I am new starting today. I need to lose 60lbs

#21

I eat considerably more calories than that per day. I haven’t bothered to count them, since I don’t see how they have anything to do with a low carb diet. I wonder how tall you are? You can’t be very tall if you think 125 pounds is best for you.

(Joeb Lowe) #22

That is more or less what I am doing (learning.) It is nice to hear some one else put it into words. So far I have found the keto lifestyle to be SO interesting.
One of my first benefits was to drop 60 points off of my fasting glucose. I KNEW I was in for the long haul at that point.

#23

I am 5’4" or around there. I am not tall like 5’7-5.8 like model but they weight only 119bls. Thus I think I should be at 125 max or lower like 115. 174-115=around 60bls I should lose. Thank you :pray:

(Robin) #24

I admit I counted calories in the beginning and tried to keep them at the amount I would need if I was 20 pounds lighter… that sort of thinking used to be our motto. Semi starve yourself. Well, it won’t work with keto. After a few disappointing months, I finally took the advice from folks on here. I simply concentrated on the carbs. Kept them under 20g a day. Cut out the obvious sugar and flour and grains. Tried to eat much more meat than veggies. Veggie carbs add up quickly.

I expected to gain weight because I was eating much more.
Nope. That’s when I started losing weight and inches.
Lesson… count carbs, carry on.
You just have to trust the process and keep it simple.

#25

Thank you so much for your advice. I will pay attention to carb then. I already made mistakes today by consuming more than 20 gr carbs and gain 2 BLS already. Thank you :pray::heartbeat:

#26

Just do count carbs. If you starve yourself, your body will resist, and you won’t lose. Eat plenty of fat, that’s another fallacy that has been drummed into us. We are training our bodies to run on fat instead of glucose. Take away the glucose (carbs) and your body will convert. Then it can learn to eat your stored fat, no reason to hold on to it, it’s plentiful. Just keep that in mind, no starving yourself, no avoiding fat.

#27

Nobody can tell you how long it’ll take, that’s up to your metabolic rate and how you eat. Yes, you can eat peanut butter, but given that’s a food many people simply can’t stop eating, may/may not be a great idea if it’s a regular thing.

Most people have BETTER cholesterol on Keto, but at first you won’t. Have you had the genetic testing to confirm FH? Or just diagnosed based on never being able to lower it?

I’ll disagree with not having to count calories, while nobody on any diet (needs) to, if you don’t, you have no clue how much you’re eating, and if your results aren’t there you may be ignoring a problem right in front of your face. My failure to track derailed me for over a year because I didn’t think I needed to. You’ll lose a ton at first which is mostly water loss, but past then it becomes real. When you eat a diet with a lot of fat, the calories add up very quickly, half the overweight people on the planet don’t quite get / process that “stop eating” signal correctly.

Only time mine ever worked was when I was fasting, which I no longer do. But when I didn’t eat at all, I never got hungry. Worked so well I lost a ton of muscle and further slowed my metabolism. Some people get away with eating intuitively, many don’t. Regardless of what you do, just make sure you’re keeping an eye on everything, and don’t fall into the trap of paying attention to everything except the obvious. Common trap people fall into, my past self included.

#28

Well, everyone is different. After a couple of months of eating 3 meals a day, I started eating two, and then one. I have been mostly eating one meal a day since then, albeit I sometimes have bacon and eggs during the day. Lots of fatty bacon. All my carbs are veggies or berries, most of the dairy I eat has no carbs. I eat a huge dinner, in the course of an hour or so. Huge, I tell you. Very fatty, I love butter and extra heavy cream and… I have no idea how many calories that may be, but it’s a ton. I’ll easily eat 4 burgers or two steaks or 3 chops, smother my veg in melted cheese and I may have some heavy cream whipped with plain chocolate powder or a teaspoon of peanut butter and topped with some blueberries. In other words, I eat a ton. Whenever I curtail how much I eat, I stop losing. My metabolism slows and I stall. If I want to speed up losing again (and I often don’t, let my poor old body catch up with the transformations) I eat more, especially more fat. This is what works for me. No more metformin or blood pressure pills either. I’m doing very well.

(Mike W.) #29

I highly suggest reading the Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung if you’re worried about calories. Also you will learn about how hormones affect weight gain/loss and also about body setpoints. Really suggest getting some labs done. This generally isn’t a quick fix “diet” to look good in a swimsuit. It’s about metabolic healing and is, in some form, a lifelong commitment. Best of luck with your journey.

#30

Thank you so much friends for your advice. This is much harder than I thought. I watched YouTube bers losing so easily I thought it’s really easy but today I already screwed up by eating too much carbs and gaining 2 BLS. I will be very careful tomorrow then. I really hope I can get to my goal next summer. This summer is another summer that I am very saddened by my weight. I hope I can smile next summer. Thank you such to you all for helping and advice.

#31

Thank you so much for your recommendation. I have watched DR Fung YouTube talk. I am not sure if I can eat whatever I want except carb and calories not matter. May be I am so confused with traditional thinking. Did you eat whatever you want and not counting calories and still losing weight? I will definitely watch my carb from now on. Thank you so much :heart:.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #32

Nah, it’s not harder, it’s just different to everything we thought to be true! It’s hard to unlearn years and years of misguided advice

#33

Yes. Respectfully agree. I need to unlearn the traditional thinking to losing weight. Thank you so much. Cheers💓

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #35

Keep the carbs low, eat plenty of protein and fat, don’t count calories, and you’ll be fine. I lost 80 lbs./36 kg with absolutely no effort, and even then I kept getting thinner for a while, even though my weight didn’t change.

