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All keto success stories
People have sent us hundreds of keto success stories. Here are all of the published stories.
Losing 120 pounds with keto and the right
mindset
How to lose 112 pounds with LCHF instead of gastric bypass
surgery!
Meet Jason, seven months in on keto and
IF
"My fatty liver is
gone"
Eight years of zero-carb eating and "have never looked or felt
better!"
The keto diet: "At age 55 I am in better shape than when I was
30"
After one year of low carb: "I am 70 years old today and have never felt
better"
Can a keto diet cure skin
disorders?
Antonietta lost 150 pounds on the keto
diet
How to quickly lose 50
pounds
"I can go 24 hours without even thinking about
food"
Losing weight without hunger – how Christina did
it
"The best of it all is that I'm free of
pain"
"I am healing my brain as well as my
pancreas!"
Woman who ate 'carbs all day every day' drops 100 lbs after going
keto
How Gina really healed herself from obesity and metabolic
syndrome
'Everything about me has
changed'
"Within three months of starting a well-formulated ketogenic diet, all flares were
gone!"
"A light went on for
me"
"Keto is now a lifestyle and not a
diet"
How Melissa lost 100 pounds with a keto diet, and kept it off for 15
years
A low-carb diet: Maintaining a 70-pound weight loss for five
years
Reversing type 2 diabetes in only 2.5 months with keto and
fasting
The keto diet: "It felt like a
miracle"
Minus 125 pounds and no more binge eating on a keto
diet
Minus 50 pounds in four months on the keto
diet
Losing 80 pounds with a keto diet and intermittent
fasting
Down 100 pounds thanks to low carb and intermittent
fasting
How do you break through a stall? Calvin’s weight-loss
experiment
The keto diet: "I have come back from the
dead"
Can keto help autism? Ellis'
story
Carnivory: How Amber transformed her health with a meat-only
diet
The keto diet: From inability to walk to flying a
plane
The keto diet: Reversing type 2
diabetes
The keto diet: "I started losing weight in such an easy
manner"
The keto diet: From pre-diabetes to feeling your
best
How Dolly turned her obesity and metabolic syndrome
around
With one foot in the grave, Robert turned things around and lost 200
lbs
A ketogenic diet and brain
cancer
Sugar addiction meets
keto
How Tammy and Steve regained their
health
Can a keto diet help with severe gut
issues?
How Michelle finally found a diet she could stick
to
How Ricardo lost 240
pounds
How Jade controls her epilepsy with
keto
How Leonie successfully manages type 1
diabetes
How Richard conquered his type 2
diabetes
The keto diet: "It has completely changed my
life!"
Long-term weight loss on keto: Maintaining a 'no excuses'
attitude
Jordan Peterson on his carnivore diet on the Joe Rogan
Podcast
A family's keto
journey
The keto diet: "Will eat this way for the rest of my
life"
Jacquie after 6 months on
keto
Suzanne Ryan shares her dramatic keto weight-loss story on Dr.
Oz
How Abby lost 65 pounds and reversed
prediabetes
"The keto diet has changed my life for the better and I know it can change yours
too"
How Virginia's life is different one year after going
keto
"I’m going to continue keto
forever"
The keto diet: From hungry and exhausted to satiated and
energetic
How Stephanie lost a whopping 150
pounds!
A different path to the same
destination
How Gayle managed to change her life to the better at
66
Losing weight when older with a slower
metabolism
Jil traded low-fat diets for a high-fat
diet
"Thank you for saving my
life!"
Can the keto diet help with
migraines?
Can low carb improve rheumatic
disease?
"Trying to heal my broken
brain"
"Now I've become one of your success
stories..."
"Keto is not a diet, it is a way of
life"
Can low carb heal carpal tunnel
syndrome?
From depression meds and diet pills to fasting and low-carb
eating
The keto diet: "On this journey I have found my own inner
strength"
How Dr. Huang adjusted keto to Chinese
cuisine
"I am 80 and I am
angry"
"My experience has been
fantastic"
"I am literally 60% of the man I used to
be"
The low-carb diet: "It has been 6.5 wonderful and eye-opening
months"
Finally, 100 sugar-free
days!
Keto and fasting: "I feel as good as I haven't felt in
years"
"Life. Is.
Good."
