Centurians - people who have lost more than 100 lbs


(Will Madams) #22

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Started Keto 1 January 2017

start weight: 172kg at 186cm
Current weight: 115kg at 188cm

Since going Keto I have completed:

2 Half Marathons
1 Full Marathon
3 Triathlons (2 Sprint and 1 Olypmic)
Ridden Around the Bay Charity Ride (280Km ride around Port Phillip Bay Melbourne, Australia)

Started my own Keto group at work and helped two colleges reverse their type 2 diabetes.

Next goal is to get to 100kgs and Join the Royal Australian Navy (now i fit the fittest requirements)

2 Keto Dudes Podcast got me through it and continue to!

Thanks Lads


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #23

Awwe Liz. @WrenchWench. I love ya man.


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #24

I lost 100 total. Ketogenic since February 2014.
A1c 12 to 5

I’ll write up a post with pics tomorry.

Oh hell, y’all know my story. Lol

BUT

I’ll still write one up…
with pics.


(Jennifer Kleiman) #25

Hi! Just joined the forums here but I’ve lurked for awhile. Love the podcast! I’m on facebook & have been helping Karen Ogilvie run the Impulsive Keto groups, recently started podcasting with her on the Impulsive Ketocast which is a ton of fun and hugely educational for me.

Storytime- my whole life I was obese, my mom’s obese, my dad’s obese, my brother’s obese, my aunts & uncles are not all obese but some of them, yeah. I figure my ancestors survived regular starvation in the shtetl on 2 beets and a potato, so if we lived in a situation of food scarcity I would totally be in great shape whereas my sister-in-law who devours cases of twinkies daily and remains 105 lbs would die right off. But alas we are surrounded by abundance and my genes are not ideal.

I was a happy 245-lb fat chick until early 2014 when I got my diabetes diagnosis – 12.1 a1c. My doctor gave me metformin and told me to eat better and check back in a few months. Well, I lost some weight and between that and the metformin I got my a1c down in the 6s. Great job said my doctor, but my a1c numbers started creeping back up and the doc prescribed more metformin, then glipizide, then my kidneys started having issues and the cholesterol numbers were bad. That’s ok said my doctor, diabetes is a progressive disease and that’s how it goes sometimes, as he calmly prescribed more drugs.

It was mid-summer 2015 when that happened. A few days later i was at Six Flags with my family, most of whom didn’t even try to fit into the rides that required tight safety harnesses. I love rollercoasters though. Well, the safety harness closed over my gut but it took two of the ride operators to slam it into place. I could feel their contempt. Later that day, I heard one of my diabetic, morbidly obese aunts had to call 911 because she’d fallen and couldn’t get up on her own. Wake-up call finally hit me – I could not keep going down this road.

I did research and found keto on reddit, then nearly killed myself with severe hypoglycemia… ugh glipizide, such a horrible drug. My doctor said yeah that was a common side effect, just keep orange juice on hand. Well I fired that guy and got a keto-savvy doctor. In short order I was able to discontinue the glipizide, metformin and although it took a year for my kidney numbers to normalize, they healed too.

With 100 lbs of weight lost I had a bunch of loose skin that kept getting infected. In June 2017 I got it cut off! My weight’s been stable at 145ish for the past 1.5 years now. I follow the Impulsive Keto method of intermittent fasting and meals of meat + two veg, more or less. My HOMA-IR’s been tested at 0.5 which is as good as it gets, my cholesterol’s great, my bp’s great, everything’s great (er except for some thyroid and anemia issues). Currently trying an experiment with alternate-day fasting, no food Monday/Wednesday/Friday, so basically 3 44-hr fasts during the week, to see if I can shake my body off this 145 set-point and lose anothr 10 pounds or so just out of vanity really. We’ll see!

I also saw a therapist to delve into my psyche and figure out long-term weight/health maintenance strategies. The key for me is to always have new goals, to monitor myself, and to participate in communities where I make friends that understand and share the same health goals :slight_smile: Nice to meet y’all.


