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But you don’t eat less on keto; you eat less and then binge. Wasn’t that the problem?

The “perfect” diet is one you can maintain, so in that keto fell short the last time. If you weren’t hungry but had cravings but eat intuitively but binged something isn’t adding up. We might be able to help, with a little more data. Right now it feels like you’re presenting us with conclusions; it works better if we can…

What were you eating when you tried keto before, and what did you crave? How many carbs/net carbs did you allow yourself? How long could you stay on it before binge-ing? I’ve noticed on here that a lot of people seem to try to make keto even more restrictive than it already is, and if you’re one of them it might be worth…

I’m on a deli-salad kick lately: chicken, turkey, egg, lobster, whatever. Served over greens and/or with a side of berries it makes a complete keto meal. Also, has anyone told you about coleslaw mix yet? Buy a bag in the salad aisle, sauté it and season it like rice. You can’t eat unlimited amounts, but you can definitely…

I second the snacking idea. My husband and I both have a lot of variety in our daily activities, so there are days when each of us might need extra calories. He likes to eat veggies with dressing or cured meat; I like to eat cheese, nuts, or chocolate. Once dinner is done, the hungrier one of us goes back to the kitchen…

Are you forcing water? “Keto flu” is caused by the abrupt loss of the electrolytes stored in the water we stop retaining when we go into ketosis, not by ketosis itself. You can get basically the same effect by over-hydrating yourself and then peeing them out (or by consuming immoderate amounts of any liquid for reasons…

Whether you gain or lose weight is all about how many calories you eat versus how many calories you burn. Your breakdown of fat/protein/carbs will affect how happy and healthy you are while you do it, but do not ultimately impact weight loss unless being happier/healthier helps you to stick to your calorie goal. The…

For the record on 1400 calories you could eat up to 35g of net carbs and likely stay in ketosis. Maybe that would free you up to eat a wider variety of sating foods?

Holy cow; that’s way too few. Is there some reason you’ve chosen such a low target? For keto all you need is for your net carbs to account for 10% or less of your calories. Subtract fiber from carbs, multiply the result by 4, and compare that to your total calories for the day. 16 would be 10% of 640 calories, and if…

I assume in addition to being all soft and airy it was also sweet? The sugar alone in a cake that size is more than 400 calories. There are no shortcuts.

I’m sure once in a while it happens to be right. I mean, if I log almost every day there are bound to be a couple where the prediction happens to be correct 35 days later, right? But the prediction is different every day and I don’t write them down, so meh.

The ground outside is uneven and not flat; it takes more work than a treadmill. Build up to longer distances on the treadmill or gradually add an incline, and incorporate some resistance training as well. You’ll get there! 🙂

If it takes you longer than a month will you still want the 20 pounds off?

Hi! Congratulations on your progress so far! Unfortunately that “starvation mode stops weight loss!” thing isn’t true—if it were, legitimately starving people wouldn’t all be so skinny, kwim? But there are some other possibilities. 1) Your activity could be causing you to retain water, especially if you’ve stepped it up…

You could be regaining weight, or you could just be bloated today for any of a bunch of reasons. Are you still logging your food accurately? How long ago did you lose the weight, and how long have you been noticing your clothes feel tight?

Accuracy for fitness trackers depends on what you do. If you spend 8 hours a day driving on bumpy roads your burn estimate will be too high; if you spend the same amount of time cycling on a smooth, flat road it will be too low. If you mostly walk around and do pretty normal daily tasks, it’ll be very accurate. My Fitbit…

I think what’s causing the confusion here is that a deficit and an overage are exact opposite things. Of course you’ll lose weight if you have a 3k-calorie deficit, but it sounds like both you and OP were actually talking about overages in this case. Putting the problematic word in quotes isn’t going to indicate that…

The macro guidelines are based on what the FDA thinks is healthiest and most achievable for the biggest segment of the population. That doesn’t mean you have to eat exactly that way in order to be healthy; it means it’s a reasonable estimate for most people. I more than double the suggestion for fat grams on a daily basis,…

Whether you meet your fat goal or not will not affect your weight loss. You do need some dietary fat just to function, and many people (myself included) find that fat is filling and satisfying. Eating more of it helps us to eat less overall, while others may have the same reaction to eating a diet higher in protein or…

Is your MFP activity level set to sedentary by any chance? Spending a few hours cleaning and shopping could easily add 563 calories onto sedentary. If that’s a fairly normal amount of activity for you, tell MFP that you’re lightly active or active (because you are!) and your Fitbit adjustments will get lower. It works out…

There are a lot of great posts here already, but I’d just like to add that losing weight successfully is HARD. Keeping it off is even harder, of course, but for most people just pushing through and getting to a healthy weight, much less their goal weight, has proven to be out of their reach. When it works for someone, when…

My Alta HR seems to be pretty accurate. I suspect it underestimates my calorie burn a bit--it's mostly meant for walking, so depending on what else you do in a typical day you might find it tends to lean one way or the other for you. Since I have a lot of variety in my activity level on different days of the week, it's…

It's unfortunately named, but as you pointed out in your next comment keto flu due to water loss flushing out too many electrolytes. Which doesn't HAVE to be caused by keto, since it's basically exactly what happens when you drink way too much water for any reason and pass it, or when you cause yourself to sweat…

I remember years ago when I first started logging, and I had this bag of Raisinettes I had just opened. And I knew we lie to ourselves about portion sizes, but since I knew it, I wasn’t going to fall into the same trap, right? When I ate about a serving, I logged one and a half. When I ate what I estimated to be two…

You mentioned carbs and sugar; are you restricting those above and beyond your other calories? If you’re quite low-carb it could be keto flu, which feels like a hangover. You can counteract that replenishing your electrolytes and getting more salt in your diet.

I like mine. My activity level is pretty variable, so it helps me to match my intake to my actual burn that day. Different people like different trackers for lots of reasons, but my Alta HR does everything I need it to do.

How long have you been stuck?

Cheese; avocado; macadamia nuts; not worrying so much. Fat has more than double the caloric density of carbs or protein, so once you get used to ignoring the “fat is bad” mentality it adds up pretty quickly. Cook in butter or oil and then sprinkle some Parmesan on top. Eat eggs and peanut butter. There’s fat everywhere,…

That's totally still keto. I have no idea where the 20 number everyone is so fond of came from, but at your current levels you're almost certainly in ketosis. I'm in ketosis and my total carbs are usually somewhere in the 60's, net in the 30's and 40's. As long as your net carbs account for around 5-10% of your total…

My husband and I used to do a “dry January,” then over the years we started adding in stricter and stricter diets during the same month. It’s one month and we were both doing it, so it was doable, and it really stretched my ideas about my own self-control. Around the 20th or so I’d start talking about how we should just…