I think I broke my stall by eliminating sweeteners!

(Danielle) #1

I’ve been keto since March of 2018, so just over a year now. I made great progress - feeling good, losing weight (72 pounds), and inches. Just after Christmas, I stalled, and I hadn’t lost a pound in 2 1/2 months. I hadn’t gained anything either, which was good, and I still felt my clothes were getting looser, so although I was a bit discouraged, I didn’t feel like giving up.

I realized that although I had still been tracking my food and staying under my 20g carbs a day, a lot more sweeteners had crept into my diet. I was eating “keto friendly” cookies, muffins, and pancakes. All of them were made with coconut flour and almond flour, and all of them contained sweeteners.

So I decided to eliminate as many sweeteners as possible and see what happened. I noticed right away that I was ending the day more around the 12-15g carb mark instead of 20g, and I was getting stronger results on my ketostix. Today I weighed myself for the first time since I made the change and I’ve lost 1.5 pounds.

I know it’s just one week, so we’ll see if it continues, but this made me very happy, so I thought I’d share. I know that I’ve been reading a lot of posts on this forum over the last two months from people who are having the same experience.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #2

When you eliminated your artificial sweeteners, did you also eliminate coconut and almond flour? I don’t eat either of those, but I still use artificial sweeteners. I’ve been afraid to even introduce them because I’m averaging 2 lb loss per week and don’t want to rock the boat (even using the sweetener, but I do count them in my carb count).

(Danielle) #3

I did eliminate the coconut and almond flour, but only because they were also ingredients in many of the things I was eating that had sweeteners in them. It wasn’t my intention to eliminate the flours, just an indirect result.

(Marc Stewart Brown) #4

Keep us updated! I stalled and am considering eliminating Splenda in addtion to the Atkins shakes and bars I’ve now given up.
Good Luck!

(Robert) #5

Wow, our paths are almost identical. April 18 start, stalled at holidays, lost 74 lbs so far and have taken up sweeteners (from none to a lot) and now my weight is creeping again. I’m going to try getting off them too and see if that helps. I am only 49 lbs from my goal weight and don’t want a stall right now.