I use my eyes and hands to decide if I have lots of fat to lose.
My body actually don’t want to lose fat at this point and it’s not easy as it holds the power but if I am serious (and I am, just not in THAT a hurry…), I obviously can lose fat as I am a healthy normal person so if I eat little, I lose fat and I can find the way. I don’t eat little but I know the method. Meanwhile I try to gain a little fat as I don’t want a specific weight, I want not to be chubby and I want muscles And it would be nice to eat much fat one day, I don’t seem to lose that dream, I love fat a bit too much…
I don’t see how eating carbs would help, honestly. By the way, I went off keto zillion times (it’s possible that it was more than mere hundreds… I have been doing on/off keto since several years), it didn’t do much beyond triggering overeating and less comfortable days (I mean it mess with my relationship with food, I am typically only calm and okay on very low-carb). Definitely will do my best to avoid eating more carbs if I can do it and it doesn’t seem a wonderful deal due to much, mostly harmless joy. My carbs are for that, they don’t really help with anything else.
Keto alone doesn’t make one slim, amounts and food choices matter. Timing too. And one may have some problem, it’s not all about the eating, it’s known sleep and stress may interfere too.
If I don’t lose fat on my woe, I try to tweak something or if I already found the ideal woe, I focus on my timing.
Then would come EF but my body really isn’t cooperative right now and I usually fancy eating every day anyway. Even more exercise sounds more realistic and I need more activity anyway, it feels good and that makes sense.
How much carbs do you eat now? I doubt I ever could lose fat on mere keto, I needed to stop eating plant carbs (at least not a significant amount). But this is individual. Plant carbs make me eat too much. Added fat and too fatty meat as well unless the amount is tiny.
I lost nothing on keto but I would have if I went to keto from HCHF right away… But nope, I had some nice low-carb times and lost fat there easily. For a while when my energy need was more than my natural, pretty fixed energy intake when I eat as little as I comfortably can. Or something. But years passed, my body surely changed some…
I was 152lbs when I started keto (with water weight so my keto weight was 148), yeah, it’s not easy to lose with such a starting weight when one has a hard time to get satiated… My eating abilities is still impressive enough, I don’t doubt it won’t really change, it just gets better when Carnivore Easy Satiation kicks in. Fat adaptation and ketosis isn’t enough.
So I believe one shouldn’t give up just because fat-loss isn’t automatic. Or quick. Some people loses fat super slowly on the carnivore thread. (I would be among them if I could stick to carnivore OMAD/2MAD I am sure, well with the right rules, I can overeat fat even on carnivore so I should be careful with it).