2 weeks on keto and I feel like I'm stuck.
venus92
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Hey all so I'm post baby 2 months ago and I've decided to go Keto being that I have PCOS as well (carbs are not my friends). Well me and my husband are 2 weeks in and he's lost a total of 6 lbs and me 1 lb. I'm charting everything I dat staying under 30g of carbs a day until I get adjusted to 20g. Completely cut bread rice and pasta out, following keto recipes but I feel like I'm stuck. I feel like I'm not losing anything or doing it right because I stay hungry through out the day like literally stomach growling and it's so hard but I hold my temptations. I definitely do not want to give up I feel like I can learn to improve. Would love to get feedback and helpful tips
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2 weeks is not a very long time. How much do you have to lose?
Importantly, how many calories are you eating?4 -
Calories count when trying to lose weight. Even on ketogenic diets. BTDT, bounced up and down the same 10-15 lbs for three years while eating well under 50 grams of carb a day. Because I was eating thousands upon thousands of calories, sometimes daily, over what I was expending frequently enough to not lose any meaningful weight.
Measure and weigh all foods to be eaten, verify nutrition data against websites, labels, and USDA database vs. trusting the existing database of any tracking site to be accurate, log and track to see where you are at.4 -
Are you breast feeding? Because that is changing your hormones it could be a major factor in your metabolism. Your body does not want you to lose weight, because it wants you to be able to sustain your baby.0
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Hey all so I'm post baby 2 months ago and I've decided to go Keto being that I have PCOS as well (carbs are not my friends). Well me and my husband are 2 weeks in and he's lost a total of 6 lbs and me 1 lb. I'm charting everything I dat staying under 30g of carbs a day until I get adjusted to 20g. Completely cut bread rice and pasta out, following keto recipes but I feel like I'm stuck. I feel like I'm not losing anything or doing it right because I stay hungry through out the day like literally stomach growling and it's so hard but I hold my temptations. I definitely do not want to give up I feel like I can learn to improve. Would love to get feedback and helpful tips
you mention nothing about the number of calories you are eating in a day - that is all that matters for weight loss.3 -
Calories do count, and I'm surprised to hear the first 2 weeks you only dropped 1lb since eating that few carbs will deplete your glycogen and water to the tune of 5-7lbs in most people, sometimes more the more weight they have to lose. If your carbs are that low and you didn't drop water, I would be scratching my head too. That being said, you'd have had to be in a helluva surplus to negate a glycogen drop and break relatively even so I'm even more confused!
ETA: My 2000th post
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I'm 3 months post partum and losing weight is a challenge. Your body is still healing from growing and delivering a baby. Why are you trying to be on a diet so soon after having the baby? I'm not dieting... but I am being selective with what I eat and not eating things I don't need at the moment. Excess sugary treats and what not that I might have loved while I was pregnant. I'm also walking 12-15k steps a day and the weight is slowly coming off. Give yourself more time.0
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I'm 3 months post partum and losing weight is a challenge. Your body is still healing from growing and delivering a baby. Why are you trying to be on a diet so soon after having the baby? I'm not dieting... but I am being selective with what I eat and not eating things I don't need at the moment. Excess sugary treats and what not that I might have loved while I was pregnant. I'm also walking 12-15k steps a day and the weight is slowly coming off. Give yourself more time.
If you're losing weight, you are in a deficit. Whether you are tracking and calling that being on a diet is up to you but you are deficiting; which to me is the same thing.
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If you're not breast feeding, have you considered a product like InstaKetos or other keto supplement? I've been on Keto for about two weeks and drink InstaKetos every morning. Really helps with hunger pangs and helps you get/stay in ketosis at a bit higher carb count. I'm averaging 30-50 carbs a day and have lost more than 10 pounds.7
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here we go5
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lemurcat12 wrote: »2 weeks is not a very long time. How much do you have to lose?
Importantly, how many calories are you eating?
17 lbs to go I am tracking on here and I eat about 1300 calories a day it says. Sometimes I eat under because since I'm new to keto idk what to make or eat0 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »here we go
Here we go?0 -
skymningen wrote: »Are you breast feeding? Because that is changing your hormones it could be a major factor in your metabolism. Your body does not want you to lose weight, because it wants you to be able to sustain your baby.
