have adverse effects on a prolonged fat loss plan.

Looking for people to connect with on carb manager, maybe see what other people are doing. 9 lb away from my goal weight steady-state weight in the past but planning to stay on Keto indefinitely. Like how think it's been around 10 months it's good. .

Hi Folks - I just want to share another non-scale victory!

Today I got my blood work back and my A1C is now sitting at a very healthy, non-diabetic 5.2!

(For the purpose of screening for the presence of diabetes, an A1C of < 5.7 is consistent with the absence of diabetes, 5.7 - 6.4 is consistent with increased risk for diabetes or prediabetes, and > or = 6.5 is consistent with diabetes)

For context, back in November of 2023, my A1C was at 10.6. I was on fast acting and long acting insulin to try and control my blood sugar. As I was staring at my glucose meter and trying to figure out how much insulin to inject, I thought "WTF am I doing?" and wanted to find a better way. After some researching, I decided to give the Ketogenic lifestyle a try beginning on 1/1. Since then, in February my A1C was already down to 7.6, and today it is at 5.2. I also haven't had to take any insulin in over 8 weeks.

In addition to the scale-victory of losing 46 pounds to date (50M, 5' 10", now 193 lbs), I've had the non-scale-victories of also being able to come off one depression medication, I've dropped two pant sizes, my wedding ring fits again, and I can coach through an entire soccer practice without having to sit down. With the increased energy, I've been able to add walking and lifting weights to my day. There's been many other benefits, but it all started with simply keeping (and measuring and tracking) my daily intake of carbs under 20g. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner.

I'd like to once again thank the members of this sub. The knowledge has been so helpful to me (*cough* electrolytes *cough*) and stories motivational. Much appreciated!

Hello Keto friends I have been on keto since about March with a starting weight of around 221. My weight is now around 217 and I am looking for advice as to what I might be doing wrong. From what I am reading about other people's experiences with keto, my weight should be under 210 by now. My meals per day are almost the same with the breakdown listed below. I am open to any critique on what I might be doing wrong to help me get my weight down. I supplement my electrolytes and drink around 2L of water per day

For context: Male, 28 6'0 Semi-active and picked up weight training beginning of May

Breakfast: 4 fried eggs, 1 avocado, 6 olives, 1-2 tablespoons of shredded cheese, 2 tablespoons of feta cheese, 0.5-1 tablespoon of almond butter, 1 cup of coffee, 2-3 table spoons of 10% cream

Lunch: 2 Love Good Fats Bar (salted caramel or dark chocolately sea salt and almond) Coffee, 1-2 tablespoons of 10% cream,

Snack: 1 tablespoon of almond butter,

Dinner: Chicken breast with skin, Chicken leg, 2 cups of shredded coleslaw mixed with, 1 tablespoon of mayo, 1 avocado, 6 olives, Sometimes a cup of steamed broccoli, Tablespoon of mayo on the side

Post dinner: coffee, 1-2 tablespoons of 10% cream, 4-5 teaspoons of keto icecream, 0.5-1 tablespoon of almond butter,

So I used to have monster zero as my only drink and would drink one in the evening but I think it has started to affect my sleep.

What other non caffeinated drinks similar to monster zero can I have?

I don’t like any other drinks besides the monster ultra or Coke Zero.

Looking to see if there are any alternatives.

TIA

Recently I have been seeing a lot of posts about getting stuck at X weight, or “I cheated and now I am out of Ketosis.” So I wanted to share my journey with you and what has helped me go from where I was, 343 lbs at my heaviest, down to 280lbs as of this week the last time I weighed myself. Today I am lighter than I have been in over 15 years! I still have a long way to go, and my end goal is 200 lbs, because I want to be thin and attractive and I want people to respect me and not judge me because I am fat, just like you probably reading this right now. Well, I am here to try and help!

My journey started with an initial health scare from when I visited the doctor back in 2019, as you are all probably aware of, pre-diabetic, stage 3 fatty liver, ect… I had known about Keto diets in the past, when I was younger, the low carb diet at the time was Atkins, and I had used this diet before to keep my weight in check as I have always struggled with my weight, but that was back in my early 20s. My solution to fixing my health problems (and weight problem) was to go back on a ketogenic diet.

