It has taken me somewhere about 10 years to gain about 45 lbs, give or take. Once upon a time I was immune to weight gain and could drop weight just by thinking about it. But as time has gone on it has gotten increasingly harder to maintain and keep the weight off.
It really started when it I pull college into full time mode. I had been going part time while I was working but my job decided that it was time for a change. I got laid off from a job I had been at for 12 years. The bullshit excuse left a real bad taste in my mouth, they said I was ready for management but without a college degree I was not ‘qualified’ for the promotion. At the time I was working for Guardsmark, the company has since joined forces with three other companies to form on super company. I cannot speak to this new conglomerate but the old company was a glorified flashlight mall cop security service provider. Antiquated to the point of being comical, uniforms just as laughable and policies that remind me of a time that used carbon copy pink, yellow and white forms…..and yes they still used these back in 2010.
Now that I was now ‘free’ I put my school above all, and it paid off. Graduated with honors and all that jazz. Put all my skills, school, and past onto an awesome resume and set out west looking for a job. Long story short I found the job, several actually but finally found the one that was to be my current bread winner. And while all of this was going on I was not taking care of myself. I tried for a job as a cop so I was actually running for a while and lost a bunch of weight. But that fell through (story for another time) so the running became a distant memory. (Ps, I loath running)
The weight creeped up slowly, and in ten years I was having back problems, zero in the world of cardio, I no longer needed to wear a belt to keep my pants up and I could not breath when I bent over to tie my shoes. I was once a huge gym rat, even got a job at a gym so I could get paid to workout! So I am no stranger to the gym, hell I was a damn personal trainer once upon a time!
As of this last month I started the Keto Diet; I have read the good, the bad and the ugly of this diet. I was familiar with the Atkins Diet from years ago and always felt that this was the way to go, but I never put much stock into it. But as of today, I have lost a total of 10 lbs. This diet has shown me just how much bread, pasta, sugar and rice I have been eating. We went from buying four loaves of bread a month, to one! For the most part I was the one eating all the damn bread in the house!
I will say the first 2 weeks were difficult and I am not done with what I need to lose. I am at 235 and want to get to about 200. I have gotten the diet in check and now I am starting week three back into the gym, week one was all about being so sore I hurt to breath but since then things are just a little tight.
I know the Keto Diet is not perfect and it is not for everyone but for me it has shown me that I have been eating way too many carbs for the lifestyle I have grown into. I have made changes in that life and once I get this gut in check I will tapper off from this diet. I am not sure if this is a long term way of eating but I know that eating pizza, tacos, pasta, rice and loaves and loaves of bread is what got into my husky pants Ha Ha!
Find what works and stick with it, the one thing I have learned about a life time of yo-yo diets and exercise is that if you want to see real results consistency is the key!
So till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything.
