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In 2016 at the age of 46 I found myself weighing 280 lbs. I had been active my whole life but after a sports injury I stopped working out, drinking way too much and eating all the wrong stuff.

I would see keto posts hit the front page from time to time. I had followed atkins and a low carb diet for years so I was aware of what keto was. To me at the time it was just the induction phase of atkins eating eggs and bacon.

When I saw that 280 on the scale I joined r/keto and started researching.

I liked what I was reading and the success people were having so I jumped right in.

I fired up myfitnesspal to track my calories, based off my tdee with a 20 percent deficiency I initially was around

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I started with a 14 day fast with some recommendations from a doctor. I had no issues with it and broke my fast. Overall it was pretty easy for me and I lost 20 pounds. I was hooked.

I ate for 5 days and discussed with the doctor about doing another extended fast. She didn't recommend another 14 so soon but said a 5 day would be fine as long as I took a good multivitamin, kept up with electrolytes and listened to my body.

I had gained just over 5 pounds during my refeed and I rolled right into a 5 day fast. I lost all my regain by day 2 of the fast and lost another 6 pounds from my initial 14 days. I felt really good but I l

I remember seeing a free online course several years back. It was about 60 hours of video broken down starting with shop safety.

I took a machining course a couple years back at a local community college and I am looking for a refresher since I haven't used what I learned since then.

For the life of me though I can't find the course though. Anyone have an idea of what the heck I am talking about or did I imagine it all.

I was greatly surprised by it. I have been using fat head dough for my fix but they have been far and few between for my macros. I decided to make a meatza with a canned chicken base and it was not at all like I expected. The macros are awesome as well for my OMAD eating. 1435 Kc, 163 Protein, 74 fat and 12 net carbs for the whole thing.

I took two 12 oz cans of chicken, drained well and mixed in three eggs and 56 g of shredded mozzarella. Also added garlic powder, onion powder and italian seasoning.

Put it on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and formed a pizza shape that was about a 1/2 inch thick. I baked it at 400 for 20 minutes and then pulled it out to cool for 10 minutes. I turne

Just want to thank the great community for all the motivation and support.

I have wanted to be in Law Enforcement for the last 30 years and due to different things going on in our lives I was never able to pursue it.

With the help of Keto and one round of p90x3 I was able to shed almost 100 pounds over the last year (80 pounds of that since June when I went strictly Keto) and I am in the best shape I have been in a long time.

I received my offer of employment last week and start the academy next month at the age of 46, here is to a great 2017!

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Since pictures posted here were such a huge motivation to me when I first started I wanted to pay it forward

Well actually 91 days. I started on June 10th to show my diabetic brother what a total lifestyle change can do for him. He's had two heart attacks so far and is 48.

I've been very strict, I track everything with myfitnesspal and garmin connect. Cheating for me is going over my calorie goal.

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Surprisingly I lost no weight on July 24th during a colonoscopy prep. IIRC I actually gained a couple pounds, I think it was my body fighting it and retaining water.

Started out with no exercise but my wife and I started p90x3

If so how has that worked for you?

I was playing with the keto calculator and at current weight and a 20 percent deficiency I am allotted 1732 calories.

I entered my goal weight of 185 and it says for maintenance I should be consuming 1916 calories which I found surprising.

For those that struggle with deficiencies wouldn't this be a better way for people to allow their bodies to find a natural homeostasis?

I think I am going to try it for a couple weeks and see how it goes.

I have been admiring the different fathead pizza recipes from afar because of how calorie dense they are. The thought of eating only a couple of slices for the whole day just wasn't appealing to me.

I was walking through walmart the other day and came across some Joseph's products in the deli section, they have a flax, oat bran, whole wheat pita that is only 5 net carbs and 60 calories.

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And they have a lavash bread that is 4 net carbs and 60 calories for half of the flatbread.

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They taste awesome and leave plenty of room for other foods for the day, each one of the pizzas were roughly 300 calories.

So if you are looking for

Always been a middle of the night grazer when going to the bathroom. Kept doing it when I started keto and had to remove some snacks from the house, especially almonds. Way too easy to grab a handful when headed back to bed.

Realized this morning since going 23/1 IF for the past week that I haven't had to log into mfp the first thing in the morning to track what I ate in the middle of the night!

Might be something to look into if you are struggling with it.

Do you adjust the food macros at all if you are tracking? We raise our own beef, chicken and pork and just the visual difference with marbling, fat cap, etc to store bought meat is significant.

I have just been using the standard fat/protein ratios and have been losing pretty significantly but am concerned it might start becoming a bigger issue as I get closer to my goal weight and working out.