I guess I will officially start ketoing tomorrow, now I'm getting used to the yummy fat that I have deprived myself of my entire life. I probably ate about 40 g of carbs today, so today could technically be day one.

I had 3 pieces of bacon and a hardboiled egg for breakfast, didn't really need anything else until 2-3, when I became hungry.

The hardest part so far is explaining it to my GF. I might not even try to explain it any of my other family...

I have not started Keto yet but I will be starting Saturday to lose my last 5-10lbs. I plan on doing the cyclic keto diet (CKD) because I will be exercising about 5 days a week and might have to carb load before my workouts. I would prefer not to carb load and hopefully have enough energy by burning ketones so it's all speculation now. Will report my findings over the next couple weeks.

I started Monday and haven't lost anything yet, but I'm thirsty today, so hopefully it kicks in soon. I've lost 40lbs on low carb before, so hopefully I can do it again.

Hi.
I'm Tina, I'm 43 yrs old, 5'5", and 151 lbs. I'm a competitive weightlifter and have normally competed in the 58 or 63 kg class; right now, I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over what I should be for training weight.

So.

I seem to have issues with carby stuff, and I have really no idea what started the weight gain, but regular dieting wasn't budging the scale, so here I am. I did Atkins for about 2 years about 10 years ago, and then a CKD maybe 5 years or more ago. I'm missing my cottage cheese and greek yogurt a bit, but those were foods that were hard for me not to overeat, so good riddance, I suppose. Right now I'm trying to stop using artificial sweeteners, but it's tough. I was using 2 sweet and lows and an equal in a large coffee several times/day, as well as adding a sweet and low and an equal to any snacks, diet cocoa, etc. I think my taste buds have been paralyzed; I have a very hard time detecting a normal level of sweetness in most foods.

Anyway, goal is somewhere between 140-142 lbs to start. I'll eventually want to get to around 136, but I can easily cut a couple pounds for meets so the first number range is the important one.

Thanks for starting the group!

Tina

Hello all - my name is Holly and I have lost from 278 down to 180-182 with eating lower carb. However, I took up walking/ running intervals and started to feed into the "eat more carbs" for long runs theory, so I've completely stalled. Looking forward to getting back into the strict low carb arena and still getting my runs in and breaking through this plateau.

Hello. My name is Wendi, and my daughter introduced me to keto. She's had lots of success with the weight loss - me, not so much. Upside, I'm truly enjoying my food, and I'm not eating so much junk!!

I've been eating a modified keto diet for about 6 weeks now - lots more veggies (and some fruit) than what she does. First 2 weeks saw amazing, quick loss. Then nothing. Now - I'm about 3 pounds above where I started. Strange though, my clothes are still fitting better. I feel better. I'm trying to not focus on the number on my scale and just 'let' the weight go. In the mean time, I'll keep enjoying my steak.

I'm also going to be doing a CKD after this first 12 days is up. I'm lifting 6 days a week for far too many hours and I'm afraid my performance will suffer if I don't get some carbs in somewhere!

Hello!

I found Keto through r/loseit and decided I'd give it a try. I started with about 70lbs to lose, and I've lost the first 10 in 2 weeks on keto I've been overweight for most of my life, and since I'm coming up on a transition period in my life, I wanted a fresh start.

Hi everyone! I'm Ashley and I've been doing Keto for a couple weeks now and competely got over a plateau I had been on for about a month doing just low calorie. Low carb seems to be the only thing that really works for me... So far, I'm loving it, but have very little support with this lifestyle, so anyone who needs friends, feel free to add me!!

Hi All. A low carb lifestyle took me from my heaviest at 331 to my goal weight of 165. I got cocky and I lost my way and went back to carb binging and that led to weight gain up to 231.5. Since returning to MFP and a low carb approach on Dec. 2 I've lost 18 of those pounds and I feel great. I must confess not being well versed on Keto but I'm ready to learn and shed this weight and keep it off for good!!

Feel free to add me.

Hi...I found this group and this site through /r/keto and have good feelings about this diet. I've never dieted before or even really watched what I ate in terms of weight gain, only payed attention to nutrient density and if it tasted good. Being able to use high fat foods and vegetables seems like the perfect way to knock off some weight. Anyway I like to cook and with the help of Google searches for nutrition info I plan on making lots of good food that I will share here.

I started the diet this morning with a breakfast of two bavarian frankfurters (past expiration so needed to be breakfast or thrown away) in the really cool fried provolone cheese shell I found on reddit with sauerkraut and whole grain mustard! Hardest part about keto is going to be giving up the massive amount of ketchup I normally eat.

hi,
i started keto december 30, and ketosis kicked in january 2nd.

i've never dieted, because all the diets i found in magazines and internet seemed unreasonable. well, i still managed to "reasonably" starve myself for months, then binge, then starve again, then binge and binge and binge, so i ended up at 103 kilos. (220+lbs if i'm right). after completing eating disorders centre's programme 1.5 years ago, i didn't gain anymore weight, but didn't get any smaller, despite vigorous effort at the gym / watching calories, etc.

what i already like about keto:
*already lost 2-3kgs of water weight. i'm not that bloated anymore.
*i get to eat my favorite foods - meats, cheese, fish, heavy cream, add olive oil and butter while cooking.
*absolutely no cravings, despite being way under calorie goal.

what i dislike about it:
*beer (especially this strong sweet stout) is so hard to give up.
*keto flu. i feel so sleepy all the time, and i sleep at inadequate hours. now it's 1:55 AM, and i just woke up.

Hi! My husband and I have been on keto since April 20th, 2015. Together we've lost nearly 50 pounds since then. We do pretty strict keto 6 weeks at a time and then take a break weekend. It's been working very well. I blog about our keto experience over at www.getworkingsteph.com. Feel free to add me as a friend, I just recently re-started on MFP.