Insert obligatory I stopped losing weight post

(Cory Allaire) #1

I know this has been probably asked a million times. I know weight loss isn’t linear. But I would think a guy my size, 5’10 249 pounds with a high BMI would continually drop weight everyday. I am used to eating around 5k calories a day, pizza buffets, Chinese buffets etc. All you can eat was my go to because I never felt full unless I could gorge myself. Since I’ve been on this diet I have lost around 12-14 pounds in about 2 weeks, different scales tell me different weights so I have stuck with my own to keep a Consistency.

I have little to no carbs left in my diet, I max out at maybe 7g on a bad day, and 5g as my average. I have been at a constant daily calorie count of 1000-1300cal, my proteins are around 125g daily, fats are usually in the 90g range. I get full very easily. I pee in the high positive for ketosis every day, not sure what’s going on.

It’s been 3+ days and I keep fluctuating between 248.4 and 249. I still have obvious signs of fat on my body, and I hardly workout so it’s not like I’m gaining muscle. I just feel that with a guy my size there should be a consistent weight drop of at least a pound daily, especially with my calorie intake. Probably worrying for nothing, but any advice/personnel experience would be great.

#2

This is probably just not going to happen I’m afraid.

This is a good result.

Have you read through through this? The expanded version is worth the few minutes :slightly_smiling_face:

Keto is this easy (Keto for beloved noobs)

This is for Phase One - the starter phase. It’s still not complicated later, but this is the really easy to explain version which will help you no end.

  • Eat under 20g of carbs a day
  • Don’t worry about the scale
  • Eat plenty of good food - fat and protein - while adhering to 20g/carbs/day. Don’t worry too much about macros and calories EXCEPT carbs. Keep them below 20g/day. (Prioritize the protein - always start with protein in every meal, but don’t panic about it.) Your job is to get fat-adapted, so give your body the fuel you want it to use. Also, your appetite will vary - it’ll disappear, then it’ll come roaring back. Happens to most people, don’t sweat it.
  • ELECTROLYTES/SALT - KEEP THEM UP
  • Buy the meat you can afford - don’t stress about grass-fed, organic (con), etc… The worst meat is better than the best bread.
  • This site has a search function (magnifying glass at the top of the page) and a newbies section - use them both, you’ll get a better variety of answers to your questions far more quickly that way. SERIOUSLY, THIS IS VERY USEFUL.[1]

That’s as difficult as it needs to be for a couple of months.

My good friend Terence (being friends with a Kiwi feels kinda dirty, but there you have it, keto makes for strange bedfellows) tells me this thing I have described above is called “dirty keto.” So yeah, do dirty keto, kids! :slight_smile:

Lots of Love, THE JUICE

Expanded version is HERE

[1]If you can’t find a useful answer after searching and reading for a while, we can help you a lot more if you tell us relevant data about yourself such as your reasons for doing keto, your weight/height/age/gender, a sample menu plan & any relevant health conditions.

(Carl Keller) #3

6 or 7 pounds lost per week is actually really good. I believe weight loss should be judged over the long haul. We didn’t get overweight or obese in a few weeks. It took years to get where we are so it’s unreasonable to expect the pounds or kilos to come off over night, or even every day. Maybe it’s best to measure a week’s progress or even a few times a month.

It’s better and more productive to focus on the other good things that are happening to you instead of what a scale is saying. Stress is counterproductive to weight loss so try to relax, enjoy the journey and focus less on the destination.

(Bob M) #4

Personally, I get tired of these “I’ve only lost X amount of weight in Y time, what’s wrong?”, where X is much greater than you’ve lost and Y is in much less time it’s taken for you.

How did we get to point where someone losing 6 to 7 pounds a week is concerned they are losing quickly enough?

(Bob M) #5

Oops…should be “is concerned they AREN’T losing enough”. Shows how these kinds of posts drive me crazy.

#6

The amount of water we retain is regulated by the body but only to a +/- 2L (4.4lb) accuracy. So it fluctuates.

I weigh myself after I wake up and I’ve been to the bathroom. But I only watch what is going on over the week and month. NOT day to day.

Also, I lost about 2 lbs a week not 1 lb per day, that rate seems excessive to me.

Hang in there. Just watch the carbs … you should be OK.

(Bunny) #7

If your losing a pound a day of actual body fat other than shedding water weight; then something is really wrong?

I never known any person or any research on planet earth YET that burns a pound of fat within a day or two, or three or more; other than a scale that is measuring both hydration and dehydration levels of sodium (salt weighs more than water) and water? Besides flesh and bone mass weight? If weight loss really worked like we think it does; there would be no such thing as fat people or obesity?

