That's a good number, and I can tell you from personal experience, I start to go a bit crazy watching others have great losses all the time, because mine is a much slower pace! I'm even slower than you are right now, so...

I figure that as long as I feel good, I'll just keep on with it, and they weight has to catch up eventually...

Besides, @klkateri if you're metabolically challenged like I am, your body could be repairing things before gearing up for more movement in the weight.

Oh, and adding in even walking will slow your numbers up for 2-4 weeks while your body adjusts to the new usage / added water retention for muscle repair, etc.

Hang in there!

I had been losing/gaining the same 2 pounds for about six weeks and then came a big whoosh. Sometimes it happens like that.

As mentioned above, a pound a week is healthy and sustainable.

As women, we lose slower than men so don't compare yourself to stories about men losing so much weight in such little time. My boyfriend has been doing keto for two months but he has been very loose with it and he lost 20 pounds. It took me four months to lose 20 pounds and I was way more careful and disciplined than him.

klkateri wrote: »

So you don't think that I'm coming in high in my calories is the culprit? I've actually been worried that may be the case. I know that i will have to add in CICO but it seems that once my appetite goes down a bit I should be ok.

your calories aren't enough to make a major impact overall, in my opinion...as long as they are good fats and such, depending on your weight. Also, the activity will slow losses for a while, too. Give that a full 4 weeks with activity and use measurements and pictures to see differences there. The calories are likely due to increased activity...

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

Here's the referenced calculator.

If the keto calculator gave you those macros then you should be OK.

Don't get discouraged if the weight loss is slow. If you are being diligent, the weight loss will come.

As @KnitOrMiss mentioned above, increased activity will bring on water retention. Don't get discouraged if you increase your activity and the weight on the scale goes up.

You got this!

One thing that has worked for me in previous rounds of keto was to up my calories to only a 5% deficit for one or two days and then cut down to 10-20% deficit. 2000 calories would still probably be a deficit for you based on your weight and you 10k steps.

Remember slow weight loss equals slow muscle loss

I feel your pain. {{{ group hug }}}
I work out 6 days a week (new for me), gave up all the sweets I used to consume daily, and have stuck to low carb for weeks now. You'd think I'd fit into my previous weight shorts. Of course not!!! grrrrrrr. Sad face. =(
All I can do is keep on keepin' on and read everyone's NSV's/success stories while waiting for this weight loss goodness to happen to me too. You're not alone! But I figure it would hurt more for me to give up and go back to my old ways. This HAS to work one of these days
Stick with me on this

I'm a month in and have basically not lost any weight either. I'm 49, 6 foot 1, and approx 213 lbs. I usually get in at least 10,000 steps a day and do some very light weight training as well. I think part of it for me might be that I am trying not to lose muscle mass so I am not going with a very big deficit. But I had hoped by now to at least notice some loosening of my waist band. I used the keto-calculator.ankerl and it said my base metabolic rate is 1915 Kcal. So for 1lb a week weight loss it has me at 1887 Kcal (25g carb 5%, 158g protein 33%, 128g fat 62%). I go over that amount at times but with exercise I am still below what it says I can eat. I'm trying to keep positive and trust the process but it can be very frustrating when I have not felt any decrease in weight or most especially waist size. I've been exercising for more than a month (just started logging some of it on MFP recently but always keep a written log) so I don't think that is it. Reading the success stories on here help keep me motivated and keep me from losing faith but also make me feel frustrated at times. Waiting and hoping for that "whoosh" and the increased energy I hear everyone talk about. Not sure what else to do other than decrease calories even more and then worry about muscle loss.

ruffneck813 wrote: »

I'm a month in and have basically not lost any weight either. I'm 49, 6 foot 1, and approx 213 lbs. I usually get in at least 10,000 steps a day and do some very light weight training as well. I think part of it for me might be that I am trying not to lose muscle mass so I am not going with a very big deficit. But I had hoped by now to at least notice some loosening of my waist band. I used the keto-calculator.ankerl and it said my base metabolic rate is 1915 Kcal. So for 1lb a week weight loss it has me at 1887 Kcal (25g carb 5%, 158g protein 33%, 128g fat 62%). I go over that amount at times but with exercise I am still below what it says I can eat. I'm trying to keep positive and trust the process but it can be very frustrating when I have not felt any decrease in weight or most especially waist size. I've been exercising for more than a month (just started logging some of it on MFP recently but always keep a written log) so I don't think that is it. Reading the success stories on here help keep me motivated and keep me from losing faith but also make me feel frustrated at times. Waiting and hoping for that "whoosh" and the increased energy I hear everyone talk about. Not sure what else to do other than decrease calories even more and then worry about muscle loss.

If you keep the protein macro consistent, then you shouldn't have to worry about muscle loss. Especially if you are doing some weight training as well.

i dropped 14 lbs rather quickly, but today, got on the scale and had gained +1 lb. so, it's different for everyone. as long as the scale overall is moving downward, i think we're good. too stressful to me to worry about how slowly, or compare to someone else, or even worry about this one little pound.