Class Of 2016
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Holy *kitten*!!3
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Started July 5 2016. Don't weight myself but down a size. Flat stomach at 50 yoa. This is the only WOE I have been able to maintain while traveling - I would always "take a break" while on vacation or traveling for work from any other WOE. Just returned from a week in Vegas - ate more calories but stayed at 20g of carbs.... feel great ! Love this way of life.9
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Rainqueen77 wrote: »
I started keto on May 12th, 2016 and I lost 100lbs.
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Congratulations! You look terrific and more importantly, dropping the weight will surely have major health benefits!!1 -
I started September 12,2016. And as of December 31 I was down 38 lbs. I do low carb. My husband joined me and is down about 10-15 lbs. Going to keep going and hopefully reach my goal this year. Excited that I feel better than ever.9
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Started 1st January 2016.
To date have lost 45lb going from 229lb to 184lb. I'm thrilled with this as all previous CICO diets would help me lose 10-15 then I'd give up. I've gone from a UK size 24 to 16. (Is that the US equivalent of size 20 to a 12?)
I can't get over the lack of hunger, nothing like other diets and with a little planning I can make sure I'm still on track despite frequently going out to eat at restaurants. Another benefit is the change in taste. At the start I had a major sweet tooth. I though 60% chocolate was bitter. Now I happily eat 85% and when I have tasted things I previously loved they just don't have the same appeal they used to.
I am lucky in the fact that to date i have had no medical issues due to my weight or my former sugar filled diet so I have no medical improvements to report. However both sides of my family have a history of type 2 diabetes and also heart disease. I take a little comfort in knowing that I'm doing what I can to keep my insulin sensitivity at a normal level for my future.
Also I've lost a significant amount of fat from my stomach area. This is my problem area as I'm an apple shape and other diets only slimmed my legs. Not sure if this is down to being low carb but I'd like to think so. Anyone else like this?
My aim for 2017 is to get to at least a healthy weight (for my height) of 159 and then look at my body comp.
I could have given up a few times during 2016 and a large part of the reason I'm still going is this group. Thank you to everyone on here. You are all amazing!11 -
I started in nov 2015. I have lost 40 pounds and went from a size 18 to a size 12. It has been 25 years since I was a size 12. Carbs were like poison to my body. So, now I choose to eat life giving foods instead of death. I feel like myself again.
In 2017, my goal is to be more vegetarian keto.15 -
I love this idea, @ Sunny_Bunny! I found keto accidentally in October. I had gastric bypass in 2000, starting at 344 lbs. Lost 177 lbs within a yr, and over the yrs regained 71 lbs. I'd always been low carb (less than 100g) when *dieting* after my surgery, but always "hangry" and cheated frequently. I finally got fed up with the merry- go- round and lost those 71 lbs (plus 7 more) in 2014.
In 2015, I had a major family crisis and went from 160 to 208 lbs in 1yr. I started low carbing again in Sept 2016, then found keto, started on Oct 17, and haven't looked back since! I am so in love with this woe! I have not thought about a cheat day since starting, and this is the absolute FIRST time I have gotten through Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas without even one misstep!
I call them missteps because there are those who can tempt fate and eat whatever, then go right back on plan, but I am not that fortunate. When I "cheat" I go on for weeks, before I can turn myself around, and keto has made it possible for me to feel satiated, energized, and ready to start each and every day feeling revitalized! Sugar used to be my best friend, and candy corn, Thanksgiving stuffing, eggnog and believe it or not, FRUITCAKE lol, were my downfall every holiday season.
I'd gone from 208 to 196 from Sept 23 to Oct 17, 2016 on low carb, then I started keto, and as of yesterday morning, I've lost another 22 lbs doing keto. My goal is 150, and I feel that it is well within reach. That was my original goal after my gastric bypass surgery almost 17yrs ago, but it was never realized. With this woe, I know I can!
Thank you all for being the most wonderful group I've found on MFP, and for allowing us 2016'ers to share our progress. Happy New Year, and here's to better health in 2017 and beyond!13 -
I love it guys! Such great stories and experiences! My favorite parts are the feelings of freedom from food stresses like feeling confident about long term success and reduction or elimination of binge eating and overwhelming cravings and constant hunger! CONTROL! Feeling like you control the food, the food doesn't control you! It's amazing and is echoing my own experience since I started in May 2015 (Class of 2015 yeah!)
Keep the inspiration coming 2016! We are so glad you're still in it to win it!4 -
I started September 6.
Sugar has always been an issue for me. During a stressful day I would cram something sweet in my mouth, even if I wasn't hungry/it didn't taste good, because it calmed my brain. I sort of had a turning moment in July where I had a bad day at work, bought 2 candy bars and ate them on the drive home. The second one was disgusting and making me sick, but I still ate it because I was looking for the calm feeling sugar gave me.
I spent the month of August first researching low carb which brought me to Atkins which brought me to LCHF which brought me to Keto. As I learned about fat adaption and how my body could be flipped to want to burn its own fat stores everything clicked. I geeked out on every blog, podcast, medical abstract that I could get my hands on. I even read anti-keto stuff because I wanted to play my own devil's advocate. I learned what pitfalls to avoid and how to be successful. I learned that as I would be using my own fat stores, that would make up part of my fat macro and I didn't need fat bombs or to stress about hitting that macro.
I fully prepped with a meal plan I could stick to for the first 2 weeks, timed my start for the day my period ended when sugar cravings were lowest and jumped in. My results:- I've lost 30 pounds and am down almost 2 sizes.
- I no longer have low blood sugar issues or get cranky when I'm hungry.
- Hungry is a totally different concept now. It's more a "I could eat" than a "I need to eat!!"
