Day 1 of my Keto Weight Loss Journey and other Ponderings
Tags: Ketogenic Diet, First Post, Journey, Weight Loss, Nowhere To Run

I am 22 years old and weigh 229 lbs. Yikes, right?

Here I sit, in my soft plush bathrobe, with all of my plus size glory, writing this blog that someday, somehow, you will read. So, what weight loss journey will I take? I’ve tried FAA, keto, gluten-free, carb-free, whole30, the spoon diet, and abstinence from sugar, flour, and wheat. I’ve yo-yo dieted throughout the past 7 years, have spent countless hours counting calories and exercising maniacally while crying about the dozen donuts I had just polished off. For better or worse I commit to this blog. I commit to working on my weight loss journey.

I commit to writing it down here on Medium. So…back to day 1. I decided to start the keto diet once again. Why? You might ask. Honestly? I tried it about four years ago and lost 15 lbs on it. It worked pretty well! The only thing is, it takes discipline to stick to the diet, and I had very little of that. I still do.

You might be wondering, how did I get here? Or maybe you already sympathize because you’ve also been through a similar experience.

It’s hard, isn’t it? People tell you, just stick to the diet! Don’t fall off the wagon. Eating that donut now won’t solve your problems. Filling the void hole with food won’t treat the root cause of the problem.

And they’re all right. I know they are, you know they are. Good advice should be listened to. But I didn’t. It’s really hard to follow advice. It’s really hard to stick to that advice time and time again. I tried and tried and tried. I failed more times than I care to admit. Probably more times than you think I’ve failed too.

So this blog is just as much for me as it is for you! Maybe even more for myself than others.

What did I do today, to prep for day 1? I meal prepped! I chose to make a keto-friendly omelet for the next 7 days for breakfast, a small lunch of tuna salad, and a sheet pan recipe of baked chicken breast and veggies for dinner. Groceries cost me $40 bucks!

You might be wondering how I knew what to buy, or what to do to prepare for this new diet?

I googled a keto macronutrient calculator. I found High Key’s keto calculator to be highly accurate and easy to follow. It calculated my macronutrients. Macronutrients are the nutrients you’ll be eating on the keto diet, they include fat, protein, and carbs. High Key outlined them in weight by grams. — link to High Key’s free calculator https://highkey.com/pages/keto-calculator2

The calculator told me my macronutrients for a day of 3 meals are the following:

Fat: 130 grams

Protein: 112.5 grams

Carbs: 35.6 grams

1800 calories

These numbers were calculated based on my height, weight, age, and body fat percentage. I also used the calculator sliding bar to create a 30% calorie deficit which would help me lose about 2 lbs a week.

If you don’t know what the keto diet is, here’s a quick informative blurb:

The keto diet is based on the practice of eating very few carbs and replacing those carbs with high fat, high protein, low carb diet. When you cut out the main energy source of carbs, your body turns to its stores of glycogen in the liver. When the liver is depleted, your body has to turn to an alternative source of energy to burn. The source it turns to is fat. Yes, your body can burn fat rather than carbs. It can do it pretty efficiently too. — all info I learned from healthline.com

Since the calculator factored in a calorie deficit (which is eating fewer calories than the number your body burns in a day)as part of my daily macros, I will be taking responsibility and owning up to my mistakes, failures, and learned lessons along the way.

Hopefully, I’ll be losing a substantial amount of weight eating the advised amounts of fat, protein, and a small number of carbs I’ll be allowed on the diet.

That’s it! That’s my day one of the keto, just prepping for it and learning about it. Thanks for reading to the end. I hope it wasn’t too chaotic for you to read.

Sincerely,

Pluswithcurves