I shoot for 2 meals and a snack. Lunch about 11:30 am, dinner around 5:30 pm, and a snack around 7:30 pm. If I'm too hungry to make it until 11:30 for lunch, I have something like 5 almonds. Since I'm trying to avoid nuts for a while, I'm trying to do coffee with heavy cream or bulletproof coffee in the morning if I'm hungry before lunch time.

Could some of you who are successfully losing list a typical day of your eating habits? I'm still not losing (but at least I'm not gaining). I'm thinking I might need to do a few days to a week of keto. I don't want to do keto indefinitely, but maybe it would help me get over this hump.

How are you doing? Like WereBear, I'm kinda surprised by that hunger in the morning. Bulletproof coffee has plenty of fat calories.

If you can handle it, you might try changing your meal schedule: eat breakfast. Bacon and eggs. Leftovers from dinner. More protein earlier in the day.

Everybody's different, as they say. For 15 years, I've eaten the famous One Minute Muffin for breakfast every day. Lots of recipes you can look up. It's a big slug of fiber, fat, and protein that completely satisfies. Just a thought!

Best wishes.

Here's what it looks like for me, right now, quoted from my journal;



I should throw in that where I say "or so" with the cream, I do measure the amount I put in, it's just that the amount that I decide to measure will vary. I'm calling this fasting every other day, but really it's every other day calorie restriction.

I also have been more hungry than usual. How much fat should you aim for on LCHF?

Fat depends on the person. But so many of us are coming from low fat regimens that a pat of butter on veggies, or cooking our eggs in coconut oil, or eating a fatty cut like chuck, seems decadent. And it may be so, but it's also good for us.

Good fat sources, like animals, coconuts, or olives; banish seed oils. I make homemade salad dressings that are so much tastier to control my fat quality. You can even make your own mayo with an immersion blender: it's fun! Add flavors like garlic or hot chili.

Try adding vinegar with your meals: a spoonful in a glass of water, or as part of a veggie viniagrette, has "natural metformin" quality that helps us digest our food and has blood sugar control too.

We can feel hungry because we aren't getting enough minerals or vitamins. A bottle of chromium picolinate can be a good investment. Add C with meals. Use sea salt for trace minerals, and kelp or spirulina as supplements to get not only iodine, but all kinds of other minerals too. Chelated magnesium is something most people are short on; I started with six or seven tablets a DAY to built up my deficit, now a daily one works. If it makes our tummy rumble, back off: it's easy to assess our dose.

We probably spent decades starving our bodies. I found all the supplementation I did was extremely helpful in getting healthy again.

NOT a multivitamin; a waste of money.

I'm not hungry if I have bulletproof coffee. I was hungry before I started having it.

I'm doing a little better. Yesterday my goal was "no carbs for one day," which translated to probably about 20g. I guess that's what I'll have to do (shoot for none at all) for a little while until I get back to where I need to be.

Thanks for the day in the life, teaser. That helps me.

If you aren't tracking -- you are making this harder than it need be.

When we start tracking our food, amazing things pop up that we never realized. At first it seems tedious, but it really lets us get to know our food. Wow, a serving of our own Spinach lasagna is less carbs than the lunch we tend to throw together; it's worth making for a whole week of meals.

I didn't know THAT had so many carbs! And days I eat this way I'm hungrier than when I eat that way... and so forth.

This isn't for the rest of your life. I tracked my first two months, and then I knew so much more about my food and what works for me. I learned to not care about calories, only carbs, and that extra veggies made me fuller without much change in my ratios... even what ratios worked for me.

The banner has MY P.L.A.N. in yellow; it can be built right in. Or get one of those apps that are everywhere.

It's worth the time and trouble. Because it saves you time and trouble!

I'm am tracking. I just didn't think I'd need to lower my carbs this much.

Good for you!

Well, it's all a grand experiment. I used Atkins Carb Ladder to figure out maintenance, which is a whole other thing

Hi. I really think you should consider reassessing your goal weight. 112 puts you at a 19-ish BMI, which is barely above underweight. It's sad, but we ladies slowly change body shape as we age. I don't know how old you are, but let's just say that at 42, I won't be 125 lbs again even if I gave up all my hedonist ways and ate a calorie-deficient puritanical version of LC. Learning to make friends with being curvy is the best thing I've ever done.

Eat a healthy LC diet, and let your body settle where it will. Then go get some clothes that look fabulous on you.

Whoops. What she said. Low carb can be great for maintenance.

Thanks, Kristine. I appreciate that.

For the record, here's what I ate today:

3 cups of black coffee

Lunch:
2 eggs fried in bacon fat
2 pieces of bacon

Snack:
Swiss Miss Light hot chocolate with 2T almond milk

Dinner:
1/2 avocado with meat sauce
6 olives

Snack:
Blueberries (I need to look up how many I can have and still keep my carbs down)

Thanks, all!

Lordy, Darlin' that's not enough FOOD.

No wonder you're hungry.

More protein. More fat. More green vegetables please!

Take care of you!