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I Used to Be One of "those people"...

angelic843
angelic843 Posts: 252 Member
edited November 8 in Social Groups
Who said I could never do low carb.

I looked up one day at age 34, morbidly obese, after on and off dieting my whole life...

By the end of each day I could barely walk with all of my knee pain.

I decided, not for weight loss, but to see if cutting carbs could help reduce the inflammation and ease my pain. This was no small feat because I was truly a carb junkie. But this time I was desperate.

After three days of giving up bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes my knee pain was virtually gone!

GONE, in three days...GONE! It still seems unfathomable.

Two weeks in I am 13 pounds lighter. But who cares! I can walk up stairs like a normal human being.

I still have a long way to go and a lot more to learn about being LCHF. But the change I saw in my pain levels after only three days has shown me how glucose was (and still is sometimes) wreaking havoc in my body.

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  • camtosh
    camtosh Posts: 898 Member
    Good for you! Glad you are feeling better... best of luck with this way of eating. I too feel much better since starting this. In it for life!
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Congrats! That's awesome!
  • randomworldgirl
    randomworldgirl Posts: 106 Member
    I used to be one of those people too. However, 9 months ago decided to go low carb and have lost 70 pounds in the process. It's still hard to believe sometimes.
  • angelic843
    angelic843 Posts: 252 Member
    9 months, wow! Any favorite snacks or recipes you have to share?
  • randomworldgirl
    randomworldgirl Posts: 106 Member
    My #1 go-to snack is string cheese. I do batch cooking on Sundays. I bake lots of chicken breasts, boiled eggs, boneless pork chops, bacon, turkey sausage (kielbasa), thin-cut rib eye steaks. Then I portion them out in ziplock bags... weigh them, write the weight on the bag with a Sharpie, and I'm good to go for the week. I eat a ton of raw bell peppers too when I don't feel like actually cooking up any veggies.
  • DAM5412
    DAM5412 Posts: 660 Member
    Angelic843, great story and congratulations on your improved healthy! I think so many of us said the same "I could never cut carbs!" and here we are, finding out we were wrong and that we can do it!! Of course, some of us are newer at it than others, very impressive randomworldgirl!! I hope some day to say that I've maintained this lifestyle for 9 months and can't believe it! Thanks for sharing!
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 7,018 Member
    Congrats on the pain relief. I have chronic fatigue with occasional pain and since I went low-carb it has been so much better. It happened almost immediately.
  • leighsnow
    leighsnow Posts: 34 Member
    Congratulations on relieving the pain and dropping 13 lbs!
  • farmers_daughter
    farmers_daughter Posts: 1,632 Member
    That is awesome news OP. It's hard for people sometimes to find what "works". And randomworldgirl - that is fantastic! I've done good, and I've done horribly on low carb...as much of a carb junkie as I (didn't think I was!) am, I've had my ups and downs. But finding that motivation to keep pushing thru is huge! You know what works and what makes you feel better now keep doing it! Way to go!!!
  • kkimpel
    kkimpel Posts: 303 Member
    today, I saw a friend I haven't seen in a year... she said, "Oh my god.. you're tiny..I mean really tiny. Are you ok? Do you feel ok?" "I feel great!" I said. In speaking to her I said, "I normally lose down to a certain weight and then move back up, but when I got to 149, I thought, well this hasn't been hard and I feel great, there's no reason to stop." So I didn't. I am moving to maintenance but don't really see moving past 50 net carbs most days and having 100 at the upside.
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