You are in early days. You have to do this and have patience. I will admit, I didn’t start tracking until about four months. I am at maintenance weight, my cholesterol and lipid panel are good, even my wonky hyperthyroid was beaten into submission by Keto. Blood sugar much better. But that only happened at six months. Please, just give it more time. Eat real food.
Can’t get past trace or small on the pee sticks
Jeremy_Wheatley
(Jeremy Wheatley)
#22
Thanks!!’ And I’m not giving up! Just needed some ideas… 
And I’m gonna look for that app now thanks again.
Jeremy_Wheatley
(Jeremy Wheatley)
#24
I have tracked my daily intake using an app and gotten my numbers from that and since I eat the same things everyday I just don’t keep inputting the same thing every day it’s gonna equal the same. Haha. That’s all I meant
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#25
Now that you are fat-adapted, it will help to reduce the number of occasions on which you eat, since every meal raises your insulin level, which then takes time to go down again. The more often you eat, the longer amount of time in a day your insulin level is elevated, and the more you will store fat.
Some comments about your situation: Before you worry about the gained weight, is there any chance you have gained lean mass (muscle, increased bone density, etc.), or is it definitely fat? How do your clothes fit? Are they still loose, or have they become tight again?
Next, try to work out an eating plan that involves more condensed eating time and longer intervals of not eating. This will give you more time each day when your insulin is at its lowest. If you eat in a way that keeps your insulin constantly elevated, you are going to store fat. If you are having trouble getting from one meal to the next without hunger, snack on something fatty, and increase the amount of fat in your meals. Make sure that your last meal of the day is several hours before bedtime, and don’t eat anything between that meal and going to bed.
Check your diet for carb creep. If you eat any commercial product, check to be sure they haven’t reformulated it with more sugar added. Double-check that your carbohydrate intake is still really under 20 g/day.
Eat to satiety, but not past. Let your body tell you when it’s had enough. You are eating a lot of protein. Try cutting it in half, and increasing your fat intake. If that doesn’t work, try more protein and less fat. You may have to do some experimenting here.
It may be time to consider fasting. First try to lengthen the time between your last meal of one day and the first meal of the next. (Be sure to get enough sleep, that will help. Avoiding looking at screens for the last hour or two before going to sleep will help you sleep better. A lot.) You might be able to dispense with that fat-loaded coffee and push breakfast to much later in the day. Pay attention to your satiety signaling and don’t eat until you are hungry. Above all, don’t eat just because it’s mealtime. Eat because of real hunger. If you are getting enough protein and fat, you shouldn’t be hungry all that often, anyway.
Keep us posted on how you are doing. We’d love to hear more from you.
Jeremy_Wheatley
(Jeremy Wheatley)
#26
I worry about all that “fasting” stuff. I know almost everyone on keto raves about it but when I’ve tried it in the past it’s always slowed my weight loss down. Example: after trying intermittent fasting and only eating during a 5 hour window for two weeks I was stuck at let’s say 200 lbs. I fasted for a full 24 hours only drinking water. Went to work (construction laborer very physical job) came home and still weighed 200 lbs. once I ate my normal dinner I was even heavier. Hopefully you can explain where I went wrong… fingers crossed.
JohnH
(John)
#27
11 weeks here and last time I tested using the urine strips was a few days ago. Still turning them dark purple - have been since about day 3. Not sure why they seem to work for me but they do. I’ll check again tonight.
I’ve only done a few, nothing longer than 30 hours. Usually just skipping two meals in a row. In general I try to eat two or three full meals a day. When I am eating two meals, it is usually breakfast and dinner (because I am at home and can cook) so I end up with a mid-day fast while at work. Mainly this is because I don’t get around to making lunch to take with me.
I did a planned 24-hour fast yesterday - ate a full breakfast yesterday, skipped lunch and dinner, full breakfast and full lunch so far today, planning on a good dinner. My goal was to break a slight stall and to remind my body that I am still in control of our response to hunger signals. It griped a little bit but finally shut up. 
Janie
(Jane)
#28
You aren’t doing anything wrong except for expecting instant results. This is not a quick-weight-loss plan, even though some DO lose a lot of weight quickly. A lot don’t. And some have a lot of internal healing to do inside before the weight starts to come off.
