Keto Would Not Have Worked Until Now

(Tracy) #1

I’m just sharing my thoughts…

I have a personality where I beat myself up over dumb mistakes I’ve made. I look back at all the diets I tried and just regained the weight, making me feel like a failure. I often wonder if I had just known about Keto then, would I have had the maturity to continue to educate myself on nutrition and stick with it. I think the answer is no. I think it took me finding Keto in my 40’s, having to witness the generation of family before me suffer heart attacks, strokes, dementia, and see what diabetes caused to allow me to release myself from the guilt of not sticking to something years ago. I love to hear how other feel.

(Allie) #2

I think we find these things when the time is right for us to do so. You were a different person then so would’ve made different choices and decisions, such is life, and if things had worked out badly maybe it would’ve put you off keto entirely so you never would’ve had the success you’re having now.

(Susan) #3

I think that if I had of discovered Keto years ago, that I would have saved myself years of Yo-yo dieting, bulimia and anorexia --all of which I was doing in phases until February 2019 when I did find Keto. Keto has cured me of that, and I am on this for life now. I have felt better on Keto then any other way of eating that I have ever done, so I am pretty sure that I would have just stuck with it if I had discovered it years ago.

Let us be very thankful that we all finally did; and I wish all of us all amazing health and happiness in our way of eating for life, with Keto.

#4

For me, keto would have been helpful. It’s super easy for me to maintain on keto and borderline impossible to lose fat (practically, not theoretically. and theoretically it’s easy on high-carb too). Okay, maintain a smaller weight is different but still, it would have been helpful. Oh well. I did it around 40, not around 110, let’s look at the positive side :smiley: (Yep, I am sure I would live long even on high-carb but eventually I would have found low-carb as I did. And that’s nice even without keto.)

I don’t know regaining weight (at least not all), I am not that type. Both losing and gaining is pretty hard for me, maintenance is the super easy thing. But not on a massively overeating high-carb and insanely high-fat diet for decades. That was too much even for me and now my view about much food or a big meal is a bit skewed forever… But it’s not a problem as long as I don’t stray too far for too long.

BUT I needed my low-carb years before keto. I couldn’t do it before that time. But I wish I was raised up in low-carb. Or if I had a great father and he would make great steaks… (I still didn’t eat a proper steak in my life. I did something with cheap slices of meat in a pan but it wasn’t good.)

Oh well. I have good genetics and no one kept me from eating lots of animal protein and fat ever. Or whatever I wanted. It could have been much worse. Many kids are forced to eat in a certain way.
So I don’t complain. I even have my own brain to use and make my own choices as an adult. It took some time as I had no idea there is a better way but I didn’t cling to my old habits too much.