Through time, my appetite has diminished and I actually forget to eat. How long have you been KETO?

SarasKeto4Life wrote: »

Through time, my appetite has diminished and I actually forget to eat. How long have you been KETO?

I think Sara's right. When I first started, I thought I wad going to starve myself. However, over about 2 months time, I realized that I would accidentally skip meals. This is counterintuitive coming from a guy that loved his carbs. I would be hungry every 2 hrs, starving after 3, and getting the shakes after 4. On carbs, I never forgot to eat. With keto, I only eat when I'm actually hungry - and sometimes that means intentionally skipping meals. I keep my caloric intake around 1450 a day.

tribal351 wrote: »

I've been checking out the food diaries of my friends, and I have one question... How do people survive? I'm eating eggs, cheese and sausage every day (a very honest 1400-1500 cals per day with about 10 net carbs) and most diaries that I've read have skipped meals and snacks that cause smaller meals.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing them. I'm just wondering how they eat so little and don't go nuts. I don't have the intestinal fortitude to diet like that.
After reading a few dairies I start thinking that I'm doing something wrong, lol.
Who thinks they have the craziest and least 'normal' food habits?

I think a lot of time ppl forget to log everything. I'm usually pretty faithful or else don't log at all, but when I'm cheating I won't log cheat meals. I eat about 1200-1400 cals a day (I make my goal 2000 so I don't calorie obsess), but I don't really care about them. My real goal is 20-40 carbs. I usually hit around 25 or 30.

I only eat when hungry. So there are days that I only eat one meal. I don't obsess about calories. Do what works for you.

krazyforyou wrote: »

I only eat when hungry. So there are days that I only eat one meal. I don't obsess about calories. Do what works for you.

I agree. I think I have NES (night eating syndrome, Marks Daily Apple has a good article on it). If I skip a meal, I will cheat. It might also have to do with my blood sugar tho, but the important thing is to find what works for you.

I log everything even when I break weak and cheat. It's a psychological thing for me. If I'm logging, I'm less likely to cheat. That's also why my food diary is private, if others are looking, I might lie about what I've eaten just to look good. Yeah ... I've got issues.

I try to eat only when hungry, but it's tough because of meal times for family, or scheduled time for lunch at work. My main focus is staying within my macros and I don't pay that much attention to calories. My meals however are nothing special, and I have a few preferred meals I rotate - it's easier to stay on track.

This is just for ME - I have to log everything or if I begin "forgetting" I will soon begin lying to myself & from past diets I know it is the beginning of the end for ME (other ppl are different) so sometimes I panic when I see my carbs are so much higher than everyone but I take a breath remember 1. I am losing 2. It is going to be a long haul I know that 3. If I lose moderately every week hopefully I won't have so much loose skin a year from now. I am not one of those "It is just food & sometimes you just eat" ppl and know I never will be - it has to be a taste experience each and every meal - I know my shortcomings. We all just have to do what works for us.

I set my target at 1500, but track my daily steps at work and end up eating those calories back too.
Some days I skip breakfast. Need lunch at work just to break up the day. Then supper when I get home.
Not losing much but at least I am not still gaining.
Afraid I will have to drop to 1000 per day and completely give up alcohol to lose the 50 I would like to get rid of.

tribal351 wrote: »

Ah, the fake food bit may be the reason why a couple looked strange. I'm thinking, "hey, I'll take a look at some friends diaries to get some good ideas on diet plans!". Breakfast- rutabagas, chocolate, 1/2 banana, ground cumin, 1/4 cup chitterlings. Nope. No good menu ideas here... Didn't guess that they were throwing food in there just to stop the nagging. Makes sense now, lol.

When I was losing I ate 1500 a day. Now that I'm maintaining I'm eating 1820. It's hard for me to come up with things to eat! Lol, but I kind of HAVE to hit maintenance right now so. Food...lots of food....

