Tried Keto ...Not for me...doing healthy whole foods?

jjfisher2019
jjfisher2019 Posts: 3 Member
edited July 2019 in Getting Started
Tried keto time and time again. I could never eat enough fat and always felt hungry So far lost 13lbs in 5 weeks no exercise and whole foods Id love to get some friends who can help with what we eat each day!!

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,126 Member
    jjfisher2019 wrote: »
    Tried keto time and time again. I could never eat enough fat and always felt hungry. I am doing a 1000 calorie limit with whole foods! So far lost 13lbs in 5 weeks no exercise. Id love to get some friends who can help with what we eat each day!!

    Why so low calorie?
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    1000 calories is most likely seriously under eating and dangerous. Should only be done with discussions and supervision of a doctor (and it's still risky but you have discussed the risks, are being monitored and accepted the risk)

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1
  • jjfisher2019
    jjfisher2019 Posts: 3 Member
    To aggressively loose weight. If my mind doesnt see the scale more I'll quit! Been there so many times. I am just to 1000 calories a day now and I feel great. I have a desk job so I dont move much.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,126 Member
    edited July 2019
    jjfisher2019 wrote: »
    To aggressively loose weight. If my mind doesnt see the scale more I'll quit! Been there so many times. I am just to 1000 calories a day now and I feel great. I have a desk job so I dont move much.

    A lot of people feel great under-eating, until they don't, aggressively losing weight isn't healthy.

    If the scale not moving is demotivating you, perhaps use another method to determine progress such as the fit of your clothes, pictures or measurements.

    Under-eating can lead to short-term problems like brittle nails and hair loss and in the longer term you can damage you gall bladder, etc.

    Encouraging unsafe practices is also against the community guidelines.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    edited July 2019
    LenGray wrote: »
    If you're determined to eat that low, I'd recommend talking to your doctor and a certified nutritionist so that you can do it safely. Otherwise, you're risking hair loss, organ damage, and a lot of other not-great side effects.

    There's always a chance, especially if you don't use a food scale, that you're still hitting the 1,200 minimum calories required for a grown woman or the 1,500 calories minimum required for a man (not wanting to assume) due to weighing errors, but it never hurts to play it safe.

    True, and hopefully.

    Will just add that those minimums are for very short people with very sedentary lifestyles as well.
  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    You're going to crash and burn. Well, unless you're 4 foot tall and lightly built? Honestly, I've never met anyone who crash dieted and then maintained long term. Getting healthy is more important than winning an imaginary race to look good in a swimsuit, the numbers on the scale are the tool not the goal.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    How much weight are you trying to lose?
    What are your stats (height, weight, current weight)
    Do you exercise?
    Do you use a food scale for logging?

    The keto diet isn’t for everyone and there’s nothing magical about it for weight loss. That comes from a calorie deficit but as others have pointed out, too aggressive of a deficit and too low calories can have negative effects (many which don’t appear for several months) not to mention you can experience some metabolic adaptation.

    Perhaps the reason you’ve quit so many times before is that you have unrealistic expectations and the aggressive approach is unsustainable. A moderate deficit appropriate for your goals can often yield more sustainable lasting results not to mention not make you feel like you are suffering.
  • staticsplit
    staticsplit Posts: 538 Member
    1000 calories is not sustainable. Go slower and keep it off. Learn habits that will stay with you into maintenance.
  • gottswald
    gottswald Posts: 122 Member
    I don't know if this will work for you, but if you feel the need for the scale to display your effort instead of flopping around maybe it's better if you don't look? I got discouraged when my scale would stall or water weight would creep in. While 'quitting' was never possible to me, I'd feel a need to trim my diet or try and adjust it to lower insulin response or... you get the idea. So, I just stopped looking. I trust my trainer, trust my dietician, trust the math and do my part in trying to be accurate. I do a body composition test every 2mo to make sure I'm on track (not necessary, just how I do it) and other than that I try not to look. Occasionally I peek, it's true. Usually when I feel like clothing has become looser or some other 'non-numeric' indicator.

    Maybe that doesn't work for you, but if you absolutely need the scale to keep going down (the results to show validate your effort despite logically knowing how it functions and fluctuates), maybe the curiosity of not knowing is easier to manage? As long as you have a healthy system and are checking at reasonable intervals of course.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    edited July 2019
    NovusDies "The scale will get you again. It is just a matter of time. Body weight fluctuates for reasons other than fat weight:

    http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/"

    Wow Great article, thanks!

    * I do not know how to reply

  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    jjfisher2019 wrote: »
    Tried keto time and time again. I could never eat enough fat and always felt hungry So far lost 13lbs in 5 weeks no exercise and whole foods Id love to get some friends who can help with what we eat each day!!

    It's human nature to keep doing or trying the same things over and over again if they've worked in the past for rapid weight loss. If it didn't stay off, then it's time to do something completely different. Edge your way down slowly.

    You can't get mad if you don't see the scales move. That's more All or Nothing Thinking with food and weight. That only digs you into a much deeper hole with weight and food. This time, give yourself permission to do everything on your own terms. Eat the foods you like and find movement that you actually enjoy. Stay within the boundaries that MFP has worked out for you. You'll have a much better chance of actually getting there and staying there...at your dream weight.
  • amberdefond
    amberdefond Posts: 3 Member
    I am on 1000 calories a day but my diet is physician and nutritionist directed. This is to jump start weight loss and once we get to a certain point, we are switching to 1200 cal a day to maintain
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    jjfisher2019 wrote: »
    To aggressively loose weight. If my mind doesnt see the scale more I'll quit! Been there so many times. I am just to 1000 calories a day now and I feel great. I have a desk job so I dont move much.

    I don't exercise at all and I didn't see weight loss until I raised my calories from 1200 (2 lbs/week) to 1370 (1 lb/week). Sounds counterintuitive but it worked.

    30 days in, 7.5 inches and 10 lbs down.

    Don't self sabotage in the name of weight loss. ❤

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