Tomorrow 30 days, defeated - 3 months later, victorious!

#41

Would you consider providing some more information? Have you seen results in the last 3 months? Weight? NSVs? I’m 3 weeks in and am stalled but keeping calm. Would love to hear more specifics from you.

#42

Nvm. I found your other thread. Thanks. Keep up the good work!

(Heather~KWOL for life!) #43

you too! some of us take a little more time to adjust, and i will say that even though i hadn’t lost pounds i had started losing inches. what sealed keto for me is when i went with my son and little grandsons to a maze in early October, just over my 30 day mark, and i walked that maze for an hour without dying of thirst and still breathing… not having to stop because i was tired, for me i realized that was my success. i decided then that this is how i need and WANT to live! Do not put pressure on yourself, allow your journey to unfold, that’s the best way I can say it :grin:

Keto pains? Keto highs?
(Running from stupidity) #44

Do the right things, and your body will get to where it wants to go. But that will be as it decides, not as you decide :slight_smile:

(Willow) #45

I am right there with you 31 days and everything as far as losing weight has been a struggle. I have lost weight by just a bit. I am gonna stay strong though because I don’t want to go back to the sugar. Its odd I feel like I don’t need to go back to the way I was eating.

(John) #46

I had to change your thread title to something more uplifting, using my mighty mod powers.

(Heather~KWOL for life!) #47

i’m not complaining :grin:

#48

Are you diabetic or insulin resistant? Are you in an unhealthy weight range or dealing with health issues?
I have recently read that keto works for weight loss if you are insulin resistant but perhaps not if you are not ie it is good for treating metabolic derangement but not necessarily for weight loss dieting.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #49

The ketogenic diet is not a weight-loss diet, it is a weight-normalization diet. Ideally, what it does is to lower your insulin levels to the point where energy (calories) can flow into and out of storage as needed throughout the course of the day. Under such conditions, and given adequate energy, the body becomes willing to part with stored fat.

It is also true that the healing and normalization process can involve the body’s putting on weight in the form of muscle and increased bone density, which I would argue are good things, even though they might counter-balance the weight loss from fat, thus causing no reaction on the scale.

Even though my weight has been stable for the past 12 months, I can now wear trousers that were too tight a year ago. Obviously, I am still losing fat, even though the scale is not moving.

(Heather~KWOL for life!) #50

I actually realized on my papers from last doc visit that they had indeed diagnosed me as insulin resistant. But, i had labs drawn two weeks after starting Keto and all of my cholesterol lvls were phenomenal, considering i have been on meds for it for 10 years and never had those great results. I am hopeful to go off blood pressure meds and the cholesterol meds. So, though I didn’t see the scale go down, i got upset, talked to knowledgeable ppl here and I continued forward. There are so many non-scale victories for me that I cannot imagine putting myself in the cycle of sugar stuffing myself again. i do allow a small treat once in a great while, and my bf who is diabetic and insulin dependent, has seen HUGE progress in his sugar control by eating keto. He is a truck driver, I used to be is front pilot car, a few years ago (way before we decided to date) and he cannot pass a DOT physical at this time because of the insulin. We are making great strides in his health and he is using less and less of the sliding scale insulin everyday. I think he’s blown away at the results he is getting. i told him he should be paying me $45hr to be his private duty nurse, since i am an RN :joy::joy::joy: he doesn’t agree :joy::joy::joy: He has hope, there have been new rules implemented and if his HgA1-c is below 10, they could pass him…but we need to find out for sure. plus he wasn’t initially using the sliding scale right because NO MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL taught him how to use it let alone give him a scale! i about died when he gave himself 20 units of the sliding scale just whenever. Flat out told him that i would be incorporating Keto in to his diet and went over his medication and got a scale for him to follow. Also, they never told him how to heal the wound on his foot, so since I have been in person with him again, i dress it correctly and i’ll be damned if it isn’t healing, i think he sees all the good his body is doing and how it’s responding to better eating with Keto, and he also will order when we are on the road, at a restaurant,and has hash browns, toast, biscuits, fruit, and grits, etc held. I don’t boss him and never say something is off limits, but i know he is really trying to eat better, it’s kinda fun to watch how much he cares now about himself. I know this was completely random and wordy, thank you for bearing with me! Thank God he had our paths cross if nothing else so i can truly teach him keto and his blood sugars have been so great! so, i will follow up if he does get to get his CDL back and let you know