Hi Yvonne,

I use Brave browser (based on Chrome) but more privacy oriented. It has a built in ad blocker and I added a very good ad blocker extension on top of that built in one. I never see ads anywhere. I do know YouTube runs ads like crazy at the beginning and between videos. I figured you might have caught that. I did notice when I visit this site in a browser without adblockers multiple ads do pop up when the page loads. Maybe it was a video ad from that company that offers this board hosting. Who knows.

Maybe my body is different. It would not matter to myself if a freshly baked chocolate cake is in front of me or a subway sandwich or a bagel and cream cheese. All my appetite is gone inside ketosis. Even sweets like hard candies I used to like to let dissolve slowly in my mouth have no interest. They are too sweet. If you can imagine.

I really thought coming back up to 1,000 - 1500 a day in would stabilize immediately my weight without a rise of 9-10 pounds in 6 days. It's interesting.

It was hot, my truck had no air so I guess that was a free all day sauna to boot. But you get used to it I suppose like Texans got used to the heat and humidity in 1840.

Maybe the metabolism slows down so much after a certain age it begins to get harder and harder to lose weight. My mother was very thin at 30 but around 38-40 the pounds started packing on for her even though the was an RN running around in L&D all day long. She was into TOPS, weight watchers, etc.. She ballooned up quite a bit but later in life the reversed it some. It must have been hard seeing 4 kids eating like vacuum cleaners with no consequences.