My now fiance then boyfriend (2014) is the one that turned me onto Keto. He made me a big steak with blue cheese butter. That was my first meal on the diet. So everything is his fault!
It took me about 3 months to get a repository of recipes and to feel "comfortable" with the diet. When I say comfortable I mean that I had a grasp on what was "allowed" and what I wanted eat. After about a year I was down to 192 lbs (24 lbs lost). I think the slow progress was due to me only tracking my weight weekly. I cheated a lot during the weekends.
That's when life got in the way of weight loss. In Sep of 2016 I started losing weight again. This time I had set a modest goal of losing another 20 lbs, but I wanted it more. You see I'm getting married in next month. So in September I was like yeah 6 months till my wedding, I losing another 20 will be good for me. But I wanted to keep better track of it this time. So I weighed daily. The graphs are just the weekly weighs ins. My dailies are on my wii fit plus game and I'm not copying off 6 months of weighs in by hand. Sorry.
I also food logged. This I think was another BIG reason I was able to lose double my goal. Turns out if I don't log. I am ALWAYS wrong. EITHER I grabbed too much food and gained weight. Or I honestly didn't eat enough. If I get too busy and still want to be "good" on my diet. I grab for things like raw cauliflower. Turns out, that even 3 cups of cauliflower does not a meal make. Yes that was low carb, but now you have a headache, oh I wonder why? Logs food. Oh. I should eat more carbs today.
I also started making a monthly YouTube video where I did something to get my heart up along with a public weigh in. This kept me redicouly excited about weight loss and it got me out experiencing life which is the WHOLE goal of weight loss. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoy4eB1s0uDfb497TudYU7g
It is now Feb 2017 and I am now 151 (another 41 lbs). In total, I've lost 65 lbs! Honestly I am super proud of myself, and a bit sad. Now I have to stop and maintain through the wedding. My seamstress has told me so. I am firstly a practical person. One month of maintaining will not hurt me in the long run. Buying another dress would.
At 151 lbs I am 5 lbs shy of being a "normal" BMI. I know that being in that band doesn't automatically make me healthy and that I'd have to still lose fat and gain muscle. It's just hard to see a "goal line" and not be able to cross it.
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