Your Longest stall on low carb doing everything right.
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Adi4Fitness
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3 months! Never give up!!2
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12 years. (Does 'between diets' count?!)
If not, I think around 3 weeks.1 -
Around 1 month I believe.....0
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It took me 8 weeks to drop a pound, 10/13 to 12/06/16. That is my longest stall the others are more like 2 weeks but there were not many of those, I would drop some portion of a lb. weekly for the most part, some big whooshes, others .2 lbs.
If this is TMif just skip over it
But this is the most consistent weight loss I have ever had on any eating plan and I had done a lot of them. Plan your eating and eat the plan, really does apply with LFHC/KETO. I did Keto for the first few weeks, then slowly added back in carbs, a normal day for me is around 50 net grams now. I started MFP at 49 lbs more than my current weight which is a few lbs. under my original goal weight. I had started Zoning (40c/30f/30p) again when I joined 7/6/13 . I lost down to 155 in July 2014 and stalled out there and slowly regained 30 lbs. I was still logging and eating the Zone way. So 7/2/16 I was back up to 180 lbs. I started Atkins 20 net grams eating plan the last week in July. The weight came off. I also love this way of eating beacause I am not hangry all the time. I was used to a lower carb % than most, but that carb % was too much I needed to cut out potatoes, breads, and pasta to see really great results. Also I am not a gym rat, I attend one circuit weight training class a week, walk 10K daily, do some hiking when weather permits, and I do some yoga and dumbbell work about 2x a week. So my loss is from diet not burning a bunch of extra calories, because this is pretty much the same level of exercise I was doing when I put back on the 30 lbs. I had lost originally on MFP.1 -
Two years I have been in a 195-210 range doing 2000+ calories daily.2
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Stall? Of scale weight? I think coming up on 2 years with no new scale weight loss. But I've lost a full pant size.5
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When I was actively cutting I was rigid af with my logging, no shenanigans or keto baking nonsense, and ran distance. I never stalled, dropped from 213 to 130 in 7 months and then unintentionally lost more that I had to gain back because 5'10"
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About 8 months. But I had added in more carbs (and a bit more calories) and my thyroid was a bit off. I actually gained a few pounds even though I was maintaining at about the same amount of calories earlier.
So mine wasn't really a stall but more of an unexpected weight gain.2 -
I didn't stall. I lost pretty consistently- 63 pounds over 53 weeks. My body scale weighs only in full pounds which I consider a blessing. I weighed daily but recorded my Sunday weight-only if it was the week's lowest number and only if I'd I had seen the number on the scale at least once before. I lost my weight via low carb not keto. I ate a ton of salads and other vegetables. I didn't own a food scale. I got that when I decided to try keto in maintenance. I did everything via measuring cups and spoons or guessed. Ha! We have an old 1800s scale that we know to be accurate and a scale for a postage meter that I did use for meat occasionally.
I cardio-ed my butt off. Literally, I guess.
ETA: Just saw the tail end of the topic regarding " do everything right". Don't suppose I did that but it worked.1 -
about a month (8 months on other diets)0
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I'm terrified of a stall even though I understand healing/reconfiguring might be happening inside. I'm Keto for life regardless. But I really, really want to reach goal weight, still at least 30 lbs away. I've stalled in the past, and started regaining, on other weight loss journeys, & I'm still a bit traumatized from that.
So far, since I went Keto March 8th, it's been a nice downward trend but omg those spikes just fray my nerves. Sometimes I bounce around up & down for 2 weeks before finally dropping a pound & starting the bouncing all over again.
I'm just trying to KCKO. Reading other people's experiences helps.
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If it's any consolation, our dumb scales don't provide insights on how body composition has improved....
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10415166/scale-why-should-i-dump-thee-let-me-count-the-ways0 -
@RalfLott I definitely try to think about all the healing and swapping of white fat to brown and the taking up of excess skin, hopefully, that could be happening!
At the same time I'm always concerned I'm doing something slightly wrong & that if I knew about it I could tweak it & get better, more consistent results. It's the constant wondering if I'm doing it right that makes me crazy. Because even if I follow Keto protocol to the letter, as we know, we are all n=1 & I might need to do things a little different than someone else.
Anyway, keeping calm! Ketoing on! Will try some tweaks (total carbs at 20 or fewer instead of net, no dairy, mixing up IF window, trying a longer fast).2 -
I have been keto for a month and sticking pretty carefully to less than 20 carbs and mod protein ( usually under 100g) and exercising regularly. Weigh myself once a week and have been consistently losing 3 lbs per week. Just weighed myself and no loss- so I guess this is a stall? Not sure if this is common? Don't want to be discouraged !. I am not cheating at all. So must be physiological (?). Any advise? Thought?
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Fat - - > Gullet
Protein - - > Biceps
Carbs - - > Dumpster
Scale - - > Blowtorch
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Eating too many calories will stall any diet plan
Thinking we can eat low carb and too many calories is a myth.
You can gain weight on low carb!
I take time off weight loss for maintenance and stay low carb. When trying to add muscle weight I will gain weight on low carb.
Calories yo!! They still count!!5
