Howdy there! I’m not sure who I’m writing this to or if
this is more of a journal about the Journey but I wanted to capture my latest
adventure. Well, I don’t know if it’s a
true adventure but there are defentily going to be UPs, downs, struggles and
victories. Hopefully at the end is the
victory of better health. Honestly, I
don’t know what that means but I’m going to find out.
Let’s get a little back story. You see, I’ve always been a bigger guy and
never really saw this as a problem. Ever
since I can remember I had to buy bigger clothes and that is just how I grew up
and took as normal. Most of my family
was the same way and so this was normal.
It was probably 3 months ago at this point that I went to the Doctor for
my yearly physical. He did his thing and
looked at me and said the same thing the three previous years… “Well Shane,
your healthy except your weight” and then followed up with a lengthy plea that
I’ll paraphrase. “I’m going to send you
for blood work and we will see if there are any concerns but let me blunt. You need to make a change before your weight
catches you. It will be easier to make a
change while healthy then later when your unhealthy and trying to deal with
some illness/disease caused by your weight.” Fast forwarding a couple of weeks
when I received my blood work in the mail… The doctor wrote on the print out,
and not paraphrasing. “Healthy as a
horse, no reason to not get healthier and lose some weight. Reach out if you
have any questions”
Man! Did those words rattle around in my head… no
reason to not get healthier…? I just couldn’t shake it. That weekend I rode my bike for the first
time of distance in a long time with my friend Jeff and all I can remember was
this had been easier in the past. Oh,
that’s right, last year I weighed 310 lbs, now your coming in at 330lbs some
days. That’s right folks, at 330lbs my
doctor told me that I’m healthy because everything we measure medically was in
the normal for age. I realized in that
week that a change was due, and one of tangible results with victories and
accomplishments to achieve.
I started
researching diet plans, diet plans, and more diet plans… They were all so
strict. I wouldn’t be allowed to eat
anything I normally eat… Did I really need to change? Eventually I landed on the Keto Diet and
started reading, and reading, and reading more.
It seemed legit and might be something I could manage but I wasn’t quite
ready to start. That brings me to early July
and a conversation I was having with my good friend and the difficulty of
change. We discussed that the only real
reason any one changes, is because the pain of not changing is more painful
than changing. I thought about that…
Thought about taking on a diet… and continued my life…
Then it happed,
I woke up Saturday July 15 and all the food I had in the fridge was Keto
friendly. So, I made myself a sausage omelet,
a cup of coffee and started my day. I
can’t remember what I did that day but at the end of the day I was eating
dinner with some longtime friends and the conversation came up about the Keto
diet. I realized that if I got the steak
and spinach that my whole day would have been eating a keto-ish diet. I got that steak and spinach dinner, excuse
me, I enjoyed that steak and spinach meal.
It was good! Also, one of my
friends said to me that night at dinner “that’s a healthy dinner shane”. It stuck with me, I went home and decided I
was going to go full blown Keto for a month, along with walking every day and
see where I stood a month later. I officially
started the diet Monday morning July 17th and weighed in at 321lbs. Here we go!
This post was written August 13th 2017 to capture my state of mind that infamous weekend in the middle of July.
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