TL;DR - Out of all the diets I've tried, I truely think keto is the most compatible to me as a person and I have a new lease for life! Also if anyone can help me with macros please tyvm
I had my ''that's enough'' moment over the weekend. Two nights of take out food in a row, and it was enough food for 3 people, plus tubs of ice cream and share bags of crisps (chips for our American buddies). And I'm always in pain. My back is never not hurting me, I can't walk far without getting out of breath and the embarassment of that bothers me more than the reality of it.
I've done trendy diets over the years and lost weight fast, but it was unsustainable for me and I'd give up fast and gain the weight and more back on the binge. At first I thought it was because it was too restrictive, but I've come to learn my problem with eating: I cannot pace myself, and I cannot moderate. This isn't specific to all foods, it was specific to anything high carb, and high sugar.
I came to this realisation after watching my mother and sister struggle with the same thing, whilst marvelling at my husband who could stretch a bar of chocolate out over a whole month. And that's when I realised its a learned behaviour, possibly some genetic to it? So I thought to myself, if I cannot moderate my carb intake and I can't 'just have one'. Then I have to cut it out completely. I have to treat this like an addiction and it has to be cold turkey. I know that statistically you're more likely to be successful on a diet if you wean yourself of the good bad stuff, but I believe that's not the way for me.
I started looking at low carb diets and keto was first to pop up. And I'm hit with MEAT, FAT, EGGS, GREEN LEAFY VEG. All things that I love. I was already eating all these on the daily, but it was between four slices of bread or with a generous serving of mashed potato, and dessert was sugar and lots of it. I've been reading through this reddit, r/keto and r/ketorecipes, reading everything I can about keto, and while admittedly I haven't got this macro thing down yet, what I can say is I've stuck to foods on the good list (I wanted to stay away from foods that are kind of okay in moderation because of their carb content, because of my problem with moderation).
I did a massive grocery shop that intially I though cost a fortune, but honestly it cost the same as normal except all the carbs and junk food were replaced with meat, vegetables and nuts. I've even weighed and portioned out my nuts into little bags, limited myself to one portion a day because I'm not sure how many I can eat, old me would have ate the whole bag.
I had a sugar craving right before dinner, and it made me realise all the times I thought I was craving something, I wasn't. This was fucking intense. So I ate a strawberry and made a coffee. Craving gone. And that gave me hope that I'll be able to ride out the rest of the cravings that are coming my way. I've finished my day feeling hopeful and eager to continue. I've never felt so excited to be on a diet and I've already bookmarked a lot of recipes to try. Today I'm doing cauliflower mash, because as an Irish person my spuds were sorely missed with dinner last night. Going forward, learning to make keto desserts. And I vouch to keep trying to understand macros, because I don't understand them at all.
My name is Cas.
I'm a 26 year old, 5'3" female, I'm 141kg/311lbs and I'm going to die if I don't decide to be better.
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