Going from keto to counting, wondering

monicapiazza
monicapiazza Posts: 92 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone have any experience of going from a keto diet to a more wide variety diet with the calorie counting? Did you experience a plateau or weight gain?

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  • MichelleSilverleaf
    MichelleSilverleaf Posts: 2,027 Member
    From what I understand you can experience a small weight gain when coming off keto, but that is often water weight.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    monicapiazza wrote: »
    Does anyone have any experience of going from a keto diet to a more wide variety diet with the calorie counting? Did you experience a plateau or weight gain?

    Calories being equal, you will probably gain few lbs as you will begin to store higher amounts of water/glycogen. If you want, slowly increase carbs to mitigate the water increases. Or say screw it and just understand that some of those big loses will also be big gains.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    It should just be some water weight. Just water.

    Unless you find it controlled your appetite, or you just lost easier on keto. I gain whenever I try moving away from keto. I'm just hungrier and my energy is up and down. I tend to gain weight when I stop keto. But this will not apply to everyone.
  • hoops1888
    hoops1888 Posts: 95 Member
    Yes, you would normally gain but it’s not fat, it’s just water as you will store more of it when you introduce carbs into your diet. Moving from a keto diet was the best thing I ever did! :)

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