Who Saved Your Life?

(Dawn) #1

Do you feel like keto saved your life? If not your physical life, then the quality of your life? If so, I would like to open this post up to everyone to SHOUT OUT the person by name who hooked you on keto. Was it a Dr? A best friend? Let’s use this forum to say THANK YOU to the person who introduced you to keto.

I will start. My buddy Paige was the person who pushed me to keto. I had not seen her in a few months and I was AAMAZED when I saw her weight loss. I just could not accept that she had done it naturally. There was no way that she could have lost over 80 pounds naturally in just 11 months, while I had been killing myself for four years and kept losing and gaining the same 23 pounds over and over with no net success. I accused her (privately) of having bariatric surgery or being on some medication that helped her lose weight. One day, I begged her to tell me what she was doing to be so successful. She was extremely hesitant because she was afraid that I would judge her or challenge her in some way. When she finally told me what she was doing, I was immediately intrigued. I started researching everything I could find about keto. I was still hesitant to start it until the keto group on MFP suggested listening to 2KD. At that point, I was hooked.

My wonderful skinny, beautiful friend Paige has also been very supportive throughout this entire process. She checks in with me often and she keeps me motivated.

My keto WOE has taken on a life of it’s own that is far beyond what Paige did during her journey. I now know about EF and IF, autophagy and reversing pre diabetes.
It is because of Paige that I am where I am today. So thank you Paige. I also want to thank @richard and @carl for giving me the courage to try this…50 pounds down and only 60 more to go. YOU SAVED MY LIFE!

Toast to Paige - Dilly Dilly

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

I believe it was a TED talk by Dr. Peter Attia that got me started down the rabbit hole. That led me to Dr. Robert Lustig’s famous lecture on “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” and that led me to the Low Carb Down Under channel on YouTube, which led me to Dr. Phinney. But I guess primacy goes to Dr. Lustig, because his lecture scared the shit out of me and got me to deal with my risk of metabolic disease. But without Dr. Attia and Dr. Phinney, I might still not have made it all the way to a well-formulated ketogenic diet.

(Randy) #3

My brother found keto. Told me about Butter Bob Briggs. It was like a life preserver thrown to a drowning man.

His reward: He reversed 15 years of T2 diabetes in 6 months.

#4

I heard about it from Joe Rogan (on his podcast).

#5

My best friend, Sarah.
She has been educating herself and telling others for months now. It took me a while to stop hemming and hawing before I went full on keto but the inflammation was down in 4 days. I haven’t looked back since and I owe her my life. In a few months I’ll have bloodwork to show the world how my friend gave me the tools to change my world for the better.

(Allie) #6

I just drifted into it by accident through laziness and being short of time, then after a few weeks found it had a name.

(Richard Morris) #7

A Youtube by Prof Tim Noakes led me to Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek and Eric Westman.

(migorstmarseille) #8

I was in utter despair and had given up after 3 months of following a dietitian’s advice, and ran into a friend who had lost 50 lbs. and was off meds after 3 months. He pointed me to Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes book and dietdoctor.com. I found Dr. Fung through that website and, while there are a lot of people in the keto community whose knowledge has helped me, I have to give most of the credit of my recovery to the work of Dr. Fung. @TomSeest has been incredibly helpful, and the 2KD podcast has been a weekly touchstone for me, as well as this forum.

(Sophie) #9

I had success back in the early 90’s with Adkins, twice (read that as yo-yo dieting). I already knew about the Induction Phase and had come to a point in my 6yrs of Lo-Carbing where I had stalled out and was ready to make some big changes, since I still have weight to lose. I started Googling and found that instead of calling it Adkins Induction it was now referred to as Keto. I found videos on YouTube by Casey Durango (Go Keto with Casey) and that led me to Dr. Eric Westman and then Dr. Phinney etc.etc. into the rabbit hole! For me Keto will always be Adkins Induction For Life because that was where I always messed up…by adding carbs back by doing those rungs!

#10

Given a future of either amputations, or sitting on an electric scooter, I took to Google and found this group.
Since then I have converted 3 people including hubby who has now lost 17 pound, has a six pack and looks very sexy!

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #11

My husband got me started on lower carbs. He gave me a copy of the Zone by Dr. Barry Sears. If I hadn’t kept to that lifestyle even when I gained back the weight I originally lost, I could tell my body liked lower carbs. So last summer when I regained a bunch of weight, AGAIN. I knew the lower, slow carb route wasn’t going to keep me on my healthy life journey. I decided to give Atkins a try, I had been tracking on MFP for a couple of years by then, bouncing up and down, never getting to goal weight, and the LCHF group there kept mentioning the 2ketodudes and Jimmy Moore podcasts. I started listening to both. Once I listened to several of the 2ketodudes podcasts, heard Megan and Jason talking about fasting, I knew i had found a healthy path and I am slowly getting my DH to lower his carbs as well, he is just over the line for T2D and doesn’t want to go on meds. And I have to give a shout out to Marty Kendall as well as Drs. Phinney, Volek, and Gerber, they have educated me so well.

