I started trying to lose weight in earnest in mid February of 2019. I weighed 315 lbs. I ate lean meats, and "healthy" carbs. Sweet potatoes, brown rice, quinoa, pinto beans, and green vegetables. I ate oatmeal for breakfast every day. In six weeks I lost 4 pounds. I was very, very frustrated. On April 3rd, I ran into a nurse that works at UAB that use to go to church with. I noticed he had lost a good bit of weight so I asked him what he was doing. He told me he was doing the Keto diet. I asked him about the dangers of it and he said there weren't any. He told me about his cholesterol tests, etc. I decided to try it. I started my Keto diet one year ago today.
One year later, I weigh 219. I've lost 92 pounds on Keto in 365 days. I've lost 96 pounds total.
I am a completely different person. I didn't do any sustained amounts of exercise to lose any of this weight. I simply changed the way I eat. I tried walking for a short time but it didn't speed up my weight loss, when I was in a 3 month weight loss plateau. In the past month, I have started playing tennis, not in an effort to lose weight, but because I feel so dang good that I want to get out and do things.
If you're overweight and think that "I" can't do this or it won't work for me, I know how you feel. Trust me, you can, and it will. You can't possibly have worse eating habits than I did prior to starting this journey. If a giant honey bun for breakfast, and a fast food super sized lunch 7 days a week isn't the worst dietary plan on the planet, I don't know what is.
I had given up hope of ever feeling good again. If you'd have asked me 16 months ago, which was more possible by April of 2020, for me to be dead, or to have lost 96 pounds, I'd have answered for me to be dead. That's what sort of shape my body and mind was in.
My point is, if I can do this, ANYBODY can.
