Lots of time spent in bed not asleep when the stomach is bad too. Walk to the kitchen and grab something to eat and hurry back to bed before the pain gets too bad (the only relief is lying down).

• Plunge the snails into cold water and remove and discard the membrane that covers the opening. Discard any snails that do not poke their heads out of their shells. 
  
• Put the snails in a colander and rinse well under cold running water to rid them of their mucus. 
  
• Heat the oil in a heavy pan and add the snails, flat side down. Cook over high heat, stirring once or twice, for about 10 minutes.
  
• Pour the vinegar into the pan and stir well, scraping up any sediment from the base. Season with salt, add the herbs of your choice, and serve immediately.

A lot of my success was due to finding sugar substitutes that I liked.  Now it does not even seem like I am on a diet.  I can have bacon and eggs, fish fried/sautéed in bacon grease, pork, steak, stone crab claws, cole slaw, and treats I make.  It is getting easier as I find more stuff I like to eat.  Getting out and walking, swimming, and the like is also important.

Same huge cost difference when I switched from the generic Walmart sugar substitute to some of the top of the line stuff.  Without getting too far in the weeds there is a massive difference in how your body reacts to different sugar substitutes.  Some of them are really good; others not so much.

I had been eating a lot of easy to prepare foods; now4 I have to spend time fixing and cooking everything I eat.  I am also in some facebook groups that offer support and advice on Keto diets.  The bottom line is that almost none of the store bought stuff is good for Keto; you have to fix it yourself.

One of the keys to successful Keto is minimizing carbs.  I thought the grated cheese I was buying was OK; but it seems they put starch (carbs) on it to keep it from sticking; so you have to grate cheese yourself.  I suspect as time goes by I will learn other stuff like this.

One thing used to attract people to Keto is you can eat all the bacon you want.  Thing is if you read the label on bacon it often has strange chemicals in it.  I have to drive to a small town about 15 miles away to a soul food butcher to buy pork belly they cut in to bacon with no added chemicals.  Not to mention if you look at the label on most of the meat at markets they have added water, seasoning, and sometimes sugar.

Going Keto takes more time shopping and fixing food, and clean up as well.  There is also a learning curve.  Not just in figuring out what foods you should be eating; but which ones you like to eat.  As an example there are several good sugar substitutes and all are acceptable.  Problem is there is no agreement on which one tastes best, kinda like some folks like chocolate and some vanilla.

Another big change for me is what is called IF (Intermediate Fasting) which basically means not eating three meals a day.  It is not for everyone and plenty of folks on Keto eat three, or even five meals, a day.  For me I drink coffee at say 8:00AM, and again at 10:00AM.  Maybe I will have a small snack; but often I don't eat till supper around 5:00PM when I will have my main meal of the day.  The theory is while we were sorta taught to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner there is no real reason three meals a day should be the rule; you should eat when you are hungry.

The two biggest stumbling blocks for most folks starting Keto are not getting enough sleep (we talked about this before) and not drinking enough water.  Even if you do everything else right even failing on one of these two things will result in failure.

On the upside I have not taken any ibuprofen or acetaminophen since a week or so after I started Keto.  I feel better and have more energy.  I have no doubt I will be able to follow the Keto diet long term.  I already have a long list of Keto friendly foods I like and enjoy to eat.  Many of the folks in my facebook groups talk about going Keto being a lifestyle you don't give up.

While I talk about Keto it does not have to be all or nothing.  Kinda like strict scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny, and rational basis you can do Keto, Dirty Keto, and sorta Keto with reducing carbs.  In fact many folks suggest you start by reducing carbs (average diet is 250-300 grams of carbs a day); while a pure Keto diet would be 15-20 grams of carbs a day.

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." (Matthew 6:5)

Methinks the good Mr. Falwell, Jr. has been reading too much Two Corinthians. "Two Corinthians walk into a bar. One gets drunk while the other goes hungry."

Tyler

Archie?  Sorry T thats hilarious.  "Archie" will be a tabloid star.

Why not Gaylord or Earnest?

Bad plan.

Stephen King shares his excitement about The Stand's upcoming limited series, which boasts a bigger budget and more violence than 1994's adaptation. While King's work has been turned into movies and TV shows for basically his entire writing career, the horror master is currently seeing a noted uptick in adaptations of his material. This fall will see IT: Chapter Two arrive to continue the story of the Losers' Club vs. Pennywise, a Pet Sematary remake recently hit theaters, Hulu is readying season 2 of Castle Rock, and this November sees King's The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep become a movie

Also on the way though is a CBS All Access limited series adaptation of King's apocalyptic epic The Stand, directed by Josh Boone. The Stand was originally developed as a series of films to be directed by Boone, but the project eventually morphed into its current 10-hour limited series format. CBS All Access continues to try its best to grow as a competitor to big streaming players like Netflix and Hulu, and to do so it needs to play host to content with big existing name value such as The Stand

The Stand was of course previously adapted into a 1994 ABC miniseries, which was pretty well-received all things considered, but fell victim to some of the creative limitations inherent to airing on network TV in the 1990s. Thankfully, during a recent appearance on The Stand miniseries director Mick Garris' Post Mortem podcast, King let it be known how excited he is for this new take on his gargantuan book, which will have much more freedom when it comes to resources and adult content than the original.

Really the thing I'm most excited about is, first of all, we've got two more hours to tell the story. And second, we're free of all those things that held us back with [the original mini-series]. Not only is the budget bigger... we're free... in terms of language, in terms of violence... in a way that we weren't with the original. CBS All Access would really like this to work. And they've put a lot of muscle behind it. So I'm hopeful. But it's early days yet... so. The casting isn't complete. My son Owen has written some of the scripts, and they're terrific. So. It's good.