So not really just one person who helped me save and improve my life, but a cast of characters. I am grateful to all of them. And the support my DH has given me through thick and thin makes me love him even more.

(Mark Rhodes) #12

My wife tried twice unsuccessfully to do KETO. The second time she asked me and I said no, it didn’t make sense to me still believing in CICO. However her being despondent was also something that I didn’t want and I told her at Christmas we would do Keto in the new year. She’s 5’6" and was about 248. I’m 6’2" and was 210. i was just a little more fat than I wanted to be having just recovered from a spinal injury after years of athleticism. I let her guide me at first and we did lose some but I didn’t think the results we aligning with the facebook pages I was looking at. being an engineer I decided that her information wasn’t accurate so I read Phinney and Volek, both books. Followed by Jimmy Moore. On April 1st I revamped what we were doing. A fellow engineer at work suggested 2KD. That helped me understand through experiences other people shared to implement what I was learning far better than just doing it alone.

She is currently down 50 pounds and working through a stall ( fasting which I learned about through Jason’s Two Books and 2KD podcast). I have gained LBM at quite a quick pace. I actually weigh more than when we started but my BF is down 7% according to the Dexascans. We go to book signings, watch youTube together, listen to podcasts in the truck driving to town. We talk about short term goals, N-1 experiments and other keto related things. Keto has increased her self-confidence and it gives us an exciting area to talk about during our travels. KETO improved our marriage, that is for sure.

(Athena) #13

I was bored one night and decided to look for a movie to watch on my DVR and found Fat Head. Watching that changed my life. I immediately stopped eating sugar and grains. Then I ran to the library and rented the book Why We Get Fat and What to do About it by Gary Taubes. I followed the diet in the back of that book until I found Keto.

(CharleyD) #14

Not to get too political, but a Smart Military Blog™ I frequent had its main blogger do Keto and IF and resistance training to correct his own weight and lipid issues last year. I don’t recall who turned him on to it, but at the time I was pleateau’d for an aggravatingly long amount of time and was looking to bust it.

My mother had done by-the-book Atkins many years ago but I believe my dad had worn her down after a while, now he’s become an acolyte of that nutrition f@cts dot 0rg site’s doc. (don’t want to give that guy any traffic) I wish I had supported her in it but I hadn’t done my own homework in it.

#15

I’ve low-carbed periodically for over 40 years, so my awareness and belief in low-carbing stretches back to Robert Atkins. But I could never stick with it permanently. I became diabetic a few years ago, and a toe injury last winter made me terrified of amputations (even though it wasn’t that bad; it doesn’t have to be when you’re diabetic). I did a search for “reverse diabetes” and found Michael Mosley. That gave me hope, so I started doing his 8-week/800 calorie plan. While researching that, I came across Jason Fung and Satchin Panda and learned the benefits of fasting and time-restricted eating (a real game changer).

Armed with new knowledge, I morphed back into low-carb with the addition of fasting. Somehow I came across Michael Eades’s famous essay warning of the danger of “falling face down in the donuts” (i.e., eating low-carb most of the time and then periodically eating high-carb might be worse for your health than never doing low-carb). That made me realize that my mistake in the past had been thinking it was okay to have cheat meals (or days).

Then I came across Low-Carb Breckenridge, and watching that gave me the momentum to commit to low-carb. The Dudes did a session, and @richard talked about how he had been in danger of losing a toe before he started doing keto, and, “long story short, I kept all my toes.” Wow. Talk about inspiration! I looked up this forum, and it’s been invaluable in keeping me motivated and on top of the latest ideas.

#16

I heard about Keto 10-15 years ago. Back then it was this weird cult like corner of the bodybuilding community. It sounded ridiculous. Cut to last year and, a political blogger I follow mentioned Dr Fungs book and something about Keto. For some reason it clicked and I decided to try this crazy fat ‘diet’.

#17

Just read yours and it sounds similar to mine. I think we’re talking about the same guy.

#18

I read Dr. Atkins’ book in the mid 90s, and I have enjoyed a lo-carb lifestyle on and off since then. I gained a shit-ton of weight after my second divorce in 2005 and during law school in 06-09. I really got serious in the past 15 months when I quit drinking and started doing intermittent fasting. I am down about 38 lbs. since August of 2016.

(Richard Morris) #19

My hope for everyone is that one day you see your own name in a thread like this as the inspiration for someone to save their own life. This is how we’re going to change the world … exponentially.

#20

My wife, for the second time. She was there when I had my heart attack and she is the one who suggested this woe.