Admins: Please move to the appropriate category if it doesn’t belong here or feel free to delete if it’s wrong to share my positive progress.
I’m an engineer by training (and personality). I’m 6’4" or so. I’m also 55yrs old and raised 3 kids. 2 are still in HS. I was pre-diabetic in January and tore my right quad several times between Nov 7th last year and Jan 2nd thi year. Since the end of January I started managing my diet after a doc’s visit showing nothing else was wrong except torn quad and prediabetes which I think were correlated. I’ve been rehabbing it since and am at about 95%. However, I’m still being conservative about overload. My right knee will get arthroscopic surgery on June 20th. Also, from about 47yrs old to 51yrs old I was a moderately high level recreational athelete doing several 100mile rides and a 1/2 ironman.
I initially did low/zero complex carbs lowish fat and moderate protein. So a fair bit of raw veggies… A couple of online friends were in another keto group and I had read and am a fan of Taubes and Attia so I kind of soft rolled into keto. I think I was mostly eating keto by end of Feb. It’s when I started weighing myself. Prior to that I was afraid, very afraid that I would be a bit depressed I had let myself go so far. The transition to keto for me was relatively smooth. I don’t mind experimenting with food. There’s nothing I won’t try once, especially if it’s loaded with good fat. Also, I have a withings scale and can be a bit OCD about weighing myself, every morning first thing in my birthday suit. Doing this gives me additional information about what’s going on with my body. Sometimes the results seem random. However, either falsely or justifiably so I can assign some causes to weight changes.
Lastly, after becoming fat adapted, by looking at the scale ~4/15, the progress on the scale and with my diet really hasn’t been demanding. It’s kind of amazing to not feel hungry. I know at some point it will come back… But I can totally manage the amount consumed and the timing without ever being STARVING. I just focus on getting a decent amount of fat at every meal, minimizing incidental carbs and eating zero crap carbs. As I rolled in I used some things like pork rinds as a crutch for snacks. Now they’re really not needed. With all of that here’s my progress:
It’s also interesting because you can see I had post induction stall syndrome (PISS) for 3-5 weeks from beginning of March to the beginning of April. I kind of knew it would pass (friggin’ engineer). I just stuck with the program and finally broke through w/o any fasting. I also plotted a line showing indicating I’m steadily losing about 3.5lbs per week. When my weight starts to deviate from that line I know I’ll need to tweak what I’m doing to continue the loss. In my ideal world I get to <200lbs, a good cycling weight for me, and the lowest I’ll have been since high school.
I have one more long term goal… One more 1/2IM if my body will let me…
Ortho doc knows better than to set an upper bound… I’ll do what my body lets me do.
