Reasons You're Not Losing Weight on Paleo. If you're new here, check out our meal plan, our fitness plan, and our ebooks to help you get started with Paleo. Thanks for visiting! Tell me if this sounds familiar. You heard about Paleo from someone who lost weight effortlessly on Paleo. They told you Paleo was amazing, the food tasted great, you could eat bacon (omg!), and that they ate as much food as they wanted and they just. Poof! So you decided to try it for yourself, and in the first week you lost 7 pounds. That’s more weight than you’d lost in the past 5 years combined. In one week – amazing. You figured you were on an easy peasy downhill ride to your optimal size. So you kept doing what you did the first week, but after the 2nd or 3rd week, the weight stopped coming off. And now you’re stuck right where you were at week 3. Maybe you’ve even gained some weight. What the? Is this you? Standing on the scale or in front of the mirror saying to yourself, “Why am I not losing weight on Paleo?!” Well, it’s a lot of people, according to my email inbox. And you will get through this. If you need to lose fat, you’ll lose fat if you take the right steps. I’ve talked to a lot of Paleo people, and I’ve learned a lot from them (and myself) over the years about failing to lose fat, even on Paleo. Let me share with you what we’ve collectively figured out, and you can start experimenting with yourself to get over this little bump in the road. A lot of this info is being borrowed from another similar post I wrote on this topic here. You may be eating too many calories. I just had a conversation with my beautiful cousin, Meg about calories. She’s thin as a rail and has always had a sweet tooth. She decided a while back to cut out some of the candy and other junk food she was eating, and instead opt for a healthier snack of nuts and dried mango. Well, she ended up gaining 7 pounds on a small frame in a short period of time because she was overeating those “healthy” foods. The moral of the story is that it doesn’t matter how healthy your food is; if you eat too much of it, you’re going to gain weight. I’ve had the same thing happen over and over in my own life. I’ll be at a good weight that I like, and then I get overly comfortable and start putting more food on my plate (all Paleo foods), eating more for snacks, using more oil/fat in my meals, and eating a few too many sweets and BAM. I’m fitting in my pants all wrong. Then I usually end up going to myfitnesspal. I eat for a few days to see the damage. One time I found out I was eating 1,0. How to Lose Weight Fast. Tired of carrying around those extra pounds? The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to create a low-calorie eating plan that you can. About The Paleo Diet Team. The Paleo Diet, the world’s healthiest diet, is based upon the fundamental concept that the optimal diet is the one to which we are. Why you should STOP eating whole wheat bread, vegetable oils, soy milk, and these cereals (they are causing weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer). Discussion of weight loss on a Paleo diet, answering the question: will I lose weight on Paleo? If you're on the "caveman diet"—eating mainly lean meats, veggies, and fruits—traditional grab-and-go snacks like chips and pretzels are off limits. Worst Carbs for Weight Loss. White Bread The fluffy bread of our childhood is a prime culprit when it comes to obesity. The manufacturing process strips the grains of. Duh. If you record what you’re eating and find you’re eating too much (according to myfitnesspal. Don’t be crazy about it and start making spreadsheets and bar graphs of your food intake vs your exercise vs the gravitational pull on your belly. You need that stuff to make energy and happiness and basic bodily functions, and if you have too little of it, chances are your plan is going to backfire and you’ll binge at the end of every day you deprive yourself. So. Be aware of how much you’re eating by looking foods up – like those sneaky little nuts by googling “calories x food”. Or by going to myfitnesspal. USDA food list. Yes, there are some people out there who can just “eat whatever they want” on Paleo and still magically lose weight. But those people and you may have different appetite signals in your bodies (my own appetite is very demanding, and sometimes I have to have little sit down talks with it). Or your metabolisms may be different, or you may just be more genetically prone to having fat on your body than that other person. Whatever the case may be, the amount of food you eat – and I don’t care what other people say about calories and Paleo – will have a large effect on how. I see it all the time. You may be exercising too much (or too little). I know that, “You’re exercising too much to lose weight” may sound counterintuitive, but I actually see this phenomenon a lot, and it happens to me personally. If I exercise too much, I gain weight. It happened when I started doing Cross. Fit last year, and as soon as I stopped Cross. Fit, I lost the weight. If you’re exercising more than 3 days a week, I’d ratchet it down to 3 days a week – or even less if you have diagnosed adrenal issues – for a while and see how that goes. Exercising 5- 6 days a week is a lot, and many people’s bodies don’t like it. You may be causing inflammation in your body, and water retention in your muscles is one of the ways inflammation manifests. Water retention = extra weight and ill- fitting clothes. Exercising too much can also negatively affect your cortisol levels because it’s so stressful on your body, and unbalanced cortisol levels can inhibit weight loss. Conversely, of course, if you’re not exercising at all, or doing just a