When am I going to lose all this water weight?

[Texgirl]

OK… I was thinking as long as it fits with my 20 carbs per day it was ok… I only ate one.

What about homeade pumpkin bread with coconut flour, swerve etc… its a keto recipe and only 3 carbs per slice?

Thanks! KIM

[Texgirl]

Keeping your carbohydrate intake under 20 g/day is by far the most important thing. Nothing good can happen if your insulin is too high. All the rest is about how to eat to keep insulin low. You need protein, you need fat, but protein can spike insulin under the wrong circumstances (though less likely to do so if carbs are low), so fat is the safest thing for getting enough calories.

You want enough calories. If you don’t get enough, your body reacts by slowing things down to compensate. So counter-intuitive as it sounds, eating more will help you lose weight (up to a point, of course!). And likewise, eat fat to help your cholesterol. Saturated fat will help raise your HDL; monounsaturated fat will give you energy (therefore, think butter, tallow, lard, and bacon grease for cooking). Eat fat to satiety; in other words eat while you’re hungry, don’t when you’re not. If you’re getting enough food at meals, it should be easy to go for hours without getting hungry before the next meal. Eating to satiety means not having to cut calories.

Lastly, women’s hormones affect their weight-loss pattern. The stories you hear about people losing a lot of weight right away are usually about highly overweight men. Also, women often restrict calories too much, so when they go keto their body may want to put on muscle mass. It’s denser than fat, so you can lose inches without necessarily losing weight. Go more by your clothing size than by your scale weight, and if your scale drives you crazy, give it to someone you don’t like, lol!

All great info and thoughts… I will keep at it and try and see how this week goes… its so hard to kbow if I am eating enough calories or too many!! I am measuring also to help me see progress. I just knew the scale would go down because I felt skinnier this morning but it didn’t… exactly same as yesterday… but thats ok… I feel good.

[Shortstuff]

That would be a better choice

[PaulL]

its so hard to kbow if I am eating enough calories or too many!!

Let your body tell you.

I ate an awful lot at first, because it really did take a lot to stop me from being hungry. Also, I was still judging portion size by my old sugar-burning standards—and perhaps my body needed that much, as well.

But one day, in the middle of a meal . . . I had enough. For a boy who was used to stuffing his stomach to the literal bursting point and still being hungry, it was a startling experience. I mean, I still had food on my plate! It was my first experience of what real satiety felt like, and over the past twelve months, the signal has only gotten stronger.

Mind you, I still have to deal with sugar/carb cravings, but that’s not real hunger. Now that I know what the difference is, it’s easier to ignore the cravings (usually).

[Texgirl]

Let your body tell you.

I ate an awful lot at first, because it really did take a lot to stop me from being hungry. Also, I was still judging portion size by my old sugar-burning standards—and perhaps my body needed that much, as well.

But one day, in the middle of a meal . . . I had enough. For a boy who was used to stuffing his stomach to the literal bursting point and still being hungry, it was a startling experience. I mean, I still had food on my plate! It was my first experience of what real satiety felt like, and over the past twelve months, the signal has only gotten stronger.

Mind you, I still have to deal with sugar/carb cravings, but that’s not real hunger. Now that I know what the difference is, it’s easier to ignore the cravings (usually).

Got it… thats pretty much what I have been doing… eat when hungry! Most days I just have coffee with 2 tbls heavy cream and don’t eat anything until 12 or 1… my pattern has been eat then, snack on cheese and meat then dinner… maybe a snack after maybe not…

pounds finally moving… so fingers crossed keeps going! Thanks so much!

[LeCheffre]

I am on day 10.

It doesn’t happen that fast unless you have a lot of it to lose. You don’t give your height, but very few folks who start at 160 drop 10 lbs in a week. Maybe 5-6 this month. Maybe.

[Texgirl]

It doesn’t happen that fast unless you have a lot of it to lose. You don’t give your height, but very few folks who start at 160 drop 10 lbs in a week. Maybe 5-6 this month. Maybe.

OK… gotcha… I am only 5’3" Thank you…