Please share weight loss timelines

#61

I’ve read that for some people, their bodies have to spend some time resetting themselves internally before they see weight loss. So assuming that you’re tracking your macros and you’re eating enough, just KCKO. You might also consider taking your measurements. For example, I’ve been pretty much at the same weight for the last 2 weeks, but I’m down 2.5 total inches compared with 2 weeks ago.

(Charlotte) #62

I feel so good I actually bought my first pair of skinny jeans last weekend. Luckily I don’t carry weight in my legs so I can pull them off fairly easily. I’ve lost 6 jean sizes and 2 shirt sizes since I started 3 months ago.

(Justin ) #63

I am new to Keto and started one week ago. I am 45 y/o male 5’8 and my goal is losing 30 lbs. I started at 192 and down to 185 already probably some water weight but I am hydrating and trying to keep my carbs around 20g. I am also intermittent fasting. 16 hours fast and 8 hour window to eat hydrating with water and club soda which seems to satisfy my beer loss a bit. I am also probably around 1300-1500 calorie intake which doesn’t mean as much but I have seen people posting 2000-2500 calories! I have a difficult time thinking you can be eating that many calories with that low carbs. Doesn’t make sense to me.

#64

You lost SIXTY-FOUR pounds and SEVENTY inches and you’re discouraged???

You’re inspiring! I hope you heal well and give yourself enough time. Imagine what our poor monkey brains go thru after a surgery…it must be the most alarming event!

(Judy Thompson) #65

I’m 66yo, I have been eating LCHF for about 5 years, much of it being 16/8 IF, with no change from my weight of 223. Labs showed a slight elevation in BS (130) and BP (140/80) although cholesterol reduced from 275 to 225 and maintained an HDL of 100! Doc - at the time - said keep doing what I’m doing, but in addition, osteoarthritis and sciatica are literally kicking my butt! So when I saw news of the Fasting Transformation Summit online (David Dockers) I decided to listen. Not only was it all geared toward keto, I met a new face when I saw Jason Fung speak!
So the decision to spend 2019 doing OMAD was born, to take it up a notch and hopefully banish some of the inflammation and lower that BS and BP.

I’ve been fortunate to see a loss of about 15 lbs since the new year although I’m not weighing in much , and don’t know the exact start weight (it could have been higher).

When I feel like I’ve made some progress I’ll go back to the Dr for another checkup. Meanwhile I’ve stopped taking gabapentin as it causes insulin release and weight gain according to Jason Fung. So, looking forward to more progress on the sciatica front!

BTW, the 5 years I’ve been keto/IF may not have yielded weight loss but people think I’m 40, not late 60s. So there’s that. Fat is GOOD for you.

(Christine Flack) #66

how many weeks until you had weight loss? again i’m more than 2 weeks in, and nothing (lost 4 fast but gained it back so back to square 1). Even 5 lbs would give me motivation! if more people confirm sometimes the first few weeks its normally not see changes, but then all of a sudden after a month it just dropped off, i’ll feel better.

(mole person) #67

I’m on Gabapentin for my trigeminal neuralgia and got down to 107 pounds with OMAD. Just make sure it’s only a one hour eating window. A few times I would stretch it to include a post dinner snack or treat and that would end my losses. The same applies to drinks during the day containing calories such as creamy coffee. I’m fine with a couple, but for a while I was overdoing it and weight losses stopped.

(Liz Ellen) #68

I don’t have good data for you because I didn’t step on a scale for the first few weeks. (I was in some denial about what it might say). I do know that I weighed 227 at a doctor’s appointment in December. About two weeks into keto, I weighed 222. Keep in mind, my doctor weight was taken in the afternoon with clothes on. So, it’s possible I was down very little. In the past six weeks, I’ve lost an additional 22 pounds. I don’t know how much you have to lose, but I would like to get down below 150. I’m 5’4". So, I obviously started with a lot of excess weight.

