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I fast, I fast, slowly, I fast. Or something. Hi, I'm Phil, I lost over 250 pounds in less than a year, I've been in maintenance since June of 2016. I had a skid where I gained thirty pounds from October through New Year of 2017, I rediscovered Baby Ruth bars, among other things. But I've been back on track for some time now. It ain't a thang but a chicken wing, in so many ways. So I lost 100 pounds from June 14, 2015 thru October of 2015 on Atkins, less than 20 grams of Net Carbs daily, no real attention to any other detail or macro, just kept those sugar carb grams down down down. And on I went, didn't weigh in again until after the New Year, 2016, started investigating this Low-Carb/High-Fat Ketogenic diet, that I had never heard of up until that point, so I started concentrating on keeping my macros at a 70:20:10 ratio of fats to protein to carbohydrate (net carbohydrate) ratio, and went from eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner to eating One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD), or 23:1 Intermittent Fasting, if you prefer. So I step on the Scale in January of 2016 and I'm down another 100 pounds. By the time it was all said and done, come my 1-year-on-plan date, June 14, 2016, I was down to 180 pounds. Pretty insane stuff, maintenance ain't hard, it's just a lifestyle, behavior modification at it's most basic. Now days I eat OMAD (one-meal-a-day), and don't find myself wanting or even interested in food or eating, this is a pattern of behavior that I can easily sustain for the rest of my life. I eat whatever I feel like, once a day, and usually not much of it, having more than a little in the tank at any given time has come to be an uncomfortable feeling for me, and I like it that way. Don't give up on your goals, don't think you can't do it, you can do it, and when you start implementing your dietary changes, they're a lot easier than you can imagine, but it takes dedication, determination, and discipline, then it becomes second nature, the old habits go away and are replaced with new healthy habits.
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