So as many of you know from my recent post, I had a bit of a divert on my keto eating, I think a week ago.
I basically decided late at night I wanted sugar and decided to polish off some gluten free flapjacks, I was in a foul mood all the day and think it triggered off my path of destruction.
Anyway, after encouragement from you all I decided to forget what have happened and start a fresh.
A few days after I noticed my underwear felt very tight and my trousers too, my body shape looked familiar (old shape) so I weighed myself. I had hidden my scales, as I know you go by how loose your clothes are, rather than obsessing about weight.
I was shocked that I weighed more than when I started keto.
I’m not having breakfast and eat at around 12pm then dinner 6pm.
I’m wondering what’s going on, for my body to gain this weight just from my snacking night.
I’ve tested my thyroid as I’m on medication and wonder if my levels are too low, but can your body be really sensitive to heavy carbs?
Any suggestions on a kick into keto eating plan for me.
Best wishes
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Well, I'm far fom an expert but this is my experience. I havent really lost anything since starting low carb. 1lb overall. My weight goes up and down far more than previously - I think its water retention. You lose a lot of water when you switch to low carb - all that going to the loo and getting headaches and drinking stock cubes. Then when you have an off day all the water stays in and it takes a few days to get back to normal. I find it quite easy to have 20-30g of carbs per day, but occasionanlly (usually when eating at friends houses) I end up having about 100g and that must mean no more keto etc. Who knows! Good luck with it. Even though I havent really lost weight I still prefer this way of eating anyway.
It’ll be water weight, I had this, don’t let it put you off. It is not physically possible scientifically to put on that much. Remember to drink lots, paradoxically it stops your body holding on to extra fluid.(As in water, no g&t☹️!)
There is no need to hide the scales. In fact, you should weigh yourself once in a week first thing in the morning before breakfast to monitor your weekly progress.
Gaining weight does not necessarily mean you are out of ketosis. You will go out of ketosis only when you start consuming too much carb and in some cases too much protein. Gaining weight on ketosis only means your energy intake from dietary fat + protein is high enough not to let stored body fat to be used and any excess energy is stored as fat.
You should review your diet. Make a list of everything that you eat in a day. Do not exclude anything, however small it may appear.
If you have been on ketosis, the body gets adapted to using sugar and fat as fuel and can switch from one to other efficiently without any extra effort.
If you're going to weigh yourself, draw out a little graph. Or take a moving average. Then you can see the overall trend. Single-point readings aren't much use because your weight does go up and down (by as much as +/-1lb) throughout the day.
As Praveen55 said, being fat-adapted means that your body is much less likely to do dysfunctional things with carbs - a flapjack binge is really neither here nor there in the long run. In fact you just reminded me I did something similar at my sister's house a while back ... I was helping her set up a chicken fence, and she'd gone out and left a load of homemade flapjack in the kitchen. There was considerably less of it when she got back
As I recall you've only been doing this a couple of months, and some people do lose slower than others (I think you mentioned you weren't dramatically overweight in the first place?). Think of this as a healthy-eating plan first and foremost. If your body needs to discard fat then it will do so .. eventually. How are you feeling generally? Do you exercise? Unless you're seriously overweight, your body shape is determined to a large extent by your musculature rather than fat.
"In fact you just reminded me I did something similar at my sister's house a while back ... I was helping her set up a chicken fence, and she'd gone out and left a load of homemade flapjack in the kitchen. There was considerably less of it when she got back :)"
Sound like me when I was able to tolerate gluten, I have been known to eat my sons Easter eggs and I was an expert at taking haribo sweets out of his tub without breaking the seal.
I'm not overweight, but, I hate the extra pounds, as my shape changes, tops of legs and bottom, some like the Kim Kardashian look, but not me.
I do feel ok, more energy, but I have Hashimoto's and an under active thyroid to throw in the mix as well.
I do go to the gym and do the classes, Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays, I do a range of classes, body attack, body pump, step and now I have joined Yoga. It's helps with stress relief.
Hey just wanted to let you know that my thyroid is also low and from starting I’ve lost 4lbs quite quickly. Sometimes though during diets I only lose half a pound or a pound as I can carry a lot of water. I’ve been known to gain 9lbs and then lose it the week after. I’ve started drinking more water and it helps. There’s a lady in America that I speak to whose lost 32lbs from the Keto plan and she’s on thyroxine too.. so don’t be disheartened if you’ve got thyroid issues.
I’m new to the diet so I can’t give any tips, I would get it checked again and maybe put up a diary in here of what your eating so people who know the diet can help
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