Help with weight loss!
fsibi30
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Hello,
My name is Fatima and I'm 33 years old, mother of 2. I started the keto diet about 3 months ago, after a visit from my doctor and my A1C level being high. I decided to cut out sugar, bread, rice, potato and so on. Whithin the first week I lost 6 pounds, but haven't been able to loose anything else. Any advice would be helpful.
My name is Fatima and I'm 33 years old, mother of 2. I started the keto diet about 3 months ago, after a visit from my doctor and my A1C level being high. I decided to cut out sugar, bread, rice, potato and so on. Whithin the first week I lost 6 pounds, but haven't been able to loose anything else. Any advice would be helpful.
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Are you counting calories?5
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Hello,
My name is Fatima and I'm 33 years old, mother of 2. I started the keto diet about 3 months ago, after a visit from my doctor and my A1C level being high. I decided to cut out sugar, bread, rice, potato and so on. Whithin the first week I lost 6 pounds, but haven't been able to loose anything else. Any advice would be helpful.
eat less. if you're not losing weight its because you are not in a calorie deficit.1 -
keto or no keto you need ro eat at a deficit to lose weight. People eat keto to help with their apetite so that they can make deficit easier.2
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Keto is just a style of eating. It is not inherently a weight loss plan, just like being a vegetarian is not a weight loss plan. Many people lose weight by using a restrictive diet that cuts out food (keto cutting out carbohydrates, vegetarians cutting out meat) BECAUSE those people were eating a lot of that food and now aren't. If your daily diet is 1000 calories of non-carbs (protein, fat, etc) and 1000 calories of carbs and instead of those carbs you eat 2000 cals of non-carbs... there will be no weight change.1
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I do count calories, I input everything I eat throughout the day in my fitness pal app. I'm always under the calorie recommendation. Pls help! How do I get into calorie deficit? Thanks for all of your replies.2
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No I don't0
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All I know is the app suggested that my calorie intake for the day should be 1690.0
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How do I get into calorie deficit?0
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You get into a calorie deficit by eating less than you burn. You can't know if you're doing that unless you weigh and measure you food. Buy a food scale and starting learning how to do it. There are many, many threads on this board that you can read to help.0
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How do I get into calorie deficit?
When you start weighing your food on a food scale you will be eating the MFP allotted 1690 calories which is your calories to eat to lose weight.
eta: OP this video is an eye opener to using measuring cups/spoons/eye balling food.. It changed everything for me when I was not using a scale when I first started.
https://youtu.be/JVjWPclrWVY 4 -
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Knowing your caloric intake isn't much use unless you're also monitoring your total daily energy expenditure using a device like a Fitbit or Garmin watch. If you're mostly sedentary during your day you'd be surprised how little energy you're burning, and consequently your daily caloric intake should be lowered to remain in deficit.4
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Yes, What they up there all said. You've cut the carbs and sugar..so your blood sugar leveles are steady ..and that is a great start. Now you have to plug in your numbers on your profile.. height, age, weight, goal..all that..and see how many caloires you can have per day to lose weight. Good luck.. you're on the right track.0
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Knowing your caloric intake isn't much use unless you're also monitoring your total daily energy expenditure using a device like a Fitbit or Garmin watch. If you're mostly sedentary during your day you'd be surprised how little energy you're burning, and consequently your daily caloric intake should be lowered to remain in deficit.
Not true.
Fitbit and garmin products are notoriously inaccurate. The TDEE math pretty much always works out. If she's more active, she can put her exercise into the app and get an estimate that would have been in line with fitbit or garmin estimates.
Fatima, did you have my fitness pal set to LOSE weight or to maintain?
Also, the food scale. It will be the answer 100% of the time when you're not losing weight.0 -
Knowing your caloric intake isn't much use unless you're also monitoring your total daily energy expenditure using a device like a Fitbit or Garmin watch. If you're mostly sedentary during your day you'd be surprised how little energy you're burning, and consequently your daily caloric intake should be lowered to remain in deficit.
MFP asks for your non-exercise activity level when you start. And many people find that activity trackers overestimate calories burned.0 -
I have it set to loose weight, I have a hectic schedule and don't really have time to work out. I work in an office so mostly sitting down most of my shift 8 to 10 hrs sometimes. There are so many diets out there and I just want to have a guide to what to and not eat. I kind of have the basics down. I mostly eat lots of eggs, at times for breakfast and dinner, I'll add spinach or kale and some cheese. I'll do coffee in the morning with 4 tbspoons of heavy cream and no sugar. Dinner will sometimes be some meat and veggies. I'll snack on Chinese raw peanuts. Do I need to follow a specific diet maybe? I appreciate all the comments and feedback.2
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I have it set to loose weight, I have a hectic schedule and don't really have time to work out. I work in an office so mostly sitting down most of my shift 8 to 10 hrs sometimes. There are so many diets out there and I just want to have a guide to what to and not eat. I kind of have the basics down. I mostly eat lots of eggs, at times for breakfast and dinner, I'll add spinach or kale and some cheese. I'll do coffee in the morning with 4 tbspoons of heavy cream and no sugar. Dinner will sometimes be some meat and veggies. I'll snack on Chinese raw peanuts. Do I need to follow a specific diet maybe? I appreciate all the comments and feedback.
No specific diet needed. What you are eating is fine... eat less of it.1 -
No, you do not need to follow any specific diet beyond the 'get a food scale and weigh everything you put into your mouth diet'. You need to know the weights of your foods for accuracy or you could be eating as much as 800 calories over your goal without realising it, especially eating peanuts.0
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Thank you all.0
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