Stalling, I need tips please!

#1

Hey everyone I am back and I’m not trying to complain or be annoying but I need tips and help!

I want to be honest with everyone and I am going to give you a detail description of what I eat and about my past in order for y’all to get some insight on me!

-I am a female, 25 years old, and currently weigh 195 (Aug 2 is when I started the keto at a weight of 220 lbs)
-I always had weight issues as a child and teen, but in late high school I lost a good bit of weight because I played varsity basketball. In high school I weighed around 150
-In college I started taking Adderal and this helped with my studies tremendously. However, after taking it for about 3 years I lost a lot of weight! I was at my lowest weight at being 140. And I loved it! But eventually I stopped taking adderall about 1.5-2 years ago and this is when everything went downhill for me. I gained a TREMENDOUS amount of weight. My metabolism was already crap and after getting off the medication my whole system was just screwed. Hence, the gaining weight issue, which I became 220 pounds.
-Also, I have hypothyroidism. Yes, I have been taking medication for it however I stopped taking it and slacked off. I just now got my new refill and began taking it 2 weeks ago, and I will not stop because I hope this will help a little with my issue.
-I started the keto, lost about 15 pounds the first month, then after my weight loss slowed down… which was still ok to me as long as I was losing weight. Now, it has been 1 month that my weight has not budged.
-I haven’t exercised since starting the keto. I am going to begin moderate workouts (2-3 days a week) to see if something happens to my weight loss.

My typical day of eating:
-10 am I have unsweetened black coffee, with heavy whipping cream, and mct oil
-12-1 pm I will snack on cheese (sometimes a little and sometimes a lot)
-7-8 pm I make something homemade. today for instance I made red curry with chicken thighs (I used coconut milk) or broccoli with chicken and homemade alfredo sauce (which is mostly cream cheese and heavy whipping cream and parmesan).
-water intake is not a lot…I maybe drink 4 cups a day.

What is your opinion considering my background of medication and weight issues?? What should I change? Am I doing something wrong?? Also, because I work, sometimes I may eat my dinner a bit late, like around 9 pm. I will try to keep dinner before 7 if possible.

(Robert C) #2

One way people use the keto diet is for weight loss - another is to get good blood numbers and sit on a plateau (which might be closer to what you are doing).

Once you are sure you are fat adapted - you can try the weight loss approach.

For example - if you are eating 2000 calories a day and 1400 are from fat - you could drop 700 of those fat calories several times a week (not every day - that would just be viewed as calorie restriction and the metabolism would slow). Dropping those fat calories causes your body to burn your stored body fat.

If you just eat keto - without some scheme like this - you can sit at the same weight (there is no reason you will lose weight on keto if you never let your body use its new fat burning capabilities on its own stored fat).

Another option is to hope that - being really strict keto and adding some exercise - that your metabolism will rise and the same 2000 calories will actually be a deficit. But, again, this will get suppressed because your body will adapt and slow metabolism if you do something consistently (i.e. added exercise will burn some more but - cold hands/feet and general lethargy might fill the other hours of your day).

#4

thank you for your input!
I am a little dumb when it comes to Calories lingo. So, when you say cut some of the fat calories, are you meaning that I should cut cheese, heavy whipping cream etc? And one day eat regular amount of fat and the next decrease the amount?

Im sorry for being confused, I am not good at this kinda stuff and would love to learn it perfectly.

(Robert C) #5

You are correct!

While becoming adapted you want to keep the regular keto macro breakdown and get your body to run well on fat.

But, then (once adapted) to lose weight - you might want to leverage that new capability to burn some of your own.

The other reason you try to just cut fat (cheese, cream etc. randomly) is that if you just lower calories and keep the same keto macros (70/25/5 or whatever) then you are getting too little protein that day.

(Robert C) #6

Also, you don’t have to think in calories lingo.

If you are stalled - just drop your fat in half on alternating days or every two or three days - let your body burn its own.

#7

wow thank you so much Rob I haven’t thought about this! I will try it