(Deborah Meghnagi Bailey) #26

Yeah, when I say I was never diabetic, I mean my blood glucose was never high. I’m sure my insulin was off the charts, but nobody tests for that! Obesity does run in the family on my mother’s side, but not in my nuclear family, I was the only one who was obese as a teen. My weight gain started with puberty. I’m pretty sure I had pcos, which also runs in the family. I are a ton of junk food, I was totally addicted to carbs. Part of it was probably pcos, and I’m wondering now if part of the insulin problem was caused by stress, because I was bullied fairly badly just around the first couple of years of puberty. And then of course there was the recommended diet… Low fat, high carb… So my parents dutifully followed that, and we ate a lot of soy, too… I was never full. But I only got up to 250 in the first place by dieting. I was around 185 by 14/15 years old, and that was my setpoint until I tried to lose weight with weightwatchers… Anyway, I would love to talk to you about my experiences. I love your podcast!!


(Deborah Meghnagi Bailey) #27

Jennifer, I reckon my mum’s side survived the shtetl in much the same way :slight_smile: and the obesity in our family is definitely from my mum’s side. I guess the Jewish community in Libya had better food, because everyone on my dad’s side is slim. Facially, I look like my dad but my metabolism is definitely ashkenazi!


(Deborah Meghnagi Bailey) #28

Thanks, Liz! It’s always comforting to ‘meet’ others with similar experiences! My maintenance range was 145-154. I’m not tall, but I’m an extreme hourglass, so that was a good weight for me. I had some excess skin, but not a lot, nothing that would have required surgery. Also, I only got down from 154 to 145 by eating 1200 calories a day as well as low carbing. So it could be my body prefers to be 154. I’ll wait and see what happens now with fasting and keto. I’m at 167 now…


(Deborah Meghnagi Bailey) #29

i just realized i wrote the wrong date for that first picture. by 2004 i was already down to 154lbs. that picture was taken in 2001, about ten months before i started low-carbing.


(Richard Morris) #30

LOL - well done. And great work on the weight loss :slight_smile:


(Dustin Cade) #31

If you use me on the show, you can just call me Dustin, it’s easier to pronounce than my forum name…

I started keto September of 2016, I was about 410/420lbs and now (weighed on 1/7/2018) I’m 300lbs so I’m down well over 100lbsn

The following photo gives a glimpse at my progress!

Here I am with 42 in pants!


(Kenneth Russell) #32


I lost 250 pounds in 30 months. I start eating low carb in February 2014 - tipping the scales at 440 pounds. The photo on the right was taken in July 2014 after I’d lost 70 pounds (or so). I don’t have any true “before” photos at 440 as I did a pretty good job of avoiding the camera. Low carb (< 30 net) was how I started out. When my weight loss slowed I started eating at a deeper ketogenic level (< 20 net carbs) to keep the scale moving. In August 2016 I reached my goal of 190 pounds. Since then I’ve had a little bounce with the scale as I try to figure out what I must do to maintain. I experimented with adding back a few more daily carbs and weight creep set in. I regained about 25 pounds over the next year. Lesson learned. Lower carb is not good enough for me. I’m back to eating true keto and the scale is moving in the right direction again.

In 2014 I had chronic lower back pain, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and a number of other conditions related to high blood sugar. I have completely regained my health. The secret for me was making LCHF how I eat for life. I stopped “going on a diet”. I changed how I eat forever. I have not had cake, candy, donuts, bread, pizza, pasta, you-name-it in nearly 4 years. I deprived myself of the junk that I used to love to eat until I no longer felt deprived. These days I eat healthy, whole foods. I hardly miss carby junk anymore. By sticking to on-plan foods my brain rewired itself around what I do eat and I’m completely happy with how I eat. My body is happy, too. After 30 years of morbid obesity I now have my life back. To keep it I know that I have to stay away from foods that I cannot moderate. I am a keto man. That is how I eat.


(Will Madams) #33

super impressive people must be blown away!


(Ethan) #34

An inspiration of what is possible.


(Richard Morris) #35

Wow Kenneth that is amazing progress. My own journey had a lot of similar parallel experiences to yours.