I do think you need to give it a few months before you decide, but I also understand your frustration. It’s such a drastic lifestyle change; you almost expect that it’s going to pay off big time. I would say I feel it has for me, and then some. The biggest different between this and other plans I’ve tried is that by two months in, I would be fantasizing about eating all the things and imploding. I’m cool as a cucumber on keto. No cravings. Locus on control intact. Smooth sailing.

(Judy Thompson) #69

Thank you. 107.amazing!
I haven’t been religious about the 1 hr window, I’ll work at that.
I’ve been good about just black coffee, sometimes with MCT oil.

(Judy Thompson) #70

With 16/8 there was no weight loss but on OMAD I had lost 10 pounds by about 2 weeks. I think I’m just very insulin resistant.

(Charlotte) #71

When you do omad do you eat all your cals in 1 meal or just eat what you can? Sorry if thats a dumb question, I’ve been wondering how its done.

(Daisy) #72

I haven’t read all the replies, just giving my experience. But first, some background. I am 38 F, 5’6” and well proportioned. I have averaged between 140-150, but look thin with clothes on. In the last 10 years, I’ve gotten as low as 133 and as high as 155. I’m a lifetime dieter and recovering severe sugar addict (over 2 years now off sugar). I’m also a serial self destructor.

I originally started my keto journey in April of last year when I reached 155. I got down to 144.6 and then mother’s day weekend came (about 4 weeks). I decided I didn’t need keto, I could just do low carb. I gained back to 150. Started keto again at the end of August. Tried fasting, egg feasts and cutting out all sweetener in that time, got down to 138 for a work party, then bounced right around 140 for a week or so. I made some keto cheesecake a week before thanksgiving and that sent me down a spiral that didn’t end until Christmas and back up to 150 lbs. I also lost my fat adaption. I started again on Christmas Day and lost and gained the same 3 lbs for the next 6 weeks. I felt good and regained my fat adaption, but no weight loss. I was trying new veggies and eating a lot of dairy. I cut out dairy and veggies and got down to 144 in a week. (That was 2 weeks ago). Then I reintroduced some dairy and veggies, and gained a couple lbs back. I’ve had several bad days of eating lots of nut butter, unsweetened chocolate and dairy free, sugar free ice cream and hid my scale lol. But I’m back on track today with no dairy, no sweetener and strict keto. I won’t be getting out my scale for awhile, just focusing on eating foods that make me feel good. I also want to focus on getting back to fasting. I want to get back to 24 hours and more in March :smile:

(mole person) #73

It’s not at all a dumb question. I’ve always taken the keto promise at face value and don’t ever really worry about calories one way or the other. I do eat until I’m quite decently full at my one meal.

However, I do on occasion track. Especially when I am trying to sort out some stall or short term gain. My tracking tells me I tend to consume about 1050 calories a day. However, about 350 of that comes from cream in my coffee at three points in the day prior to my one meal. This is not a good practice, but it is what it is. I have trouble giving this up.

You shouldn’t ever eat to a calorie goal set by a program. It’s ok to get an idea from them, but in the end everyone is metabolically different and you may really need more or less by a significant amount. Also, the very foods you eat will affect how many calories you will need and no program is that sophisticated.

One of my favorite things about this journey is that I’ve become very in tune with what affects my fat stores and what triggers me to eat in poorly controlled manners.

So I’ve never planned out meals to get to some perfect macro combination. Instead I just eat low carb (20 gram or less goal), moderate protein (I’m definitely NOT in the “don’t worry about overeating protein” camp), and as much fat as I need to fill up. If I find that I stagnate or slowly start to gain weight over a period of time I’ll track what I’m doing. It’s usually not hard to spot the problem.

Problems I’ve encountered that have been sorted out with a bit of tracking or even just paying attention to my cravings include:

  1. Just plain eating too much. this was my first stall. I lost 10 lbs on basic keto, and then stalled out completely while my husband continued to lose weight. After this I switched to 16:8 but I still overate. I then began OMAD and lost steadily for another 10 lbs.