"Keto saved and changed my
life"
The keto diet: "My little secret lies in avocado, eggs and coconut
oil"
"Food is very powerful and the right foods will literally be your
medicine"
How Javier went from morbidly obese to having a new
life
"My doctor was astounded, repeating “I don’t believe it!” over and
over"
Reversing type 2 diabetes and losing 50 pounds in three months on a keto
diet
"Overall, I now have a completely new
life"
The keto diet: "Not only do I love it, but it has changed my life and
body"
How Daniel beat his type 2 diabetes and lost over 40
pounds
The keto diet: Carina lost 55 pounds in six
months
"Eating an LCHF diet has reversed my diabetes and changed my
life"
The keto diet: "It just shows that no matter your age, you can lose weight and keep it
off"
“I had been trying to lose weight since the age of 9. And they told me all that I had left was bariatric
surgery”
"Golden health is golden
wealth"
The keto diet: "What I couldn’t believe was how easy it
was!"
The result of a stricter LCHF and intermittent
fasting
"You can’t do that," he said. I did it
anyway"
"I was skeptical, but since I got to eat bacon and eggs I was
in"
"It just feels like common sense
now"
"The fact that I felt 15 years younger couldn’t be
ignored"
Sandra’s incredible weight-loss
journey
'My self-confidence has increased ... I now participate in
life'
My success story with Chuck
Hicks
My success story with Mitzi
Champion
My success story with Katrin
Crum
My success story with Carole
Freeman
How Jade controls her epilepsy with
keto
Losing 135 pounds in one year with
LCHF
Losing 55 lbs on LCHF without hunger or
running
Ate a high-fat diet - lost 200
lbs
Normalized blood sugar and 135 pounds lost with
LCHF
"I was constantly fatigued and
eating"
"I was told I was “diabetic” and had to go on drugs to control
it"
"Their diet plan didn't seem to help a person with
diabetes"
"I feel great and strong and life is
good"
How John Fagley reversed his diabetes by eating MORE
fat
How to lose 150 pounds on low carb – and keep it off for five
years!
How to lose 240 pounds without
hunger
"Thanks to LCHF, I reversed my type 2 diabetes and life Is good
again"
Yet another diabetes
reversal
Progress: -30 pounds in another 3 months, total -80 pounds on
LCHF!
"They are amazed at my energy
level"
Reversing diabetes – "it sounded almost too good to be
true"
How Jason lost 90 lbs in 9
months
"I can’t explain the absolute joy I
feel"
"The nurse wanted to award me a gold
medal"
Doing the impossible: reversing type 2 diabetes and losing 80
pounds
“A better version of
me!”
Jan lost 101 pounds without hunger or counting
calories
"This has been the easiest thing to stick
to"
"Fat was the
key!"
And the second winner
is...
"I gave LCHF time and it’s given me my life
back"
"Ever since I was a child, I have tried to lose
weight"
"This is definitely a way of eating for
life!"
Tommy is half the man he used to
be
"I enjoy eating like this with little to no
hunger"
"Enjoying the loads of energy I have
now"
"I don't feel like I'm five years older – more like five years
younger!"
"It's a
miracle"
"I've been burned in the past and I wanted to do it right and healthy this
time"
"Both my wife and I are feeling better than
ever"
”It's amazing, for the first time in my life I experience inner peace and no
cravings"
"For me, it's a
miracle"
"I can’t stop telling people about
it"
"For the first time I am not
hungry"
"This has changed my
life"
"I was amazed at what I could eat and how much weight I
lost"
Doing the impossible on a ketogenic
diet
"This lifestyle change is one of the easiest and best decisions I've
made"
"I will continue this
lifestyle"
"I have not felt this good in 20
years"
"I have fun eating
again!"
"I have the energy to do things I never thought would be
possible"
"We were hooked, we were full to the brim of the best food
ever"
"I have the key to living a healthy, fulfilling life without restrictions in a way I
love!
"I DID
it"
"A new me with lots of
life"
"I feel so much
better"
"Everybody tells me I look like I'm in my 30's (I'm
69)."
"My doctor could not believe
it"
"Had to tell the world about
It!"
"Without LCHF it is not
possible!"
"So happy to know that all I have done for the last year not only worked, it worked
well"
"Mine is an ongoing story that I am eager to
share"
"I can’t tell you how much weight I have lost because I DON'T
CARE!"
"I didn’t do what I always did, so I got something
else!"
"Low carb high fat is what works for
me"
"I feel this is definitely the way for me for the rest of my
life"
"THAT is
success!"
