Here is my non scale Victory!!! Today I finally decided it was time to update my Bitmoji avatar because my old one doesn’t look like me anymore!!! Lol after the 70lbs I lost since creating it thanks to going keto this past January it felt pretty cool picking the slimmer body type! Wooo!
My Bitmoji needed updating!
shezfunn
(cheryl)
#2
congrats !!! that is amazing , i have lost 20 and then the same 4 or 5 over and over since the last week in February 2018 …so maybe i have lost 22 actual pounds … today i am puzzled by my 111 blood sugar after fasting 25 hours 
grinch734
#3
I’ve fluctuated from 180 to 260 over my adult years. I really do look like a different person when thin vs. overweight. I’ve been told I could gain/lose a few many times. It’s much better to be told I could gain a few! Although too thin is possible too.
Shellibear
(Michelle Barry)
#4
Thank you! It’s funny how something so small and silly can make your day lol! I am an honest person …to a fault at times haha 
and when making my original Avatar i was honest and picked the large body type I had…i mean that was me and that’s the idea right?! …I use Bitmoji all the time in messages and things to make life fun…and never really thought about it until recently I was sending one in a message and said “hey that doesn’t really look like me anymore”! 
. So as I was updating I felt the need to share 
…I hear you on the weight on and off as u are losing weight…from what I feel it’s just your body making sure it’s going to survive and be ok when losing weight I started at 260lbs in January (not even my heaviest which was closer to 300) and I seemed to bounce around on the scale awhile each time before I dropped to the next “ten pound loss marker ”. We have water weight and so many things going on inside us all the time that we fluctuate …Thanks to our beautiful bodies adjusting to our needs…the best thing I ever did was to look at the scale “for entertainment purposes only” …so when I see it bounce around a little I find comfort in researching and understanding the science of why and am thankful for my body to be taking care of me as I learn to best take care of it. I just got out of its way and let it do it’s magic! 
. We are all beautiful individual snowflakes and therefore it’s hard to truly compare us…Slow and steady wins the race! Keep calm and keto on is my daily mantra…this is a lifestyle change and life is so darn messy out there …we all just do the best we can…some have more messes to clean up than others …
…but not matter…we will get there in time…look more to the non scale victories because they blow that scale out of the water!!! 
Shellibear
(Michelle Barry)
#5
Oh and not sure about the blood sugar thing I know other things can impact your blood glucose readings like dawn effect and stress etc…not just the food we do or don’t put in our bodies…and it’s only a quick snapshot of that moment …focus more on the HbA1c numbers as this is a better view of what’s going on over 3 month period…and also look at those monitors the same way “for entertainment purposes only”
Shellibear
(Michelle Barry)
#6
Wow! Those are my numbers almost exactly lol 
I was 260 and am currently “bouncing” in the 180’s 
…I am 48 years old and 5’10”…I was always thin growing up and extremely active but always had digestive issues, like many when we are young we feel invincible and so i ate terribly and never worried about it, then as I became an adult my body got tired of working overtime processing all that garbage I guess and in my adult life while still living this way and compounded by adult life stress …I became well over 100lbs “overweight” (in quotes as I don’t believe in BMI) and was starting to see the issues of metabolic derangement. I did what we all do and look to others who “look healthy” (also in quotes for a reason) and follow their “plans”…and so the yo yo began…I did them all you name it I poured my money into it withhope each time that “this was the one “ …my body wanted to be better, it fought like a champ! I would lose 40-50 lbs but it never stayed off and my metabolic derangement got worse!!! I was sicker than ever!!! What the 
?!..But I had the willpower of a freakin Pitbull!!! I was a model dieter even running fitness and “clean eating” groups online!!! Ugh! How was this possible?! It wasn’t until I found the 2 Keto Dudes and others like them who were willing out of the goodness of their hearts to put out the science for us, that I started to realize there is no “one size fits all” program and that what works for some is disaster for others, I started to safely experiment on myself with the watchful eye of my doctor and started to embrace my “inner snowflake “ and see what worked for me and my body, and here I am , steadily losing weight, no more painful digestive issues, inflammation which was dangerously high (heading to the surgical table for bilateral plantar fasciitis) now normal , fatty liver diagnosis reversed…and every day I am learning more and more , there will not be a return to 260 this time , knowledge is power and I have found the mother load with keto! 
