How much weight loss is typically experienced in the first 1–2 weeks on keto, according to the speaker?

Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Keto Diet: My Journey Through Weight Loss and Challenges!

2 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD describing common experiences on a ketogenic diet: people often start with a clean, protein-enriched plan low in processed foods and limited healthy fats, see a rapid 5–10 pound weight loss in the first 1–2 weeks due to fluid loss, then commonly reintroduce unhealthy fats over time. Dr. Whitfield notes that individual ability to metabolize increased dietary fat is influenced by genetics.

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5 to 10 pounds (primarily fluid loss)

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And, and just tell me, you know, your experience with that. And they start off, you know, like a lot of people do. They start off that's, it's a very clean, protein enriched diet, very little in terms of you're not supposed to have any processed stuff in that diet, and then very limited amounts of healthy fats. And then they do really well. They experience what is very traditional, which is a 5 to 10 pound weight loss the first one to two weeks, because that's simply you dumping fluid. So that's, that's very common. Everybody's excited and they're like, oh, my God, I'll just keep doing this. But then habitually, things change, and you start now reintroducing what we call bad fat into the diet. And once you increase the fat load or the, the body's ability now to metabolize those fats is a consequence of your genetics.