In 2019, I went through the struggle of getting my body in ketosis, dealt with keto flu, low energy, and was able to overcome those challenges and get on a good track of staying low carb. I managed to do this for about a year before I started to slip. It started with small slip ups here and there “a few Doritos wont hurt, its just a hand full.” “A small piece of cookie wont hurt.” Before I knew it (mid 2022), I was kicked out of Ketosis and craving high carb foods again and back into old eating habits. I went from 343 down to 283 then back up to 312 lbs, Darn! I was losing the battle...

Then in 2023, I started having health issues again, which I won’t go into details, and I wanted to get my health in check for good. What was needed, in my opinion, was a fundamental shift in the way I (we) view food. We need to look at food as an essential building block and an energy source for our body and get out of the mindset of looking at food for comfort and enjoyment. This is not an easy thing to do and is probably the hardest thing I have ever done next to getting an Engineering Degree, but if you can master this one thing, you will be hugely successful in your journey to losing the weight and being healthy.

Step 1: Small steps and Logging

My first piece of advice is start small. Yes, you are impatient and yes you want to be thin RIGHT NOW! I get it, but this won’t happen overnight. This is a long process that takes a long time. You are fighting an uphill battle. You are probably surrounded by people eating all kinds of high carb foods, you probably got that skinny friend/relative that can eat anything and stay thin (NOT FAIR! I totally get it..). The first thing I recommend is track absolutely everything you eat. Lose it is only $3 bucks/month (best money I ever spent). Do not try and diet yet, just track what you are eating. Eat a cookie? Log it! Eat an entire party bag potato chips? Hey don’t sweat it! But LOG IT! Get into the habit of logging absolutely everything you put into your body no matter what it is, and don’t judge yourself for your bad eating habits, don’t worry you and me, we are going to fix this together!

After about a week (maybe 2 weeks), make a small change… I was eating about 250 net grams of carbs per day, so I set a reasonable goal for the next week… Lets see if I can get that down to 150 net/day for a week. One week goes by, easily beat it! All it took was cutting some bread out of my diet as well as rice and potatoes. Next step, 100 net/day. Weeks goes by I was at 120 net/day. Darn! I tried my best, but next week, I’m going to do it! Next week goes by I was at 99 net/day. Yes! I did it I hit my goal. Let’s see if I can do it again and again. 2 more weeks go by, and I was down to 80 net/day without hardly trying. Then I lowered my goal to 50/day and that is when it started to get hard. Now I had to cut that slice of toast out of my diet with my morning eggs. I had to cut that bowl of rice out with my meat. I had to really start making some hard changes, and I wasn’t always successful during the first month. I went over and hit 60/day, but I kept at it, kept logging. Today I average 21 Net/day carbs (not too bad right). The best part about the second time I got myself into Ketosis, there was ZERO side effects. No keto flu. I did have electrolyte imbalances for a while but was easily fixed with upping potassium and adding more salt to my food.

The key here is set reasonable goals for yourself that you know you can beat, you wont always be successful, but keep at it. Breaking bad habits is hard, but if you keep logging, and you keep at your goals, eventually you will break it!

Step 2: Eat only nutrient dense foods

This goes back to looking at food as building blocks and energy for your body, make sure every food you eat is to fulfil a specific nutrient requirement. You need more potassium, eat more kale/spinach, need to get your vitamin D up, eat some smoked salmon. Over time, your taste buds will change, and you will start really enjoying the foods you are eating. I absolutely LOVE kale now!

Also, this includes keto-friendly foods like bacon. I do not eat bacon. There is almost no nutritional value in eating it, so why eat it? Eat some steak instead.

If I eat a food with Carbs, it will be a very nutrient dense food and because my body needs those nutrients. What kind of foods am I talking about? Here are some examples:

73% + or more cocoa chocolate

Berries (strawberries for example)

Lemons/limes

Nuts and seeds of all kinds.

