Coming off keto

Jmacks · January 2018

So, I tried keto with my husband. He lost 50 pounds. Me, nothing. Not even a budge. I've been sticking with it for over three months now but I find my training is terrible and I want my strength back. He's a sedentary person and I on the other hand work out constantly. Due to a recent miscarriage I'm assuming my body is just in havoc mode. Does anyone have suggestions on how to go back to my old eating habits? Without the massive gain in weight?

H_Ock12 · January 2018

Start eating at your MFP maintenance calories (or deficit of you're trying to lose) and be prepared for some water weight gain, which should even out in a couple of weeks.

psuLemon · January 2018

Jmacks wrote: »

So, I tried keto with my husband. He lost 50 pounds. Me, nothing. Not even a budge. I've been sticking with it for over three months now but I find my training is terrible and I want my strength back. He's a sedentary person and I on the other hand work out constantly. Due to a recent miscarriage I'm assuming my body is just in havoc mode. Does anyone have suggestions on how to go back to my old eating habits? Without the massive gain in weight?

Well, when you transition off of keto, you will probably store more glycogen which will cause weight gain. But then again, if it made you feel like crap, it's possible that will stop and you will be able to push harder. The big thing is realizing the first few weeks might be a gain or no weight loss. So the key will be pushing through that period and trending weight.

Also, realize that it may take you a few months to get your hormones right after the miscarriage (which I am sorry for your loss). IIRC, my wife's hormone leveled out after about 6 or 8 weeks after our miscarriage and equivalently after she had our two children.

toxikon · January 2018

It's all about calories, keto or not.

Grab a digital food scale, enter your stats into MFP and set it to lose 1lbs a week (or whatever your preference is), then eat the calories they tell you to. Log everything solid on your scale, log liquids with measuring cups. That's all there is to it.

Archaeologicals · January 2018

I’m so sorry for your loss. Big hugs.

Continue eating at a deficit (if you’re still looking to lose fat) but add carbs back in. You will see a jump on the scale but it’s just water weight, not fat stores, and it will even out in a few weeks.

maura_tasi · January 2018

As others have said I would set your MFP goals to the amount you want to lose per week and your stats and start eating that amount of calories and slowly introduce more carbs back in. You'll most likely see a jump in the scale due to water weight, but again, that will even out in a few weeks! Probably around the same time your hormone levels start to regulate as well. Don't get discouraged if the scale moves up, because as long as you're eating the given number of calories you're doing it right! I'm so very sorry for your loss. I know that is a very devastating feeling and I'm sending you and your family big hugs.

fb47 · January 2018

Jmacks wrote: »

So, I tried keto with my husband. He lost 50 pounds. Me, nothing. Not even a budge. I've been sticking with it for over three months now but I find my training is terrible and I want my strength back. He's a sedentary person and I on the other hand work out constantly. Due to a recent miscarriage I'm assuming my body is just in havoc mode. Does anyone have suggestions on how to go back to my old eating habits? Without the massive gain in weight?

Sorry to hear about the miscarriage. Keto does not guarantee weight loss, I cringe when people choose the keto diet (not pointing at you) because they either think carbs is what makes you fat, everyone else is doing it or keto guarantees you weight loss. I get those answers a lot. For someone to do keto, it's either because you enjoy eating high fatty foods, carbs gives you the urge to go on a food binge or you have health issues and your doctor tells you to do keto based on that.

When you did keto, did you enjoy that? If your answer is no, then good news, you can lose weight without doing keto, all it requires you to do is to be in a caloric deficit.

If you did enjoy it, then you must learn to track and weight every single food that you put in your mouth. That's my suspected reason why you didn't lose weight. You were probably still eating at or over your maintenance calories. Just because you eat only fats and protein, it doesn't mean the body will ignore them as calories. As for your husband, he loses weight easily because his metabolism is higher than yours. In general, men require more food than women. When I was cutting (aka fat loss phase), I was eating at 2300 calories with no cardio and I was still able to lose weight. For many women, eating at 2300 calories doing no cardio would be considered as a dirty bulk.

Also you say you feel like *kitten* at the gym, keto diet is not really the perfect diet for lifters, when you workout the body prefers using carbs over fats, there's a reason athletes are asked to carb up. Keto athletes are very rare, not saying that they don't exist, but most athletes eat a *kitten* load amount of carbs, just see Michael Phelps diet, it's insane and yet when you look at him, he hardly looks like someone who eats a lot.

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