I joined this site over 9 years ago because I weighed 280 pounds and I was an insulin resistant pre-diabetic. My life sort of depended on it. I started out with keto and had great success, but the exercise bored me and I was dieting only. I had limited success with a loss of about 90 pounds, then a "settling" gain of about 25 pounds for a net 55 pound loss in the first 2 years.

Then I took 5 years off because my body simply STOPPED losing weight without the ability to exercise and I was miserable and burned out.

Then in Nov 2019 I got an Oculus Quest VR and my life changed. With exercise that I LOVED came the impetus to give better eating habits a shot again. From Nov 2019 until Nov 2020 and throughout the Pandemic, I lost the other 70 pounds, down to 150 by doing Keto, intermitent fasting and VR for exercise. I was losing 8-10 pounds a month with almost no effort and having a ball. I'm having success this time because keto has come a long way since 2013 and there are so many more YouTubers to help with recipes and education. IF (intermittent fasting) works so well for me, I can't believe I used to eat 3-6 times a day. It seems obscene now. No wonder I never used to lose weight. I was eating all the time! The conventional wisdom used to be "don't do low carb and low calorie, but that' bullshit -- low calorie Keto ABSOLUTELY works! Especially if you're not hungry.

Now I eat once or twice a day and I feel great. I am rarely hungry, but when I am, I remind myself that is the feeling of my body burning fat and it feels great!

This time when I paused the dieting, I "settled" from 150 to 165. So I hit it again and I'm on route back to 150, possibly 145 so that I can "settle" at 155. I call "settling" what happens when you go from strict Keto to a modified moderate carb diet with more fruits and popcorn at the movies.

My total weight loss from 2013 is 280-155= 125 pounds. About a whole 'nother person. And I don't miss her one bit. She can kiss my ass.