 Today we're going to talk about four reasons you might silently gain weight without knowing it on your low carb keto carnivore diet. Hey there, NJRu22.com here with another low carb keto carnivore chat. And this today is about weight. Before I get into it, weight is a relative number or obscure number, because you also have to look at your body composition as well, fat content and muscle content and so on. But we're going to just stick with weight. I'm going to give you a little situation here. For the first nine months of last year, I was, let's say, 200 pounds and I stopped weighing myself. It was pretty much, I was almost within a pound, the same exact weight, day in and day out, day in and day out, no matter what I ate and what I did. The batteries died on the scale and I stopped weighing myself and I didn't care. I'm thinking I'm going to be the same. So I put batteries in the scale. Back in December, I stepped on the scale, I was 10 pounds heavier. Oh my God, I must be a fluke. A week later, I was the same weight, 10 pounds heavier. A week after that, 10 pounds, the same 10 pounds heavier. So I'm like, oh man, that's kind of, and I wasn't really, even though I was low carb and doing pretty well, I wasn't staying, I wasn't going back to that original 200 pounds. And I wanted to think about why this is, and I came up with four reasons that I think are the cause of that minor 5% weight gain. And the first reason is that it's minor cheats. Now, when you're low carb as long as we are or have been, you realize that the cheats, after enough failures, that the cheats ended up being painful. And you don't do them anymore, especially bread, because that makes you feel like crap. Even things like nuts now and other things. I really don't like eating, because I don't like the way I feel. But there were times, I think two or three times, I got this microwave popping bowl, and I made popcorn. And I didn't eat the whole thing, nor did I sit there and just mindlessly shovel in, but I did eat popcorn. And it's not, it doesn't have gluten, but it has carbs. And I don't know, having a cheat like that may set you off for a whole week or so, where you're not in ketosis, and it's not a fun thing. And another one of my potential causes here is that low carb ice cream, I was talking about a couple of times, there's the rebel ice cream. And then there's that, I forget the name of it, the Keto, the Keto addition of the enlightened ice cream. It's only one or two grams, net grams of carbs per serving, which is a quarter of a pint. And I mean, it may be between 10 and 20 pints within a three month period. And I didn't eat them all in one sitting. But I'm wondering, and I've talked about this before already, that I think sweets, the sweet sensation of anything is probably not meant, where human beings were not meant to eat that often or sweets. Like you'd have a berry, you'd have to climb a tree or to get a pineapple. I don't know. I'm thinking, I added hundreds or thousands of calories to my diet, even though calories don't, we don't believe calories count. It's the carbs that do. And I really think I added those way additional calories. Maybe every day I ate a pint, let's say I had about a thousand calories extra and quite a bit of fat. It's possible that may have affected us, because we didn't replace any calories. We just added on to whatever we were eating already. And another obvious reason why I think we probably put on a few extra pounds is because the summer ended. And we spend a decent amount of time outside taking care of the property landscaping, pushing around a 600 pound lawn mower and holding heavy equipment hours upon hours each week in the field, so to say. And once that stopped, I guess our physical activity diminished a little bit. And normally when you're low carb, you don't eat as much, because your body's requirements aren't asking for you to fuel it. But it's possible that, plus the low carb ice cream and general decreased activity had a problem. But the fourth thing, and I think this sort of ties it all together, is alcohol. During those nine months where I was exactly the same weight every day, day, and day out, that involved alcohol as well. It's probably why I didn't continue going down. But I think when you have alcohol, lower physical activity, plus some minor cheats and additional calories with the ice cream, the alcohol kind of puts the kibosh on any potential weight loss while the alcohol is in your body. Because from what I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, while you're processing the alcohol, your body cannot burn stored body fat. So that leads me to my next, I guess, process in my head is that I would take days off drinking here and there, sometimes drink three or four days in a row, have a bottle of wine back in the day or drink a couple cans of low-carb seltzer. But I would take a day off, two days, three days off a week, but I didn't really put together any good streaks. Like back in the old days, people would drink on Friday and Saturday nights and then not drink the rest of the week, and that's five days in a row. I think putting that streak of abstinence or non-consumption of alcohol to at least two days in a row, maybe three, four, or five, is something that would help you regulate your weight. So I'm wondering, do you have any issues with your low-carb city? Are you a perfect low-carb carnivore keto eater, but you still run into problems where you gain a few pounds? Is that, I mean, besides cheats, what are some other reasons you might possibly gain weight? That's it. Please hit the like and subscribe. 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