My weight loss started off great, and I was excited to watch every pound come off. Starting on February 1, by June I was down by more than 25 pounds. But then the weight loss slowed down. A lot.
The NSVs kept me going. I feel a lot better, and while I do still get some pretty bad backaches (I have a bad back), I kind of think that they are less frequent. Of course, this is anecdotal, since I have never tracked them. Clothes continued to get looser, despite the lack of loss. So I kept calm and Ketoed on.
In September/October, I ended up taking steroids for almost a month, to get rid of poison ivy, or some other variant of it. The stuff usually takes me two rounds of the Medrol dose pack to get rid of, but this time it took three, plus a shot. Since the steroids always cause me to gain weight, I went up nearly ten pounds, and had to re-lose that weight. Ugh. But I kept calm and ketoed on.
Since this summer, each pound has been slow but sure. Iāve watched as the scale went up and down, up and down, up and down, and then finally down without an up. Every. Single. Pound. But I kept calm and ketoed on. Yes, I weigh every day, but I donāt let it stress me. I do it because Iām curious how yesterday affected me. Yeah, probably not all that effective, but I want the data (but no, I donāt track that anywhere but in my head). I still just keep calm and keto on.
Today, I got on the scale, and for the first time in well over a decade, Iām under 205 pounds. Thatās 40.6 pounds down from my highest weight, which was on February 1 of this year.
This has all been just with eating keto foods. No exercise - Iām pretty sedentary. No intentional fasting. Iāve done intermittent fasting here and there, but not intentionally - just a matter of, āOh, itās 4:00 and I havenāt eaten anything yet today. Wow, Iām only a little hungry!ā And no tracking macros. I put in the effort to learn what is good and what is bad, and I avoid what is bad, and eat what is good.
Thereās no point in stressing over macros. Do you want to do that for the rest of your life? I donāt, so I am not going to do it now. Learn the right way to eat and listen to your body, and youāll do fine without the rabbit hole that is My Fitness Pal.
I still want to lose another 25 pounds before I reevaluate whether I want to continue downward or not, but at this point, Iām just going to keep calm and keto on.
No matter what your weight does, just keep calm and keto on. Thatās the best advice you can get.
Congrats on your progress!