Keto: your success stories if you are petite when starting?

[Lostatsea1988]

Started keto two days ago and to keep me focused am hoping for some inspiration from people who didn't have too much to lose?

I am 64.5kg which is far too much for my frame (I'm a smidge under 5'2 / 157cm). To give some context I'm the kind of chubby that looks fine (sometimes even nice!) in clothes but horrific in my underwear and my waist (which always stayed neat) is just spreading.

I would like to lose a stone but would settle for 9lb.

I keep reading about people losing 10lb in the first 14 days and having lost 30kg in a year etcand I know that won't be me, but it's really hard to get a sense of what I can hope to achieve from my starting point?

Please inspire me petite / slightly chunky women with your keto success stories!

P.s. to pre-empt some possible questions / suggestions:

My app has recommended 25g carbs, 55g protein and 92g fat for me (1150 kcal per day). I am finding it easy to stay under for carbs. Protein I seem to keep going over, calories v slightly over. Hoping to improve as I get into the rhythm!

I am reasonably active already (which is why i can't really understand why i've ended up at over 10st, sob): cycle to and from work 3 - 5 times a week (1 hour a day, pretty hilly/strenous). A 10km run once a week + a 5km run most weeks. Need to try and get back into some home weights / pilates ring etc for the toning side of it.

Existing diet: again, can't understand why i've ended up here! I already ate a restricted carb diet - bread only ever at weekends or in a restaurant, never at home, only ever brown rice and kept portions small and limited to a couple of times a week, pasta never more than twice a week (maybe a spag bol and then leftovers for lunch later in the week). But to be fair I wasn't counting carbs in fruit and veg and legumes, which I ate plenty of (assuming that was what was good for me...)

I'm 5ft 3, started the bootcamp in January at about 10st 4. Finished at 9st 5 at the end of March. Stayed at that sort of level between bootcamps and got down to 9st by the end of the last bootcamp. I've been doing weights 3 times a week since December but since lockdown I have added skipping in 3 times a week too which I am really enjoying!

Thank you Cad that is so heartening!

Would you mind sharing a day's menu with me? (when you are in keto mode)

And what did you do between boot camps? Also keto or more relaxed? Do you plan to do keto long term or do you think you'll just use it to rest yourself whenever your weight creeps up?

(last night I had a dream about cake! I don't even have a sweet tooth!)

*reset yourself

@cad186 sorry for the tag just keen to know your thoughts on the above!

(lost 1.5kg since Sunday! Messed Sunday up though, overdid the nut butter. Have technically lost closer to 3kg but that was just from an indulgent last hurrah weekend so wanted to start from the lowest actual weight from the 10 days prior if that makes sense!)

Hi, I tend not to eat breakfast but I did at the start to make sure I didnt get hungry. There are lots of meal ideas on the bootcamp threads and the recipe threads. I tend to have salad type things at lunch time with tuna, cheese, ham etc, then for dinner I usually have meat and lots of veg with butter, maybe some raspberries and cream, and I love the fathead pizza recipe. I will stick to this way of eating as I think this is the healthiest way for me to eat, it massively reduces cravings and I am eating fresh healthy foods instead of processed rubbish. I was a bit more relaxed between bootcamps last time but I'm not really missing any foods at the moment so I am happy to carry on, but I will have the occasional treat for a birthday or when it's really unavoidable.

@Lostatsea1988

Firstly, Bootcamp isn't keto. Keto is very strictly low carb, with around 20g carbs per day. On Bootcamp we don't count carbs.

Second, nor do we count calories!

Third, if you're going to low carb, you need to do it all the time:

Existing diet: again, can't understand why i've ended up here! I already ate a restricted carb diet - bread only ever at weekends or in a restaurant, never at home, only ever brown rice and kept portions small and limited to a couple of times a week, pasta never more than twice a week (maybe a spag bol and then leftovers for lunch later in the week). But to be fair I wasn't counting carbs in fruit and veg and legumes, which I ate plenty of (assuming that was what was good for me...)

You can't chop and change on a low carb diet. You exclude bread, rice and pasta all the time.

And fourthly, don't worry about exercise. While it's very good for you in general, it's a very small part of losing weight. It's much more important to focus on your diet.

You've posted on the Low Carb Bootcamp topic - have you read up about what this actually entails?

Anyone else got any petite keto success stories? Strangely easy so far but I think that's just rose tinted glasses :)

Yep thinking of migrating to low carb after keto!

Sorry I did bootcamp rules not keto, because it was in the bootcamp section I just assumed you meant you were following bootcamp rules! Sorry if I confused matters, glad Biwi clarified! I highly recommend the bootcamp rules, no counting anything and very easy to follow. And it works!

I am 5"5 and was 9st 7 , nowhere near overweight but it was all round my middle. I have always had arms and legs like sticks.

Started bootcamp in Jan 2019 (ish?) and by the end of the year I was 7st 12 and had to dial it back because obviously that is underweight. (Although I was that weight naturally for many years as a young woman whilst eating like a horse , it was just the way I was, ah those were the days!) I am now around 8st 2, which a lot of people would say is too thin but it isn't for me.