It finally happened! I am down 100 pounds! I can't stop using exclamation points! I have stalled for about 4 weeks since I hit 270. Then I decided to switch a few things up and lost 4 pounds in 3 days. I'll get to that in a minute. I started this blog a few days before I began this journey in June of 2016. I set goals then to get to 195 pounds and wanted to get there a lot sooner than I will, but more importantly, my trend continues in the right direction. Keto has become such a big portion of my life. I have to keep myself from talking about it with everyone I meet. I would imagine there are quite a few people sick of the subject. You know who you are. :) I'll just apologize now because this subject is my new obsession. I feel so much better than that big guy on the right of this post. I remember getting the sweats for no reason. Getting help to put my shoes on. Dreading a trip up the stairs to my room. Taking 3 or 4 hour naps after lunch and waking up more tired than when I laid down. More than anything I remember being scared as I lost control of myself and just gave up. I knew I had less than ten years to live at the rate I was going. Now, I know I am eating in a way that will give me the best chance to live a long life. Perhaps it won't happen, but I'll at least live on my terms, able to move and chase my kids around and run up and down a basketball court again. I wouldn't have dared try such a thing just 19 months ago.
So what did I do? I have been fasting for 16 hours from 6 pm to 10 AM and eating three meals during those 8 hours since October. I hadn't lost anything the past month even without cheating and cutting out keto treats for the most part. Wednesday I decided to try fasting for 18 hours and to eat only 2 meals and be done by 6 pm. I also played basketball for the first time Thursday night. I lost 1 and a 1/2 pounds the first day, 2 pounds on Friday morning's weigh in and then 1 more on Saturday to hit the 100 mark! I feel so good too. I am not missing that extra meal. Intermittent Fasting is such a gift! I do get a little hungry at times but my body is already adjusting. The other thing saving me is my shakes. I love my keto fat shakes and most days use one as one of my two meals. My only beef with my shakes is needing to keep 4 ingredients on hand to make them fit as Keto. That may be changing soon. I'm very excited about this development, but will save any announcements for later when it is closer.
Weight - 267 lbs, started 367 lbs
Chest - 47 Inches, started 60 inches
Stomach - 46.0 inches, started 64 inches
Waist - 39 inches, started 54 inches
Mid Thigh - 20 inches, started 25 inches
Total pounds lost - 100 lbs!, Total inches lost - 40 inches
Goal weight - 195, 72 Pounds to go
