Plateau in 2nd week

[Maddmaxx63]

Hey folks, I started last week on keto and have been strick in my adherents to the rules. Drinking lots and peeing lots, meat butter and green leafy veggies along with broccoli and cauliflower, some nuts and seeds but no fruit. I was 316 lbs when I started and down to 302 at start of this week. This week is chicken thighs, bacon, cheddar worst spinach leaves with oil and vinegar and almond milk. So I hopped in the scale tonight and boom no change. Tested my urine with a test strip shows moderate ketones. I’m lucky so far no flu sysmptons and no white tongue. Drinks both weeks are water power aid zero and almond milk unsweetened. So why the stall? Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated.

[anon54735292]

Weight loss is not usually a linear process I’m afraid - we lose, we stall, we gain a bit (!!), we lose again & so it goes. You’re off to a cracking start. A good way to keep track is by taking measurements - you may not see scale movement but you may still be losing inches.

[ava_ad0re]

You have not plateau’d until you have had no weight loss for over 6 weeks.
You are in the second week of Keto, weight loss is not linear.
You will be highly discouraged if you think you are going to consistently lose weight every week.

[mtncntrykid]

Take some time and look around this forum. There is a lot of great information that can help you get started.
The Keto lifestyle fights against the calories-in-calories-out model of weight loss, which is also expressed as “eat less, move more” or “a calorie is a calorie,” because it is not nuanced enough to describe what the body actually does. But even the carbohydrate-insulin or hormonal model of food partitioning has to take the First Law of Thermodynamics into account. It’s just that the stridency required to get through to diehard CICO folks often leads us to forget that part.

The reason the situation is more complex is that the body partitions the fuel we give it differently depending on the type of fuel. We do not gain or lose weight depending on our gross caloric intake or our total energy expenditure, but rather in accordance with how much fat, carbohydrate, and protein we are eating.

Too much carbohydrate stimulates the secretion of insulin, which drives the glucose in the carbohydrate into the muscles for burning and into the fat tissue for storage in the form of fatty acids. Too much insulin blocks the hormonal signaling that tells the brain that we don’t need to eat for a while, which is why we feel constantly hungry on a high-carb diet. A minimal amount of carbohyrate has the reverse effect; it allows fat to leave the fat tissue to be burned by the muscles and allows our satiety signaling to work properly again, reducing our appetite while also reducing our excess fat.

Restricting calories is counter-productive, as well, because the body responds to famine by lowering its basal metabolic rate, putting a hold on non-essential processes, and grimly hanging onto its fat stores. In times of abundance, however, the body ramps up the BMR and even finds ways to waste energy, it starts growing hair and encouraging reproduction again, and even lets the fat cells and the muscles metabolize excess stored fat.

All this means that weight loss is not about eating less but about eating right. And it also means that weight gain is not about eating too much, it’s about having eaten the wrong things. The problem with the CICO logic is that it assumes that eating too much is what causes weight gain, whereas the reality is that eating wrong causes weight gain and thus causes us to need a higher caloric intake in order to supply the extra calories needed for storage.

This would be a good place to learn about Keto.
http://pwop.com/download/TheKetogenicDietInANutshell.pdf

here is a video-

[Hoteski]

You should weight yourself first thing in the morning right after your morning pee and before eating or drinking anything as your body is generally heavier in the evening than morning.