- Food is not a source of shame for me. It is simply fuel that I use. And when people label my choices as "bad" because the foods are high fat and so am I, well, they just don't know how my body is running.
- I am easily able to IF and am toying with extended fasting for immunity and cancer fighting reasons.
- My husband is doing this with me and has seen improvement in his fibromyalgia symptoms
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WOW, class of 2016 is amazing!
WTG everyone! And thank you for the reminder of all the reasons we start this woe and the incredible changes we get from it. I'm from an earlier class (late 2014) and I really needed it.
Keep strong, there are many more victories in your future!
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I forgot a couple 2017 goals:
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* Make some palatable fermented foods
* Not get sick from eating them
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Barely made the class of 2016 myself. Started keto December 11th, but have already lost 10 lbs and I am already experiencing the freedom from food that Sunny Bunny mentioned. This was something I had always wished for. So tired of food and my weight being the main focus in my life. Now I think about food for only the amount of time it takes me to prepare a meal and then I'm on to other things. Started last week feeling the excess energy where I felt like I just had to get out of my office and away from my desk at lunchtime or I would explode.....Plan to keep in the groove and see what happens in 2017.6
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I started lowish carb in June 2016. I was aiming for 150 a day. I lost 30 pounds in 2016 and my last two A1C tests (Last one in December) were 6.1 and 6.7. I was on three diabetes medicines and now I'm down to 2. Also - * Ended the reign of terror from my GI system. I liked the way you said that! I could not believe the difference in how my stomach felt reducing the carbs. A total miracle in my opinion!
Goal for 2017 is to eat closer to 75 carbs a day and get off the 2nd diabetes medicine. Need to lose 70 pounds in 2017.
Goal for 2018 is NO diabetes medicine - but one step at a time.9 -
I started lowish carb in June 2016. I was aiming for 150 a day. I lost 30 pounds in 2016 and my last two A1C tests (Last one in December) were 6.1 and 6.7. I was on three diabetes medicines and now I'm down to 2. Also - * Ended the reign of terror from my GI system. I liked the way you said that! I could not believe the difference in how my stomach felt reducing the carbs. A total miracle in my opinion!
Goal for 2017 is to eat closer to 75 carbs a day and get off the 2nd diabetes medicine. Need to lose 70 pounds in 2017.
Goal for 2018 is NO diabetes medicine - but one step at a time.
@Dragonwolf reported a reawakening of the various dragons simply by adding some wheat back to her diet for testing purposes. Her particular GI dragon was heartburn, but there are subspecies thst play rugby in your intestines.....
Glad them days are, er, behind me.
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Congratulations to the 2016 class! You all will inspire more people than you will ever know!! You all rock!
Great thread @Sunny_Bunny_ !5 -
Great post! Thk u all for the inspiration! U guys rock!!4
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I started November 15. So far:
--I've lost about 15 pounds.
--I've gone down a pants size.
--I feel less anxious and have way more energy.
--I'm rarely hungry and sometimes have trouble eating to my calorie goal, which is a miracle to me. On CICO, I'd white-knuckle it to the end of every day, falling asleep thinking about what I could have for breakfast!
--I finally feel like I "get" it. I'm never going back to my old WOE.5 -
I joined this forum in March or April of 2016 with the purpose of viewing other's experience with low carb and their cholesterol. I was quickly side tracked from cholesterol, when in the second thread I chose to read, I saw the words "my Dystonia" by 2 different individuals. I too, have their same focal dystonia of Spasmodic Torticollis aka Cervical Dystonia. One also had Epilepsy.
I began surfing the net. I found nothing specific to ketogenic and dystonia. Epilepsy and ketogenic? Days and days of reading and research. A ketogenic diet has been used since the 1920s for people with epilepsy, mostly non-responders to anti seizure meds. Most of what I have read indicates that it is really unknown as to why the diet works for epilepsy, but it works. Interesting, the med I was always prescribed by my neurologist/s for my ST/CD is an old time anti-seizure med. Though I have asked my neuros "why does this med work", they don't know why. They just know it does. I decided I would be foolish not to try a ketogenic diet. I started 4/3/16. I will add that the med was prescribed "as needed" so I stopped the med.
My outward symptoms of ST/CD were very obvious. My head was severely turned (~75 degrees) to the right 100% of the time during awake hours. Trying to turn it forward, resulted it swinging back to the right. I was a bobble-head if I tried to keep it facing forward. I walked sideways (like a crab) because my head turned over my right shoulder and I needed to see what was ahead o me! I bumped into things in front of me if I didn't walk "crab like". I reached for things to my right but groped for things to my left. Enough of that. I could go on for days about inconvenience, frustration and embarrassment.
Just a few weeks into eating a ketogenic (very LC/HF) diet, the rotation of my head began to lessen. The muscle (neck/shoulder) contractions causing the turn minimized. The "more normal" posture change has been obvious to my husband and all who have known me since the onset of my dystonia 16 years ago.
I'm not cured. I still have some rotation and I can rarely turn my head left. But sometimes I can.
I've inadvertently "tested" the diet on 3 occasions by having an unplanned super carb binge (late night). The 3 muscles involved in "my turn", once again became super charged and I was again "locked right" by the next afternoon or earlier. At that time, it took a few days to get back into ketosis and then the rotation lessened. I've pretty much quit that type of "testing"
There is weight loss to this story. Prior to keto, I lost 60 pounds using MFP and have maintained that loss for over 2 years. 9 months of the maintenance has been via keto. I have found adherence to calorie limits EASIER with keto than with my previous higher carb/p/f macro split. I "white knuckled" maintenace for two years. Keto changed that too.13 -
Rainqueen77 wrote: »
I started keto on May 12th, 2016 and I lost 100lbs.
You look amazing. Fantastic job, @Rainqueen77 !2
