I love and still wear my fit bit as well. You’re 1600 calories which makes me nervous that mine are too high (I eat 2000 a day) is there a reason why you’re sometimes that low? How long have you been with keto and are you fat adapted? FYI for everyone in this forum. My grammar blows!
Eat when hungry?
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#42
For one, I’ve found my calories have dipped now that I’m fat adapted. I’m not as hungry. I was eating 1600-1800 and was well over 2000 for one week straight. Eat to satiety. That may mean it will change over time. As long as it’s not starvation levels, this is okay.
For two, I’m 5’2” 131ish pounds, so 1600 is right at maintenance for me in most Keto calculators.
I wouldn’t worry about your calories as you adapt. When I was eating over 2000, I even gained some of my previously lost weight back, but my body was hungry and it was telling me to feed it. I believe it needed more fuel to get me over the fat adaptation hump, as that occurred at week 5, a few weeks before I was sure I was fat adapted.
On Saturday I couldn’t get enough to eat. I was so hungry. My calories topped 2000. The next day my weight dropped. I thought it might have been a fluke. But today I’m even lower.
More importantly I’m losing inches. I’m fitting into clothes that I would have had to be at least 5 pounds less to fit into while doing low fat diets. Right now I’m wearing a run shirt I got two years ago at my first 5k. I know exactly what weight I was on that day. 127. And the shirt didn’t fit me when I got it. But I have it on today at 131 and it fits fine.
Alecmcq
(Alec)
#44
Yes. If hungry, eat fat. Don’t get hungry. This is counterproductive certainly in the early stages, and some would argue always. One of the many benefits of keto is you won’t be hungry. So, disregard the “Keto-food-marks”, and eat more fat if you are hungry.
Note that a key principle of keto is “eat fat to satiety”, meaning you should not be hungry. If you are, eat fat. That is your fuel. Hunger is the body telling you it wants more fuel.
Keto flu is your body battling with itself: hey, guys, we got no sugar, what the hell is going on? But, hey, there’s this fat over here, let’s burn that! But it looks strange, it ain’t what we’re used to… how do we burn that?? I dunno, but let’s give it a try, cos there’s no more sugar, and I am feeling low right now…
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#45
Im hearing that I’m my head with an accent. Please tell me there’s an accent. I want my body to talk to me with a Scottish accent. Or maybe Australian.
Alecmcq
(Alec)
#47
It would be best heard with an Aussie accent!
My accent is half pommie (English for the uninitiated) and half Aussie. I am homeless. No Scottish accent, although my ancestors were Scots. I think that’s why I like the cold!
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#49
This will all sort itself out real soon, when your satiety signaling sorts itself out. In the meantime, don’t worry. The body will find something to do with all those calories, and as long as you keep the carbs low enough, it won’t store them as fat.
Stpaulmercantile
(John Squires)
#50
I heard about a man on a plane who sat next to a mother with a small fussy child who waked him up many times. As they were getting off the plane, the woman looked at him and said “you don’t like children, do you”. His reply: “Oh, I love children. I think they taste a lot like chicken.” Probably a made-up story.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#51
My absolute favorite Fields line comes from My Little Chickadee: “It was a woman who drove me to drink, and it is to my eternal shame that I never wrote to thank her.”
NOYB
(Parker)
#52
I ate a lot more fat today when I was hungry and it has been my saving grace. Still angry and full of rage but at least I’m not hungry
Roy_D_Rushing_Jr
(Roy D Rushing Jr )
#53
I’ve quite enjoyed just letting my hunger dictate when and what I eat. As I’ve progressed toward fat adaption my calories have been all over the place though. Today I drank 800 calories worth of butter, mct oil, and heavy cream in my coffee. I didn’t eat anything solid until dinner, when I had 1.5 10oz ribeyes slathered in mushrooms and cheese, guacamole, and some pork skins. A minute ago I ate a couple ounces of cheese as a snack, but I really didn’t have to have it. I’ve had almost 4000 calories today by my count, but I have no doubt that I’ll show no weight gain tomorrow. As I look back some of my days show shockingly low amounts of calories. Friday I only had 1400 calories, though I haven’t felt deprived at all. It’s so strange to feel that calories are disconnected from weight gain, but my experience has borne that out so far.
Stpaulmercantile
(John Squires)
#54
In Dr. Fung’s book “The Obesity Code”,he says many times that “calories don’t make you fat - insulin makes you fat”. He references clinical trials that destroy the often held belief that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Our brain tries to keep our weight the same and there are many ways it can raise or lower our metabolic rate to conserve calories or burn more calories in order to maintain equilibrium. Maintaining a body temp of 98.6 requires a lot of calories. The brain will increase our body temp in order to burn excess calories, or lower our body temp 2 degrees or more during times of calorie deficit. It is tough to get our “weight set point” to change. This explains why people will diet and lose 15 pounds, then gain back exactly 15 pounds when they stop dieting. It also helps explain weight plateaus, where the brain is establishing a new weight set point and trying desperately to keep you at the new set point. Fung believes the best way to lower the set point is to combine the Keto diet with intermittent fasting and/or multi day fasts. He also admits that we have very little understanding about the mechanisms the brain uses to establish and change these set points. When flooded temporarily with extra calories, the brain uses many ways to put those calories to work to get rid of the excess. They don’t always just get converted to stored fats. Consuming 4000+ calories once wont affect your weight for more than a day or two.
Alecmcq
(Alec)
#55
Step one: more fat, check
Step two: less rage, work in progress
Steady with the rage. The point here is to reduce insulin levels; what raises insulin? Carbs, protein and stress. Relax to lose more weight. It’s a thing! 