Weight issues

(Jennifer Thompson) #1

I just started the Keto this week, ive been on it for 6 days now and I lost 5 pounds (i checked multiple times because i was amazed, i know its probably water weight) and i weighed myself the next day and I now weigh more than when i started! Does going out of Keto for one day make you gain weight that fast? I know i was doing well because i started to feel lightheaded and sick from the keto flu but yesterday I did eat something i shouldnt have. Should i go to the gym and burn it off? please help

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

Relax! Fluctuations are perfectly normal. All those people who lost enormous amounts of weight right away had enormous amounts to lose. A ketogenic diet is not for people who want to lose weight quickly, it’s for people who want to become metabolically healthy, with burning off excess stored fat as a likely side-effect. How fast the weight will come off depends on how badly-deranged your metabolism is, and how much weight you are trying to lose. If it’s only 10 pounds, it will come off slowly, 110 pounds, and you’re more likely to see faster movement—till you get down to the final ten pounds at least!

Also, where are you in your monthly cycle? Many women find that their hormones have a lot to say about their weight-loss pattern. Also, women who have restricted their calories for a long time often find that the abundance of calories that comes from eating fat to satiety allows their body to put on lean muscle mass—which is good, because it’s denser than fat, so even if the scale doesn’t move, their measurements still shrink.

Welcome to the forums, and keep ketoing on! :bacon:

(Aimee Moisa) #3

She cheated in her first week, Paul, we gotta kick her outta the club!

Just kidding @Jennifer_Thompson. The first couple weeks were erratic for me too, weight wise, and I didn’t eat carbs at all. It’s just the body doing its thing. About week 4 I had a huge whoosh and ended up averaging about 4 pounds per week.

(Kyle Kerstiens) #4

It’s normal to lose around 5lbs of waterweight right away as glycogen storage requires water. So when you cheated you stored glycogen and gained that same water weight back. Just get back on the diet and in 3 days that 5 will be gone.

(Ken) #5

After glycogen is gone, be happy with a one to two pound fat loss per week, averaged over time. Because of water fluctuations, constantly jumping on the scale will drive you crazy. Take good measurements and especially pictures, then weigh, measure, and take progress pics for comparison once a month.

60-100 lbs is reasonable expectation for a year, or about two or three five gallon buckets of fat.