Eat more! Especially more fat. Forget everything else, stay under 20 carbs and teach your body to use fat for fuel. Once it gets used to doing that, it will start to eat your stored fat. What I see most people who have a rocky start doing, is starving their body. If you starve your body, it will hold on to everything it can. Eat! Eat bacon and butter and fatty cuts of meat.
2 weeks with zero carbs - no weight loss!
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#22
I think sometimes we can make things harder than they really are if I can do keto anybody can do keto all I did was cleaned out my refrigerator and cupboards of any processed foods and sugars and that included starchy vegetables or any vegetables that were high in carbohydrates I didn’t lose any weight in the first 2 weeks in fact I felt pretty crappy because I was withdrawing from sugar it’s called usually keto flu once I got past that and started getting more energy by eating all types of meat fish whatever I could find in the stores and I ate a couple of vegetables that I really liked like spinach brussel sprouts broccoli they’re pretty low carb I ate some low carb fruits like berries blackberries blueberries strawberries. I started losing weight but it was somewhere in the first month that I started losing a pound a week and I wasn’t exercising at all then when I started losing a pound every week I began to want to exercise as I had more energy I felt good I ended up losing 30 lb which is basically all I needed to lose but it took me quite a while to lose that 30 lb but it was worth it because I didn’t lose any lean muscle mass and I had very little sagging skin from losing weight too fast my body never went into starvation mode because I ate whenever I was hungry I just made sure it was keto friendly food anyway sorry about no punctuation but I’m talking on my phone voice to text just don’t give up and don’t be so strict on yourself there are lots of foods that you can eat and like I was taught eat to satiety or until you feel full and you don’t want to eat anymore try to think about how long you ate wrong and realize that it’s going to take a while for your body to adapt to using fat as the main fuel someone said here just the other day Don’t fear the fat a lot of us have been programmed since we were little ones that fat is bad don’t eat fat and you won’t get fat and that is a big fat lie lots of YouTube videos handy to watch lots of PubMed studies all kinds of information all over this forum to utilize help get you through
JulesyMcJulesface
(JJ)
#23
I wonder how the original poster is getting on, now that it has been a further 3 weeks since their initial post?
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#25
I don’t know but if he or she is still getting alerts I’d like for them to hear what I had to say I hope they do come back something like starting keto can just feel so overwhelming and I remember feeling like I had to do it perfectly I had to be perfect then I learned to relax and just take it one day at a time and I stopped counting the calories and everything just started falling into place yes I hope they get to read some of these answers replies that they’ve gotten back on their post
Hketo
#28
I was doing that then got told to stop gulping down fat as I have fat to lose!! I say again…tok much fat, too little fat…too much water…not enough water…too much protein…not enough protein…the contradiction between posts and ways to do this way of lifestyle blows my mind. Once again today, I’ve woken up ready to go but the sheer lack of energy is incredible. I’ve no get up and go to do anything. Feel shattered once again!!
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#30
it really is about finding your own balance, everyone is different. I always find something in what people reply to my questions, that I can put to use. No one can know all about a person, what they’re life is like, so we have to take what we feel is right for our self, and leave the rest, maybe use it later as we progress. You haven’t failed, you have experimented and now you can see what might work better for you.
I read a lot of things that just went right over my head but later, began to make sense. But I know for me I had to get passed the early stages of a whole new lifestyle, and was I willing to eat that way the rest of my life, it has to be sustainable for me. No liquid bs for me or rice-cakes. My macros are mostly fats, then protein and my carbs are now under 20g but for well over the 1st year my carbs were 40-50 and I was still losing weight/inches.
That’s why yoyo diets don’t work, and Keto is not a yoyo diet because I can eat a lot of whole foods, and it comes out to around 1500 calories a day. I’m 5’2" and right at 113 now. I have lots of energy, get to the gym often, and love walking.
cvkemp
(Chuck)
#31
To be honest with you, you have to find out what works for you! I can tell you hat is working for me and it would confuse you if even more. For me it is intermittent fasting of 19 hours a day and eating a moderately low carb diet. That means I eat until satisfied within my normal 5 hours of eating time each day. It also means I eat more carbs thanks allowed by keto, and far less carbs that is recommended by my government’s dietary guidelines. I don’t count calories or carbs I listen to my body’s needs. I am active but I don’t intentionally exercise beyond weekly resistance workouts and hiking the trails in the area.
Will my experience work for you, I have no way of knowing you have to find what works for you, you also have to know and recognize when it is no longer working and be prepared to find what works best next. You see as our bodies change its needs ant requirements change.
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#32
Hello @cvkemp , Chuck from Arkansas! Yes, well said, we are all different and I had to really learn how to listen to my body as well, and still need practice 
The support of folks here is priceless to me @Hketo. I’m so glad you are still around, Denise
Shinita
#33
Well said!!! 
It’s quite understandable though. We are all different and people tend to think what worked for them (or for many), that will work for EVERYONE. It’s not true.
Many things people state as a fact goes against my experiences 
Other people states we should do this and that on keto - and those things are plain impossible for me, good thing I don’t need those myself!
You need to find your own style, no one can tell you what that is. I have been experimenting since ages. I can’t avoid that. It would be quicker if I would be more disciplined but I will reach there, eventually. I am sure I have found my way, evolved to someone who can do it quite often and now I am waiting for the results. Not like I had nothing this far, I got a lot, just not fat-loss or chill all the time or energy… But I do feel better on very low-carb, learned a lot, my cooking is simpler…