Day 35 and the end of week 5, and things are going great. My energy levels are high. I sometimes have nights where I sleep maybe two hours a night. I feel like my fat cells are burning morning noon and night and it's incredible. I walk 5km every day and my time for that is now 58 minutes. My first 5km race is in two weeks. My second one is on Saint Patrick's day weekend.
I'm becoming quite skilled in the kitchen too. Buying lots of groceries online keeps me out of temptations eyesight. It's a great little side effect, having more confidence and skill to cook a healthy dinner, for one or two as the case may be.
I really haven't felt the need to weigh myself. I can see the swelling and water retention in my legs has gone. The two leg ulcers I got in January have officially healed (the health clinic confirmed this morning) and I don't have to go back. Leg ulcers can frequently take months to heal. Having them fully heal in five weeks is just amazing.
I'm wearing my size 44inch pants, comfortably. No belt needed. And I feel... Not just great, but happy.
Last year I was teaching maths to a kid who was struggling badly. I explained something to him that he'd never understood and it was like seeing the scales drop from his eyes and he could see! He understood it. Excitedly he had me give him problem after problem so he could solve them, like he was making up for every problem he'd ever gotten wrong. That's kind of how I feel now - I have the answer, I finally understand the "secret" to weight loss. And it isn't calorie restriction, will power and being a gym rat. It never was.
I am motivated to do better so that larger friends of mine will see, and maybe ask, how did I do it? And then I'll tell them, in a non evangelical way, all about Keto.
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