All kinds of vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, Peppers, Onions

The Key to staying in ketosis when you are consuming foods with carbs is moderation. Yes that 70% chocolate has sugar in it, but I eat one square MAX per day. That one piece of chocolate has 4.7 grams of net carbs and 2 grams of fiber. There is plenty of room in my daily carb limit to allow for it. As long as my weekly average total carb intake stays under 25 grams/day, I am good (my personal set goal).

Step 3: NO CHEAT DAYS!!!

Once you are in the groove, and you got your carb intake to your set goals, be EXTREMELY strict with food intake. Allow for ZERO cheat days and have a ZERO tolerance policy on any "empty carb" food. What do I mean by empty carb? any food that is high in carbs and has no nutritional value, like cookies, chips, ice-cream ect... Cheating will get you kicked out of ketosis and is the path back to bad eating habits and putting the weight back on and that is exactly what happened to me! Just don’t do it. We are not eating for comfort anymore; we are eating because our bodies need this specific nutrient. This is the goal.

Step 4: Fasting

You don’t need to do this right away, make sure you get yourself into the habit of logging, and eating foods that are nutrient dense and make sure your body is in ketosis first. Like with before, don’t try and jump headfirst into fasting, take small steps and build on it every week. Start with a shorter duration fast once per week, for 12 hours, then increase slowly until you hit 18 hours. The end goal here is twice per week for a minimum of 18 hours. If you get hungry and you cant do it, don’t beat yourself up over it, its hard! Your body will fight you and want you to eat. Try again the next week with your set goals. Just make sure you are eating those nutrient dense foods we talked about above. As your body becomes more and more fat adapted, this will get easier and easier.

I am currently fasting for 24 hours on Mondays and Tuesdays. Monday morning I eat 2 fried eggs and drink my coffee with half and half then fast until Tuesday morning. Then on Tuesday morning, I will eat 2 fried eggs and that same coffee without eating until Wednesday morning. It is currently Tuesday and I have not eaten since this morning. I won’t eat until tomorrow morning.

To prep your body for long fasts that will allow your body to eat itself with ease is making sure you are LOADED with TONS of nutrients, (remember step 2?). Saturday and Sunday are prep days for that fast. I eat dark leafy greens, like Kale, and Spinach, cheesy broccoli I make myself, peppers, ect... I eat lots of nuts and seeds, Walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts, peanut butter, steak, Smoked raw salmon. I will eat a little bit more than my metabolic rate, about 200 calories more (2500 cal). I also generously salt everything so that I am around 4000 MG for the day. This will load your body with potassium, magnesium, and sodium. Then I go into my fast on Monday. Perfect for me since I need to be at work on Monday and Tuesday.

If you do this, when you go into your fast, you will have plenty of nutrients/electrolytes for your body to just eat your own fat off your body. You probably wont even feel hungry for many hours on end, but if you do get hungry, drink lemon in water, or apple cider vinegar to suppress your hunger.

Now, the key to coming out of your fast is to NOT over-eat. Eat VERY SLOWLY (I cannot emphasize this enough). Take bites, chew, put your fork down, wait 10-30 seconds after you swallow, then take another bite. Eat high fat foods like cheese, eggs, peanut butter. This will help you feel satiated. Try and keep your first meal out of a fast at around 1000 calories.

Step 5: Exercise

Try and add exercise into your weekly routine and this will help you lose the weight even faster, but is not necessary to lose the weight. Exercise is really good for you anyway. For me personally, I picked up swimming (I swim 2 miles 3x per week now), and I feel great afterwards, all those endorphins! So why not?

Step 6: For life!

What do I mean for life? What I mean is that you need to view keto as a for life plan. The key to staying healthy is eating healthy. So why ever go back to your old way of eating? On this diet, I feel great, my libido is way up and I have tons of energy to do things! I want to go outside and work on my car! I want to go to the gym. When you are eating healthy, you will feel amazing, you will have moments of euphoria, you will be happy, you will have an amazing sex life! That guy/girl you like at the gym will notice you. You will no longer be ignored! You will also be smarter, your mental clarity will be better than ever, you will be able to focus on your goals!

