Normal. Weight loss is not linear.
The complexities of weight loss are vast. I found that concentrating on all the other benefits of a keto way of eating was important during these periods of no scale movement. Now into my fifteenth year and have not reached my goal yet but have improved so much about my general health and in the meantime continue to lose albeit very slowly. If I had thrown in the towel - well… would have lost a lot but not lbs.
3 week isn’t such a long time yet, it happens to some people who loses fat just fine before and after.
Of course, it’s possible you just don’t have a calorie deficit now so no reason to use up fat reserves. I have that case ALL the time even on keto 
I have a bit better chances on carnivore as carbs make me hungrier, no matter if I am in ketosis. But I still need to be careful as it’s VERY easy for me to overeat on carnivore too. Certain items are easy to overeat according to many of us. It’s individual but nuts and cheese are common items for that… I need to be careful with dairy in general, eggs and really fatty meats too (the latters are pretty good for most I guess but I can overeat them especially if I have both and too many meals) but timing matters a lot as well.
There may be sleep or stress or some other, not dietary factor too… Or just you lose fat slowly and not right now but it will continue later. Who knows?
I would look at my actual food consumption and wonder if I overdo something…
I’m in only my 10th year and am the same. I can fit into all my 34s (pant waist size), even the very “thin” ones. But I’ll probably not get into 32s, which I wore in my teens/early 20s.
My take on all of this is simple, our bodies knows best. We can come up with all the goals we want where our bodies are concerned, but our bodies are going to make the final decisions on what are right for our bodies. The main reason we have hormones is to keep our bodies healthy. We as humans can either listen to our bodies and eat the what our bodies need and require or we can bullheadedly stuff our bodies with garbage that screws our bodies’ hormones over and causes all types of illnesses and other health issues. The biggest thing we do wrong is worshipping the almighty scales. So many make themselves sick trying to reach some magical weight and in doing so they destroy their bodies harmones, their metabolism, and even cause muscle loss.
The key is eat properly for your body’s sake, stay away from junk food, highly processed, highly refined food, and fast food. Eat real food and eat enough for your body’s requirements and your body will end up in it’s due time to its idea weight. That idea weight more than likely will not agree with your minds made up goal but it will be what makes your body as healthy as possible.
To me, “STUCK” is not defined by the scale.
It’s very likely your body is still at work and changes are happening.
When I quit focusing on the darn numbers, I realized everything else was trending the right direction.
@Jimmy_the_Lock To highlight Paul’s assertions, here is my complete Dexascans from start to now. I will have another March 7th just before heading out to Feldman’s COSCI fundraiser.
Interesting highlights, the first dip and then increase of bodyfat was just after Ketofest 2018. On the flight home after hearing so many inspirational stories and people telling me that “mine” was just as powerful I said “I can do better” and I threw away my tin of chew. That loss of nicotine caused a change in insulin sensitivity and I wrote about that here: Nicotine aids lipolysis. What to do when you quit nicotine?
The second great increase in body fat was dual in nature. Covid restrictions which forced me into lfting at home and 11 pulmonary embolisms in 4 of 5 lobes. Oops. Still Keep calm and carry on.
What I did was alternate from Carniove Animal Fats ( Carny AF) to fasting , whether ADF or EF. Both work well for me. Adding more fat to my diet after 6 years went no where for me. But that makes since if fat cells have a 10% annual turnover rate then at least 60% of my body fat had never experienced insulin resitance. Indeed, these days I seem to enjoy the occaisional bread or potato. I get a big kick of energy, my ketones sky rocket via blood ( because I am not using them) and the next day everything is back to normal, BG, BHB, BRace ( acetone in the breath)
Finally let’s consider the BHB, BG daily readings, averaged monthly and then averaged annually. Keep in mind I do resistance weight training and last year lifted over 11 million poounds and that was with a major rotator cuff surgery ( as an aside, I am 3 months ahead of rehab and have been lifting HEAVY since the fisrt of the year). You can see my overall bodyweight went up but that is lean mass. My body fat percentage came down and my GKI slowly rises, in part I beleive that my body knows how much BHB I need daily and that my red blood cells live longer than 90 days.
Mark, you don’t need DEXA scans to show how lean you are. You are so ripped, it’s not funny. Anyone who looks at you sighs in envy. . . . (sigh). 
OK, thanks for the replies and all the information.
Since the original post, I have lost an additional 5 pounds so I guess I’m back on track.
I started at 325 and now I’m down to 296… my target weight is 200 which was a high school football playing weight.
