How much can I loose?

weightloss
(Nazmus Saqueeb Ashrafi) #1

I am going on a strict keto, IF routine from tomorrow. How much can I expect to lose in a month?

(Bob M) #2

That is a very difficult question to answer. If you’re going from a normal high carb diet to keto + IF, that’s going to be a challenge. Does IF = time restricted eating, or fasting > 1 day?

#3

Not a single person alive can give you that answer. Any number you get is completely made up. Expect to lose a lot of retained water, and start chipping away at fat. You’ll lose fat faster than any other way of eating assuming what you’re doing is correct for you.

#4

It depends. I can expect any loss at all just from keto + IF. But some people lose slowly. Others quickly. It depends how much you have to lose and zillion other things. If you eat too much, you won’t unless some magic is involved…

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

The general experience is that people who have a lot of excess fat tend to lose quite fast at first, but when there are only 10 kg/20 lbs. remaining to lose, then the fat comes off more slowly.

#6

What Is an HBA1c Test?

This is primarily (probably!) why people do keto…to reverse T2 diabetes.

But this also has many other health benefits- I can promise you I know this.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

We on these forums are probably more metabolically-oriented, because Richard and Carl both reversed their Type II diabetes and wanted to help others do the same, but my impression is that most people discover keto as a means of shedding excess fat and learn about the metabolic benefits later.

That said, however, I am one of those people who support your hypothesis, since my primary reason for keto was to stave off incipient diabetes. (It’s rampant in my family, and how my mother and I avoided a formal diagnosis, I’ll never know.)

#8

I was still happy obese, freind. Until I wasn’t.

The metabolic problems made me act. The health problems I suffered.
Everybody will be different though…

I’m certainly happier not as chubbie as well.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

Another thought that occurred to me: There is a 2 Keto Dudes podcast, in which Carl and Richard interview Dr. Stephen Phinney, and in which Dr. Phinney says that in his research they have typically seen fat losses amounting to about 20% of starting weight. But it is possible to lose more than that, since Richard lost over 25% of his starting weight, and I lost around 26%. Dr. Phinney also says that after a rest period of a few years, some people start to lose again.

Myself, I don’t particularly care, since my metabolism is in much better shape, and I have lost enough to make the details of daily life workable again. Though it would be nice to lose a second 80 lbs./36 kg. If you didn’t remember me from before, you’d think I needed to go on a ketogenic diet, lol!

(Joey) #10

This keto thing is best seen as a lifelong change, not a crash diet to lose weight.

If you are approaching this as a quick way to lose weight you will not likely make this a permanent change in your way of eating.

In that case, you won’t really lose any weight whatsoever… you’ll merely misplace it for a while until you find it again.

(BTW, “loose” refers to how your clothes should feel, not your weight change :wink: )

#11

Everyone is right. I have gotten fat and gone keto three times before and am doing so now. Each and every time was the same for me whether I started at 260 lbs or 220. It took me about a week to get into ketosis at which point I lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks or less and then lost about 2 lbs a week until I got to my goal which was about 5 lbs over the BMI “normal” of 24.9 or less. I keto at it once and got to about 24.5 but that was slow going

Ymmv

#12

I would not recommend intermittent fasting whilst going on to keto.
I did that 3 weeks ago. It just made me weak and unable to do anything but sit in pain and not be able to sleep.
What will happen is that you will put your body into shock. That means it will want to hold on to all of its stored fat. So you won’t loose weight, it will just shut down.
It sounds silly but that is exactly what I did and it was horrible.

As soon as I started eatting normally I felt so much better. I really startes loosing weight properly when I had the energy to exercise.

Ideally you should spend 1 month adapting your diet. Then the next 4-8 weeks doing lots of exercise.
Then start fasting.

I don’t know how much weight you have to loose, but as an example…
If your ideal weight was 120lbs and you weigh 200lbs and you ‘crash diet’. You might lose 20lbs in the first month, but then you would stop loosing weight, struggle to diet, be in constant pain, give up and gain that weight right back in a week.
But if you get your body adapted, exercise and do things slower, you could easily hit your ideal weight in 6 months to a year, stay that weight, be happy, comfortable and healthy.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #13

Autocarrot strikes again, lol! But I’ve become good at editing in my head while I read, and now I think of “loose” for “lose” as meaning, “Keto loosens the fat, so I can lose it.” :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

(I suspect that very few people actually notice the extra ‘o’.)

(Allie) #14

I do, but have learnt to ignore as it’s so common now…

#15

I do too and it IS disturbing but I have this with grammar. I typically see every mistakes and typos (I would be great for beta reading) and some kinds bother me. The worst is the they’re/their and the like though. Misspelling (well, using another word) is hilarious sometimes though, giving me fun mental images… Too bad I can’t say an example right now.

#16

I am terrible on my phone for autocarrots.
Fine on PC, butveheb you see loads its because I’m on my phone.
I only see one line of text, so I can’t really proof read after typing as when I touch the screen it moves blocks of text to other places. Very annoying.
So I usually post, then read, but often I get inturupted. Usually by my boss coming round the corner. :grin::grin:

#17

It depends on your sex, your age, your metabolic illness, how long that’s lasted, if you’re on meds, your genetics, how much excess fat you have and your diet history (= how screwed up is your BMR and your hormone system?). Ergo, no one can say. probably 10 pounds of water and 4-8 pounds of fat for most people.

On Carnivore, counting random testimonials, about 10% gain the first month because they are packing on muscle mass, brain tissue, and bone mass. They may still lose the four pounds of fat but they are healing, so it’s a net gain.

I’ve seen weight charts doctors presented where there was six months of no weight loss to heal a particularly ill person, and then for 18 months, it just flew off, 120 pounds or so. (That person must have had tremendous patience and/or tremendous fear. Or maybe they’d been gaining every month and staying the same six months felt like a victory.)

I haven’t weighed in 22 years. Scales tell me nothing. My body is shouting at me all the time in other ways if I just sit and listen to it.

(Jamie McKenna) #18

I like the way you phrased the “chipping away” part. It seems like a helpful point of view for long term success. Better to meet a stall and chip away at it than to give up and lose momentum. :+1:

(Nazmus Saqueeb Ashrafi) #19

Hope I don’t fall off te wagon then

(Nazmus Saqueeb Ashrafi) #20

Apparently this gives the best result. And I need fast results for motivation.