What happens when you stop losing weight while in ketosis?!
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I actually gained a half of a pound.
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All ketosis means is that your body is using protein fat for energy and creating ketones, aka, you are on a low carb diet. The thing is your weight does not depend on carbs vs. fat vs. protein. It depends on the number of calories you put in vs. the number of calories you use each day. If you are on a low carb diet and do not eat any carbs, but you eat a 24oz prime rib with 1 litter of whole milk everyday cause you can eat protein and fat and you are going to gain weight because you are not burning off enough calories. I assume that since you are in ketosis you are doing an atkins (or at least what you think is atkins cause most people have not read the book and don't really understand how the "diet" works) or a modified atkins diet. The main thing that people miss about all of those low carb diets is that they are also designed to be low calorie diet as well as a low carb. The reason you are gaining weight could be due to water weight (drank 3 liters of water the day before) you actually gained weight cause you are taking in more calories than you are burning, or you have plateaued in your current regiment and unless you make more changes you will either stay where you are or gain more weight. A fourth option could be that you go to the gym everyday and work out a lot and are in great shape and you have actually gained muscle mass (since muscle is heavier than fat).
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