FlyingMolly Member

I’ve never heard of sweating or spotting being symptoms of ketosis. :| You do lose weight more slowly when you have less to lose, and frankly your calorie goal sounds suspiciously low for your size and lifestyle—any chance you’re trying to lose a little faster than makes sense for your body? Anyway, the thing about slow…

Yep.

Someone told me not to lose TOO much weight this week. <3

You set an activity level on MFP that is your best guess of your average normal activity. But it might not be exactly right in the first place, and of course some days you’ll be more active than others, and when you do intentional exercise above and beyond that normal activity level you’ll want to know how many extra…

Ultimately your calories are what will matter for weight loss, and we tend to retain extra water while traveling, anyway. Is there a reason you feel you need to focus on macros? Is there a reason you’re aiming for fewer calories than MFP suggests?

I eat an avocado almost every day, and leafy greens, berries, and nuts make up the rest. I’m usually over on avocado days and a bit under on other days, but I believe on average I clear 25g easily. People who eat fewer carbs than I do tend to say that you don’t actually need fiber if basically all you’re trying to digest…

Eat less than you burn. Put your information into MFP (accurately—trying to “game” the site doesn’t go well), look at how many calories you can eat, then eat those. What they’re made up of is up to you, and that’s where keto can come into it, if you’re so inclined. I eat keto, which means I get 1/10 of my calories from…

Yes...but...on keto you can still eat the large head of lettuce, as long as you offset it with some fat. A large plate of arugula is ten calories and only one net carb; an ounce of cheese will balance that and make it keto. You could make it a HUGE plate for another half-ounce of cheese. A green salad with some cucumbers,…

Absolutely not. Not even a little bit.

It depends what you’re eating—“keto” is really broad. I’m on it myself, don’t supplement with anything except salt, and just got back perfect bloodwork, because keto CAN be a complete diet, if that’s what you’re worried about. There’s nothing inherently lacking from it. But just like with any other way of eating, your…

The calories on the package have to be correct within a certain margin of error. It’s more likely that they’re correct and the macro grams are rounded up than that the macros are dead on and the calories are all randomly off. I think you’re worrying more than necessary.

Cook dinner for three and give him the extra?

First off, go enable negative adjustments. If you start the day more active than your MFP activity level, Fitbit will start giving you extra calories. If you want a more accurate reflection of the day as a whole, empower it to also take them away.

Well....

Me three!

With the exception of fruit, I enjoyed all the things you listed so very much that I was overweight for six years and just couldn’t shake it. Every attempt to limit or moderate those foods failed utterly, because I really, really enjoy eating them. Then I tried keto, stopped craving those foods at all, and the weight came…

Arugula, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, and artichoke hearts in addition to the ones listed above, as well as berries and avocado, and I usually try to fit in a little watermelon or pineapple as well. Carrots are usually doable. I don’t just sit down and dig into a huge plate of any of those things on keto, but…

I demo the exercises properly, but after the class gets started on each one I’ll often stop and watch, or walk around to check on people. I’m more likely to do the standing stuff with the class because we’re all facing each other then, but I think it probably evens out with the sitting around I do during other portions. ;)…

I teach a low-key core class and my FitBit usually gives me 100-200 extra calories for the hour. I've been losing weight just marginally faster than my FitBit thinks I should, so I generally trust its estimates. So it's likely not a huge calorie-burner, but it gets you an extra snack. More importantly, that kind of work…

I mean...or don't. I'm never below 30 total carbs, and almost never below 30 net, and I'm still safely in ketosis and feel great. I aim to keep my net carbs at or under 10% of my calories (that means taking in 40 calories per gram of non-fiber carbohydrates), and it works just fine. You can't go into it looking for…

Done a certain way, WW points will almost exactly line up with MFP’s calorie recommendations. If you’re someone who does not thrive on that specific way of eating, you may as well skip the middle-man and just go with MFP.

I have two, and I use them all day long.

Most keto recommendations are stricter than they need to be—often much stricter. Yes, you’ll be in ketosis if you only eat 20 carbs, or 30, but I routinely get and stay there with total carbs in the 60’s. I went into the 80’s a few days ago and was still very much in ketosis, so if it’s helpful to you to be really…

I didn’t. I did, however, lose most of the weight I was looking to lose while having a “cheat” weekend each month. It was helpful for events, holidays, etc., not to go completely crazy but just to have a couple of days where I wasn’t thinking about logging or macros or steps. I’m pretty close to my goal now and have been…

Full fat everything.

I couldn’t cut back on addd sugar until I cut out added sugar. The amount of it that’s in baked goods and prepared foods is quite deadening to the taste buds, and that makes it much harder to appreciate the sweetness of naturally present sugars. A couple of weeks after I’d stopped eating it, I noticed that berries were…

Double is a lot. How much do you need to lose, and how fast are you trying to lose it?

...but you were still under on sugar, and it was all from fruit. If you think she meant watch it even more than that, you need to make another appointment and get that clarified.

So...you were under your arbitrary carb goal...and it was the first day you’d even come that close to your arbitrary carb goal...and you feel it “looks bad”? Honey, lighten up. Seriously. For one thing, your macros just really aren’t that important unless a doctor has put you on a specific type of diet for a specific…

That’s both fascinating and terrifying. :) I’m glad you have a handle on it! Unless I’m having multiple mini-strokes per day (is that a thing?? don’t tell me) I suspect I’m dealing with something different, but we’ll track it down. Cardiology is up next. I’ll ask about the electrolytes at my next visit, but I’ll give the…