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Mandy I have a few thoughts for you about this.  First, if you keep eating low cal, you will lose.  Second, what you are eating is also important.  When I hit my six months stall, Dr. Cirangle told me to keep my calories the same, (600-800) but increase the amount of dense protein that I was eating and decrease the carbs to as little as possible.  It worked, I lost 7 lbs. that very same week.  I hope it works for you too, I know it can be very frustrating, but it will happen.  Hang in there, we are all pulling for you.

What did you eat for dense protein?

A sample day for me might be this:

B: string cheese
L: 1/3 c. chicken salad
S: 1/2 protein bar
D: chicken, taco meat, beef, pork (or whatever meat is in the dinner that I cook for my family)
S: cheese

or

B: eggface egg bites (3)
L: slice of pepper jack cheese
D: turkey chili
S: nuts

Lately I have been avoiding wheat crackers, light popcorn and nuts, even though I've always lost ok when I ate those things. I just avoid them when I can now that I'm closer to goal.

How long have you been avoiding the crackers, popcorn, etc.?  That seems like it might help but you may not have seen the results yet.  Can you replace the string cheese with some type of protein?  I personally eat all kinds of meat; filet mignon, pork chops, chicken, etc.  Then once a day maybe some veggies.

 I find the more often I eat meat, the better results I get and dairy stalls me as do nuts.  Your menu looks pretty good but I'd say try to replace meat with cheese or other dairy choices as often as you can.  Of course stay away from the wheat crackers, etc. :)  Perhaps you can add in some veggies in the place of the cheese too?

I know it's all easier said than done but maybe if you give this a try it will help.. couldn't hurt right?

A couple weeks now. When it didn't help my stall, I tried eating a bit again (since they never affected my weight loss) but the scale still didn't budge. To be honest, I'm not big on an all meat diet and I hate most veggies except in teeny tiny quantities. I'm going to try giving up cheese for a week to see what happens, but it's not something I could do long-term (just meat all day long, I mean - that sounds pretty horrible to me!).

If our bodies could talk they would be saying things like

What the @#$% is she trying to do to us! 
She's trying to kill us!
Hang onto everything for dear life we're in a famine!

Eating such low calorie amounts when our bodies were used to years of high and much higher calorie diets puts a major glitch in the system. It takes our bodies a long time to figure out that fat burning is better than fat storage. That change takes time and patience. That said your weight training should help burn more fat and break your stall, and if not than time itself will help force your body to let go of the fat reserves...

This made me laugh and is so true. Our bodies are probably fa-reaking out!

I just wanted to word of warning you about the lifting..   its good for FAT LOSS, its not supergreat for WEIGHT LOSS   So measure yourself!!  I have a picture that I show of me before and after 2 months of lifting and after 2 months and following a keto diet, I was ripped - but the truth of the "weight" between the 2 pictures?  2 pounds.    In fact, because of breaking down the muscle (you know, to build it up) your body will retain some water so it might even look like a gain (on the scale) and that's when people blather "oh it must be muscle weight" and its not.  Unless you have super freaky muscle growth, no way in hell did you in a week, a month gain 2 pounds of lean muscle - but anyway, I digress.   The room you will take up after weightlifting will be much less!  But the scale might not do what you are wanting it to do JUST because of the weight lifting.   I did not want you to be discouraged, I wanted to encourage you that weightlifting is going to rox your sox if you keep it up - it just will not rock your scale downwards like I am thinking you want it to.  Or maybe I am thinking wrong!   Either way, congrats on the weight lifting!  It makes a great difference in how your body wears your skin, especially when you gotz the bumflaps!  (ask me how I know!) :}

Here, this picture.. so.. course its obvious which is the beforebefore.. but there are 2 months and 2 pounds between the before keto/lifting and the keto/lifting picture.

I remember these pics! Are you still lifting? You got mad muscles!!

I want to get toned a little - especially in my arms (batwings) and my butt (bumflaps - the worst!!!). I have a good bit of fat hanging around on my mid section and upper thighs that has to go. Really I want to lose about 33 more lbs or more depending on how I feel if I ever make the 33 lbs!

I had to stop for a while because I lost my supah job and had to go back to transcription, so I needed to give my hands a chance to have endurance with the typing, before I went back to the lifting, but yea!  I am.

I know you will get to where you want to be!  Having more muscle on you will eat up fat all over, which is good! I just did not want you to get discouraged if it did not show on the scale like I was thinking you wanted it to. 

I mean - it will ultimately definitely!  But you know - cardio is better for the "weight" loss seeing quicker than the muscling up!
 

I do cardio now, after 6 months of resisting it. LOL

I do about 45 minutes on the treadmill 4-5 times a week (I'm easing into it ha), but I'd like to do only 30-40 minutes on the treadmill and then 30-40 on strength training.

I tried the fast/slow thing on the treadmill today that my Dr. told me to do (his theory is that it burns more calories and I can shorten the time spent on the treadmill that way, 30 minutes rather than an hour or whatever) and I jogged for 5 minutes and 30 seconds (in between my fast walking). I thought I would die I was so tired!! I used to be able to jog for at least 30 minutes when I was this weight fourteen years ago - but I lost that much weight by working out two hours a day, mostly cardio. It's amazing the difference..I am so out of shape even though I'm the same size now.