10/31/2025
My keto diet is going well!
It's been over a month and my cravings for pizza+ are nearly nonexistent. I feel more energized in certain ways.
I can now sit at my desk for multiple hours. This is a mundane activity I was severely struggling to do. It gets painful, but I can do it. I hope the benefits of keto continue to stack up.
I'm not sure if it was an energy crisis, weight, both, and / or something else.
I'm losing weight consistently. My goal is to lose at least 120 pounds. I'm 328 pounds. I hit my highest weight ever in 2021 when I ballooned to 400 pounds. My highest this year was slightly over 370 pounds.
I managed to get down to about 300 pounds in September 2023. I spent roughly 2 months exercising like crazy, weight training, cardio, and eating 1200 calories a day.
But that wasn't sustainable. And with my heart valve issue, I have to be careful with strength training, which sucks because I liked it. But without a healthy diet, nothing else matters.
I haven't been under 300 pounds since the beginning of Covid. Before the pandemic, I had never been over 300. I thought I never would. But here I am.
During the early pandemic, I ate and ate and ate. I spent almost every dollar I had on food. I gained weight going from about 250-260 in 2019 pounds to over 300.
By late 2021, I was almost 400 pounds / over 400 pounds. The Ottawa trucker protest in early 2022 was the most exercise I had gotten in a long time and it helped me start losing some weight. But I still ate.
And it was difficult. And I got physically hurt a few times.
My out of control appetite never stopped torturing me. But keto is helping me control it more than anything ever has, including multiple weight loss medications which I took for a few months in 2024.
I had started losing weight again during the past summer but rebounded in August / September.
Keto has enabled me to stabilize my weight loss and control cravings. I can go 24 hours without eating relatively easily. I feel like I can have long term success with this diet.
Appetite control is a big deal because I suffer from lifelong food addiction that has done damage to my health and cost me large amounts of money.
I track everything I eat, which started as an obsession with making sure I consume every nutrient my body needs. There were multiple nutrients I wasn't adequately getting, even with supplements and what I thought was a health weight loss diet, like manganese and vitamin e.
My immediate goal is to lose as much weight as possible without throwing myself off the wagon. I want to lose weight for my imminent open heart surgery. I figure it will make the surgery and recovery better.
But I want to be healthier in general. I want to be better and do more. I have a lot of dreams and goals, and it's going to take everything I have to achieve. I have to lose weight.
I have always been overweight, even as I child. I need to know what life is like to be a normal weight. And I'm going to.
I'm going to win.