Final piece of advice: You will fail… yes you will fail at your goals over and over again, I still fail my goals once in a while. Last week I had a day where I went up to 30 net/day carbs and ate 2600 calories (DARN!), but I didn’t give up! I wont give up! Sometimes you will slip, but as long as you set reasonable goals for yourself and tighten those goals solely over time, and you keep at it, you will be successful in the long run, and you will get the weight off! Don’t focus on the scale, but focus on getting into healthy eating habits, focus on exercising and I promise you, the weight will come off!

Title basically, cholesterol levels have improved across the board since being on keto. I'm somewhat surprised by this. My diet isn't exactly "clean" keto and I eat quite a lot of saturated fat. I'm also not trying to diet really have been trying to gain muscle by eating around 3k cals a day.

Makes me feel vindicated about my dietary choices.

Hello, I've been keto on and off for a few years. Usually I average about 2lb per week of weight loss. This time I'm not losing and just holding at 83kg. Up and down .5kg. It's been about 3 weeks. I'm 5'4" if it matters.

I find I have to keep my calories below 1200 or I don't lose. I used to not exercise but I'm doing about 2hrs of cardio per week now. Could this be the issue? Should I be eating more? Or should I stay the course and hope my body will adjust to the exercise and keto?

Thanks!

I know that sugar alcohols dont count to net carbs, but they still are carbs right? Therefore, do they help with binding water molecules and thus aid in hydration/retention of water in the body like regular carbohydrates?

Hello!

I've followed keto for a few months now and have noticed some definite benefits. I recently added electrolytes to my morning water and noticed some hormonal side effects upon early introduction (namely brain fog). Is it worth sticking it out in hopes that it will subside? Is this an expected result or should I stop the electrolytes?

Hello,

I am a few weeks into keto. How do I measure the crabs in foods such as soup, or chicken broth? If I am not eating the onion itself, should I still calculate the onion's carbs amount into the chicken broth carbs amount? How should I go about it?

Thank you

Not sure whats going on. I feel like doing IF makes my metabolism slow down and have the opposite effect.

I work out regularly doing HIIT workouts 2-3 times a week, plus yoga and hot barre 1-2 times a week as well.

My caloric intake is 1700-1800, but over the last few weeks I've been under 1200-1500 more than a few times.

Is it just a matter of keeping at it?

I'm 5'8, 38 (39 in 2 months) and 204 lbs.

There is little to no information about where to find products to make ketorade in places like South Korea, China or South East Asia in general. I really don’t want to travel around with containers of magnesium and ziplocks of No Salt attached to my backpack. Lack of suitable electrolytes while traveling makes it super difficult to maintain 20:4 IF and Keto. So far the only symptom I’m having daily is dry lips and foamy spit. I’m drinking almost 3 liters of water a day and somehow I don’t think it’s enough even though it feels like a lot of water. Any help to an electrolyte solution while fasting, keto and backpacking Asia would be greatly appreciated.

My keto journey began last year with a transformative 20-pound weight loss. The diet wasn't just about numbers on the scale; it was a lifestyle shift. I reveled in the simplicity of meal planning, the absence of constant cravings, and the overall improvement in my mood and energy levels. However, I slowly let carbs creep back in, and now I'm trapped in a cycle of restriction and indulgence. I've gained weight, and my relationship with food feels strained. The thought of returning to keto triggers an irrational urge to binge on sweets and carbs, as if I'm preparing for a food "drought." I know this isn't logical, but it's a real struggle. I yearn for the mental clarity and emotional stability | felt during my successful keto phase. How can I break this cycle and rediscover that balance? I'm tired of the emotional and physical toll these yo-yo habits are taking on me.

I've been keto for 2 months and have been loosing weight VERY quickly the last few weeks. Specifically, 7 pounds in the last two weeks. This seems like way too much to be healthy as I'm only 140 pounds.

Am I just not eating enough fats?

