My husband often states, “Every good story has bumps.” Can I be honest and selfish for a moment? I don’t want my story to have bumps. I want it to be smooth-sailing and easy. Today we had a bump.

Levi gets labs drawn every 3 months to monitor his blood ketones, electrolytes, and other levels to make sure he’s where he needs to be. I got an email this morning from our wonderful Keto dietician in Cincinnati. His blood ketone level went from 30 to 10. “Ten! How can it be ten!”, I exclaimed on the phone. I instantly felt sick and felt as if all my hours of recipe research, food logging, and food preparation went down the tubes. I then thought about what has been different about our lives recently.

We are in a state of transition between houses and living with my parents. This has been an absolute blessing to us, but it is outside our norm. We’ve also been on the go more which means less food logging, more eating out (which is less fat), less sleep, and probably a bit more stress for Levi. Ketones are a bit moody at times and can decrease when you’re tired, stressed, sick, have too many carbs, have too much protein, and a host of other things.

After beating myself up since the conversation with the dietician, I’m trying to focus on what I can do to help Levi’s ketones increase before his next lab draw. We are going over his daily fat goal and staying under his carb and protein goal for the day. It’s more specific than that, but I will spare you the boring details. In the meantime, we will keep trusting in the One who keeps us trusting… Jesus, and be thankful for the bumps in our story because they grow us to be more like Him.