@KnitOrMiss That's a larger range of fluctuation than I've seen but that makes sense to me. I definitely carry a lot of both muscle and fat but evenly distributed all over. When I'm dehydrated it shows all over, but when I'm retaining water it's definitely mostly waist down.

I do love data, but with the body impedance scales I look for the trends. Thank you for the insights!

Just wanting to get a feel for other people’s habits... Do you only weigh yourself on Sundays? I typically hop on my scale several times a week (sometimes more than once a day too). I fluctuate a lot. Like a LOT. Depending on the time of day and whether or not I’ve eaten anything at the time of weighing in... it’s sometimes not even a discernible trend for the week overall.

@veronicaringel I think I may be a bit obsessive compulsive (OCD), as I weigh myself every morning. My routine is to get up, go to the restroom then straight to the scale. I’ve seen numerous suggestions/advice that this is not a good habit but I just can’t seem to stop myself. I must admit my daily weigh in does affect my eating habits. Especially the day before I post my Sunday weight for this group. I find myself restricting calories or prolonging fasting to enhance my Sunday morning weigh in.

Hey, “If you’re not cheating you’re not trying” is my motto. Honestly, I tell myself I will quit what I know is poor behavior and discipline myself to weigh in just once a week. However, I do think it works better for me to make small corrections to my calories/fasting daily than to wait a week and find out I have a big (week long) problem to correct. We are all experiments of one. My OCD approach is working for my experiment.

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I need to start working out so I can get my booty back lol.

You have literally worked your a__ off on keto. FIFTY POUNDS! I want to be like you when I grow up. You are an inspiration to all of us amateur keto wanna-be's.

@stormywxs288 thank you!!! I am super proud. This is the smallest i have been since before I had my third baby 9 years ago. It actually kind of weird lol, I'm not quite used to it. People are really starting to notice. I went most of this weightloss journey without many people at work saying anything. To their defense I worm outside at the airport and I am usually very bundled up in coveralls and what not. Since its been warming up I don't bundle up so they probably didn't even wutoe notice. BUT now I m getting comments every day lol. Honestly best advice I can give is keep it simple. I found things i really really liked and ate a lot of them haha. I did not do any crazy mock recipes of carbs favorites or anything. I did make fat bombs and love them. They help me when I want to eat candy and they help me keep my fat up. I also only ate between the hours of 11ish to 5ish which I swear it helped so much!! And i work for ups.. so from November thru half of January I was working 12 he days outside working my butt off... getting well over 20,000 steps a day, I am sure that helped a bit too

Start weight October 17th. 184lbs
1/31- 138
2/4-137
2/11- 135
2/17- 133
I'm weighing in a day early because we have a romantic night tonight. I plan on enjoying myself! Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!!! Everyone is doing great!!

I think my first month I was eating pretty much three meals a day no fasting. Then I started the fasting and eating between around 11ish to 5ish which was easy cuz of my work schedule. Sometimes I do one meal a day sometimes I do two meals a day. Just depends on how hungry I am and what I have going on.

So far this month I’ve managed only minimum Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day damage. On week 6 of keto for me I hope my body is starting to turn a corner on being fat/keto adapted. With only a 1.4 pound loss this week my weight loss, that seemed so easy the first three keto weeks, has slowed to a trickle. Not concerned though! I’ve seen several accounts that tell me it is normal for slow weight loss or even gains as your body fully adapts to burning fat instead of carbs.

My Tanita scale tells me my body fat loss has staled as well. However, my belt buckle says I’m losing inches as I had to use the next smaller notch when I buckled up today. Also, the last few days of exercise I’ve noticed my balance seems to be improving. I attribute that mostly to the fact that I’m not carrying around 1.73 bowling balls of weight I use to 6 weeks ago.

My goal for this week is to stay below my recommended calorie count and macros all week. Hopefully I will turn into a fat burning machine soon. I keto and I eating fat.