I have kept my weight off
As someone who is on a keto diet, I tend to maintain a stance of "the best diet is the one you stick with". That said, I also maintain that avoiding seed oils and refined sugar/HFCS is generally a good thing to do regardless of your dietary preference. As for being in a keto diet, I find there's been benefits to me beyond weight loss. Though, there has been weight loss as I've gone from size 42 waist to 34 waist for the exact same brand of jeans and XL shirts to L shirts in the span of about 2 years (being able to fit into the shirt that was too small for when I bought it). It's hard to express how much I enjoy being able to finally be able to bend forward and touch my toes while standing. There's also stuff like regrowing body hair, have enough energy throughout the day that I don't feel like I'm gonna pass out by 6pm, and not having as many bathroom issues. It's also encouraged me to cook more often and spend less money eating out.I have kept my weight off
This is my general reaction when I see people preaching online about ultra-restrictive and punishing diets:
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Hey, if it actually works for you, you do you, I don't think the keto diet deserves the evangelizing it gets though. You can lose weight while eating carbs, just count your damn calories and you'll lose.
I weigh myself everyday in the morning, but I only mark down my weight in a spreadsheet the morning of my cheat day; the day before being a low calorie diet day.
I weigh maybe every few days but only record my weight once every week or two weeks, on Fridays, just to stay consistent. Daily weight fluctuations are too variable to get an accurate result. And it's a cliché, but patience is indeed a virtue. You're more likely to get excited about bigger changes when you see them only once every week or two, and not get disappointed with a small loss or inexplicable weight gain after a day or two.
I guess there is some truth to that saying, especially if you started out at like 40+ BMI range. Someone at that high BMI could easily lose weight by simply cutting their calories down to 2,300 calories a day, and could easily drop 2-4 lbs a week. Hell, lots of the death fats on KF could consume 3,000+ calories a day and still lose a lot of weight quickly.
If I was at that starting point, I would find out my maintenance weight calories, and cut 300-500 calories from there. So if I'm staying at my weight at 1,800 calories a day, I would change it to 1,500 a day.
A BMI of 30 or 30% body fat is around the starting range of obesity so it sounds like just a way of saying it's easier to lose weight when you are really fat. Obese people typically eat like shit and they can get into a calorie deficit by just not drinking their usual 2 liter bottle of high fructose retard juice every day. I'm already in good shape with a healthy BMI but I'm cutting to get towards single digit body fat. Eating gay little baby meals while trying to get enough protein and lifting 5-6 times a week with no energy is miserable. But I'm on the extreme. Getting to a healthy BMI really isn't that hard.
That number is not important at all. If you are maintaining a calorie deficit, you'll lose weight. Once you stop losing weight, you drop the calories lower.
I've been losing and gaining the same 5 lbs (158-153 lbs) since late January, lol. It's kind of frustrating, but I'm not super pressed about it because like I've said, my current priority is maintaining my milk supply for my baby until he self-weans, and I've experienced production problems in the past when I get too aggressive with calories or exercise. As he gets older and has started with table foods which reduces his milk consumption and thus my energy expenditure, I've been doing a lot of body weight exercises and pilates and my body composition has changed for the better, but strictly numerically, my first goal weight of 150 is so close yet so far away and it's kind of nagging at me.
Weighing every day, if possible, is the way to go. Should be really easy to do as you wake up or after you shower.
Is that like 55kgs? How tall are you? That's kinda light weight, be careful with weight loss, you will lose muscle mass too, so that's why you might feel weaker. You'll lose muscle mass even if you run/bike as your work out. Always try to find a way to sneak in some strength training, even if you're a dedicated endurance runner that wants to be super slim, you still need to build muscle.
