Day 36, 5 weeks in, I can feel the change

Blooming box sets, we avoided "The Fall" last night and watched "Fortitude" instead but my brain is clearly wanting to dump some sort of data, I have been having quite stressful vivid dreams on the content. Besides that my middle of the night waking has greatly reduced, with me waking mildly and not wide eyed fully awake.

Glucose:   4.6
Ketone:     2.0
Breakfast: Crackling, broth & butter
Lunch:       Pork belly, cabbage, cauliflower mash
Lunch 2:    Prawn and crab cocktail, M&S salad
Dinner:      Yogurt MCT, low carb granola, pork scratchings, peanut butter, raw coconut choc

Still a slightly sleepy start to the day but got on the bike again, it is certainly getting easier. I don't feel at peak fitness and to be fair I will have de-trained, but I don't feel pathetically unfit. I can certainly build from here and my recovery immediate, minutes after a push and overnight, from a fairly hard ride or series or ride, have both improved dramatically.

What have I seen in the last 5 weeks (10% of the year!!)? I have lost 7kg, become more positive, lost brain fog, stable glucose and ketone levels, controllable hunger, nearly got through my sleep issues and made very good progress on athletic adaptation. Everyone says it take 2-3 weeks to get into ketosis, 6-12 weeks to get adapted, why o why do we all question ourselves?

I think a week or so ago, when my ketones dipped, I think due to muscles starting to adapt, athletically this was a very challenging time. However this time, with greater experience, absolutely no sneaky carbs after rides and full blog audit I stayed strong and turned the corner more easily. I have previously tried to "tweak" with less carbs, timed carbs etc etc. Just respect the process takes time, and for me on I have been "lucky" or my body had not lost all my previous adaptation as the initial process has been much quicker.

I took my crackling into work and we spent all morning eating it, I then had my usual early lunch. I was for some reason still hungry so I had a second lunch. My ride home was pretty solid and I thought I would probably not have dinner. I then decided to have a snack which turned into 3, not balance and not good, it would have been better to have eaten a proper meal.