Is also, in a very strange way, bringing my dad and I closer.
A little backstory, I've always been overweight since I was a teenager. My dad on the other hand, as every other Latino dude, is very concerned with his image and with his health. He's always been nagging me about losing weight and getting healthier. He's going to be 60 this year and he can walk up to my apartment all the way on the 4th floor without stopping while I have to do short pauses to catch my breath. The guy is in great shape.
So today I was visiting my lovely but just as naggy uncle. Him and his wife are some sort of health nuts. Like biking everyday to work, measure foods and hit the gym daily kind of health nut. He sees me and goes "mishabale you're looking thinner, what are you doing?" and my dad immediately responds for me in a very proud tone that I'm doing keto and proceeds to practically rave about this diet. My uncle's response? "Oh yeah that's a good diet."
I'm sitting in the sofa like I'm in the twilight zone, perplexed as hell and almost moved to tears that this happened. He's been cool with my diet since day one but to see him talk about it and dropping the same bits of info I've been giving him throughout my journey, was amazing.
TLDR: Dad is now my #2 cheerleader with my keto diet (#1 being my mom lol).
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