@ketoteacher1 I agree with Erin, if your exercising you can get away with eating a little more with the exception that your active and thus an innate signal telling you to eat more, just because we are doing keto or fasting does not mean we should ignore subtle signals that may be warning us, that we may need a little more nutrients. Feeling guilty that we are some how cheating and not going to benefit can make it worse.
Most of the videos, literature and websites out their by doctors and other peeps about keto really do not address this gray area!
If I’m exercising and active I will do two or three meals a day. If I’m not active I will do one meal a day and that’s usually dinner.
It was and still is fairly easy for me to lose weight and in the beginning did it very slowly in tiny increments by making subtle changes in carb and sugar intake; not to shock the metabolism; decreasing what I was eating all the time to once a day, then slowly switching out to keto type foods 3 times a day to two times a day, then to once a day, then back to 3 times a day once goal weight is reached!
Amy Berger has a good handle on this topic:
”…If you are at your wit’s end, at the end of your rope, and whatever idioms might be the equivalent in the native languages of my overseas readers, take heart.
Let’s start off with two very important pieces of information:
LCHF is good for health, even if you’re still heavy.
- Low-carbohydrate diets are extremely good for overall health, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS. This is very important to keep in mind. Believe me, I know…pretty much all of us want to look good naked, or, at the very least, look better naked than we do now. But you must, must keep in mind: even if you’re still carrying around extra weight, if your bloodwork is looking pretty good, there’s a strong likelihood that you are healthier than someone who is thinner than you are, but who is a walking metabolic trainwreck. (See this post for details on “TOFI” – thin outside, fat inside.) …More