Hi KR,

I looked at your diary and it looks good to me. You'll just have to see how it goes. The keto diet surprises many people. It has its ups and downs especially when you stall or then the next week you lose 3-4 lbs. No matter WHAT happens on your weight loss, it is a healthier diet than carb eating.

I have a hard time keeping my calories (and carbs) in line when I eat three meals a day. That's what I have been doing this week. I am purposely NOT weighing myself, because I fret over it too much. When I weigh in, and if I am not happy, I will go back to eating two meals a day and start my intermediate water fasting again.

Since I am a recovering carboholic, its hard for me to keep my carbs under 25g's a day. I don't think I have done it at all this last week. I can easily keep it under 50g, which I think, will be my "maintenance" diet, because I don't think I am losing (or gaining) anything, but then again I may be surprised.... LOL! We'll see....

Stay tuned,

I hope this helps,

Dan the Man from Michigan

radiii wrote: »

krichard08 wrote: »

So I am now on day 3 of Keto life.

I will second the advice to ignore calories for the first week or two. For many its a pretty drastic change to switch from getting your energy from carbs to getting it from fat and your body may respond by being REALLY HUNGRY a lot of the time. Just get yourself into ketosis, and get used to things, and I promise that will go away, or will at least subside to a lower level of general hunger than you are used to experiencing on a carb heavy diet. Most people on keto report being less hungry on less food most of the time, once you get adjusted. This is one of the biggest reasons so many find success on it, not having to fight willpower all the time, because you're simply just not all that hungry once you've eaten the proper amount of food. But 3 days in, you're not there yet

As for the calories themselves:

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/

Plug in your numbers there, put in 20g or 25g carbs, what does it suggest for your calorie total/macros?

This exactly.

OP, Count carbs and work on increasing fat and keeping protein around your goal exclusively for 2 weeks. Then worry about calories. No need to flood yourself all at once.
Your cravings WILL decrease soon and so will your hunger level. Be patient (I know that's hard.) Give yourself time to adjust to the new routine. It will become your new normal and get easier soon.

I second the recommendation on that calculator. It's the one I use. I've lost 76lb over nearly 8mo doing Keto. Former raging carboholic. I don't even want that stuff much any more and cravings are only occasional and are weak.

KCKO. Keep Calm and Keto On.

I used to be a carboholic and binge eat a lot. I started at 275 so I have been eating around 1895 calories a day for the past 39 days and just adjusted that down to 1837, but recently, like in the past week, I've noticed that I feel pretty fully satisfied usually with around 1500. I have lost 24 lbs so far. I don't know what weight you're starting at, but I just used a 20% deficit from maintenance calories and hit my macros just about every day and it's worked for me so far. I used http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/ to figure it out, and I have my macros set at 5c/20p/75f percentages.

I am having the same problem with calories as Imanes. I have a hard time getting even close to what I am supposed to be eating. I worked it up several times then find myself slipping back. Tonight I added the cream cheese but have not eaten it yet. I do not want it but felt needed the fat. I never dreamed it would be an effort to eat enough. LOL not eating enough calories might be why I am losing so slowly too. I think I shrunk my stomach eating the SAD way and half starving myself and still gaining weight because I was eating the wrong thing. Sigh