4 weeks in

(38fb1c0389682ab09eb9) #1

Officially 28 days in Ketosis 28 years old (10-20 net carbs per day)
I haven’t lost any weight yet (I’m 5’2”/130lb) and felt best when I was around 99 lb.

It’s been difficult so far. cravings haven’t really settled. It’s hard to stop myself once I start eating. Struggling with IF because I’m at home all day and the kitchen is a constant temptation. I love food. Any and all food, which is why Ketosis is also easy in a sense because i can appreciate even the simplest of edibles (a handful of plain spinach for example, has its own way of being uniquely delightful), but being sensitive to taste also makes it difficult as even food that’s usually considered minimally rewarding to the pallette has its way of luring me in to a binge trap. It’s too easy for me to eat too much fat, even while keeping below 20g net carbs.

I figure while I’m still transitioning to fat-adaptation it doesn’t matter too much. I know I’m not fat-adapted yet so doesn’t it matter less what macro-ratios I’m consuming as long as I’m remaining keto? For now?
Tomorrow I enter my 5th week and wonder when I’ll stop being hungry, and if it surely will allow me to not crave fats knowing that I have plenty extra stored in my body. I know, KCKO, but I must be nearing the home stretch, I just hope…

#2

Where are you based? Remember, if you’re not in USA, the carbs you see on the label of the packet, are net carbs. You do not have to take away the fibre.

Make sure you are counting the carbs correctly. Look out for hidden carbs, if you cannot be absolutely 100% certain of the exact amount of carbs according to labels, don’t eat it for now. Weigh and track everything you put into your mouth, but ONLY RESTRICT CARBS.

DO NOT restrict fat. If you feel hungry, eat more fat during your meal. Until you find a point where you can go to the next meal without feeling hungry. Remember fat is your friend.

Don’t eat anything sweet if you can avoid it, even keto friendly stuff. This will help with your cravings.

KCKO.

(Natasha) #3

My first thought was making your meals bigger and more satisfying. For example, start the day by making yourself a large breakfast: maybe 3 eggs, 4 (or more) rashers of bacon, keto friendly sausage, some fried mushrooms, coffee with heavy cream that kind of thing. Eat until you are full and fully satisfied.

I was hungry to begin with but found that by eating larger meals, with adequate fat, I have eliminated the desire for snaking and can now easily push breakfast and then dinner later, meaning I am getting in a good IF most days.

(Running from stupidity) #4

+1

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #5

I’ve seen folks not recommend restricting or fasting until you are fat adapted. In the beginning, eat all the fat and teach your body what you want it to do. If you are hungry, eat.

Once you are fat adapted, which can take weeks, you can skip meals or fast and not feel the hunger because you’re turned on your body’s ability to use your body fat as fuel. Until then (for me anyway) my body screamed at me to eat. Even when I was eating fats it was screaming for the glucose it wanted back.

I’m 6 weeks in and only just started looking up at the clock realizing I skipped lunch because I was relying on hunger to alert me to it, and it never came. Be patient and let the body adapt.

#6

This is a marathon, not a sprint. You should be eating this new diet the rest of your life so enjoy the discoveries and the journey. I was 6 months in before going to 2 meals a day, and not because I could not I just wanted to eat. I lost weight but not rapidly, then at that point it was not long till I moved most days to one meal a day.
I think a decent plan is get you feeding into a small 6 hour window and you may never have to change that but if you stall out before your goal weight then you have the OMAD plan to switch to. When you do OMAD make that meal count in other words make it OFAD.
Welcome to the fat Burners Club and enjoy your food freedom.