I'm not breastfeeding at all0 -
I'm 3 months post partum and losing weight is a challenge. Your body is still healing from growing and delivering a baby. Why are you trying to be on a diet so soon after having the baby? I'm not dieting... but I am being selective with what I eat and not eating things I don't need at the moment. Excess sugary treats and what not that I might have loved while I was pregnant. I'm also walking 12-15k steps a day and the weight is slowly coming off. Give yourself more time.
Because I'm having surgery and I need my bum to be at a certain number. I've already lost my baby weight and I'm almost to my ore pregnancy weight so all this is my normal weight that has to go0 -
lienmiller wrote: »If you're not breast feeding, have you considered a product like InstaKetos or other keto supplement? I've been on Keto for about two weeks and drink InstaKetos every morning. Really helps with hunger pangs and helps you get/stay in ketosis at a bit higher carb count. I'm averaging 30-50 carbs a day and have lost more than 10 pounds.
I'll look into that. Thanks1 -
Hey all so I'm post baby 2 months ago and I've decided to go Keto being that I have PCOS as well (carbs are not my friends). Well me and my husband are 2 weeks in and he's lost a total of 6 lbs and me 1 lb. I'm charting everything I dat staying under 30g of carbs a day until I get adjusted to 20g. Completely cut bread rice and pasta out, following keto recipes but I feel like I'm stuck. I feel like I'm not losing anything or doing it right because I stay hungry through out the day like literally stomach growling and it's so hard but I hold my temptations. I definitely do not want to give up I feel like I can learn to improve. Would love to get feedback and helpful tips
1. Are you in ketosis(use strips/smell test)
2. the first couple weeks are just water weight from your body adapting/adjusting
3. If you're not reaching satiety, adjust your fat up a bit.0 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »Calories do count, and I'm surprised to hear the first 2 weeks you only dropped 1lb since eating that few carbs will deplete your glycogen and water to the tune of 5-7lbs in most people, sometimes more the more weight they have to lose. If your carbs are that low and you didn't drop water, I would be scratching my head too. That being said, you'd have had to be in a helluva surplus to negate a glycogen drop and break relatively even so I'm even more confused!
ETA: My 2000th post lol
She may not be all the way into ketosis and may not be depleting glycogen as fast as desired... I know that the immediate water weight loss is an attractive side effect of the Keto/LCHF diets.0 -
stanmann571 wrote: »Hey all so I'm post baby 2 months ago and I've decided to go Keto being that I have PCOS as well (carbs are not my friends). Well me and my husband are 2 weeks in and he's lost a total of 6 lbs and me 1 lb. I'm charting everything I dat staying under 30g of carbs a day until I get adjusted to 20g. Completely cut bread rice and pasta out, following keto recipes but I feel like I'm stuck. I feel like I'm not losing anything or doing it right because I stay hungry through out the day like literally stomach growling and it's so hard but I hold my temptations. I definitely do not want to give up I feel like I can learn to improve. Would love to get feedback and helpful tips
1. Are you in ketosis(use strips/smell test)
2. the first couple weeks are just water weight from your body adapting/adjusting
3. If you're not reaching satiety, adjust your fat up a bit.
Ok I'll try that. Like right now I ate lunch grilled chicken with lettuce wrap and I am starving.0 -
stanmann571 wrote: »Hey all so I'm post baby 2 months ago and I've decided to go Keto being that I have PCOS as well (carbs are not my friends). Well me and my husband are 2 weeks in and he's lost a total of 6 lbs and me 1 lb. I'm charting everything I dat staying under 30g of carbs a day until I get adjusted to 20g. Completely cut bread rice and pasta out, following keto recipes but I feel like I'm stuck. I feel like I'm not losing anything or doing it right because I stay hungry through out the day like literally stomach growling and it's so hard but I hold my temptations. I definitely do not want to give up I feel like I can learn to improve. Would love to get feedback and helpful tips
1. Are you in ketosis(use strips/smell test)
2. the first couple weeks are just water weight from your body adapting/adjusting
3. If you're not reaching satiety, adjust your fat up a bit.
Ok I'll try that. Like right now I ate lunch grilled chicken with lettuce wrap and I am starving.
ALSO, like others have said, if you're not in an overall deficit you're not going to lose "real weight" aka fat loss.
