Keto. Weight stall. Maintence calories

ninababie2
ninababie2 Posts: 44 Member
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HELP

I did keto last year, lost ten lbs and kept it off. So far these three weeks I’ve lost ONE lb. not even water weight! Wtf. My main issue on keto is consuming enough calories. I’m often eating 1000 or so.

So I decided yesterday to try two weeks of eating keto at maintence calories (1700). Today I’ve already gained a pound. If I start eating carbs again and end up at a higher weight then I started at im going to be furious

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited February 2018
    You have to log correctly and be more patient. "Real" weight changes are much slower than that.
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    ninababie2 wrote: »
    HELP

    I did keto last year, lost ten lbs and kept it off. So far these three weeks I’ve lost ONE lb. not even water weight! Wtf. My main issue on keto is consuming enough calories. I’m often eating 1000 or so.

    So I decided yesterday to try two weeks of eating keto at maintence calories (1700). Today I’ve already gained a pound. If I start eating carbs again and end up at a higher weight then I started at im going to be furious

    Then logic would suggest that 1700 is not your maintenance. Although, if you ask me 2 weeks isn't long enough to really know anything.
  • ninababie2
    ninababie2 Posts: 44 Member
    Huh? Why would logic say 1700 is not maintence? I’ve only been eating it for a day
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Pick a reasonable calorie goal. Log accurately and consistently hit that calorie goal. Patience is going to be required, if you're changing things up every time you don't lose exactly as you expect it's going to take you longer to figure out what is actually working and what isn't.

    Don't make decisions based on day-to-day fluctuations.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,426 MFP Moderator
    jillellen22 wrote: »
    Someone told me skip cheese if you are not losing

    Cheese has no impact on weight loss..


    OP, are you using a food scale? Did you just start exercise? Are you near the TOM?

    Also, you will definitely gain weight if you add carbs, because you will replenish glycogen stores. But it's not fat gains.

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