I would eat to your hunger. I am guessing that eventually you will get some hungrier days to balance out your low days. As long as your low days don't get too low, I wouldn't worry.

PPumpItUp wrote: »

If you are restricting your calories it is easy to lose muscle mass as well as fat mass. If you bump up your protein intake and lift weights you can reduce the catabolism of calorie restriction.

The article in this link talks about metabolic slowdown: https://authoritynutrition.com/starvation-mode/

Low carb is very muscle sparing. Though there could certainly be some muscle loss (it's not necessarily a given), it's less than on a low fat, high carb diet.

@Blu3Hea7en You have a lot of cup, spoon, slices entries in your diary.. Are you positive you're only eating such low calories?
Chances are high that if you're not using a food scale then you are eating more than you think.

maybe she's not from the US hence grams. In europe food in packaging and for cooking is measured in grams.

Blu3Hea7en wrote: »

My LCHF diet is a bit difficult to eat my recommended calories. From this keto diet buddy calculator I was supposed to eat 1338 calories with 20 grams of carbs and 103 grams of fat and like 75 grams protein. The problem is that I can't seem to eat past 1000-1200 calories(before exercise, usually if I execise MFP says i can eat 600+ more calories but I can barely eat what I'm suppose to without exercise). Should I force myself to eat up to 1338? I don't want to under eat and stall and not lose weight or gain weight.

I'm 5"7
Weight 251.4 lbs
Female
27
Not pregnant/breastfeeding
Exercise-30 to 45 minutes cardio 3-5x a week

@Blu3Hea7en it sounds like you are trying very hard and I think you will be just fine.

I was 63 when I started this way of eating to try and manage my joint and muscle pain. Actually I was just trying to get into eating a ton of coconut oil and for sure had never heard of LCHF.

The first 90 days turned out to be an uphill learning curve then it leveled out and now 18 months later eating 80% of my calories from fats is totally normal and doable as well as eating under 50 grams of carbs while keeping the protein in the 70-90 gram range daily.

Think of it as learning how to drive a car. You do not have to be an expert the day you get your learners permit or a month or two later. Six months later typically the art of driving starts to feel 'normal'.

Getting into nutritional ketosis, losing pounds, etc are NOT IMPORTANT for the first 90 days. Some lose weight after 3 days. In my case it was on day 43 before I lost my first pound but I did drop one pant size during that six weeks.

I was in the process of dying so I just stopped eating because I was hungry and started eating to live longer. Not for others to do but I went off sugars and all forms of grain to test if it would manage my pain without Rx Meds. It worked in 30 days. That was Nov 2014 so ever sense I have just been tweaking the way I move.

This Low Carb High Fat thing can be very different from person to person in fine details.

But for most all of us we MUST eat <50 grams of carbs from all carb sources. Most need to eat 70-80% of calories from fats. I eat out most of the time daily and one meal is often at McDonald's.

Eating in or out and eating LCHF is very doable but like driving a car the first few months is stressful then it starts to become easier.

Learn. Practice. Learn some more. Practice some more.

By the way calories DO count. In my case as long as I keep my carbs <50 grams daily and get 80% of my total calories from fat I can eat all I can hold and more or less maintain my weight. In my case if I eat a bunch of carbs they just call more and I eat all the time because I am hungry all of the time.

Dieting is not normal behavior among humans or animals in general. I grew up on a farm the our cows weighed more or less 1000 pounds. Never did one get to weighting 2000 or 3000 pounds even when they had more food than they could eat. In short they never had to have food restricted to help their weight to stay around a 1000 pounds.

i always use grams with my scale. i find it to be much more accurate. with my scale, i can get down to (example) 1.5 oz. but with grams, i can get to .18 grams (i know these are not equivalent, just an example)

cups vary. i found one of my measuring cups that was actually very close to 1 1/4 cups.
and especially tsp and TBSP.

Hi,

I found LCHF diet much more satisfying and satiating. You might have a few days you just don't feel that hungry...I would just go with it as long as you are eating healthy foods. One study I found on Atkins on why people lose weight...it was because proteins and fats don't stimulate insulin and people stay fuller longer on this type of diet and naturally lower their calorie intake without counting calories. I will look for the study.