Getting frustrated with keto
Hi everyone, I'm new here. I tried keto about 4 years ago now and I lost 40lbs. I gained it back due to some issues in my life and not trying. I started again 5 months ago or so and I've lost around 30lbs. The trouble is I've now stopped losing and I'm getting very frustrated. I started out at 348lbs. The past 2-3 weeks I just bounce around 316-318. I've started walking 2-3 miles every day. I've tried adding a few carbs back, right now I shoot for 30 every day. I also just started intermittent fasting where I don't eat anything past 9pm and don't eat again until noon the next day. I've only been doing that for 3 days so far.
I'm not sure if it's the types of food I'm eating, I'm trying to make it easy so I stick with it. So I'm eating sandwiches and burgers on 0 carb bread.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi - congrats on your weight loss!! It’s still all about the calories. It’s probably not what you want to hear but the keto diet helps with hunger so you can eat less but you still have to stay under the recommended calories. Whether you choose keto, high protein, low carb or any of the other routes to weight loss you’ll notice the macros change but the calories per day remains the same. Just have to watch serving sizes and fat (too much fat = extra calories) and stay under the calories per day. Make sure you keep track of macros plus calories. Hope that helps, you can do it, you did it for 30 just keep going!!
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My weight loss slowed in SEP so I made some tweaks - switched to eating mostly "clean" so I stopped eating the breads and tortillas and other "fake" items. I do IF as well, but I believe the recommended minimum to really impact Keto is 18 hrs. Do you exercise while in a fasted state?
Try tweaking your diet a bit and see if that helps - have some basic veggies on hand so you're not just eating protein and the bread products - easy stuff like celery, cucumbers, asparagus, etc.