Hi Guys, Iām Jeff. Iāve been trying to get use keyto but just go up in weight. Iām just eating meat, foul and some dairy (cheese) and Iām putting on weight. I just donāt get why. I eat what I think is a small amount. Thanks for your feedback.
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Thatās a mistake Jeff. I know it sounds crazy and on this way of living most things are the opposite to mainstream thinking.
It works like this. You eat a small amount and your body thinks your starving so it stores fat to get through the bad times.
You eat meat until you are full and your body will burn fat. Thatās what Keto is. Fat burning. Fat is fuel.
Some people do have a problem with dairy. And some of the āketoā meals are heavy into cream, cheese, etc. When I started out, I ate a lot of this stuff, but then went to lower fat keto, and that helped.
How much do you eat and how quickly you gain weightā¦
Though if you think itās not much food, it may be truly not muchā¦ And you canāt make energy from a lack of energy, clearly but itās a bit tricky as eating too little tends to slow your metabolism and it may go down too much and may be reluctant to go back quickly, I think thatā/s why certain people have problems with fat-los even when eating little. I never had this but my metabolism happily quickens if I eat much and itās not like I ever underate for long.
But maybe itās a tiny amount of weight so maybe donāt even gain any fat just think soā¦? We have not enough information hereā¦
Dairy may be a problem for some people. It shouldnāt keep you from losing fat when not eating much but humans are complicated.
I wouldnāt trust myself with guessing what is the right amount of food for me, maybe you are better at it but I donāt know you. Carnivore food can be super calorie dense, I easily overeat if I eat too much of my potentially wrong items (most dairy, very fatty meat, fowl). But even I rarely consider that amount smallā¦
There are so many factors that can interfere, not just dietary ones But not losing when eating little sounds quite unusual, itās more common simply not losing as far as I knowā¦ And gaining fat means you eat at a surplus, itās inevitable so I would expect it came from seriously undereating for too long in the past resulting in unusually slow metabolismā¦
Hi there thanks for your replies. This is very strange because I have had a gastric sleeve done some years ago. This means that I have a tiny stomach just 15% of what it was and all I can are tiny portions. I typically eat a quarter chicken and Iām stuffed. Although I do eat cheese and eggs but not in any great amount. Now and again I will have some cream in my coffee and I have entirely cut out sugar from my diet I havenāt eaten a piece of chocolate or sweets or beer, anything like that for years I just donāt like that stuff and I donāt have a sweet tooth. And thatās really about it and I just canāt figure it out what Iām doing wrong. Iāll have three or four rashes of bacon for breakfast and maybe three or four eggs along with that and a coffee and thatās really all lll eat all day long
Different strokesā¦for me, a quarter chicken and four eggs seems like a lot, and I consider myself a long distance runner. I see you avoid the alcohol question; so did I when I started. Good luck!
Hi David thanks for your reply. I never avoided the alcohol question I just missed it really. Because of my stomach operation I canāt drink anything gassy so if I do drink which isnāt often, i drink spirits which are very low in everything including calories in fact they are zero carbs and if I have a mix of with that that would be orange juice or squash or something like that so still very little of anything there. I think you misunderstood me I donāt eat the chicken and the eggs all together thatās a daily intake. I just have the chicken on its own and the eggs and the bacon and this would be something Iād have at breakfast so I hope that clarifies things anyway thanks for your reply and helping me try to figure this out.
I think you probably need more fat. Keto means fat burning right? Chicken is very lean. Do you like beef, lamb or pork?
Thatās very little food from my viewpoint (later I calculated, itās truly not much). A decent amount of protein, probably (depends on the size of the chicken and itās not like I can guess well these things but it canāt be very little*) but as @Pjam wrote, not enough fat.
Chicken is somewhat fatty (unless the skin loses most of the fat as it does when I finish it in the air fryerā¦ or if one buys chicken only having half of its skin, I saw that in legsā¦ the quarters I buy have it all and chickens are sometimes quite fatty here anyway with lots of visible fat) but that alone is not enough for most people on keto.
*I looked it up. The biggest chicken leg I ever had contained about 70g protein. Nice start. And only about 500 kcal? Yep, very little food, even with 3-4 eggs and some bacon, itās not much.
For your situation, maybe you need higher concentration of calories? Like nuts, cream, butter, sour cream, etc?
I always buy the largest chickens usually coming in around two kilos each and I just cut them up into quarters and put them in my halogen oven. I do eat nuts I buy almonds which I let soak in salty water for a few nights and again I put them in my halogen oven and I roast them theyāre actually really nice but I understand Iām not supposed to eat too many of those about 30 a day so I donāt go over the top and thatās really it
Bearing in mind although that would be my total intake for the entire day so itās really very little. A quarter chicken 3 eggs and a few rashes the bacon for a whole day thatās really not a lot of food so I would have thought that it would really make some difference but it doesnāt seem to. On the other hand there are suggestions here that it may well be too little fat Iwho knows? Iām still trying to figure this out, thanks again.