WARNING! Incoming wall of text! I've been a long time lurker here on this board and here is my first post I thought I would finally post my story since I like to log in here every day and read people’s success stories, the inspiration is a great way to start the day. So hopefully my story can help others like so many of your stories have helped me The year was 2015 and I weighed in at around 340 pounds. It was a bad time in my life and I was pretty down about my weight and life in general so I started losing weight I got down to around 310 through just traditional exercise and calorie counting…..jesus it was hard work. I made progress though and my self-esteem increased and that’s when it happened, I met the most amazing woman ever. Instantly I knew things were different. I LOVE cooking so of course I’ve got to bust out the mad culinary chops to impress this girl. Day after day its one elaborate meal after the next. Now all of this wasn’t necessary we were soul mates I didn’t have to impress her I just had to be myself but hindsight is 20/20 right so as the weeks went by and I fell more and more in love and the epic meals kept rolling in so did the pounds. She didn’t care because she loved me regardless of my size but I wanted to be better for her so in November of 2015 (after thanksgiving of course, I was fat no way was I passing on mashed potatoes, rolls, and pumpkin pie) I started my weight loss journey at 348.8 my highest weight ever. It was hard getting on that scale the first time but I had to face the facts and be the man she deserved.
I really wanted to lose weight quick because we were going to the beach for a week that summer and didn’t want to look like a beached whale sitting out in the sun. So I jumped in working out 5 days a week and eating 1600 calories a day with my previous method of eating carbs still but counting calories. Again it was tough but I dropped a bit of weight (not as much as I wanted too) before our vacation and that’s where I asked this perfect woman to marry me. So now I was determined to keep on losing because I didn’t want to be as fat in my wedding pictures as I was in my brothers so I kept at it and it was hard. I was constantly hungry, constantly fighting cravings, constantly tired…..I was the happiest I had been in my life but every day was a struggle against the cravings but I kept on doing it for her. By the end of 2016 I had managed to drop down to 295. Now along the way I knew about keto but never thought I could do it giving up bread and pasta, two of my favorite things, but I kept coming to this board and reading about peoples amazing success and thought to myself if it works for them then it must be legit. I was willing to try anything since I’m now getting married in September of this year so January 1st 2017 I switched to the keto lifestyle resolved to give up the grains for now so I could lose the weight before the big day.
The first week was hell I was thinking to myself jesus this sucks but by this point I had already done a ton of research into Keto and knew this feeling was supposed to be temporary so I kept on keeping on and wouldn’t you know it about 3 weeks in I feel amazing. I roll out of bed every morning sleeping better than I had ever in my life with enough energy to walk out in the kitchen and bench press the refrigerator for breakfast. Now 2 months in and I’m down to 265.2 THIS REALLY WORKS!!!! Like really works! 30 pounds lost in 2 months Endless energy, no hunger, fast weight loss this is the life for me. After about the first month all the cravings for my precious breads have stopped. Those carbs truly are addicting I have zero desire for grains any more, and fathead pizza mmmmmmm now your talking my language that shit is delicious!
I just want to thank all of you for the inspiration this year is the beginning of the rest of my life, keep on posting those stories for everyone out there like me. If not for you guys I would still be torturing myself losing weight the “traditional way”. Keep on keeping on my keto bro’s!
Obligatory progress pics: http://ift.tt/2mE5KTJ http://ift.tt/2m6neFz
PS: here is a bit of motivation that helped me start out day one back in November of 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuElM6T50w
Submitted March 05, 2017 at 12:08AM by raizzon http://ift.tt/2lITDA1 keto
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