Hey guys and girls,
I’ve been keto and IFing since Jan 1st, with a good weight loss since then.
I’ll list some general facts around what I’ve done, and would love to hear any advice/tips/stories you guys have on how you have got through a plateau yourselves.
Any ideas?
So I’ve been through this, you don’t need to work out to lose weight, I mean don’t stop definitely not saying that!
But it’s irrelevant to what I’m about to say.
I’ve gained and lost my weight on 4 separate occasions and I know the plateau. The last 10-15lbs that’s stubborn. I’ve lost it myself, but I wished I had the workout drive you do cause I probably would’ve kept it off.
Context I’m a 5’10” male 28 y.o. My heaviest was 215lbs My lightest was 145lbs
To break that 170-165lb barrier I learned about Carbo loading.
I was religious to low carb and tracked my 20g and was eating at a deficit but it didn’t help my body had grown used to fat as a fuel source, it was optimized and efficient. So I learned you have to trick your body into processing the same way you did before. You have to make the sacrifice to exit and enter ketosis all over again. You have to eat a really carb heavy meal (please make it healthy, and don’t binge 24hrs) your body will switch to carbs and it’ll have to resupply those ketones all over again. You still have that 1 week you don’t see the scale move that much because your expelling carbs still, but after that the scale starts to go down again.
Keep in mind I tell you the workout not mattering cause I worked out all through high school and was fat and had muscle, but I didn’t work out 1 day on my weightloss journey and I shedded lbs on average 5-8lbs a week. Working out might slow your weightloss down a little bit because my 215 to 145 came at the cost of everything, muscles and fat included, I was thin and lean but my strength was 1/4 of what it was. So even if your scale isn’t moving as fast as you like remember all things come at a cost, I’d argue slower is better if you get to keep as much of your muscle as possible. You don’t get to build on a deficit.