Hello! Just another progress/how keto has worked out for me post, and also a little introduction. I've been a member of this sub for around a year now but have never actually made a post or commented much, even though i think i have checked in almost every single day to read everyones posts for inspiration, tips and advice, and just to keep my mind focused on keto. So thanks to all of you who regularly post and reply- you have helped me a lot!
In November 2015 I found out my ex had been cheating on me, we had a horrific breakup and i spent the next two months on a diet of wine and cigarettes and my own salty tears.
After two months of wallowing, getting drunk every night and being too miserable to really eat (first time in my life i have ever not wanted to eat) I had lost some weight. I've only ever experienced adult life as a fat person, i started gaining weight when i was about 13 and steadily went up to 220lbs over the years. I hadn't tried, or even noticed that i had lost any weight (too miserable/too drunk to see straight, remember) but I started getting so many positive comments- and it was weird. I was, without a doubt, going through the lowest point in my entire life and yet to people who knew me i looked the best i ever had and everyone was spurring me on. I wasn't comfortable with the comments (especially because i was basically just abusing my body at the time, and definitely was not healthy), but... It did make me realise that this was the FIRST time in my life that I had ever actually lost weight. I'd never once been on a "diet" or tried to lose weight before... EVER. I thought I couldn't, thought I wouldn't be able to, i just wasn't prepared to go through the 'deprivation' and misery that I thought being on a 'diet' meant.
So once I'd lost a bit of weight without trying to I decided to keep going and really commit myself to it. Suddenly I was DETERMINED as hell and I felt like I actually had control over my own life. Over night I stopped being miserable about my ex and was just focused on myself (and my appetite returned!). I started eating a low fat diet because that was all I knew. I ate a fk tonne of sweet potatoes and chicken breasts. I stuck to CICO but I found it a struggle because I was always still hungry at the end of the day. I did this for a couple of months (and didn't really lose any weight) and then one day when I was almost ready to give up trying to lose weight, I came across Keto somehow. I obsessively read through the entire backlog of this sub that same night, and the next morning I woke up and went grocery shopping for everything keto, and not looked back since then.
It is hands down the best thing I have ever done. I've gone from 210 to 150 lbs through keto in the last year. There have been times I've struggled, sure, and I've had longish periods of stalling and some days felt pissed off at keto/pissed off at myself, but it has been no where near as difficult as I used to believe losing weight had to be. I used to think that until you were at your 'goal weight' the entire process would be a living nightmare from start to finish, but that's simply not true. I've only got happier and happier and there have been SO MANY rewards along the way.
I'm still steadily and slowly losing weight and still have a fair way to go yet. I'm focusing on being as healthy as I can be ( I even managed to quit the cigarettes after establishing control over food, I realised I could quit anything!) and am now trying to exercise as much as I can. I swim every day now, which is also something i NEVER would have done a year ago. I changed careers and moved to a new city last September, which is something I was always too afraid to do. I spent so long neglecting myself and trying to find happiness in the wrong places. Through keto I've learnt how to really take care of myself, and finally feel like I really know who I am, inside out.
Favourite meal before Keto : mushroom risotto
Favourite meal now : a big steak and butter/garlic mushrooms , hell yeahhhh!
PICS
Body before/After (nsfw) http://ift.tt/2mibZcy
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