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #36

I’m in Minnesota. USA
On the ketogenic diet since February of 2014.
Arrived here purely by chance, as I was experimenting with making dietary changes through the book Wheat Belly in 2013, and stumbled across LCHF support groups on facebook, then quickly found keto. I had never heard of the ketogenic diet. I thought the keto people were crazy, risky, and rebellious.
I wanted in.
Becoming fat adapted quickly cured T2DM, though that’s not even the reason I started keto. It also cured my cyclical depression, also not the reason I started keto.
My A1c was 12 then, and my triglycerides 1200.
Now? My A1c is in the normal range, 5, and my triglycerides just a few days ago were 90. Also normal. Matter of fact my doctor recently took my diagnosis of T2DM off my chart.
These days I ride a huge dualsport motorcycle and travel on it (I rode to KetoFest 2017 from Minnesota), swim laps at the gym, and lift heavy. I spend an enormous amount of my time helping others learn the ketogenic diet. My focus is on those with diabetes and severe obesity, as I once had both. I’ve lost a total of 100 pounds on my journey. I have toyed with losing 20 more, but have discovered/realized that this extra body fat gives me a distinct advantage when fasting! I can go several DAYS without any food or energy supplementation.
It’s like having a super power.
More importantly, I am challenging myself to build more LBM. Mine as confirmed by a recent DEXA scan is 127 lbs. I am 5’7". 2020 UPDATE: My LBM is now 140 LBS !!!
3 months later I repeated the DEXA after lowering my protein macro by HALF. I had been at 1 gram protein per pound of LBM, and lowered my macro to .5 (half a gram) protein per pound of LBM. I continued my regular lifting routine. In that 3 months I INCREASED my LBM by 4 pounds! I have stayed with the lower macro amount. Anything more would be wasted as obviously I do not need it for muscle building and repair. Also, excess protein only increases insulin, which I avoid at all costs.
I have done a lot of things on this ketogenic journey. I ran the original Keto Ninjas group online (it was closed. any group with that name there now was not mine), I admined many more including the now archived 2KetoDudes Facebook group. I was the third member of that group that grew to 14,000 in 9 months. Carl, Richard, and me. There’s a cool history there.
I have been a guest on SEVEN 2KetoDudes podcasts, my story is podcast number 21. http://2ketodudes.com/show.aspx?episode=21
In 2017 my personal story was published by Dr. Jason Fung on his IDM site and The Diet Doctor site as well. https://www.dietdoctor.com/life-is-good
I traveled to Missouri for a keto meet up with Tom Seest and his local people, twice, and I have had several individual meet ups with ketopians in my area. I attended Low Carb Breckenridge 2017 in Colorado with the 2KetoDudes crew, and attended KetoFest in July 2017. I will be attending Low Carb Breckenridge 2018, and of course KetoFest 2018!
My newest development, I now work with Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos for their Intensive Dietary Management Program.
I love my keto life.
The most important aspect for me though, is helping YOU.

Family reunion photo 2006. It’s not hard to find me, I’m the biggest one there. It took me 4 years to be comfortable to post this publicly, but all my closest friends have seen it, so that includes the two keto dudes crew. It used to be painful to look at, now I just have empathy for the person I was who didn’t know what to do.

These three photos of me are very recent. As you can see by the photo on the left, I don’t exactly like taking full body shots for the camera for people to look at, but I try to be a good sport. At least I’m smiling. Heh. That’s my daughter in the upper right. She turned 30 today. Her friends said I looked 20 when she snap chatted that pic. I can skate on that compliment for years. The photo in the lower right is when I wasn’t eating enough fat. It’s important to eat an adequate amount of fat on the ketogenic diet or that’s what can happen. Word of warning. DON’T FEAR THE FAT


I usually hate pictures of myself and dressing up because of how bad I look
June 2018 ZornFast
(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #37

@Brenda, I hope that others here can be inspired by your story as I have been since reading it when I started KETO back in September. Awesome work Ma’am. :nerd_face:


(Ryan James Dansby) #38

My Name is Ryan. I have for the most part just lurked around here.
I began my keto journey in August of 2017. I follow a strict 75/20/5 macro regiment and IF of 16/8. I went from 370lbs to 268lbs. After a break from thanksgiving to Christmas, I gained back 10lbs. I have since lost those ten pounds and am my way to my 240lbs realistic goal and 220lbs BFG. I am 35 years old and 6’8”. So in all, I lost 100+ in six months. Keep strong and keto on!


(Marie Dantoni) #39

Wow, congratulations !


(Richard Morris) #40

100 lbs since August is great


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #41

Fanfuckingtastic.

Incredible. Stupendous.
Amazing.
Keto this for life my man, and an amazing life it will surely be!