Okay, so I joined a thread on here during my first efforts at keto. I did well, I was counting and limiting my carbs. I wasn't really counting single carbs, like in say, cheese, but otherwise I did. Also wasn't doing net carbs. But I wasn't counting my calories too strictly, and I lost about 5 lbs in ten days. (The thread I joined being "just give me ten days".) This was NOT water weight. I am down a pant size, and I'm severely obese, about 245- now 240- pounds, so yeah, I can easily burn through that many calories in ten days by getting a ton of cardio. But this time, I've been counting my calories and I have barely budged, in spite of doing harder workouts. I'm starting to wonder if counting calories isn't actually making me eat more, because the first ten days, I would just grab myself some cream and make a tea with cream, and eat until I felt satiated on some other nice keto food. I would estimate how much I ate, and chuckle at how few calories it took to feel full when eating enough fat. Then not eat again for hours and hours.

But as I'm trying to limit myself now, and count meticulously, suddenly the 5 lbs drop is nothin'. I've had a couple of days where I ended up binge eating. And I'm not getting that satiety anymore, because I feel afraid of eating enough. Has anyone here had MORE success when not counting their calories? Because I think I'm going to go back to not counting calories. Stopping myself at a meal arbitrarily because I've had 600 calories already, makes me feel neurotic and like I'm going to binge. But this scares me some. I want a log of some kind. I wanna know if I have done well or not. I don't know what to do here.