I did Atkins in the past and had great success but my wife actually gained wait so on May 13th of this year we started a Keto diet. The first month was great and we both lost weight. I dropped 30lbs but that stopped and in the last month I have not been able to get below 370lbs.
Now I have seen some great improvement in my health other that weight so it is not all bad. I suffer from high B/P and Type 2 diabetes. However with keto my doctor took me off injections to control my sugar and reduced my B/P meds as well. I went from 6 different pills a day to 3 just scene May so I am very very happy. Cholesterol is also greatly improved and I no longer need a fluid pill. Additionally I am sleeping better and have more energy during the day.
I am nearly certain the volume I eat is the issue with weight loss but I have almost no hunger, the longer I am on keto the less hunger I have during the day. I have caught myself eating just once a day and I can’t stand water, (I am a big coffee drinker). So my doctor set me up with an app called myFitnesspal and I have started tracing.
According to the app I am to eat, 1718 Calories made of 20g carb, 81g protein, 146g fat. After using the app I found my average daily intake has been 12g carb, 20g fat, and 31 protein. This has been my average daily for the last two weeks. I have not had hunger or side effects of this so I really didn’t even notice how little I had been eating. Frankly at this low of a caloric intake I can’t believe I am not having issues and weight melting off do to starvation but the wait sits right around 370, one day up a pound one day down a pound.
Do you agree is this a matter of not eating enough? Any suggestions on this matter?