Hello. I’m fairly new to Keto. Started about 6 weeks ago with my husband. We went all in and have been quite strict. I maintain less than 20g net carbs. Going off of a 5% carbs 25% protein 70% fat macro chart (usually under on carbs and higher on fat) we both lost about 10lbs by the end of our second week. I got down to a total of 15lbs by the end of week 3 without working out. Shortly after I noticed that I was fluctuating quite a bit. It seems like I started to gain weight. I do weight myself in the morning out of curiosity. I’ve been fluctuating the past two weeks between 11lbs and 13 lbs lost. Haven’t been back or beyond that 15lb loss. I was feeling alright, great even, and now I’m starting to feel like I’m doing something wrong?
I feel like I’m gaining weight.
I never go over my calories or carbs or proteins.
Haven’t had any setbacks or cheats.
I normally start my day with coffee with heavy cream and mct powder. That usually keeps me satiated until lunch.
For lunch I usually have 2 eggs, half an avocado and 2 slices of bacon. I don’t snack much. If i need I’ll have another coffee or some cheese and nuts. (I weigh everything)
Dinner is usually something simple like steak and veggies or a salad of some sort or a burger bowl.
I’m feeling a little defeated and am wanting to get the most out of this.
Am I gaining weight?
It’s all good. You are doing great! Whatever is happening it’s not a new awful trend. My weight loss goes in fits and starts and I know that’s common. There’s a lot more going on inside than just burning fat. You are changing your whole fuel system! And I don’t know how you ate before but for a lot of us there was a bunch of healing that had to go on first as well. The hardest thing for me at the beginning was patience, and keeping calm that I wasn’t somehow screwing it up in a way that would set me back for months.
If you want to tweak anything at all I would say eliminate any snacking whatsoever. If you are hungry between meals, eat more at your meals. Check if artificial sweeteners or dairy might be stalling you out, those are issues for some folks but not all.
Otherwise I’d say you are just in some sort of Post Induction Stall Syndrome and if you hang in there things will work out over time. Keto is a months long thing, not a weeks long thing and it changes all the time.
The 70% fat does not need to be oral. It can also come from your body.
Once you are fat adapted, the main indication of this is loss of any hunger, decrease your oral fat and let your body fat feed your metabolism. IE, NO BFC’s!
Eat naturally healthy food like pork belly, ribeye, 80/20 mince / avo’s / nuts etc.
This really helped me.
Watch out for hidden carbs
Try eating windows like 18/6 (Don’t eat for 18 hrs and then 2 meals 6 hrs apart)
I was assuming that maybe I was not completely fat adapted yet.
We are definitely eating healthy foods and the best meats (my husband is a trained chef and works for a meat distribution)
I track everything and usually before I eat it so I can do my best to catch those sneaky carbs.
Thank you so much for your reply. I’ll make sure to implement what I’m not currently.
Very helpful
Will try the eating window as well
Thank you so much. I’m trying daily to keep up the patience. I’m still very hopeful and thinking there are still good things happening and repairing.
I’ll keep it up and hope this passes.
Thanks again!
Seriously, I’m one year in and I can’t believe the journey, it’s definitely not linear, but the trend is fantastic! Distract yourself in the meantime and see how it’s going in another month.
Usually around the 6 week point your adaptation will be quite high but some take a lot longer. If you have been excising then this would speed up adaptation, for me it was around 6-8 weeks until I was more adapted than not.
If I were to change one thing at this point is to take that BPC and have it with lunch instead. Yes, that means going without breakfast, but I bet you are ready for it. For breakfast either have your coffee black or just a drop of half and half. This will give you a longer fasting window from last night’s dinner and a longer insulin holiday.
I agree, try skipping breakfast, you could be ready! If it does not work then wait another week and try again.
I was under the impression that BPC didn’t count as breaking fast, is that not the case?
BPC is just fat and coffee. Fat has almost a zero impact on insulin (Everything has some insulin effect but fat is negligible) So a fatty coffee does not really count as a break in an insulin fast. But you are consuming a large qty of fat.
If your body is happily using your stored fat as energy for the last 12 hrs and you feed it fat orally then it will stop using your body fat and use the oral fat you have just fed it.
BPC is a great way to teach your body to use fat, and kill hunger cravings in the early part of the keto diet. But once fat adapted, don’t feed your body fat it does not need.
Once you are at goal or close to goal, adding in all these great fats will help stop weight loss.
Of course, what applies to one person does not apply to everyone on the keto diet, some can lose lots of weight and drink large qty of BPC! (Lucky them 
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