I just wanted to share my excitement with you guys, and also hopefully provide some motivation to others who are seeing slow progress on the scale or are just starting out and not knowing if this WOE is going to work for them.

I started this journey 10 weeks ago in late April. At that time I weighed 198.6 lbs. Bigger than I've ever been in my life and no sign of the weight gain slowing down! I somehow discovered low carb/keto and decided to give it a try, even though the concept seemed odd and unnatural to me, especially since I wasn't previously a big meat eater.

I lost about 10 pounds in my first week, and was amazed! The weight fell off effortlessly, all the while I felt like I was gorging myself on food (eggs, meat especially cheese burgers, cheese, veggies, and protein shakes). I felt so full and satisfied and it was freeing to be able to eat those foods in that quantity and be losing like that!

After the first week, the weight loss on the scale slowed down dramatically. The next 13.2 lbs that I've lost came off very slowly in the following 9 weeks and without rhyme or reason really. I still don't really have a handle on what causes me to lose certain weeks and seemingly stay the same other weeks, and I guess that is what can be discouraging to some people who don't understand why they are 'stuck'. But throughout this whole process what has really kept me going, especially through the weeks where I seemed to stay the same and not lose, was that I just felt so great in my body for the first time in a few years! My energy is great, my body confidence is great, my clothes fit looser and I've gone down a couple of pants sizes. I started in the high 190's and I'm now in the mid-170's. I still have a ways to go, but I have faith in this lifestyle.