so far I’ve ditched the ketogenic diet to not show my lifestyle change to anyone. I am still counting calories and macros. I skip the gym only on days where my girl is at home as to not raise any suspicion. On days where I am at the gym I get at around 1900~2100 kcal, on days without I’m staying at 1600~1800 kcal - so far I lose about 100g a day/ 1.5 lbs a week. I’m down 4.6 kg (10 lbs) since I started on December 27. The belt hole puncher is useful. I’m down 2 holes on the belt, 1 of them I needed to punch myself.
I’m planning on going public with weight loss in march, starting keto and the gym officially.
If that weight isn’t just the initial water weight loss, that’s a lot of weight to lose in a month. Congratulations with a successful month 🙂, but be careful to not overreach. If you’re planning to train and build muscle while dieting, you shouldn’t be too aggressive with the caloric deficit.
If you are comfortable with you current diet, you shouldn’t change your diet. Unless you enjoy the keto diet, it won’t do you any good. At best you keep your weight loss, at worst the diet throws you off course, so there’s little to gain with a keto diet. Calories in vs calories out will always be king.
100% this. Diets shmiets, the quantity you eat is what’s going to affect your mass. A lot of those diets naturally reduce your calorie intake which is why they work, but most people just eat more to compensate which makes it ineffective
4.6 kilos in month is a lot of weight, are you ok?
It is a lot of weight, I am also very obese. By this rate it takes about 1.5 years to get into healthy weight area.
Just a note, every pound is harder to lose than the last. You’re doing great and you’ve taken the most important first step, but you will likely have to keep readjusting your efforts consistently if you’re expecting the graph to stay linear.
Are you training with someone knowledgeable that can help you with diet and exercises?
Hope you can obtain results that you wish for!
A lot of it’s water weight in the first few weeks. And it’s all relative. I lost 1-1,5kg a week in the beginning but now I’m losing far less.