41/m 5’10” sw: 280 / cw: 268 - i started taking .5 ml of zepbound on 5/9 and also started keto the same day. the zepbound has helped a TON and made transitioning to keto so easy. i’m down 12 lbs in 5 days and working out daily. i know this is not a reasonable expectation. has anyone ever started or went on keto while using zepbound or wegovy? what was your experience?

bc of the zepbound i am probably not hitting my protein goals, which is around 130 so my plan is to get off of zepbound after my last dose.

Hi. How do you deal with bad breath when you are in ketosis? I am in ketosis most of the time (very low carb diet and IF of prolonged fasting) and it affects my breath. I suppose it isn't pleasant for people around me. Do you chew gums or maybe it is not a common problem?

I'll do my best to keep this short and punchy but I want to give my full backstory for clarity.

~5 years ago I lost 124 lbs (before and afters in my post history). I did it with diet alone. I used a cocktail of high protein (1g/lb of ideal bodyweight) low carb, daily time restricted eating, prolonged fasts, and keto cycling. I've since maintained my loss and now weigh 123-125. I continue to eat very low carb but have added back some vegetables, fruits, and nuts. But 95% of my diet is animal protein and I like to keto cycle about half the month.

3 years ago I was diagnosed with rosacea. About a year ago I developed arthritis. I've just begun to experiment with my macros and keeping a detailed spreadsheet. The reason being is that I keep noticing that when I'm very low carb or have slipped into ketosis that my rosacea flares are much worse and my hands are much more swollen. At first I thought it had to be a coincidence and that it was due to a specific food(s), but no.

For the last 2 weeks I've eaten a higher fat, higher carb, lower protein diet and am obviously out of ketosis. My first meal would be something like cheese, salami, nuts, clean crackers (I make them myself), and fruit. Next would be a protein with a high fat pan sauce and some potato. Last meal would be a salad with some vegetables, crumbled cheese, and a bit of leftover cold protein. Total protein around 80g, carbs around 70-80g, fat around 100g+. The result is that both my hands and face have been doing great. Very little swelling in my hands when I wake up (when it's usually the worst) and even in the hot weather my face hasn't flushed constantly and has been really comfortable.

These meals are just examples. I cannot seem to isolate a particular food that is bothering me. Ironically, back when I was morbidly obese I never seemed to have food intolerances.

Yesterday I went back to my normal macros/meals. I had salmon for breakfast, a flank steak and raspberries for lunch, and a ribeye and broccolini for dinner. Total protein 138g, carbs 22g, fat 65g. I woke up with terribly swollen hands and despite being in a nice cool room all day my face is flushed and painful.

These meals are just examples. I cannot seem to isolate a particular food that is bothering me and back when I was morbidly obese I never seemed to have food intolerances.

I just don't understand any of this. For 6 years the LCHP/keto way of eating has been my lifeline. It saved me. I cannot get my head around how it could possibly be making my conditions worse, and for that matter how I ended up with two auto-immune conditions at all when I thought I was finally in peak health.

Does anyone have any insight into how being in ketosis/LCHP could worsen my diseases?

Thank you to anyone who read all this.

Hi all, do you have any tips to flavor plain water? I love tea, but I worry about the hidden carbs in 10+ cups a day.

What's your opinion on the quest chips tried a bag and was not bad seems to be low carb a little high in protein but again it is a protein snack

Honestly they were pretty damn good.

As a part of my diet plan I reduced the quantity of my food now I am worried about developing stomach ulcer, is this possible? I eat food at the correct times and drink enough water, is this not enough? Or should I seek help from a dietitian?

I have been on a low carb diet(not keto) for the past 2 weeks and only have been consuming majority of my carbohydrates prior to my workout/run. My average daily carbs intake is below 50g on rest days and below 100g on workout days.

Earlier this morning, i decided to test my fasting blood sugar level 2 hours after i woke up and it was 2.2 mmol/L. From my understanding, the normal blood sugar range is 3.9 to 5.6 mmol/L and even people on keto diet wouldn’t have a blood sugar that low. Is my body okay?

*I’m not experiencing any hypoglycemic symptoms