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Thank you very much for the advice. We do consume a ton of red meat (we purchase 40-45 pounds per month approximately), we are keto and eat lots of eggs, cheese, cultured cream, ghee and fish. Someone saw our car filled with eggs around Easter and thought we were buying a lot for some Easter egg painting project, lol.

Thank you very much for all of your replies and prayers, I will attempt to respond to each point in one post to keep everything organized.

Firstly, I am far from being overweight, even slightly. My ancestral makeup has determined I am naturally lean and tall. My husband often remarks that despite my illness, I still look very pretty, even without makeup. Have you seen a Doctor about that illness? That might make all the difference on your part if you get cured or at least manage that illness.

I pray for him everyday. We are in our 20s. GOOD

We have tried all the diets. ALL. Plant foods give us debilitating problems. We never have processed food, or eat out, everything is homemade from scratch by me (even our sour cream, kefir, etc.), everything is pasture raised, organic, locally grown. We consume the highest quality supplements (beef liver, whole food based vitamin D, magnesium glycinate, trace minerals, etc.), and our grocery bill is close to $1000 a month on food alone, not including supplements and other necessities, and we're considered to be near the poverty line in terms of income. I am not an overspending wife at all, I never purchase anything without his permission. $1000 on food a month for 2 people, that financial stress might be cause of your husbands stress, unless he is making alot of money, and that is just a tiny percentage of his income. Its good to get Organic and all that, but sometimes you just have to eat that junk food that makes you feel good, just to take the edge off. Everything in moderation. 

My husband has a laborious job and far from making him gain muscle like it would occur in most men, it does the exact opposite. Taking a walk in addition to working would make him require a nap. Naps do help, he should nap when able. We are both very thin and tall, and he is constantly fluctuating between being thin and becoming very underweight. 

We have no children because we both suffer from chronic fatigue and are barely able to take care of ourselves, and we are both infertile. No doctors, whether conventional or natural, have helped, and are at a loss. My own hours upon hours of research has helped us more than anything. Disregard the above, looks like you did see the Doctor. Well you did your part, now all you can do is resign yourself to God Will and the cross his has given to you regarding the illness. 

Neither of our families are Catholic, and they are unable to give practical help such as even helping me do the dishes or bring meals when things are particularly rough. Many priests have advised we not be associated with any of my family members, that is their level of immorality. I often stay up until 4-5am just to finish my duties (that is how slow and fatigued I am due to bodily defects) so that my husband does not have to. Sometimes while working that late at night I start hallucinating and feel like the floor beneath me is shaking. IF you can reduce the food cost, maybe you can use that money to hire some help for your chores. Or just work until 7 PM and then continue in the morning in where you left off, just accept that certain things will not be done. Plus, there is only two of you, how messy can you be.

We have no access whatsoever to the traditional Latin Mass, and hence have no friends, we live in a non-Catholic area and are too weak and financially incapable to move anywhere. Well if you ask for help from the Latin Mass community that you would like to move to, maybe there is someone that can help. For example, if you are SSPX, and want to move to KS or ID, then the folks at Onyx might be able to help carry your stuff in their delivery trucks, and the community can help you unpack etc. Speaking of Onyx, maybe you husband can get a jib there as hundreds of others have done before you. The help is there, you just need to reach out and say "help", it is God's will, then the help will come and all will fall into place.

I have asked him if there is anything I am doing to contribute to his sadness, and he always says no, and tells me (when he is in a good mood) how much I remind him of Our Lady. When he is bed-ridden, I comfort him a lot, I stay with him for hours. When I am bed-ridden, he comforts me as he is able. I listen to his concerns and ask him what he needs. When he is calm, I ask why he becomes angry, and he explains he takes out his anger at the situation on me merely because I am there, not because I am the cause of trouble. At least he is reasonable when his irritability has passed, thanks be to God, and I am grateful he is faithful to me and to the Faith. I just feel helpless when he is so down, it grieves me exceedingly that I cannot seem to soothe it. I let him have a lot of time to himself when he comes home.

A traditional catholic priest has given me wonderful direction from a principled point of view but I always find priests' recommendations are so general, and they don't always understand the gravity of the situation, nor do they usually give practical examples of what to say or do in situations like this.

It seems to me we have to be resigned to these sufferings and hope it procures some good for Holy Church, it will, courage, you are doing the right things but I do not know how to encourage my husband to look for the eternal, because we are both deteriorating and not getting better, and the good Lord only blesses remedies if He wills that we are healed. We don't really have much to hope for temporally, and it is crushing him.