Dairy and fat adaptation

#1

I am not losing weight on keto. I am counting what i eat and doing everything right.

The only thing is I am eating dairy and believe I may be allergic. Could this be stopping me from losing?

Also stevia is in my drinks. Is this another culprit to my lack of weight loss?

I exercise daily and eat right and all I have lost is 2.5 lbs in a month!!! I added MCT oil and apple cider vinegar daily and do everything right with my fats and protein and carbs. I want to lose 20-30 lbs! Also I workout daily! Help suggestions please for how to speed up my metabolism.

Could it take longer than a month to be fat adapted?!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

Yes, it takes usually six to eight weeks for full keto-adaptation, sometimes longer.

As far as losing fat is concerned, women often have to go through a period of hormonal regulation before fat loss really begins. Not only that, but the last twenty pounds or so of fat always take longer to go than the first eighty or a hundred.

Use your clothing as an additional guide to progress, since it is possible to increase lean mass while decreasing fat mass. As you can imagine, the number on the scale may not reflect this change in body composition. So it is possible for your weight to remain the same, while your clothing will fit much more loosely.

(Bob M) #3

You could always try dropping dairy and see what happens. I’ve quit dairy multiple times. I can’t tell much of a difference, but I’m not you.

You do the same with stevia, too.

You know, 2.5 pounds per month isn’t bad. In one year, you’ll be at 30 pounds loss. If you only need to lose 20-30 pounds, you will have lost it.

This also means that it’s likely to take a while for you to lose that. The people who lose a lot quickly are invariably those with the most to lose. If you’re 100 pounds overweight, you might lose 30 quickly, but you still have 70 to go. You’re in a different scenario: not much to lose.

#4

I still think fondly of my times when I lost this much! It’s a nice pace in my books. But you probably eat and exercise well enough to expect more… Well, maybe you do lose more but our bodyweight fluctuates, maybe your body is busy with other things first… But you are right, the mentioned things may have an effect too, who knows? The human body is extremely complex and we are all different. Be more patient and maybe measure circumferences too, the scale isn’t a very reliable tool especially short term.

1 month is a short time. I needed 7 weeks for fat adaptation (lost nothing until then, I was just as hungry as always on low-carb) and it’s a pretty normal time for it.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #5

@Iwanttobelieve

From your personal description: When I began Keto: 01/01/2019

What happened during the 2 years of keto prior to your current issue? Dairy is a problem for many and so is stevia and/or other artificial and nutrition-free sweeteners. As @ctviggen says, drop all dairy and the stevia for a couple of months and see what happens.

(Jack Bennett) #6

Might depend on what kind of dairy. e.g. skim milk versus nonfat Greek yogurt versus heavy cream versus butter are likely to affect your body in different ways, some more subtle than others.

#7

If your body didn’t tolerate dairy… you’d know it. Don’t fall into that trap where you start looking for complicated answers to simple problems. MCT Oil and ACV aren’t the magic potion people want them to be, eating more salt, eating more fat also aren’t. Keto has as much go-to dogma as low fat high carb eating does!

You said before you had a messed up metabolism from years of yo-yo’ing. Did you wind up getting your metabolic rate checked? If not you can’t say you’re counting and doing everything right as you don’t know your starting point. My guess which (should) have been close enough was almost 1000cals off! Once I had the right number I adjusted accordingly and started loosing again. Don’t do what I did… get it checked before you waste tons of time (and probably money) looking everywhere else.

Yes, and it typically does.