Are you doing photos and measurements in addition to the scale?

Unfortunately, your scale will not always move every week. You'll be retaining water for one reason or another which will mask loss: hormones, salt, carbs, muscle repair, or the body taking a pause to juggle after many changes. A 1-week pause is nothing to worry over. If your see nothing after 4 weeks, you may need to look at what habits you need to reign in further, but right now, you're still ok.

Xerogs wrote: »

Ignore the scale. I have for close to two weeks now and don't even think about it. It's way to variable of a measurement in the short term. Your weight can fluctuate through out the day so with that in mind I always tried to weigh myself at the same time of day usually before I've eaten or had my morning hydration. Clothing can also add to your weight.

It also takes a while for your body to adjust but it will. I know after my initial water weight loss I was dropping about 1 to 1.5 lbs a week until I dropped 42 lbs and now its tapered off some but once this semester is over I can get back to a regular meal and workout schedule which should set things back in motion so I can hit my goal weight.

It's difficult to be patient but sometimes you just have to let go and be in the moment with the realization that things will happen given time.

Exactly.
Consistency + Persistence + Time = Success

FANCY1977 wrote: »

do you think coffee would kick me out of ketosis?

No. Carbs kick you out of ketosis. A one week lack of loss, especially for a woman, is standard. I retain water for everything and see scale gains 2 out of 4 weeks of the month.

Also, fat loss isn't linear and fat cells fill with water which they then shed rapidly. When I first started keto my losses looked something like this:
Week 1: -7
Week 2: -3
Week 3: -1
Week 4: no change
Week 5: no change
Week 6: no change
Week 7: -5

Coffee won't kick you out of ketosis - only carbs will do that. But even if you are kicked out of ketosis, ketosis is not needed for weight loss... It just makes it easier for some of us.

My losses were like @Cadori 's. Some weeks I lost 3 lbs, others I gained a pound, and then the next I might be down 5 lbs. Weight loss isn't linear (darnit). If the overall trend is mostly downward, then you are fine.

Concur about the coffee. Persistence and patience are needed. Both are hard to come by when we want everything yesterday. Been there. I have no clue about any of your stats so far as current weight, desired weight, height as it might pertain to calorie intake but I will suggest that there may come a time when tightening up your food entries will be of value. "Grilled chicken breast", "Full avocado", "chili-1 serving" in your food diary are pretty generic. Heck, I might buy an avocado that is around 4 ounces or 7 ounces. That could be as much as a 150 calorie difference.

FANCY1977 wrote: »

and how many grams of fat does everyone eat?

I happened to track last week on MFP as a spot check and the daily average was:.
51 total carbs
103 fat
84 protein
1467 calories

My fat goal is 63g, but I really don't pay any attention to it...some days I'm over some days I'm under, mostly I just try to get my protein over and my carbs and calories under...I don't really pay any attention to the fat.

Don't be a slave to the weight on your scale. I see it as just one helpful device in my weight loss journey, not as judge and jury to my progress. The food scale in my kitchen keeps me much more on track to reach my goals than the bathroom scale. I have found that the journey is not a steady decline in my weight, but an up and down pattern where my "set point" seems to gradually ratchet down as I eat well and get enough exercise.

Someone mentioned hormones. So yeah, depending on when your water weight gain is when it comes to your menstrual cycle, that could be the culprit. Some women gain when they ovulate, some right before they menstruate, etc on the variances of when it happens. If this is week 3 of keto and you're noticing a sudden plateau and you haven't gone through your period on keto yet, that may be the cause. Stay the course, keep hydrated and it should flush out like normal.

I'm in the same boat, we started about 3 and a half weeks ago, I was due at the end of this week, and Tuesday I gained a bit over a pound even though I've been under calories every day but one (the one I was over wasn't a net gain, either, just not a loss day, was), and my net carbs have been between 20 and 30 every day, usually closer to 20. But I've also been through this with other plans and I know this week is going to mess with my scale a bit.

An alternative theory is if you started any exercise routines recently you might, maybe, possibly, be retaining a little water from that. When I do weight lift, especially right at the beginning or returning to it, I notice a small uptick or stall in weight due to water retention. Muscles need water to heal, so they hang on to a little bit after some workouts. You may never have noticed it before, and I wouldn't have if I hadn't gone through a spell of logging my weight every day. (silly me also decided to resume weight lifting this week after a 5 week break, you know, when it's shark week approaching, so now I've possibly have double reasons for the water bloat to be there. Yay me!)