Yet another blog

I’ve had lots of weight loss blogs over the years.  Probably too many.  I can’t help it, I get excited when I start a new journey into trying to get healthier.  My most recent attempt was gettingmyselfbetter.com.  I started that journey at 272.4 pounds.  I couldn’t believe I had let myself get that fat again.  It was awful.  I began that chapter by just making better decisions about what I ate.  Less processed foods and more fruits and vegetables. Feel free to go to this entry in my other blog to get my background on my weight struggles.

As the name of this blog can pretty much tell you, the new diet of choice is Keto.  I’m not going to go into how the diet works, there are plenty of other sites out there on the googlewebs that can give you that information.  It’s basically low carb/high fat.
My choice for this diet however, is an altered version.  The reason behind this is that my husband had a heart attack last year and this is the diet his cardiologist recommended but with a lower fat and higher protein.  And I know that all the strict keto people will jump all over me and tell me it won’t work as well and blah blah blah, but we are struggling to accept life after a heart attack okay?  We are doing what we feel is right for our family.

Anyhoo, we started in June of this year.  I had gotten my weight back up to 250 pounds so that is my starting Keto weight.  This morning I weighed in at 239.4.  I haven’t seen the 230s in years!  I am pretty excited about that.  So I am officially down 10.6 pounds since June.  Nowhere near as fast as if I were a strict keto-er, but I’m totally okay with this.  We are doing this more for health than for weight loss at this point as I was diagnosed with high cholesterol in June.

That’s about all I have for now.  I hope to fill this journal with lots of positivity and progress.  😀