Keto is just one tool in a toolbox to help achieve satiety(fullness) in conjunction with a caloric deficit.0 -
stanmann571 wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »Calories do count, and I'm surprised to hear the first 2 weeks you only dropped 1lb since eating that few carbs will deplete your glycogen and water to the tune of 5-7lbs in most people, sometimes more the more weight they have to lose. If your carbs are that low and you didn't drop water, I would be scratching my head too. That being said, you'd have had to be in a helluva surplus to negate a glycogen drop and break relatively even so I'm even more confused!
ETA: My 2000th post lol
She may not be all the way into ketosis and may not be depleting glycogen as fast as desired... I know that the immediate water weight loss is an attractive side effect of the Keto/LCHF diets.
At 20-30g of carbs/day she'd definitely be depleted by 2 weeks time.1 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »Calories do count, and I'm surprised to hear the first 2 weeks you only dropped 1lb since eating that few carbs will deplete your glycogen and water to the tune of 5-7lbs in most people, sometimes more the more weight they have to lose. If your carbs are that low and you didn't drop water, I would be scratching my head too. That being said, you'd have had to be in a helluva surplus to negate a glycogen drop and break relatively even so I'm even more confused!
ETA: My 2000th post lol
She may not be all the way into ketosis and may not be depleting glycogen as fast as desired... I know that the immediate water weight loss is an attractive side effect of the Keto/LCHF diets.
At 20-30g of carbs/day she'd definitely be depleted by 2 weeks time.
30g estimated.
This is MFP, we all know how good most people are at estimating.
And there's lots of places to slip up.
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mrsnattybulking wrote: »here we go
Here we go?
I think it's because someone mentioned exogenous ketones. A ketone supplement...you want your own body to make ketones. But ketones don't guarantee weight loss. Those things are probably good for athletes or epilepsy patients to increase ketones, but not for the rank and file person just trying to lose weight. Save your money for something else.
I lost all my weight doing keto.
Keto is an eating plan.
Notice the last 3 rectangles on the flow chart. To the far right.
Even while eating keto, you need to have a calorie deficit.
2 weeks isn't long enough to worry over. I've stalled for 3 months. Why? Because I was lying to myself about how much I was eating and wasn't counting as accurately. Keep a calorie deficit over time. Take measurements to see if you are losing inches when the scale is slow. Water retention is a PITA all the time. Your body retains water during your cycle, during the inflammation/repair process when you exercise, because aliens are orbiting the sun during solar flares. It's going to randomly temporarily slow your scale progress. Patience is required. That sucks, but that is the deal with all weight loss. However, consistency and persistence over time is what will get you there.
Measure everything, including yourself. Calories and carbs. Get enough protein for your height/weight/activity level.
Keep a calorie deficit.
Give it a few more weeks.
If you're still not losing weight, then cut your calories a little more.
Join the Low-Carb group to grouse and talk shop while you wait.
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Baconslave, this is marvellous. I'm doing low carb and am very happy with the results, but the chart explanation is great. (Also your post: aliens orbiting the sun during solar flares FTW!)
Like hobbits, I like having things I already sort-of know set out neatly in front of me with no contradictions.0 -
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Firstly the Keto diet is stupid, it's not realistic and nobody can maintain it. Our bodies only use carbs, fats and protein for energy so why deplete an energy source, especially after a baby. You will gain when you go off it. I hope your not nursing and dieting. You just had a baby and no doctor is going to recommend the keto diet or start dieting profoundly after having a baby. Stop. I had a baby too....9 months ago. I just started my diet and exercise after my body healed, after I was done nursing. You can still eat healthy, moderation and a balanced diet.....go for walks. You have hormones still surging and trying to regulate. ✋ stop, rest, heal. Speak with your doctor about your goals and a reasonable plan. Congrats on baby!!6
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Yeah, that sounds like high protein low carbs, but you want moderate protein low carbs and high fat. Add that fat and I bet you'll lose that starving feeling. Anyway, works for me - two meals a day, no snacks, and no cravings.Like right now I ate lunch grilled chicken with lettuce wrap and I am starving.
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So two months post partum you've lost all the baby weight (without nursing) and you're working on your regular weight and that's not fast?
Since you're doing it for medical reasons (if I understood your reference about surgery and bum above), why not ask for advice from the doctor who is ordering you to lose the weight so fast?
If you're not doing it for medical reasons... consider whether two months to lose the weight that it took you 9 months to put on really is slow progress....1
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