  2. Over-consuming dairy. At one point I became stalled out even on OMAD. I began to track my macros and very quickly discovered that I was drinking 25 grams of carbohydrates in my cream alone. At that point I gave up all dairy for a month and continued to lose weight quite rapidly. I have since reverted to taking in about 8 grams of carbohydrates from cream and dairy but that has not stalled me.

  3. Nuts. I pretty much cannot have these in the house. They trigger overeating in me in the exact same way that carbohydrate sweets would.

  4. Anything sweet. I stay away from all artificial sweeteners as I find they will just increase my appetite over the next couple of days and lead me to eating outside of OMAD. When I do have a sweet, it has real sugar. And I count the very real carbohydrates so that I can see the effect it has on my appetite.

Finally OMAD is nothing hard or fast. If I’m starving on any day, and the hunger does not abate in a couple of hours, I just have another meal. This rarely happens, but when it does I don’t beat myself up about it.

(Lisa marie t) #74

I’ve been at it a year I thought I’d have lost more in a year I’m not so much discouraged more disappointed because I didn’t use harder some days it’s all for me to get imuo struggles of depression I’m grateful I’ve lost what I have I just had hoped to hit a 100 by now n I do compare myself to others weight loss but I also compare myself to other artists n their work n feel deflated lol.
But I’ll be hopefully back straight keto next week or so :heart:

(Christine Flack) #75

your first time on keto, how long before you had any meaningful weight loss?

#76

Fat loss is a slow journey. Your body is hesitant to let it go, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Last year I lost about 65lbs of which about 30lbs was fat. That equals about 5lbs a month lost. At the same time I was putting on lean muscle mass, which is why the fat loss matters more to me.

You’ve only been on the diet for two weeks. You need to give it more time. Don’t put any stock in your scale. As others have said, go by your clothes, or buy a tape measure.

(Daisy) #77

I think I lost almost all of the 10 lbs in the first week. Maybe 7 or 8. Then only lost 2 more the next 3 weeks

Edit: yep, here are my notes from that time

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(Khara) #78

Hi. You mentioned you want to lose 20 pounds and are just over 2 weeks in. I’ve scrolled and quickly skimmed the responses and didn’t see what initially came to my mind. 20 pounds really isn’t very much so it sounds like you are pretty close to goal weight. Also, often our own goal weight isn’t the same as our bodies healthiest weight. Often we want a bit lower than is realistic. The last pounds are very difficult and slow to lose. You only needing to lose 20 pounds is right about in this situation of it likely going to be a slow process and so two weeks in just isn’t enough time yet.
All that said, I’ll give you some of my data. I’ve been Keto 3 major times over the years, going off Keto and unfortunately gaining all the weight back in between. :woman_facepalming: My realistic weight loss goal is also about double yours. Notice my most recent time has not been as successful as the first two. I can only assume my body is working out some other issues and also probably negatively impacted by stress. I have had success in the past so I believe in this WOE but if my very first attempt had had the results of this latest one, I’d probably be skeptical. I guess this is when KCKO comes into play.

First time:
35-40 lbs overweight, age 39
Month 1: 12 lbs lost.
Month 2: 6 lbs lost.
Month 3: 8 lbs lost.
Month 4: 2 lbs lost.
Months 5-10: 12 lbs lost.

Second time:
40-45 lbs overweight, age 40
Month 1: 14 lbs lost
Month 2: 10 lbs lost
Month 3: 7 lbs lost
Month 4: 3 lbs lost
Month 5: 3 lbs lost

Third time:
35-40 lbs overweight, age 41
Month 1: 5 lbs lost
Month 2: 2 lbs lost

(Christine Flack) #79

this is really helpful to see-thank you and good luck!

(Carl Keller) #80

Hello Christine.

There’s an overwhelming amount of good information already in this thread. I just want to say that weight loss is not just about our food choices. It can be complicated by other things like medications, hormone issues and stress.

And there’s no need to fear fat because fat doesn’t make you fat.