(Bob M) #36

Yeah, the other thing is – as @PaulL points out – the scale might not move, but there could be indicators that you’re losing fat. For instance, on multiple occasions (back when I used the scale), the scale didn’t move but I had to move my belt down one belt hole, or I’d have to go buy smaller pants. (I stopped using the scale not only for that reason, but at the time I was fasting a lot of > 24 hour fasts; I’d lose 5 pounds in the first day of fasting, and it was hard to figure out what was happening.)

#37

No, you definitely didn’t gain pounds just because you ate a tad more carbs… You can’t even gain that much in a day, even if you eat like crazy…
Bodyweight fluctuates, it’s normal.

125lbs is a nice goal weight for 5’4", of course it’s not the weight that matters (unless you are against muscles, I want as much as possible for me and for a 46 years old somewhat lazy female, it’s very very little… but I want that little ;)). I am 5’4" too and 125 lbs is the weight that would probably look okay now. If I get more muscles, it changes :wink: But as I was chubby since I was 2, I don’t even know what my good weight can be. It doesn’t even matter. I want to get rid of my fat rolls, see my developing muscles… The number on the scale is just showing the trend, it’s not what matters. I would gladly stay 165 if I had it with just the healthy amount of fat and lots of muscles :slight_smile: But it’s not realistic so I need to lose some and hopefully I can gain some too… But if I gain a noticeable amount of muscle first, I won’t even want to go down to 125.

Of course calories matter. Many people experienced that and it makes perfect sense anyway. Why would you lose fat when you eat too much of it? Maybe some people have that magic but many of us don’t.
I never ever lost fat by eating little carbs and too much fat and I won’t wait more, 12 years of stalling was enough for me I think. I did have higher-carb days but just occasionally. And when I did keto for months, I still lost nothing. But it seems it’s quite individual and just because calories matter, doesn’t mean you should enforce some small amount. I never can control my calories directly, I merely tweak my woe, I have much control over what items I eat, where is my focus, I may try to keep my eating window smaller, tricky but my food choices help… But if my body wants food, it gets food and I find it right. Too many people focus on calories and enforcing some random number and it’s often not healthy. Tracking itself can be a horrible chore already.

1500 kcal may or may not be good for you. I dislike such rigid rules, what if your body needs more food today? Or not but more protein? And it’s not like we can track accurately anyway.

For now, just give it a chance to do it simple and easy. You can tweak a bit later if really needed.

#38

Thank you for your kindness dear everyone. I will listen to you all. This is a long battle for sure. So far I didn’t eat much carb today, only veggies and steak. I hope I could stay this way and not tempting to eat carb and junk. Though my house right now has peanut butter which has 3 gr of carb for 1 table spoon. Is there anything lower carb than that? Like tasting sweet like that with zero carb? If you can recommend I really appreciate it. I did research but I can’t find any. Even DR Atkin products have much higher carb content. I am very surprised since he recommended only 20 carb daily intake but his peanut chocolate has 10+ carb.

My main diet now is only salad, veggies meat, shrimp, eggs, bacon and peanut butter. I hope I can lose 60bls by 2024 May.

Thank you for your advice. I really appreciate this forum and support. God knows I really need this. God bless you all :heart:.

#39

That’s incredible achievement. May I ask how long it took to lose 80bls for you? Did you exercise? Thank you so much for your time.

#40

Peanut butter has peanut and peanut is sweet because it has sugar, not a tiny amount. If you eat peanut, it will be somewhat carby, it’s inevitable. I don’t know if your peanut butter has added sugar but it can’t be close to zero carb due to the peanut itself. It’s fine, you just shouldn’t eat much of it. Peanut is quite flavorful and we may learn to consume only a bit but it may be tricky if we are obsessed with it.

He probably thinks you shouldn’t eat it all (or if you do, the rest of your day should be very low-carb). Or it’s not for the ones who takes his advice… Doesn’t matter, you should figure out what works for you and choose your items accordingly.

Good luck for that! (Stop before if you look good before :wink: Even if you had your target weight in your adult life before, our body changes, maybe the best weight changes too.)
It’s good you don’t want some super quick fat-loss, I saw some very wild hopes from newbie ketoers…

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #41

I started in early 2017 by eliminating sugar from my diet. I decided at the time not to worry about carbs in general, though I did cut my carb intake. But I started feeling so much better (and I had such a hard time finding decent low-carb bread, lol!) that I decided to go full keto in February of that year, by which I mean that my carb intake probably dropped from around 100-125 g/day to 20-30 g/day.

That was a busy year, so a lot of the chronology is a blur. But sometime in October, for sure, I had lost the fat. So it took seven or eight months. But I never counted calories, and apart from packing up and moving, I got no exercise. A few months after the move is when I started to notice that I could walk up and down the cellar stairs without knee pain. The arthritis in my hands cleared up around that time, too. By February of 2018, my LDL was down, my fasting glucose and HbA1C were normal, my heart rate and blood pressure were down, and so forth. It took a while longer for my skin and scalp to stop being so greasy and for my nails to grow out in better shape. (They used to split and tear very easily when I was a carb burner.)

Hope this helps.