Stuck. Not losing any weight

(Doug Hope) #1

I lost ten lbs in the first few days (water weight obviously). Been strictly on the diet for over a month and am stuck. My diet is meats, boiled eggs and very very few vegetables. My fat level is good and most days I’m not even exceeding 10 carbs. I dont know what I’m doing wrong…

#2

Being in ketosis is no guarantee of weight loss. How did you set your macros?

The proteins macro is a goal and a lower limit, while the carbs and fats macros are upper limits, especially if you’re trying to lose weight.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

Welcome to the forums!

In addition to keeping your carbohydrate intake low, be sure to eat enough food to satisfy your hunger. At first, this may seem like a lot of food, but as your insulin level drops, your hunger and satiety hormones will start to function properly again, and your appetite will be a good guide as to how much to eat. Keep your carbohydrate low, your protein reasonable, and add fat to satisfy your hunger.

Another thing to bear in mind is that people with only ten or twenty pounds of extra fat to lose will lose it slowly. The stories one hears of people losing large amounts quickly are told by people with a lot of extra fat to lose. Even their fat loss slows as they reach their healthier body composition.

The scale can be a confusing guide to progress. Firstly, fat loss is never linear, and there will be ups and downs in the scale reading. Second, it is possible to add lean mass while simultaneously losing fat, so it helps to use body measurements as an additional indicator of progress. Here’s how to think of it: Would you rather look as though you lost those twenty pounds and have the scale show no change, or lose twenty pounds and look the same as always?

#4

It may be fine for now… I was just as hungry as before until fat adaptation, I lost no fat and I can’t do anything about it as I never will accept staying hungry. Then I got some chance… But in the end, I needed being stricter too.
But first getting used to keto is the most important thing, it’s challenging enough for many of us.

Ketosis doesn’t quarantee fat-loss, not even if you just eat until satiation. Satiation is tricky and individual.
Many people eat too much fat or dairy or vegetables or nuts or sweeteners and they don’t lose fat. It’s normal. Keto isn’t magic, it just tend to help a lot. But one can do it very wrong as well as there aren’t many rules. Just one, you need to eat little enough carb to be in ketosis. You still can overeat if you are that type, with wrong food items, wrong timing or due to eating way over satiation. Keto is usually perfect for me to reach and maintain 30lbs extra fat. To get slimmer, I need additional rules, methods. And patience. Many of us needs that too, especially short, not very active women but not only them.
Not losing weight for some weeks isn’t stalling yet. It happens. We are very complicated living beings, not machines, we don’t always do the expected things. Or the same under the same circumstances, all the time. The body may contain more or less water, it’s easy to mask real fat loss for weeks that way. But even if you just heal, get used to keto, form new habits, it’s great, you can lose fat later. One months if little but If it continues for much longer, you need to change something. But being more strict is probably easier later. Except if you look at your eating habits and spot problems, like adding fat to everything just because or having calorie rich snacks between meals without a good reason…

#5

Neither do we, have any more dietary details for us? Are you tracking what you’re eating or just picking here and there and guessing? Unfortunately as much as people like to not track, when this happens your left guessing.

(Jane) #6

Height, current weight? Typical menu with portions would be helpful also and times that you eat.