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22 July 2021
Weigh-in:
218.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
78.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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22 July 2021
Weigh-in:
218.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
78.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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02 November 2020
Weigh-in:
213.0 lb
lost so far:
5.0 lb
still to go:
73.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 1.6 lb a week
24 October 2020
Weigh-in:
215.0 lb
lost so far:
3.0 lb
still to go:
75.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 3.0 lb a week
23 October 2020
I have struggled my entire life with being heavy and doing the diet fad shuffle. This diet fad shuffle began for me as a teenager, where I tried weight watchers with my mom to try and get my chubby frame under control. Well, it did work but it was also short lived because paahhleeease! Tell me who at the ripe young age of 13 is going to dedicate their meal time to weighing every portion of food they want, counting calories, and trying to stay at or below 1200 per day, as determined by some irrational number the government decided was "normal" based on height/weight, and then having a weekly weigh in to really just reinforce the fact that at 13 years of age, there is no way to stick with it...that kind of dedication was reserved for boys.
Then diet shuffle number 2...starvation! yep, go an entire week without eating anything and then drinking a v-8 juice. Umm...whom ever said this was a good idea should probably be hung by their toes and be the pinata at the next birthday party, as passing out in the hallway of my Jr. High school was probably just as painful emotionally.
The diet shuffle number 3...Susan Powder...EAT CARBS! and keep everything else fat free...OMG I never felt so sick and hated food so much and funny enough, I never lost any weight, nope, not even an ounce, but I sure packed it on with all the baked potatoes, starch, and bread I was eating.
Diet Shuffle number 4...Richard Simmons Deal A Meal, anyone remember that? LOL! I felt like it could have been a decent diet but I just couldn't take him or his silly trade this for that concept seriously, so I quickly returned it for a refund.
Diet Shuffle number 5...The Soup diet. Never have I ever felt so damn hungry! I did this for 2 weeks...all soup, nothing but soup. Nope, never again and even now I cringe when I hear the word soup. I think I lost about 10 pounds but it all came back as soon as I had a plate of spaghetti and a piece of garlic bread.
Diet Shuffle number 6...This was sort of a dual purpose thing; The Atkins diet was really taking off and slim fast was a big thing, so I was drinking the shakes and eating lots of almonds, and then experiencing some random issue with my eyeballs. Yep, my eyeballs. Apparently, drinking slim fast was turning my eyeballs yellow and giving me massive eye pain, so as it turned out, I was allergic to Slim Fast. The almonds were good though, but not a sustainable way to eat. I just didn't understand the whole diet and at the time I didn't feel like cutting out my favourite foods was the solution, i.e., high carb/high sugar foods, especially pasta.
Diet shuffle number 7: Another dual purpose diet...I don't remember the name but I do remember it was a "Metabolic" diet and there were shakes involved and they gave you a meal plan that consisted of beets and rice (yeah, neither of which I like) but I tried it and yes I did lose weight but if I never eat another beet again it will be too soon, and I hated rice before but now I can't even swallow it-it literally makes me gag. The other problem with this diet was having to pay for the pre-packaged shake packets every week, I was better off putting chocolate powder in my milk and calling it a "metabolic shake" I swear it was pure sugar.
The second component of this diet was the workouts...there were step aerobics, weights, walking, the stair-master and the Gazelle by Tony Little, as well as the "Tae Bo" video workouts by Billy Blanks, which I couldn't get through without laughing as he had me picking up playing cards off the floor in some kind of Neanderthal squat position. The workouts were way too painful to continue-I didn't know it at the time and it took several years for my doctor to figure it out, but I had fibromyalgia and everything from being touched, to light walking to high intensity work outs hurt on some level and I had no explanation for the pain I felt. Sometimes I just thought I was crazy and my husband at the time thought I was lying about my pain and kept telling me it was all in my head. (How supportive...eyeroll)
Several years have passed and I stopped all the diet shuffles and just ate whatever I felt like eating. Actually, what I was eating wasn't all that bad but my decline in health due to fibromyalgia, gut problems, and chronic fatigue and pain from severe spinal stenois has rendered me pretty much couch bound and unable to participate in the reindeer games my other 50+ people enjoy...like nature walks, shopping, travel, and just being in public places without needing to either find a bathroom or a place to sit every 10 minutes.
I'm 51 not 91 and I need to change this right now! So, after all my experiences with the diet shuffle, I started researching and this time around, I actually have spent time researching and learning and asking questions and being curious, because I need to find something that will work or I'm out of options and may as well start writing my obituary.
All of this research has led me to what I truly believe and am convinced I should have been doing all along...Ketovore. Yes, it is a sort of spin off of Dr. Atkins diet but in this Way of Eating I don't eat anything but 95% animal products and 5% low carb veggies. I have no grains, no gluten, no fiber, no sugar, no seed oils, no vegetable oils, and as time goes on I hope to get off the couch and join my people in the real world once again.
So far, I'm loving this way of eating and the best part is I get to decide what I eat...and if I eat, as I have options to do intermittent fasting when I'm feeling stalled or just simply not hungry because this way of eating is supplying my body with more than enough food to sustain on and feel good, without being hungry all the time, and without needing to eat every 2-4 hours like the Standard American Diet suggests...which in my opinion is the worst advice I've ever taken, period!
Now, I only eat when I'm hungry and I don't have to eat veggies if I don't want to, which is fine by me. I also don't have to work out to keep calories at bay because by not eating sugar and a bunch of carbs I don't need to be concerned about the calories I intake because my body is actually able to do what it was designed to do and get rid of the crap I don't need, and it does this in a natural way. If I want I can eat steak every day, not that I want to but I can!
I can eat bacon and do it guilt free, I can eat foods fried in butter and bacon grease with no guilt. However, the foods can't contain carbs, so, no breading of any kind unless its pork rind panko. Basically as long as what I am feeding my face is an animal product i.e., meat, eggs, seafood, cheese, butter, heavy whipping cream I can eat it...What I can't eat is anything that didn't come from an animal i.e., grains, beans, soy, nuts, seeds, processed food, sugar, gluten, wheat, flour, and most veggies. (I don't drink milk, as isn't meant for adult human consumption and I do allow for some low carb veggies and some spices, as I'm Ketovore, not a strict Carnivore.)
So, now that I've rambled on for a while about being my life long diet shuffle and becoming Ketovore, how's your way of eating going? Are you doing it to lose weight, or are you doing it for lifelong health reasons?
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