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I'm a 16:8 keto faster too! I've never been a big breakfast eater, so I have keto coffee in the morning and don't eat until after 2.00pm. As I'm quite hectically busy with various activities and projects at the moment I can't always get my dinner as early as I'd like, but if it gets to 9-10pm and I haven't eaten I don't…

Bit of an update on my attempts to re-balance my electrolytes after an odd spell of dizziness and nausea... I've added a teaspoon of Lo-salt to my diet every day for potassium and have started supplementing magnesium. I seem to get close to enough sodium through just salting food (plus from bacon and cheese) and I haven't…

Still being mega strict on my diet and logging everything each day. Still not getting to the gym as much as I'd like, but making sure that I do something every day, even if it's just the 20 minute routine I do as soon as I get up. I'm calling it another no F-ups week!

My scales died this morning... Probably just the battery; I certainly haven't broken them! Monday's readings were: SW - 230lb CW - 202lb GW - 172lb With not being able to weigh I got the tape measure out. I've lost 2.5" from my neck in total, another half inch from my hips and an inch from my waist. Pretty pleased with…

Feel free to add too! I'm in to my 7th week of keto living...

I would agree with everything that has been said previously - LCHF does require a complete change in the way that you look at food and very much a complete change in the attitude that you have towards measuring weight loss. Water retention is the biggie really and most people, myself included, can see 4-5lb swings in a…

I've decided to go completely 'sweetness free' apart from the occasional diet drink, which in the UK are usually sweetened with Aspartame or acesulphame. I've had a bottle for about 2 weeks now that I can only take a couple of swallows at a time from because it just tastes so damn sweet - far too sweet for my adapted…

KnitOrMiss, I hadn't thought of that as being a factor. Can't be a bad thing though - last time I had a full medical the doctor was slightly concerned about my liver function and looking back to my WOE at that time I was basically fuelled by sugar - eating probably 2-2500 calories a day of sweet stuff most days. I think…

I think I must be an outlier - my tolerance for alcohol has gone WAY up even though I'm in deep keto... Can't find any reference online to this happening to people, but what I do know is that I went out a couple of weeks ago, drank 10 double vodka sodas and felt almost sober by the time I got home... And enjoy your…

I don't know whether this counts, but one of my motivations for losing weight and following a keto diet was a particularly painful break-up last December. Yes, it was important to me not to slip into bad habits like comfort eating but it was more important to be able to say to myself 'you know what? She might not want you…

I've continued to keep my carbs as close to zero as possible and have been really tight on my diet - no cheat days or slip ups so far! I haven't got to the gym as often as I would like as family and life has got in the way a bit, but I've done some sort of activity every day, even if it's just my morning 20 minute routine.…

SW - 230lb CW - 206lb GW - 172lb 2lb loss in the last week so still on target to reach my goal by the summer...

I've found that too - with carbs my gas was sometimes almost out of control and I suffered from crippling acid reflux. I've been in keto for nearly 6 weeks now and have no bloating, gas or reflux... In general my gastro-intestinal health seems to be much better when I'm not eating sugar!

Same here... I do at least one deliberate fast day per week (sub-600 calories) but like yesterday for example, I had bulletproof coffee for breakfast and then two well balanced, hearty meals which came in around 1200 cals total - 300 under my target of 1500 per day. MFP didn't like that, but I had simply had enough to eat…

I've had a pretty tight first week of February... Not got to the gym as much as I would have liked, but I have been doing some sort of activity (dancing or playing the drums) when I haven't been able to go so I'm still counting it as exercise! My carbs have been good all week - less than 10g daily - and I've been working…

Same here! I'm aiming to use LCHF to cut 60lb this year and I find that the encouragement and inspiration I get from friends here to be really important. Anyone please feel free to add me!

Yesterday mine was: Breakfast - Bulletproof coffee. Lunch - Canned tuna with mayonnaise and a salad. Dinner - 8oz ribeye with spinach and mushrooms fried with garlic and Henderson's Relish (anyone from Yorkshire will understand... :) ) It came in at under 1200 calories for the day so MFP wouldn't let me complete my diary -…

I'm in Sheffield. Please feel free to add me! :)

I'm using IF and hard fasting days to try and break through a plateau at the moment. I've been using 16:8 fasting as a general WOE since I began, as I never ate breakfast anyway, but I've incorporated a couple of sub-600 calorie days this week to try and kickstart things. It's frustrating because I'm heavily in keto…

41 here... Finally getting down to sorting myself out after gaining nearly 6 stone when I became a father - far too many sugary treats in the house and very poor willpower. Since that relationship broke down I found myself nursing depression with Drs. Ben & Jerry which didn't help at all. Now I'm a month into my 'new me'…

First time I've seen this post due to the :bump: and all I can say is WOW! A truly astonishing transformation and for someone who is attempting to lose a total of 65lb from my heaviest weight (almost halfway there!) truly inspirational! Thanks for sharing!

I do get some side eyes and sceptically raised eyebrows, but among people who know me, a 2.5 stone weight loss over the last 4 months is fairly stark evidence that, whatever I'm doing, it's working!

I'm REALLY glad I found this discussion! Yesterday I had a strange episode of weakness and nausea as I was dropping my kids off at school. I had to rest for 20 minutes before I felt safe to drive and still felt dizzy and weak as I got back into bed and cried off work for the day. After an hour or so in bed I decided to…

Excellent! Thanks guys! As I mentioned in my initial posting I'm extremely comfortable with this WOE so it's more than encouraging to know that plenty of people are successfully doing similarly. I'm not taking insulin so that's no worry and I certainly feel at the moment like I can face the rest of my life carb free!

I've had exactly the same problem this morning - readings between 97.5kg and 100.6kg. Looking at that difference though it seems more likely that the scales are FUBAR than anything else. Maybe they got too much punishment previously...

I've done LCHF a few times in the past, always with good results, without calorie counting. I tend to adjust well to Ketosis and as I've got a lot of fat to burn so there is an ample supply of fuel! However, this time I am incorporating an extensive training regime into my program and have been calorie counting - not for…

Sheffield, England.

I got very depressed when a long term relationship broke down and although I tried to keep myself occupied to stave off the depression I still found myself with much time alone, and I ended up using food - specifically high density junk food - for comfort. I would regularly consume 2000 calories of junk in an evening…

5'10" Start weight: 234.5lb Today: 219.5lb Loss: 15lb Goal: 172lb Only 47lb to go! Bring it on!

Any change in colour shows that ketosis is taking place. I generally sit at or around the two darkest purple colours, but some people can still drop weight if the concentration of ketone bodies is actually quite low, particularly if they don't have huge amounts to lose. As I'm still approx. 30%+ body fat I'm breaking down…