So, all these "problems" I'm facing are completely my own making and I would like to hear if anybody else makes the journey artificially harder for themselves.

Lets kick things with foods that I'm using;
Deer and boar meat with honey. This gives me bit under 100 units of health and stamina when I have just eaten. That's plenty!
Okay, the bit scary part comes by the time you get the chance to stuff more in. By then the health is down to ~82 and stamina ~85 but I usually let my health to drop down to ~70 range, that's about 3-4 minutes left on the foods, before I start to eat some more.

Protection is of essence! So I have suitable garments to fill that role and buff my armor rating up to respectable 64;
Padded helmet (32 armor)
Wolf cape, against frost (4 armor)
Fenris coat, for movement speed (16 armor)
Troll leather pants for giggles (12 armor)
All of these are max level

Other stuff;
Porcupine and black metal shield, so I can kill normal fulings in 2-3 hits and parry starred ones with ease... if they are alone and I don't fill my stagger meter that is. Don't worry, I can survive one hit from those starred ones, that's my margin or error.
Wooden arrows FTW
I also allow 3 uses of medium healing mead per life to make things bit more interesting.

The troubles are 2 starred fulings and starred berserkers, both of which hit like a truck! Also can't take on lox unless I either kite or climb to higher elevation while using the bow. Also also 2 mosquitos at the same time will stagger me if I can't deal with them at their initial attack run but luckily I usually sprint only short distances at a time and they are easy to spot.
But how high should my blocking skill be to be able to block those higher tier enemies? It currently sits at comfy 24 points.
Anybody else have "problems" with these latter enemies and how do you deal with them?

I usually have multiple teleports in the area I'm currently investigating so doing swift naked corpse runs is kinda a hobby of mine Granted, if I'm dying a lot while recovering gear, I'll first start to eat real foods and if that doesn't help then it's time to get some proper armor and backup weapons and gulp some meads when neccessary.

It has been fun but lately it has become bit of a chore to clear fuling camps in the search for those totems. Have already found and prepared Yagluths altar.