Today is a pretty damn good day for me! For as long as I can remember, I have been overweight. I started freshman year of high school as a flabby 160 pound kid. By the end of freshman year I put on 20 pounds of muscle but was still big. I continued to put on weight through high school and ended up graduating at 220 pounds. Fast forward 18 years (holy crap i'm old) and I can now say I weigh less than I did when I graduated high school!
I struggled most of my adult life with my weight and eating as food is a comfort item for me and also a coping mechanism so during times of stress I turn to shoveling food down my throat instead of making smart choices and finding healthy outlets. The biggest number I can remember seeing on the scale was a whopping 335 pounds, yes that's right 335 pounds.
On December 4th, 2014 I made the decision to go Keto. It seemed to work for me and was not too hard to adjust to the HFLC lifestyle that so many others enjoy. I pushed hard for almost a year and got down to 234 with the major milestone of getting down to 220. In the fall of 2015 I started to get lazy again and put a little weight back on. I worked it off but never got back down to my lowest. I would yo-yo with my weight while never actually making the move below 234.
Fast forward to May of this year, I finished school and realized that I had put on 32 pounds from my lowest weight. I was already not eating keto at this point because carbs are delicious but I needed to make a change. I started only eating when I was actually hungry, stopped eating when I was satiated, and moved to an intermittent fasting way of eating. Typically I only eat between the hours of 1600 and 2400. I have more energy, I am actually accepting of how I look and honestly this is the best I have felt in my entire life!
I've included a couple pictures to show the results. The first is my belt, which I have owned since April of 2014 (i had to check amazon lol). The highlights show the starting hole I had to use on this size 44 belt. The highlight on the far right is where I am now. I have added so many new holes to the belt that I can't even remember where the original holes stopped and the added holes begin. I have kept this belt as it is the one thing that I have to still track my weight loss and I will continue to do so for fun.
The second Picture is the graph from MyFitnessPal which goes to show that every weight loss journey is not linear but inherently nonlinear. You will have times of loss and there will be times of gain, but the end result is consistency which I lacked for a long time.
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