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Keto

spyka
spyka Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have recently started Keto. I had great success the first 8 weeks and I'm down 15lbs. It seems I have stalled out and I am not losing anymore weight. Any suggestions to help me keep losing and to not lose motivation?

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  • KateTii
    KateTii Posts: 886 Member
    Are you counting calories? Keto shows great drops in the first couple of weeks as your glycogen/water stores empty but if you are eating too much of anything (keto or not), weightloss will stall.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    edited May 2017
    Ditto ^^^.

    I do keto as well and accurately counting your calories with a scale is just as important as with any other diet.

    Also weight fluctuations are normal. Unless you've been stalled for more than a few weeks, it's no cause for alarm.
  • spyka
    spyka Posts: 8 Member
    Yes I eat 1500 cal daily and around 20-25 grams of net carbs. I'm also pretty active. My weight has stalled for about a week. For a few days in a row I didn't meet my caloric intake and also worked out so maybe my body is holding on to some weight.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Weight loss isn't linear, it's perfectly normal to have a week here and there when you don't lose weight, even if you're doing everything perfect.
  • ladipoet
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    Hello and welcome OP. I suggest you check out the following main low carber daily forum group here in MFP. It's where most of us Ketophiles tend to hang out:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/discussions/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group
  • spyka
    spyka Posts: 8 Member
    Awesome! Thanks!
  • dmh0tcc
    dmh0tcc Posts: 4 Member
    Your body will hold some every once and a while. See my 1 month chart looks like a 401k chart. diop4svx2zrx.png
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    spyka wrote: »
    Yes I eat 1500 cal daily and around 20-25 grams of net carbs. I'm also pretty active. My weight has stalled for about a week. For a few days in a row I didn't meet my caloric intake and also worked out so maybe my body is holding on to some weight.

    That's about what I was eating while losing. Some weeks I lost 1-4 pounds, other weeks I maintained and on others I gained. One week is just a blip. For some reason the body holds onto weight sometimes. Give it a bit of time to get going again. I bet it will.

    Do check out the group linked above. Really helpful people there.
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