emt4jesus wrote: »

On plan except for calories. Can't seem to get enough and therefore I get the dreaded "you are not eating enough" message when I try to end my food diary each day. I think I'm going to drop my calorie goal from 2000 to 1800 and see if that helps.

Sounds like a good idea.

Neecee911 wrote: »

Hello all! This seems to be the place for chat!?! Just signed on here as I've been on a low carb plan for over 4 weeks now. The longest I've ever managed as I love fruits and veggies too much. The key, for me, was discovering sausage, and now I live for breakfast! So far, I've lost around 12lbs. I first tried to go old style Atkins20, but cannot live without half and half in my coffee and have not been willing to take on all the extra calories with heavy cream or use nothing, so that's my compromise. I've averaged 36g (T) / 27g (N) carbs per day, with a 20:60:20 split on C:F:P, on days with no alcohol, so now you can tell me what needs fixing (besides giving up the alcohol!)

My goals. Starting June 15.
1. Stick with this WOE and all that that entails, including no alcohol
2. Swim 4-5X (pool's open, yay!)
3. Do one house reorganization activity per day
4. Do one gardening activity per day

Fatigue. What's the cure?

So. Fatigue since it was last mentioned. Are you watching the electrolytes? Keto folk require a minimum of 3K to 5K milligrams of sodium per day due to the biological effect ketosis has on water retention. (A great many are definitely are on the higher end of that spectrum.) So you have less sodium on hand since the body excretes more. So you have to re-up. If sodium is up then the body will replenish potassium and mag, which you can get through foods. If it's down, it will end up leeching those out too. However, I personally find I need to supplement a little potassium and mag myself even when I'm not keto. (I'm just low-carb currently.) I can rattle on about this more if electrolytes is actually an issue.

And your macros. I usually don't harp on macros as I say that as long as you are prioritizing meat, a little LC dairy, and green leafy veggies (for the carbs) then your macros usually fall just fine. Though if fatigue is an issue then you might want to up protein just a bit. Maybe, if after locking down electrolyte deficiency, fiddle with macros and make that 55/25 on the fat/protein for awhile and see if that helps.

A third thing might be eating too little. I don't know what your calories look like, but if you've hit all the other points and are still having the issue, then making sure your calorie deficit isn't too low. You may need to up it a tad if that's the case. Which sucks because you lose a little more slowly, but you are able to stick in there because fatigue won't continue to make you absolutely miserable.

Just some thoughts.

Anyway, HTH. And welcome to the challenge.

6/16:
on-plan:
exercise: Flailing Away the Pounds for 1hr 20min or so. (Leslie Sansone vids) 12k steps for the day.

ccrdragon wrote: »

6/16:
Steps -> 4000 steps
Movement -> moved every hour during work
Exercise -> yard work, 30 push-ups and 25 squats, plus getting the bikes in shape for riding
Food -> calories on point, protein 145g, 21 net carbs

Other good news is I went for my first bike ride in years this morning, did 40 minutes on the local bike path!

Fun!
I've finally got my youngest riding a bike without training wheels (he had a vision delay that required neurorehabilitative therapy.) Now we can finally go on the local 15 mile bike trail sometime this summer. Twill be epic!