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Old Wed, May-17-17, 09:02
lorid lorid is offline
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Default Am I not eating enough????

After reading all of the advise on the ketogenic diet the problem that I am having I think is that I am not eating enough. I eat 2-3 eggs and bacon for breakfast, most of the time I don't eat lunch because I am not hungry at all and then I eat some sort of meat and vegetable at dinner. I know after reading all the advise that I probably need to eat more, but I just can't seem to make myself eat when I am not hungry. I am not losing very much weight these past two weeks. Does anyone have advise for me?? I appreciate all advise!! Thank you!
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Old Wed, May-17-17, 15:15
YNot YNot is offline
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 308/285.1/199 Female 66 inches
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I'm interested to hear the replies; from my understanding, eating "more" will not make you lose more weight. Eat when you are hungry, avoid carbs, and make sure that you've added some fat (not "extra" per se....but that' what you are replacing the carbs with). The ONLY think I can think of - what are you drinking aside from water? How MUCH meat do you eat at dinner and what kind of vegetable? Too much meat can be a problem - less meat and an extra dollop of butter or something might be better. And really low carb veggies? I once went over my 20 with brussel sprouts of all things. I'm mean, c'mon - if I'm going to break my diet at least make it something interesting!!LOL
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Old Wed, May-17-17, 18:14
locarb4avr locarb4avr is offline
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Plan: My own plan
Stats: 220/126/132 Male 65in
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Originally Posted by lorid
After reading all of the advise on the ketogenic diet the problem that I am having I think is that I am not eating enough. I eat 2-3 eggs and bacon for breakfast, most of the time I don't eat lunch because I am not hungry at all and then I eat some sort of meat and vegetable at dinner. I know after reading all the advise that I probably need to eat more, but I just can't seem to make myself eat when I am not hungry. I am not losing very much weight these past two weeks. Does anyone have advise for me?? I appreciate all advise!! Thank you!


If you don't mix Carb with Fat/Oil, your body will tell you what to do(even force you.)
You might want to replace the portion of your carb with tomato to see if it can remove some of your water.

If your BMI is around 25(below 30), you will have a hard time to lose weight this way.
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Old Thu, May-18-17, 05:31
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169 Female 5' 9"
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
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Eat when you are Hungry, Stop when you are full
The (Ketogenic) diet works best on a “demand feeding” basis—that is, eat whenever you are hungry; try not to eat more than what will satisfy you. Learn to listen to your body. A low-carbohydrate diet has a natural appetite-reduction effect to ease you into the consumption of smaller and smaller quantities comfortably. Therefore, do not eat everything on your plate just because it’s there. On the other hand, don’t go hungry! You are not counting calories. Enjoy losing weight comfortably, without hunger or cravings.


From Duke clinic diet.

Also, you haven't read any books...what "Keto" plan are you following?
There is a lot of bad advice out there on the internet. For weight loss, you should be drawing Fat for energy from your body, not trying to eat some magic "macro." of fat.

Good graphics in this article, you should be "eating" your stored fat for energy, not adding more energy from food, why you just don't feel hungry. Your hunger will return when energy is needed, not to worry. https://lowcarbrn.wordpress.com/201...-force-the-fat/

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Old Thu, May-18-17, 10:55
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when i'm in ketosis, i don't normally get hungry, ever. but if i forget to eat, i get really really really tired and lethargic. how's your energy level?

it's also really helpful to use something to track what you're eating, so that you can go back and see what worked and what didn't, especially if you're losing well and then all of a sudden stop losing. sometimes it's a plateau, sometimes it's carb creep or whatever.
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Old Fri, May-19-17, 10:40
locarb4avr locarb4avr is offline
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when i'm in ketosis, i don't normally get hungry, ever. but if i forget to eat, i get really really really tired and lethargic. how's your energy level?

it's also really helpful to use something to track what you're eating, so that you can go back and see what worked and what didn't, especially if you're losing well and then all of a sudden stop losing. sometimes it's a plateau, sometimes it's carb creep or whatever.


You need to adjust the energy(food) you eat to move your body away from the tire zone. Also adjust your timing to move it to like sleeping time.
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