Off the top of my head I would say you need to mix it up a bit. Eating the same thing every day, day in and day out - your body has found a setpoint and is trying to keep it there.
No need to force the IF - let it happen naturally and skip a meal if you aren’t hungry. I would think it would be harder with your job since you probably have a fixed lunch break and your mind and body will want food whether it needs it or not.
tdean
(Terence Dean)
#29
It concerned me as well until I realized that I was actually intermittent fasting naturally everyday by not eating after my dinner every night and having breakfast at 9:00 the next day. That’s 15 hours right there. If you find it hard to eat less than 3 meals a day just work up to it but what you’re trying to achieve is to have as many hours as you can between meals. No snacks of course but that can be tough if you’re working hard, and its a habit. No biggie, just keep working at it, you’ll sort something out that suits you long term. Some great advice from everyone here.
Janie
(Jane)
#30
I’m sorry but I can’t help but smile at folks who think “fasting” is going from dinner (5:00) to breakfast (8:00) 15 hours.
This is how everyone ate in the 60’s. There was no “snacking” - that spoiled your next meal. Snacking was invented by Big Food (Kellogg, General Mills) to increase sales and profits.
Janie
(Jane)
#31
Don’t get me wrong. I bought into the whole “eat 6 small meals a day to lose weight” meme.
Kept my insulin high. Kept me fat. Blamed myself.
RobC
(Robert C)
#32
Might be this…running 15 to 20 miles a day (or even 7 to 10) puts a big stress on the body…stress creates cortisol…cortisol raises insulin…insulin makes it impossible to access local fat stores…so you are burning calories running and making your body think you are in calorie restriction (by not eating enough and not making up for it with burning body fat - which is when you get ketones).
tdean
(Terence Dean)
#33
To be honest I don’t consider it fasting either but Dr Jason Fung lumps all fasting into the “Intermittent Fasting” category which may upset those who call themselves extended fasters.
To me, its just a label for not eating as far as I’m concerned, what really matters is whether you can get your insulin levels low enough to make body fat accessible for burning. I don’t need to do extended fasting to get there, some people who are really insulin resistant have no choice but to do longer fasts. Fung himself does OMAD twice a week to keep his weight in check so it depends a lot on the context.
RobC
(Robert C)
#34
I am in the same boat on this one - called fasting technically but shouldn’t be.
I do not think one is fasting until they have actually not eaten when they normally would.
So, when someone that usually has breakfast, lunch and dinner then skips their 7 AM breakfast and has lunch at noon, I think they have fasted for 5 hours.
Essentially the act of not eating while sleeping is not a choice but, the decision to skip breakfast to allow insulin to go down / stay low for 5 extra hours is.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#35
That is literally why it’s called “break-fast” (Fr. “dé-jeuner”, Sp. “des-ayuno”).
RobC
(Robert C)
#36
Per my answer above, I am sort of respectfully disagreeing. (But just for the sake of moving this discussion forward for people to understand the difference between fasting and using body fat for fuel).
It is easy to have a 1200 calorie dinner that undergoes a slow (especially during sleep) digestion process that isn’t even finished by the “break fast” time in the morning. Body has not gone for a moment where it felt it should burn from local fat stores.
Same with something like OMAD - if you have 7 X 30 minute OMAD meals in a week, did you fast for 164.5 hours? If so, your result should be very similar to someone that fasted all week (168 hours). But, we all know it is not. OMAD will result in a pound and a bit (likely under 2 pounds) loss in a week where as a week long fast will drop 5 or 6 or 7 pounds.
The difference is that the large OMAD meals provide nutrition for 12+ hours from within the gut - making your actual time when the body will try to access local stores much more like half a week.
TonyPi
(Tony )
#37
I’ve been on a Keto diet now for 10ish months, got some strips and a breathalyser 3 months after starting and have never shown Any results of ketones. I have however lost 27kgs with what I consider to be almost no/little effort. It would have been nice to see some ketones indications in my system. So maybe either I’m burning them all or maybe not making any at all, but I eat almost zero carbs but a fair bit of meat / protein… maybe you are the same ?
RobC
(Robert C)
#39
I think you are burning them efficiently (i.e. making just what you need). That much fat loss would have pretty much ensured ketone production.