little bit low impact exercise (walking – even really quickly ; ), your body could just need a kick in the pants. Sometimes a bit of intense weight lifting, sprints, or some kind of high intensity interval training (Cross. Fit- type workouts) is just what your insulin levels and muscle fibers need to get things moving. You may not be sleeping enough or well enough. Make sure you’re getting 8 hours a night (seriously) in a dark room with no noise. If you need to, wear ear plugs and/or an eye mask. Or sleep in a room where there’s no snoring spouse. If you don’t get enough sleep, you tax your adrenals and your cortisol levels can get out of whack, which can in turn inhibit weight loss, like I mentioned in the last point. Woman Who Lost 185 Lbs. Shows Off Excess Skin: 'I Wanted People to Realize What Obesity Does' 2 days ago - -. Laura Childs and her daughter Veronica Childs have lost a combined 110 pounds in less than a year, thanks to a low-carb, high-fat ketogenic Paleo diet. I sleep with ear plugs in every night. I don’t know what I’m going to do if I have a kid and I need to hear him/her crying at night. I’m an anxious, sometimes hyper- vigilant type of person, and if I hear the house creak at night I immediately think it’s a rapist coming into my room. I’m only sort of kidding. So earplugs changed my sleep forever by making all those noises go away. I can sleep through most things now, and I can’t recommend it highly enough for people like me. This is a really interesting article that sort of sums up the sleep/weight loss connection. Basically, there are several connections, including cortisol, ghrelin (the hormone that tells you when you’re actually hungry – ever noticed you’re hungrier when you’re tired?), and leptin (the hormone that tells you you’ve had enough to eat – same concept as with ghrelin). The one they don’t mention in the article is growth hormone. When you’re asleep your body produces growth hormone, which allows you to build muscle lose fat. If you don’t sleep, or if you don’t sleep well, then your body doesn’t produce as much growth hormone. So use the ear plugs and eye mask, invest in a comfortable bed that you actually sleep in, and do whatever it takes to get those 8 hours every night – or as often as you can. If you can’t get them at night, try to take naps whenever you can. If you have trouble falling asleep at night, try experimenting with your caffeine intake – when you drink it, how much of it you have, etc. You may be eating too many or not enough carbs. If you’re eating over 1. If that’s the case, then you can start experimenting with eating fewer carbs – less fruit, sweet potatoes, Paleo sweets, non- Paleo sweets ; ) Too many carbs will quickly put extra fat on you if you’re not using those carbs up. By the way, the 1. I just referenced is a very rough number, and everyone is different. For instance, some people can’t handle more than 2. That means lots of fat, moderate amounts of protein, and very low carbohydrates. Your body starts to adapt well to ketones (the fuel your body produces from fat in the absence of carbohydrates) and a lot of people have success with weight loss with this method, including Jimmy Moore of livinlavidalowcarb. I tried ketosis once and it didn’t fit my body type. Here’s a blog post about my experiment with it and what a Paleo ketogenic diet might look like. According to my many commenters on my blog posts throughout my ketogenic experiment, I did it all wrong, but I tend to think that I would’ve died if I’d kept going. Just kidding, but I at least would’ve withered away to Skeletor status. Either way, my body didn’t like it, but yours very well may. If you’re exercising a lot, though, you’ll want to do a LOT of reading up on how to do ketosis properly. Anyway, to figure out how many carbs you’re eating every day, just go into myfitnesspal. If you’re eating fewer than 1. Plus some honey or another natural type simple sugar, especially if you’re doing long endurance workouts. But “more” may just mean one half of a sweet potato every day, or a Paleo muffin made with honey or something. It depends on your size, your activity level, and how your particular body responds to carbs. I can’t tell you exactly how much you’ll need as everyone is different, but please do experiment. It may seem really silly to think that more carbs might help you lose weight, but if you’re not getting enough, you’re stressing your body out. Cortisol levels are going to get all wonky, and we already know what that means. Not enough carbs often leads to insomnia for people, or crazy carb cravings that make people binge (what’s the point of going super duper low carb if you’re just going to binge on non- Paleo pie anyway?). So you can see that there’s a pretty delicate balance of not enough carbs and too many carbs in your Paleo diet. You’ve gotta experiment and see what works for you. Try eating more protein in the morning. In fact, try eating more food in general in the morning. A lot of Paleo people eat just eggs in the morning, and it doesn’t seem to fill them up for very long, so they end up snacking a lot through the day, often on nuts and fruit, which don’t really fill you up and are easy to overeat. Add some meat to your breakfast, whether it be sausage, leftover burger, chicken, or whatever. Just get some more protein and fat – and some veggies would be nice, too – in there and see if you feel more energetic, more satiated, and have fewer cravings through the day. It’s better to add 2. Fad Free Tools for Healthy Weight Loss. Helps you build the habits for sustainable weight loss. WLR's all about losing weight in a way that means you can keep it off. 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