Back in June, my doctor told me I needed to completely change my diet and start exercising because I was very very boarderline diabetic. He suggested I try Keto, not for weight loss, but to improve my blood sugar. We agreed that going until my birthday, September 7th, would be a good trial for a Keto diet.
I took to it earnestly, trying my hardest on the diet, with no expectations for how much weight to lose. Maybe, if I was lucky, I could lose 20 lbs overall. If I'd done that, I would be ecstatic.
I took up running and yoga. Every day, rain or shine, run 2 miles with my dog plus walk another 3. Cut out all sugars in my diet (obviously) and haven't cheated. I got a nintendo Wii fit to help me track my weight loss, it comes with a digital scale that doubles as a work out board and also a pedometer that can measure things like air pressure, temperature, etc in the calculations. Because of the work out board, Wii Fit started telling me that my balance was very off, I leaned 15% to the left, and that poor balance would inhibit working out correctly and thus slow weight loss, so it would have me do these daily yoga routines to strengthen my core.
It's been almost 3 months to the day now. Saturday is my birthday.
I lost 50 lbs.
I went from 230 lbs, to 179 lbs in 3 months. 50 fucking pounds in 3 months. I hit the so-called Keto plateau about a month in, which is when I started really running hard to try and break through, and just kept on losing. I've eaten so many chicken wings, and crock pot chili, and broccoli that I don't think I can look at that stuff again for a long while. But I lost weight. I noticed a bunch of huge changes in my life:
- My Sleep Apnea is cured. I no longer snore.
- My Doctor says I'm no longer at risk for diabetes, I have "cured" myself and my body has "healed" itself
- I can fit into clothes from highschool again
- I no longer get heartburn (I used to have chronic heartburn)
- I am way, way more alert and sleep better (likely because of the sleep apnea)
On top of all that, on monday, when I did my body test, it reported that I was 0.2% off center in my balance. I do my body test every day at about 8 pm after running, so I was hoping that today would be the day I fixed my balance issues, and sure enough:
When I checked my Wii today, because I had hit my goal, it played this little animation. When you weigh yourself, you have to hold this tablet in your hands in a yoga position, and doing so lets it take a picture of your face. It does so every day. So, to celebrate reaching this milestone, it played back all my pics from the last 3 months in rapid fire so I could actually see my face slim down. It got very dusty in the room.
I wanted this so badly. I went in with low expectations of weight loss to shield myself from failure, and blew my damn expectations out of the water. I'm still not done, I want to lose another 15 or so lbs, at which point I'll be the perfect weight for my age and height. But right now... this feels very, very good. I haven't felt this good about myself in a LONG time.
Going to Austin this saturday to watch Texas beat LSU. Then I'm gonna hit the bars for the first time in a very long time with confidence. 3 months changed my life.