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(Zachary Nelson) #1

I just wanted to share my story for anyone that is thinking about and considering the keto diet / way of life. Weather you live it out are just here to visit, I applaud you. I strongly recommend it and if you have some time read my story for some motivation.

I got divorced about ten years ago, and it started this nasty little habit of drinking and eating out all the time. I am in the army national guard and when I got out of basic I weighed 158lbs, after a deployment I was 145 lbs. But at my divorce, I was around 165lbs and blood pressure was becoming a concern at 25 years old. I went all the way up to 210lbs after my now wife and I met. I finally decide to get my act together and started running and road biking about four years ago. This, with a better diet and still drinking, drove me to medication for blood pressure over two years ago. But I had gotten my weight down to 173lbs. But about three years ago we had twin boys and I gained weight, and have been hanging at 190 lbs give or take. I was still very active and running 15 miles a week and working out in the gym twice a week. I just couldn’t get the weight off or my blood pressure to quit climbing. Then about 9 months ago my doctor asked me to come in and talk to him about my cholesterol at 33 years old. So typical dude style I ignored it and didn’t make that appointment.

About three months ago a couple of my buddies talked to me about keto and I thought there was no way I was going on a diet, I have never even batted an eye at a diet. But then another buddy showed me this website, and I did some research. Well here I am three months later! I have lost over 30lbs, my LDL has went from a 198 to 153, my triglycerides have went from 98 to 62, and my blood pressure is slowly going down. It takes a little time to get used to the diet (took about three weeks for me). But it has been worth every minute. I have way more focus, my body doesn’t ache, and I have tons of energy. I have messed up a few days since I started, but that is normal. I lace my boots up the next morning a keep driving on.

I hope this helps someone and thank you for reading a shortened version of my journey! If you have questions please feel free to ask me or anyone on here. We are all here to share and help!

#2

Congrats! :+1: You come across as very driven and are getting on well with keto. The results are great, and lots of non scale victories there!

#3

Zachary, great job!! I loved reading your post :slight_smile:

(Zachary Nelson) #4

Thank you to both of you for reading and commenting. My victories are small compared to most of the posts I have read on here. But they are my personal goals and glad I found keto.

(Frank) #5

Those are huge improvements. Be happy that you caught it when you did.

(Central Florida Bob ) #6

In addition to saying what everyone else has about congratulating you, and saying not to minimize your victories, I just want to add one perspective. There’s a lot of people on this forum, a lot, who can tell the same story about working out more and more while gaining more and more. All of us have said, “I’m doing everything they say is right, I just must not be doing it hard enough” and worked out even more.

Somebody here (sorry I don’t recall) has the tag line, “you can’t outrun a bad diet”, and no truer words have ever been said.

So congrats! Now that you’re on the right road, you’ll probably have normal BP in a little while.

(Zachary Nelson) #7

I am hoping to get off the BP meds at some point. But I still take them and three months is definitely not enough time. But I will continue with the diet and only time will tell. I like the tag line and yes it is very true! Hahaha! I can honestly say that I thought I could eat whatever and drink alcohol, then I just needed to run longer or push a little harder in the gym.