Fast Walking, Loose Trousers, and Guessing Age by Weight

(Tom) #1

Five months in and 12 kilos lost I’m still going strong on Keto. Three random observations:

  • I’m naturally operating at a much faster pace than a few months ago. I notice that I’m walking a lot faster day-to-day. I feel like I’m effortlessly gliding around and zooming past slow walkers on the pavement.

  • The biggest issue I have with Keto is my clothes are falling off, my suits look ridiculous… I’m in the zone between old weight and hopefully ideal weight and therefore don’t want to spend too much on new clothes. Interestingly when I wear my old clothes no one says anything, but when I wear one of the few shirts I’ve got that fits people always remark how slim I look. :slight_smile:

  • I was up in Port Douglas (a holiday town up in Tropical Queensland) last weekend. It’s not school holidays so there weren’t many kids and young families around, it was mostly middle aged and older people. Sitting in a cafe watching the world go by I couldn’t help but notice that the vast majority of people ranged from comfortably to extremely overweight. You could make a good guess at their age by how heavy they were. Understand - I’m not judging the individuals - they could all be on keto and on the way down the scales not up, I’m judging the “Diet” advice that they’ve probably all been following on and off that clearly isn’t working. It’s beginning to make me rather cross! How do we rev up the keto revolution?

(Karen) #2

Me too. As I get slimmer I judge what I see in people’s carts at the grocery. Not judging the shoppers, just the carts.

K

(Diane) #3

Since I’m down 80 lbs (about 120 still left to go), I’ve been very aware of people who are clearly struggling with their weight, especially their belly fat that makes me think they have significant insulin resistance. I see them everywhere. I don’t know if there’s any way to help them, I wouldn’t have responded to a stranger who approached me.

But I have two sisters, a brother in law and a niece who have started eating ketogenically after seeing my success so far. I have a former co-worker and another niece and her husband in the research phase who keep asking questions, just teetering on the brink of beginning their own Keto journeys. If we each succeed and even 1 or 2 people are inspired and informed enough to succeed on their own… that would give me so much hope that the message can really spread and improve (and save!) lives. I really hope so.

(CharleyD) #4

I was able to eat keto on a Caribbean cruise recently with Carnival. And there were people on scooters that would make the humans in Wall-E look like svelte athletes. Can’t happen soon enough.

(Darlene Horsley) #5

I was at a medical office last week and noticed two young girls, probably 10 to 12 years old, who were both overweight and each had a belly that would rival beer bellies. Not sure if it was bring your daughter to work day or not as they kept going in and out of a back office but each time they came out they each had a jelly doughnut in hand. It made my heart hurt.

(Doug) #6

I was in a grocery store three hours ago. I got about half-nauseous - the person in front of me in the check-out line had 11 items:

2 loaves white bread.
2 jars of ‘Goober Grape’ - peanut butter and grape jelly in the same jar. Loaded with grape juice, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, vegetable monoglycerides from palm oil.
3 frozen pizzas.
1 box of Twinkies (“Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling”)
2 boxes of Froot Loops cereal.
1 gallon of skim milk. :smile:

(Diane) #7

I figure I’m not interested in about 90 to 95% of what’s in the grocery stores.

(Doug) #8

Diane, for sure. Just cutting out the stuff with added sugar eliminates like 3/4 of the items. Processed foods, partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil… Pretty soon there isn’t much left.

(Brian) #9

That’s interesting. I rarely even notice what someone else is buying unless it happens to be something that I would buy. I tend to be focused on what I need, whether I could find it, where else I may need to go (in this store or another store) to get what I need, that kind of thing. It’s almost as if I zone out when it comes to all of the “other” stuff. It’s as though it’s not really even food anymore.