What do you eat on Keto?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished 2 weeks of strict Keto + IF and somehow only lost 3 lbs. I was expecting much more and am not 100% sure where I went wrong. I didn’t count carbs/macros but thought I was following the diet perfectly. Looking back, maybe I ate too many veggies that added up to to many carbs? Or too much dairy? Or not enough fat?

Here was my typical menu for the 14 days:

10am Coffee w/ 2T heavy cream

12pm Lunch - always a salad with 3 cups of greens, red cabbage, 2-3 hard boiled egg whites, 1/2 avocado and goat/feta cheese with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for dressing

2/3pm Snack - 2oz cheese or Chobani zero sugar Greek yogurt (4 net carbs) or iced coffee w/ 2T heavy cream

6pm Dinner - simple grilled protein (chicken breast, steak, burger patty on repeat) with 2-3 cups lower carb veggies sautéed in butter or olive oil (spinach, zucchini, Brussels sprouts) or sometimes caprese (tomatoes, mozzarella and basil).

If you are female and have seen success on keto can you please share what you typically eat or critique what you think I did wrong?

Women sometimes don't lose weight (even gain weight initially) because body reconfiguration occurs, especially bone density improvements. 14 days is NOT enough time to be fat adapted. Your choices of foods may or may not be enough to even keep ketosis, depending on your body and hormones. You seem to have eaten a lot of greens and vegetables. You don't need those. They can add up carbs also. Even so-called "net carbs" can sometimes be incorrect, and your body may actually still process them.

Everything wrong with keto in one concise sentence.

[phone]infinity

Any person or any diet that says you ate too many greens and vegetables.... run. Run far, run fast.

[Anonymous]

No idea what went wrong. Those are all things that I eat on keto except the heavy cream.

Make sure your veggies are low carb - cauliflower, spinach, zucchini, cabbage, greens, etc. I do eat tomatoes and onions because I love them. Stay away from corn, peas, potatoes, beans, etc.

I love shrimp. Garlic butter shrimp with roasted cauliflower, spicy stir fried shrimp with mushrooms, zucchini, broccoli etc, Hard boiled eggs for quick breakfast or lunch.

Chili is good if you make it yourself so you don’t add sugar.

Chicken, lemon spinach soup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished 2 weeks of strict Keto + IF and somehow only lost 3 lbs. I was expecting much more and am not 100% sure where I went wrong. I didn’t count carbs/macros but thought I was following the diet perfectly. Looking back, maybe I ate too many veggies that added up to to many carbs? Or too much dairy? Or not enough fat?

Here was my typical menu for the 14 days:

10am Coffee w/ 2T heavy cream

12pm Lunch - always a salad with 3 cups of greens, red cabbage, 2-3 hard boiled egg whites, 1/2 avocado and goat/feta cheese with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for dressing

2/3pm Snack - 2oz cheese or Chobani zero sugar Greek yogurt (4 net carbs) or iced coffee w/ 2T heavy cream

6pm Dinner - simple grilled protein (chicken breast, steak, burger patty on repeat) with 2-3 cups lower carb veggies sautéed in butter or olive oil (spinach, zucchini, Brussels sprouts) or sometimes caprese (tomatoes, mozzarella and basil).

If you are female and have seen success on keto can you please share what you typically eat or critique what you think I did wrong?

Women sometimes don't lose weight (even gain weight initially) because body reconfiguration occurs, especially bone density improvements. 14 days is NOT enough time to be fat adapted. Your choices of foods may or may not be enough to even keep ketosis, depending on your body and hormones. You seem to have eaten a lot of greens and vegetables. You don't need those. They can add up carbs also. Even so-called "net carbs" can sometimes be incorrect, and your body may actually still process them.

Everything wrong with keto in one concise sentence.

[phone]infinity

Any person or any diet that says you ate too many greens and vegetables.... run. Run far, run fast.

Seriously. The idea that this person is not hitting their weight loss goals due to overconsumption of vegetables is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Isn't 1.5 the maximum a person should lose in a week? I wouldn't lose any faster if I were you OP

[Anonymous]

3 pounds in 2 weeks is awesome! Stick with it. The sample day of food sounds good to me. Also it came take some time for your body to get used to it. Great job OP!

[Anonymous]

A goal of the keto diet is for you to enter ketosis. Did you? How would you know? Get a Keto Mojo tester and find out. That diet may still have too many carbs for you. Once in ketosis you by definition begin to burn fats. And will likely lose more weight than you have been.

[Anonymous]

I'm on keto for medical reasons, not weight loss. Have only been on it three weeks but I haven't lost weight. I'm relying heavily on meals from Factor (which are really, really good -- but I'm starting to get sick of them already).

[Anonymous]

Eggs, Bacon, Cheese, Nuts, peanut butter, cottage cheese, berries, beef, chicken, fish, lots of green vegetables via salads when possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A goal of the keto diet is for you to enter ketosis. Did you? How would you know? Get a Keto Mojo tester and find out. That diet may still have too many carbs for you. Once in ketosis you by definition begin to burn fats. And will likely lose more weight than you have been.

This is the answer. I lost 60lbs on keto and IF. However, I only consumed 30-45g of carbs a day. I only ate proteins and vegetables. Almost no carbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A goal of the keto diet is for you to enter ketosis. Did you? How would you know? Get a Keto Mojo tester and find out. That diet may still have too many carbs for you. Once in ketosis you by definition begin to burn fats. And will likely lose more weight than you have been.

This is the answer. I lost 60lbs on keto and IF. However, I only consumed 30-45g of carbs a day. I only ate proteins and vegetables. Almost no carbs.

Did you keep the weight off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A goal of the keto diet is for you to enter ketosis. Did you? How would you know? Get a Keto Mojo tester and find out. That diet may still have too many carbs for you. Once in ketosis you by definition begin to burn fats. And will likely lose more weight than you have been.

This is the answer. I lost 60lbs on keto and IF. However, I only consumed 30-45g of carbs a day. I only ate proteins and vegetables. Almost no carbs.

Did you keep the weight off?

Yes. I don’t do keto anymore but I am very low carb. I switched to OMAD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A goal of the keto diet is for you to enter ketosis. Did you? How would you know? Get a Keto Mojo tester and find out. That diet may still have too many carbs for you. Once in ketosis you by definition begin to burn fats. And will likely lose more weight than you have been.

This is the answer. I lost 60lbs on keto and IF. However, I only consumed 30-45g of carbs a day. I only ate proteins and vegetables. Almost no carbs.

Did you keep the weight off?

Yes. I don’t do keto anymore but I am very low carb. I switched to OMAD.

I’m the poster that wrote about the goal of the keto diet and the Keto Mojo monitor.

A little over 20 years ago I lost a lot of weight doing Atkins. Over the years I gained it all back and then some. With age I became insulin resistant and found it nearly impossible to get into ketosis. I too turned to OMAD and lost nearly 40 pounds over several months. I’m intrigued by the potential benefits of autophagy, never mind the weight loss. I’m glad to hear of your success.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd ditch the heavy cream and the cheese but that's me.

Same. But I’m anti keto and would add some fruit and whole grains in there and just lower your calories.

[Anonymous]

Butter frosted cupcake. I swear at least most of the calories from fat.

[Anonymous]

Do you have any issues digesting dairy? When I eat dairy I get really bloated and retain a lot of water.