Okay, so I have been doing Keto for about 3 weeks now. Before, I was eating just clean food with small cheats on the weekends. My work week was strict with low fat, low carbs (only ate sweet potatoes and oats on heavy lifting days and carbs were still under 100 on those days). With the low carb (around 30 grams total) I was having trouble with energy to keep up at the gym so I started looking into other options. I have done extremely low carb before (under 20 total) for about 8 months straight and did lose weight but I also ended up really sick. When I did that, not only were my carbs really low, my calories were really low too which is probably why I ended up so ill and weak.

So, this time I did some research and I came across Keto. I tried about 25 different macro calculators to come up with my macros. Each calculator was so different that I just went with the average. That gave me 1400 calories. I go to the gym 4 times a week. I do Body Pump 2 days (low weights, high reps) and I do heaving weight training the other two days (high weight, low reps). I am eating higher fat than I ever had and it is helping me greatly with energy at the gym! I no longer find myself dragging with the low carbs at the gym anymore and in fact, it doesn't even feel like I am doing low carb (so I am probably doing it wrong, lol!) but I am soooooo hungry! My fat intake and calories are already higher than what they should be and I don't want to be eating too much and start gaining weight instead of losing it.

Most comments that I usually see from people doing Keto is that they are barely hungry and struggle to even get in all of their calories so I feel like maybe I am not doing this right. I have searched so many websites regarding Keto and each site states something different. I am looking for those who had 40+ pounds of extra fat that used Keto as an option to lose that weight for help