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kiwiapplepear
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Ok its my 13th day on Keto and my appetite has GONE, its so weird, I went to our home church where we have a pot luck and I didn't eat a thing, coffee and cream for dinner? not good... soo 700 calories for the day and I could go to bed... however that doesn't seem right... any other "diet" would be telling me that this is dangerously low calories, so assuming that I am now burning fat (I have ben very strict mainly around 20gms carbs a day) it's ok to have very low calorie days? Or should I strictly go for my gaol for basic body functioning needs?
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It is only one day and if your body is still functioning, it will balance out.
Really. If you are hungry, eat. If not, don't. 1 -
Thanks, I guess its a bonus...2
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I had a real dip in appetite when I first started this way of eating - I almost felt like I had felt hungry for so many years that my body was taking itself a break from feeling hungry at all!
It did level itself out though and now I have some hungry and some not so hungry days.
700 cake a day is unsustainable long term so your body will ask for more food when it needs to.
I'm really bad at listening to what my body wants and needs (so many years of ignoring it) but I do believe that it almost has a 'reset' and that is when your appetite dips (well, it did for me!)1 -
It won't last forever. Right now, you're body can access body fat more easily than ever before, so it's doing it. I'm assuming you have some to lose? It's food. Your body isn't starving because it's using the food from your onboard pantry. Once those sources get a little lower, the hunger will start to come back. And I don't mean once you get to get to 25% body fat either. It happens when you still have extra fat you would like to lose. Then, believe me, you will long for the days you had such easy hunger control.
As long as you also listen to hunger signals when they tell you to eat even if you've reached the limit of your calorie deficit, you can allow these extra low calorie days right now. You should not find that you're eating 700 calories every single day for weeks and weeks. There should be some days scattered in there of reaching your calorie goal and even going over it up to maintenance on occasion too. If you've eaten very low for several days and one day you find that you're feeling hungry and want to eat 2000 calories or whatever, then listen. As long as it's not just following a sugar craving or something...5
