Gained inches around waist :(

(Sonia) #1

Hi I’ve been doing keto for about 6 months. I lost about 75 pounds (47 was from pregnancy. Delivered in June 2018.)

Up until last month everything was going great. Losing weight, losing inches. Not as much but that’s okay since I don’t have much left. I’m 5’5, and 135. Goal weight is 125. But for the last month I feel bloated. I measured myself and I gained 2.5 inches around my waist.

Only thing different I’m doing is taking collagen. One scoop in water with chia seeds. The reason I started taking this is because my hair is falling out like crazy.

A usual day for me looks like this:

Breakfast: coffee with cream and stevia. Sometimes I add butter or coconut oil if I know I won’t be eating too much fat that day. 5 out of 7 days I’ll have two boiled eggs with it.
Lunch: I have my protein, with veggies and some berries.
Dinner: coffee with heavy cream and stevia.

If I have snacks it’s a tablespoon of peanut butter.

TMI, I do go to the bathroom about twice a week. But this has been going on for 6 months now. It was never uncomfortable for me.

So help!!! What’s going on??? Should I stop the collagen?? I feel pregnant (def not pregnant)

Collagen peptides powder
(Carl Keller) #2

I found this article that says :Some forms of collagen can cause bloating, however collagen peptides are unlikely to do so. so maybe it wouldn’t hurt to stop using them and see how your body responds? I mean this is the only real change that you can put your finger on that may have caused it?

(Empress of the Unexpected) #3

Rats, Dr. Bos had pretty much convinced me to try collagen!

(Carl Keller) #4

@Regina
The author of that article does give her stamp of approval on collagen peptides.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #5

Could it NOT be the collagen but the chia seeds you’re putting it in?

(Katie) #6

I think that increasing your protein will help with your hairloss. I see that you have two eggs for breakfast, but that is only 12g of protein. Looking at your daily meals overall, it looks like you are not getting enough calories. If we go too long without adequate calories our body will hold on to weight as a protection.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #7

I just started looking into it. Something about hydrolyzed collagen. Not familiar with the peptide part. The powders seem to contain protein, etc. But everything I read says it does not work. But I would still like to try - cheaper than laser work.

(Sonia) #8

I definitely get enough calories because of the butter, olive oil, coconut oil, peanut butter. But maybe not enough protein… but collagen has a lot of protein no? So between the eggs, protein in my lunch and the collegen shouldn’t that be enough??

#9

Mine is labeled Collagen Hydrolysate & is described as a ‘bioactive collagen peptide protein’. I haven’t had an increase in waist size :slightly_smiling_face:

(Bunny) #10

Too much sugar alcohol acts a lot like resitant starch and you may be over-feeding your gut bugs or gut flora biome (esp. the bad ones)? (scan food labels for sugar alcohols?) If you have IBS or SIBO like gastrointestinal like problems, your just making it worse?

When people eat artificial sweeteners with sugar alcohols in them they do not realize it is actually lowering their blood sugars rather than not spiking their insulin because it is undigestable and feeding their gut bugs (esp. the bad ones) rather than being digested directly into the blood stream as glucose!

I have (mandatory) resitant starch (sweet potato sticks or raw unripened banana) in my ketogenic dietary intake but very very little!

That is why I now steer completely clear of artificial or organic sweeteners, it is just bad news any way you play with it, if you don’t actually know what it is doing to your body?

Gastrointestinal symptoms:

Some stevia products contain added sugar alcohols that may cause unpleasant symptoms in individuals that are very sensitive to the chemicals.

Although hypersensitivity to sugar alcohol is rare, its symptoms can include:

#11

If they’re not pre-soaked they would expand in the stomach and maybe cause bloating.

#12

Chris Masterjohn says that collagen protein should not be counted in the regular protein macro. So, you would need additional protein.

Here’s his podcast on this topic.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #13

So I’m an amputee and had a skin injury last summer and had to ditch my prosthetic for 6 weeks. I was taking 1000 mg of lysine which is the amino acid that creates a “mesh” base layer which your natural collagen will form around.

I don’t know if it will help but it is pretty cheap, about 10 cents a day.

I’m also a fermented vegetable eater and that helps me a lot when it comes to digestion issues.

As an afterthought I have read that sometimes people think they’re starting to go bald during the first months of keto. Your hair has a natural life and death cycle, usually about every two years a hair will be pushed out of the follicle as a new one is starting. Keto can cause your body to do a reset on hair growth triggering a
lot of hair loss quickly. But it will come back. Depending on you hair length it can take 6 months to a year to be normal for you again. Longer hair takes more time to fill in.

#14

You are only 6 months postpartum, so hair loss could be caused by normal postpartum hormone regulation.

(Katie) #15

Yes @Imcoolsoni!

Collagen is not a complete protein and your body needs other types as well. It mainly contributes to connective tissues.