What do you do when you don't want to eat?

(Heather Meyer) #1

Im on Day 5 huzzzah!!

Now that ive hit Day 5 my appetite has gone waaay down. Now… ive been naturally fasting till 12 or 1:30 pm daily cause i dont get hungry till around then but here is my dilemna

For example I am only at 700 calories and 12 Net carbs for the day today but i dont feel hungry anymore. I never really did all day… so help me understand this correctly.

If your not “fat adapted” you should eat up your macros.

If you are “fat adapted” technically you could fast.

Am i right? So if you have to eat up your macros when in the first few days of Keto… what do you eat when your not hungry?

(Carl Keller) #2

It’s way to early to say you are fat adapted. My guess is the 700 kcal of food you ate had a fair portion of fat and this has you still satiated. I wouldn’t suggest you eat if you are not hungry, unless you feel weak or sluggish.

Congrats on 5 days. :slight_smile:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #3

You just don’t eat.
Don’t eat if you are not hungry.
Fat adaption takes upwards of 8 weeks, sometimes longer.

(John) #4

When I am not hungry I don’t eat.

(Robert C) #5

I would say that while you are trying to become fat adapted that you should either eat or do not eat.

Eat means get 2,000+ keto type calories per day to raise metabolism and turn yourself into a fat burning machine.

Do not eat means OMAD or ADF or 48 hour fasts - very long periods of very low insulin - these will raise ketone levels and bring about fat adaptation faster.

What you want to avoid is consistently getting only about 700 to 1,300 total calories per day as that will be seen as calorie restriction and slow your metabolism.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #6

I am at seven months keto, and not fat-adapted, It can take months. I still eat three meals a day.

#7

Dom D’Agostino - keto researcher extraordinaire - said it took him 6 months so for us mere mortals I imagine it can take a while :slightly_smiling_face:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #8

I am small, I have been doing 1000 calories my entire life

(Robert C) #9

Hi @Regina,

My recommendation was aimed at the OP who is 5’11".

(Bunny) #10

Interesting why it takes 6 months or 27 weeks for a ketogenic metabolism to function optimally, prolly because the metabolism just gives up on the glucose/carbohydrate dominant pathology! All bio-markers go out of whack then return to normal as illustrated in this uric acid graph (after looks better than before) by Phinney and Volek:

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#11

Glad I stumbled on this thread. I am two weeks in and I have zero desire to eat. Wasn’t sure if it was typical or not.