"I still don’t quite understand how or why LCHF works, but it has transformed my
life"
"It is a lifestyle change and not a
diet"
"I'm making it my life's mission to make this stop and to educate other diabetics on
this"
4.5 years with keto and IF and "everything got
better"
"All round benefits –
wow"
"It was amazing and the weight just started to
drop"
"Eight years on, I love my
life"
"It was easy, it was tasty, we were not hungry, and we didn't want to
stop"
"In my mid 40's I feel healthy as never
before"
Minus 99 pounds and a sugar-free year – thank you,
LCHF!
"I knew straight away that this diet was the only choice for
me"
"I look and feel like a new
person"
"I no longer crave sweets or let food control
me"
"My life has literally
changed"
"Instead of living a little with cheat foods, I am living a LOT, with
keto!"
"This is my year of
change!"
"The old me would not have believed that the new me could be like
this"
"This is the new
me"
"My weight is stable and my mood is
escalating"
"What an amazing
journey"
Minus 165 pounds in 12 months using low carb and intermittent
fasting
The power of a keto diet for revolutionizing
health
"Low carb has saved my
life"
"My entire life has changed for the
better"
"I will never go back to the lifestyle and diet that I
had"
Never too old, too sick, too late to experience positive results with low-carb
eating
"This is the absolute best I have felt in
years"
"My results speak for
themselves"
"I wasn’t living before, I was surviving, now I
live"
"My doctor is quite impressed with my
success"
That
girl
"I wish I knew that you can achieve whatever you set your mind to when I got
started!"
"Yes, it is possible to reverse type 2
diabetes!"
The keto diet: "My plan is to keep on doing it for the rest of my
life"
The keto diet: "After one month only, ALL of my symptoms
resolved"
A low-carb diet: "I had enough energy throughout the whole race, which never happened
before"
The keto diet: "This is a way of eating for the rest of my
life"
The keto diet: "My health has never been
better"
"Keto has been
miraculous"
The keto diet: Maintaining a 150-pound loss for 10
years
"Everything has changed" since starting a keto
diet
The low-carb diet: Maintaining a 100-pound weight loss for over a
decade
"Keto has worked great for me and I keep eating that
way"
The low-carb diet: "Healthy, happy, active and full of life
again!"
The keto diet: "Everyone comments on how much better I
look"
"My husband got to live five more years thanks to
keto"
The keto diet: "I feel
fabulous"
The keto diet: "It's unbelievable that it could be this
easy"
Maintaining a loss of 100-plus pounds for 10 years with low carb and
keto
60 pounds and all health issues gone on a keto
diet
Low-carb case report:
Patrick
Keto couple loses 200 pounds
together
Suzanne Ryan had tried every diet, then she found keto – and lost 120
pounds
The keto diet: "I can eat just about everything I enjoy with a few
substitutes"
How this couple lost 145 pounds and transformed their lives with low
carb
The keto diet: "I am over the moon right
now"
The keto diet: "I have no doubt that I will reach my
goal"
The keto diet: "Everybody asks me: What have you
done?"
"I started the 2-week challenge and felt healthier and happier from day
1"
The keto diet: "Eight months later I weigh less than I have in 15 years and I’m doing
great!"
Type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity and multiple conditions reversed on a keto
diet
Woman sheds 65 pounds on the keto diet (after failing on all other
diets)
"Intermittent fasting and keto together both changed my
life"
Can keto help certain kids? A pediatrician's
story
The keto diet: "I feel 1000%
better"
The keto diet: Feeling the best you ever have at
40
The keto diet: "I have never felt better in my
life!"
The keto diet: "The results were nothing short of
miraculous"
The keto diet: "This way of life really seems to
work!"
Mats lost 66 pounds: "Keto
works"
The keto diet: I will never go
back
How Melanie got her energy
back
My success story with Gillian
Szollos
How Bill reversed his type 2 diabetes and lost 94
lbs
Steven got his self-esteem and confidence
back!
How Richard got a new life at
69
How Jonathan ended his junk-food
habits
Feeling like your early 30s in your late
40s
What happened when Dawn found
keto
How Emre found a sustainable
diet
My success story with Chuck
Hicks
How Maria finally found her sustainable
diet
My success story with Carole
Freeman
How to reverse type 2 diabetes and get fitter by the
month
How Sher got rid of her baby weight and joint
pain
How Judy finally won over her
migraines
How Deborah turned her hip surgery into a lifestyle
change
How Ashley got rid of all her stomach
issues
How April dramatically improved her active life with
keto
How Anita transitioned to the keto diet and changed her
life
"I'm doing things now that I never would have dreamed of doing
before"
"Try Diet Doctor and keto – the only thing to lose is
fat"
How Artur turned his life
around
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