It should be more like a pound or two of ACTUAL body fat that gets burned every week or two weeks and that would be normal? WAT Fat cells like to shrink and expand with the high sodium intake before they actually completely disintegrate into nothing!

Just because your in ketosis does not mean your burning body fat, your actually burning that “90 grams” of fat your eating which means your eating way way too much fat, if your trying to burn your own body fat?

When your eating fat, you have to think in RATIOS, not in broscience %percents% of eating fat? RATIOS in respect to what your doing? Yeah, you can eat fat when your body is biochemically capable of processing it into ketones when fat adapted and that’s all fine and dandy but NOT if you intend on burning your own body fat? So what you want to do, is burn your own fat, not dietary fat, so cut back on the fat?

(Sheri Knauer) #8

I don’t agree with cutting back on the fat just yet. He’s only 2 weeks in, not yet fat adapted. And he is only consuming 1000-1300 calories, way too low. You need to make sure you are eating more. Your protein looks pretty good so you should up your fats until you are fat adapted. Your body is in transition, working on becoming efficient as utilizing fat as energy. If you cut the fat now, you will be removing your source of energy since you are not feeding it with glucose and you are not yet efficient as using fat as fuel. Once you are fat adapted, then I would look into decreasing dietary fat so that your body will utilize stored body fat for energy.

(Bunny) #9

Only two weeks in, then I agree! Needs to keep the fat intake high then cut back slowly? Also needs to keep his sodium, potassium and magnesium levels high?

(Sheri Knauer) #10

Absolutely! :grin:

(Diane) #11

Early weight loss after beginning a ketogenic way of eating is often related to a person burning through their glycogen stores (glycogen in the liver and in muscles). So much of this weight loss will be the water which is stored with the glucose in those glycogen stores.

Otherwise, a person that is FASTING can only burn through about 1/2 lb of fat per day, at most, under specific types of conditions. A pound of FAT loss per day is very unrealistic.

Stick to the basics as per the post by @anon54735292 (and @juice). You’ll get there.

#12

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#13

I don’t think you need to worry. This happens sometimes. It happens to all of us.

Have you found a keto macro calculator and calculated out your daily macros, (figuring in a 20 - 25% defesit)? Sounds like you have. Stay under 20 net grams of carbs, meet your protein macro, and stay under your fat macro you should be fine.

I myself have lost 80+ lbs since I started on 7-26-18. Unfortunately, since December (and I’ve been careful), my scale loss has slowed dramatically. The only thing that I’ve changed is that I’m more active, but I think I’m still mostly sedentary.

Anyway, if it has been less than a month, people don’t consider it a stall officially. Not sure why.

(Running from stupidity) #14

Because the definition most people use for a stall is a two-month period of no change.

#15

I would not recommend eating at this type of defecit. Especially when starting out. You need to feed you body real food so that it becomes a fat burning machine. Restricting calories will do the opposite.

(Todd Batitis) #16

Agree with this wholeheartedly. I started at 356 and was (and still am) eating between 1800-2400 calories a day and still losing weight weekly. At that many calories at that stage, your body sees it as a crisis and adjusts accordingly.

I am currently down to 224 (from 356 in March) and am losing 2-3 pounds per week eating between 1800 to 2800 keto calories and averaging closer to 2100-2400.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #17

@UncaToddly
That’s awesome progress :cowboy_hat_face:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #18

But people are sensitive about this, so try to keep calm and keto on. I started a thread once in the Humour forum that tried to present ridculously exaggerated versions of this stuff, because I happen to think it’s funny. Unfortunately, many people took it very seriously and believed I was mocking them personally. We eventually had to delete the thread. So just be aware.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #19

Not only that, but three days of no weight loss does not a stall make.

(Cindy) #20

I almost stopped reading there, because yes, it’s been asked a million times. You’ve already said it “weight loss isn’t linear” but you’re STILL wanting a lb/day loss. You need a reality check. I don’t intend for that to sound salty, but really, you’re expectations are too high.

If you’re spilling a lot of ketones, you’re most certainly not fat-adapted. Ketones in the urine will go DOWN as your body more efficiently uses ketones for energy. Until then, FEED yourself. This isn’t a starvation, CICO type diet. You need to eat so you can hopefully increase your BMR, keep eating this way for life, etc.

My advice to newbies is to put the scale away for a while. That will allow you to focus on getting the keto way of eating right, focus on what your body is telling you. Because honestly, if you’re HUNGRY, you need to EAT. But if you’re watching the scale because you’re trying for that 1 lb/day, you’ll not do what you need to do.