WARNING: Long post.

6 years ago I tipped the scales at around 300 lbs. I bounced between 298-304 lbs. I had back surgery, was an uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetic, suffered from Fibromyalgia, and knee pain. I'd had a torn meniscus repaired in March 2013, but with my weight the relief was minimal. I lost my job during my recovery from surgery in 2014. That was a whole fiasco that is its own horror story.

After recovery from surgery, I went back to the job I had from 2005-2013. That was May 2015. My knee got worse and I started to pay attention to weight loss. I was still around 270 when I had a partial knee replacement in 2016. Between 2016-2018 I managed to get to around 240. 2 years, 30 pounds, not at all impressive. I languished between 230-240 after my diagnosis of Celiac Disease and then IBD (not IBS) in 2019. Last year around this time was my first attempt to make it through the holidays without gluten. It was not pretty.

Then 2020 happened. I decided to apply myself to this gluten free crap, the food was edible, but my weight was not budging even a little. Why I thought it would was a mystery even to me. LOL

April 2020: something in my brain shifted. My father had died, at 76, from complications due to Type 2 Diabetes, Jan. 1, 2018, he lost a leg to it, too. He was never obese, but this was a man who had smoked 4 packs a day until his early 40s, at candy until the day he died, and lived on steak, fried potatoes and creamed corn. He refused to change his lifestyle for the disease he was diagnosed with in his mid-late 40s. My mother was diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's, in May 2018. My lifespan was looking grim. I was going to be 58 this year and terror set in. I'd been saying since the day my father died that I did not want to die like him, but I had not made any real changes. My A1C has been perfect for a few years, but I knew that eventually things were going to get bad. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of leaving my husband and pets behind, of not being able to hug them and love them. I turned my attention to the "Keto Diet". I'd heard of it and it sounded a lot like the Carb Addicts Lifestyle Plan that I was on 18 years ago, so I figured I should be able to do it. It's taken practice and thanks to Serious Keto I've been able to honestly adopt a new life. Then there's the  meal delivery from Green Chef that even has me eating my vegetables without wanting to vomit!!

Today, December 11, 2020: I stepped on the scale this morning and my heart lept into my throat. I'm in ONE-derland!

One-hundred ninety eight point eight pounds!!! (198.8#)

Less than 50 pounds to go and I will be half the person I was in 2014.

Yesterday was my Virtual visit with my endocrinologist. She convinced me that because my A1C has been 4.7-4.8 consistently since Nov. 2018, even after she had reduced my metformin from 1000mg twice a day to 500mg twice a day 6 months ago, that it was time to quit the metformin. When I finally agreed, she gave me the choice to quit the Metformin or the Trulicity. I chose keep the Trulicity for now. Maybe I'll be off that one in 2021!

Thank you "Steve From Serous Keto". You, your YouTube videos and recipes have helped to save my life. {yellow}:happy: