I missed this til just now, my apologies! I usually just have my electrolytes in this thing or sometimes just out of a standard sized coffee mug. When they're in a coffee mug they're much saltier tasting, which I don't mind at all. I am not a person who enjoys sipping salty water all day long. I prefer to drink the salty water and then return to my regular water, but you'll have to find what works for you and what you prefer. A lot of folks use Mio drops or other flavoring to mask the taste of the salt, but I am weird and don't mind the taste.
What’s working for me: not counting calories or macros.
Fasting for at least 20 hours between meals - often as much as 50 hours between meals. Eating clean and keto when I do eat and as much as I want within a 90 min window before starting the next fast of AT LEAST 20 hours.
Hunger, weight, and body fat are all WAY down since I implemented this way of eating. Energy and optimism are WAY up.
Also, I have this scale which, for me, has been a. Game changer. Some days my weight does not move, but my body fat percentage does drop. My scale is actually showing my body retaining MORE water the more fat I lose. I can also weigh several times a day and the scale/app extrapolate the averages for me so I don’t need to worry about exact time every day... the rules I follow are to weigh after using the restroom and with 0 clothes on.
I hope this is helpful. Here is a link to the scale... I cannot recommend it highly enough since as Tim Ferriss says in 4-Hour Body - it’s hard to embark on a weight loss (actually fat loss/body recomposition) journey without a baseline body composition analysis and then the ability to easily follow up on that as plateaus represented by weight only can occur often and be extremely discouraging as is your case currently.
FITINDEX Bluetooth Body Fat Scale, Smart Wireless BMI Bathroom Weight Scale Body Composition Monitor Health Analyzer with Smartphone App for Body Weight, Fat, Water, BMI, BMR, Muscle Mass - White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HW8BPY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_BsU1FbTC2QRVP?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1