Some people don't track all their meals. For example I'll cook a meal that I will have for the next several days for lunch. In the morning I'll have BPC either by itself or with bacon and eggs or with greek yogurt and berries. Then dinner will either be another dinner I have prepped or I will determine when I get home based on the macros and calories I have left. So my diet is very copy/paste with a little variation deepening on what I do for breakfast. So occasionally I won't track a meal if I know it's the exact same as the day before.

Just an FYI: Your log-in streak still goes on, even if you don't submit/complete your diary.

So if MFP doesn't let you complete it because it's under calories, it's OK. It still counts.

I had 1,400 calorie goal for awhile, but was always hungry - even when eating less than 20-30g of carbs. I struggled to get 100g of protein most days, but had lots of fat. I was still pretty hungry most days. So I abandoned that and figured I would try to stick with carb goals and ignore calorie goals. That lasted less than a week before I started gaining so fast. It might not have been fat, and a week isn't long enough to certify a gain, but the increase was averaging more than 1 lb. per day, so I couldn't let that continue.

I knew 1,400 was too low to be satisfied, but it is very difficult to lose and much more than that with my current activity level. I won't have time to increase my activity for a few weeks anyway, but I decided to raise my goal to about 1,600 for now.

I log everything (except I don't always log diet sodas - 0 calories, but had intended once to log it for sodium data), including supplements (because they have a few calories). My typical week-day looks like this:
breakfast: Coffee w/ protein powder, MCT oil, margarine, HWC, fiber.
lunch: varies - either a salad with some meat in it, or bun-less burgers or brats or hot dogs
dinner: varies even more, but usually meat and/or veggies. This week, I'm going through a pack of pork steaks which will last most of the week. By de-thawing a package of 5 steaks, that works well for me. They get cooked on my counter-top (George Foreman) grill.
supplements: I take tons of vitamins and supplements, so there are calories mostly in the fish oil.

Yesterday, I had my typical breakfast, 2 brats with mustard for lunch, naked pork steak for dinner, and supplements. I was a over on calories by a bit more than 100 (the pork steak was almost a lb. of meat) even after exercise, but that could have been avoided by eating 1 fewer brat for lunch or cutting the pork steak to a smaller piece (or exercising more), or skipping the MCT oil in coffee.

cstehansen wrote: »

I still feel like I have to log because there are many "hidden" carbs that if I don't log, I know I will go way over. My diary would probably scare you in the other way though because being over 3000 is pretty normal. When using Fitbit before moving to MFP a couple months ago, I think I even broke 5000 a couple times. I am very active and need to average 3000+ to maintain weight which is why it takes a concerted effort to keep my carbs below 25. When I look at sausage that may have 2g carb per serving, but I am going to eat 4-6 servings at a meal, that adds up quickly.

Logging has definitely helped me identify which brands of certain foods are better than others in terms of these "hidden" carbs. It has also helped me get a better hold on just how many nuts I should eat in a day as those are foods that are very easy for me to overeat.

Yes, "hidden carbs" has started to become a challenge for me and I'm usually (except for that week) nowhere near your calorie level. It is especially easy with peanuts and peanut butter because it adds up sooo fast. Sat. morning, for example, I woke up with low BG, went crazy, and ate glucose tablets (which I needed), and then immediately went through a good portion of a jar of PB. Weighing before and after showed I had nearly 50g of carbs... all before even getting dressed for the day.

I have days where I'm hungry and those days I eat a lot and others when I'm not very hungry at all so it would look like I barely ate. I just follow my hunger cues.

I'm sure my diary probably looks pretty low to some because I'm only 4'11 and don't need as many calories as others do. Also I have zero appetite most mornings so I just drink coffee with cream for breakfast on weekdays. I'm definitely someone who likes to eat more at night so I eat light during the day and have a big dinner.

Some people have huge meals one day and fast until dinner the next day. It works out to be the same calories but they have them all in one big meal rather than spread out over the day. I'm sure it took time to work up to that but yeah I've seen that a few times. Personally I've gotten used to skipping breakfast (other than a coffee) and eating my food during lunch/supper and maybe a snack at bedtime.