Aye, aye, I do! (Okay, I’ll just show myself out, shall I? 
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Now I’m down to to 283 and the best thing is I rarely feel hungry.
I guess the good fat really does help you feel full longer.
Congratulations!! Keep at it. Look how far you’ve come. 
And the health benefits are too numerous to count.
What I did after losing my initial 45 lbs (I have 20-25 more to go) is I saw how I had stalled for a FULL YEAR! Now I could have given up and returned to prior lifestyle. But I sat there and imagined myself a year from now back at 200lbs and how I would be feeling about myself in that moment after all I’ve accomplished the past two years, and I imagined how all the health problems would return and how tired I would feel and how I would have no clothes that I felt good in to go out in public. I imagined how I would just cry and be wishing desperately that I could turn back the clock and never stop. You could say the clock was magically turned back because I sat there imagining this at 155lbs. That thought experiment helped me maintain a determined focus to go the next stretch. All I had to do was make choices as if that’s what actually happened and I was given a second chance with rolling back the clock. I’m back to losing again! Onward and downward! I will never let myself gain that weight back.
Keep going! You WILL reach 200 again!!
Thanx!
Yes, I’m noticing that I’m feeling better physically and there’s no chance I’ll be going back to eating how I was before.
The primary thing I’ve been focusing on is re-training myself concerning how and what I eat.
I found out that eating is not a recreational sport and that we should be eating healthy for the purpose of fueling our body not catering to our taste buds.
Just because something “tastes good” is no reason to not eat healthy and fuel the body with junk.
Yep. We should eat tasty, healthy food 
(A tiny bit of extra if it doesn’t do particular harm is very understandable for me, amounts matter a lot, frequency too. And there are extenuating circumstances sometimes. Usually very very rarely, I never have such excuses myself but I usually eat at home.) It must be very unfortunate not liking any good food but I suppose everyone can change to some extent. And if not, health still should have a higher priority, even for hedonists like me. Being unwell or even sick isn’t hedonistic at all, after all… But just being a slave of our taste buds is mentally unhealthy and to be avoided as well.
Well said! As time goes by you may even find that your taste buds are catering to your diet. I absolutely love my keto foods.
I always loved the food I eat now (my number one food is pork and I always considered pork the best tasting food, even during my vegetarian years 
)… But I always loved most food to begin with… 
My problem was quitting some of the problematic ones. I am just thankful I don’t need the few items I never could like (most greens and very lean meats).
And we humans usually have plenty of options, it helps a lot. We don’t need to accept meh or worse food when there may be some great ones…
My current favorite quote: “Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels.” Sounds like you are on that path. Good for you!
I’d say up your protein and check your ‘keto friendly’ foods. Instead of the health bar, eat real food, like some chicken, tuna or other protein. What do you mean by “doing keto for awhile now”, how long exactly? Plateaus are common, mine lasted a YEAR till I realized I was eating nearly enough to maintain my lean mass. Do some research, check out Maria Emmerich, she is a wonder in this journey and has so many fantastic recipes. You don’t need to deny yourself to do keto properly, you need tweaking of the things to do correctly. A lot of people will say ‘up the fat’, but I totally disagree as do many ‘keto gurus’. Think about it, you have excess fat on your body that you want to get rid of, right? When you give your body fat, in the form of oils, butter etc, it will happily burn that fat and never need to access the stores you already have on your body! Add protein! Fat is a natural component of most proteins so you will get enough from that. Do not add fat, ie some people advocate butter on their steak or in their coffee. This may work in the beginning to get the body used to the idea of fat burning and also to add to satiation. Later in our journey, we can stop adding extra fat for no reason.
Adding fat may work all our life if we like too lean meats or need the calories. I don’t so I usually don’t add fat. I ate high fat low-carb/keto for such a long time, it just keeps me fat, no wonder. I just have a hard time eating lean (around 60%. I probably never ate less fatty than that regularly, it’s not easy…) so I kept trying various things. Fat fast days actually seem to work so eating a lot of extra fat isn’t necessary bad 
And if one loves lean items or need less protein or have a high energy need, extra fat may be very much needed. It’s individual.
An advice that works for everyone is extremely rare. We all need to find what works for us. I like that we say different things, it helps telling the message there is no single recipe for all.
By late July I got down to 275… since then, no more weight loss and I’ve even started walking about a mile a day. I may need to look at some other diets
I was just reading an article that claims we should be eating approximately 250 grams a day, to support metabolic functions, so maybe I need to start eating some of the healthy carbs mentioned in this article:
