Feeling discouraged

#1

My husband and I have both been doing keto religiously for over a month. The first week, we felt like we were doing great and lost a good 5 pounds. On average, we eat less than 10 g of carbs a day. We don’t snack much and try to add healthy fat to every meal. Neither of us have lost weight in 2 weeks and when we test the ketone levels in our blood, we show very low numbers (.9 and .7). We love the way we are feeling, but we really need to see results. Please help!

(Running from stupidity) #3

A month is no time at all in terms of repairing metabolic health, so just keep at it, and track your food intake.

#4

Hardly a religion. Fat doesn’t make you fat and that’s not opinion, it’s biological fact. If you take away carbs as a power source and make fat your primary fuel, THEN eat lean then you’re setting yourself up for metabolic disaster.

Not how it works, your body can’t use fiber as a fuel and protein is a very poor fuel source which is why our bodies burn it as a last resort, we also don’t store protein for later consumption so aside from the minuscule amount you eat as a fuel guess where the rest comes from? The only stored protein we have… YOUR MUSCLE! Eating “keto” the way you describe is arguably worse than sugar burners that calorie restrict to the point of them slowing their BMRs, at least in that case they’re constantly getting a fuel source they’re body wants to burn. Dialing back fat and not finding creative ways to add it is one thing as long as the diet has proper amounts of fats, but intentionally restricting it is another. Doing so you’re turning keto into the “Starvation Diet” that anti-keto’rs think it is.

#5

Then what are you still doing on this forum, might we ask? Also, your body cannot run on fiber, it’s literally the carbs that cannot be digested, so yeah, you’re starving yourself and advising others do the same.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

I agree 100% with @lfod14 I don’t believe that @ketoquestion is dealing with reality here. I’m seeing this essentially same post everywhere I go. If you want to damage your body starving it for energy to lose weight that’s your business and more power to you. But frankly you’re warping Dr. Fung’s work and spreading your interpretations of it. I have zero belief that what you’re advocating is healthy or ketogenic at all. It’s starvation. It’s totally irresponsible to advise someone one month into keto to cut out fats.

(Windmill Tilter) #7

It’s not like religion, but it is like 70%-80% of caloric intake. Not because of theology, but because that is literally the definition of the ketogenic diet, a fact that hasn’t changed since 1911.

(Carl Keller) #9

It took us years or decades to become overweight or obese so it’s kind of unreasonable to expect it to start coming off in a few weeks. Please try to be patient and give your hormones more time to sort themselves out and focus on the good things that are happening. Doesn’t feeling great make life easier? That’s a pretty big deal if you ask me.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #10

The point of a well-formulated ketogenic diet is that the chonically elevated insulin level from eating carbohydrate is what makes and keeps us fat. The carbohydrate we eat is chopped up into its component glucose molecules, and when they enter the bloodstream, the body has to get them out of the blood, quickly, before they do too much damage. So they are stuffed into the muscles to be metabolized, and into fat cells to be stored as fat.

Fat is the macronutrient with the least effect on insulin secretion—compared to the effect of carbohydrate, and even of protein, it is effectively zero—so it is the safest source of calories. It is not magic, it’s how the human body is designed to operate. The body will still hang on to its fat reserve if we don’t give it enough calories, so the key to losing our excess stored fat is, ironically, to eat fat.

ETA: Note that we eat to satiety, not stuff ourselves.

Blather on as you will, however. You do you, and please let us know how that works for you.

(Carl Keller) #11

Maybe you should start your own thread instead of elbowing your fat-bashing ideas into this one? Maybe one in show me the science might get the responses you seem to crave. I won’t entertain you with a response since you seem to already have your mind made up about it.

#13

Trash level troll, go sort urself out, nobody is interested in ur issues here.

(Carl Keller) #14

I know I said i won’t entertain you, but I’m going to answer your post just this once, because I don’t want the OP to be misguided by someone uninformed.

I’ve see this happen in a lot of people. Their insulin is over worked and not acting properly. Eating properly will straighten it out and then weight loss can begin.

(Jay Patten) #15

Might I recommend you spend some time in the science section of this forum?

The 70%-calories-from-fat component of this diets is because fat has a very low impact on insulin. Protein has a moderate impact. Carbohydrate has a high impact.

High Insulin = fat storage mode and low insulin = fat burning mode.

There is a medically significant reason for Keto being a high-fat, low carb diet.

#16

KetoQuestion joined 7 hours ago and is pretty obviously a troll. Best just to ignore them, they’re just here to raise a storm. Boring.

#17

It takes time, my boyfriend and I started at the same time and he is just now losing weight after 6 weeks when I’ve been steady losing. I attribute this to our individual levels of insulin resistance. I think the number one thing I’ve learned from this diet and this forum is that sometimes it takes awhile for your body to heal itself metabolically and start utilizing your body fat stores as fuel. Please don’t get discouraged :). This will be more ebb and flow, not a cliff dive. In the end it will be so worth it.

(Windmill Tilter) #18

Now that the troll has been fed. Let’s get back to your question!

Maybe you could provide some more information around where you are currently (age, height, weight), what your diet consists of specifically, and what your goals are. That might help to pinpoint what the issue might be, and help you get things moving! :slight_smile:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #19

Folks, it’s really helpful if you simply flag comments by trolls. Flags get the attention of the admins much faster than dealing with trolls by posting comments of your own. If enough people flag a post, the system will delete it automatically, so there’s also that.

(Scott) #20

We would rather stir the pot for awhile before flagging so you can have some reading material.

:rofl:

(Tina Moore) #21

I am in the same boat! I’m not giving up and you shouldn’t either! I am going to try shortening my eating window e.g. 8 hours a day. Also, I have not been exercising! I’m thinking this will boost my results. Don’t give up. Also, the longer you’ve been overweight, the harder it is. Your body is trying really hard to keep that set weight. Good luck! I’d love to hear an update on your progress.

#24

No, people think you’re a troll because you talk about chewing up pizza and spitting it out.

#25

For real. We couldn’t even get a colorful troll, it’s just a boring, run-of-the-mill, seeking-martyrdom vanilla troll.

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