Ketosis but no results
megdnoorman
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My friend just started the ketogenic diet about 3 weeks ago. Her ketostix say she is in ketosis, she is keeping her carbs around 25 per day, and she has been keeping her Cals around 1600. I don’t know her exact weight, but I would guess upwards of 170. She is 5’4. Any idea why she isn’t having success? I am going to recommend a food scale, and consistent tracking etc, but is there anything else you guys can think of?
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Hey it was day 45 before I lost my first pound after starting the Keto WOE. Ketostix testing tends to become NEG when on starts burning ketones for fuel but that change over does take varying lengths of time. After 4 years of full time Keto WOE my blood lab results two months ago came back NEG for ketones in my blood work so I am not losing ketones into my urine.
The first 90 days on keto can get weird as we morph from burning mainly glucose to mainly burning ketones. For some it just happens and for others of us not so much. I expect being 63 with failing health 4 years ago was a factor in my case getting weird early on.
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I haven't "tasted" keto for about two weeks but today its back. Now lets see if I can start losing again. I never thought about correlating the two.2
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I think your advice, along with patience, is the best bet.
As we all know, weight loss has to do with the amount of calories consumed and used, and not with whether you are in ketosis (unless ketones fix a health problem that causes slowed metabolism or ketones reduce your appetite so you eat less). Ketosis is more for health than to move the scale - that's calories.
Perhaps suggest pictures and a tape measure. Sometimes those tell a better and more honest story than the scale does.3 -
Could be overeating or having too much fat but if she hasn’t even lost a few pounds of water weight yet I’d wonder about sneaky carbs or sugar alcohols too.2
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My husband has been struggling too, after 9 weeks, he's lost about 9 pounds. He was only eating about 15g/carbs a day and tracking macros with high ketones (I eat up to 50/g day with low ketones and have lost 34).
The issue is that I'm pretty sure he was pre-diabetic. Healing insulin resistance is probably what's going on first (or any other hormonal issues).
The good news? He can wear shirts that he couldn't button a few weeks ago. His face is slimmer. He doesn't need to nap constantly. There are a lot of non-scale things happening even when the numbers don't move.
I did get him to loosen up on the carbs a little one weekend (he ate a cup of chili and a bite of a kid's ice cream) and he lost 1lb a day for the week. Sometimes it works, sometimes it backfires.3 -
My husband has been struggling too, after 9 weeks, he's lost about 9 pounds. He was only eating about 15g/carbs a day and tracking macros with high ketones (I eat up to 50/g day with low ketones and have lost 34).
The issue is that I'm pretty sure he was pre-diabetic. Healing insulin resistance is probably what's going on first (or any other hormonal issues).
The good news? He can wear shirts that he couldn't button a few weeks ago. His face is slimmer. He doesn't need to nap constantly. There are a lot of non-scale things happening even when the numbers don't move.
I did get him to loosen up on the carbs a little one weekend (he ate a cup of chili and a bite of a kid's ice cream) and he lost 1lb a day for the week. Sometimes it works, sometimes it backfires.
yes yes you are right , there is a Dr. Fung who talks about this in his books and on his videos , look him up on youtube , his book is The Obesity Code .
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