Losing 135 pounds in one year with LCHF
This is pretty impressive. I just got an email from Cord in the pictures above, he wanted to share his story:
The E-mail
I found your blog early in my journey, thank you for publishing it.
Here is my story and you have my permission to publish it, along with my first name and attached photo.
I began following the Atkin’s diet, in April of 2012 with 225 lbs to lose. I have struggled with my weight my entire life and have only succesfully lost any significant weight using low carb, and a medically supervised fast, both that put my body into ketosis.
Soon after beginning I learned about LCHF and Keto and altered my diet to include more fat and spent the majority of my carbs on green leafy vegetables. My focus was not on calories, instead I concentrated on keeping my macronutrients at approximatly 5% carbs, 60% fat and 35% protein. The weight came of very quickly. I have a tremendous amount of energy, I am seldom hungry, and never feel denied.
My physician was involved the whole way and we verified that my cholesterol, while in the ‘good’ range pre-diet, actually went down during the diet. All of my bloodwork is excellent, and all of my doctors support my decisions.
Today, I am about 65% of the way to my goal weight and losing about 8 pounds per month. I am very happy with my progress and plan to continue with this eating lifestyle indefinitly. I know that when I reach my goal weight, I will add back a few foods, but refined sugar and wheat will not be on my menu.
Cord
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Congratulations Cord!
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Is there an "After" photo of the little bunnies?
This is very inspiring.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Carole AKA Carbsaner
When I read a powerful yet succinct message like "My focus was not on calories, instead I concentrated on keeping my macronutrients at approximatly 5% carbs, 60% fat and 35% protein. The weight came of very quickly. I have a tremendous amount of energy, I am seldom hungry, and never feel denied." and the many, many other success stories here and on other blogs, I have to wonder why we still have naysayers who -- likely having no concept of what carrying around 135 lbs of excess fat mass even feels like, let alone any true idea of what it feels like to try endlessly depriving yourself of food while simultaneously flogging yourself to death at the gym -- who insist that we are wrong and that they are right.
Yes not every one of us loses weight at the same rate, yes not everyone reaches their "target" weight but that does not negate the overriding health benefits of even a partial loss of excess fat mass and generally improved health with a long-term, sustainable approach that simply works!
Stories like yours are very inspiring and will, I'm sure, encourage someone out there to give the low-carb lifestyle a try. The bottom line is, with this kind of lifestyle, excess fat will be lost and health will be improved and easily maintained.
Also, the great thing about your experience is that your doctor has been involved in the whole process as your collaborator helping you achieve the optimal health outcomes.
I feel that doctors have become more open to collaboration when their patients want to try low-carb lifestyle to improve their health.
If you look at pictures of her she is still not super skinny.. I mean if I'm working out 2 hours a day I better look like barbie at the end of it!
Needless to say I thought there HAD to be a better way and I'm so happy to have found it!
Three Cheers for Cord!! Keep up the great work!
LCHF is the way to go. Keep on doing what you are doing.
All the best Jan
I am really impressed by the results of Cord. I am going to show this to my hubby and see he wants to give it a real shot. There is nothing more convincing than a real success story.
All kinds of warnings about LCHF are often given, like you may lose that weight but what about your arteries ? Not to bother. I suffered angina for over 6 years and when it got worse I had read a lot of Andreas blogs and decided to give LCHF a try. After 6 weeks my heart disease symptoms were gone! No medicines, no symptoms. Often I could not walk more than 50 meters before I had to stop before that, stop to wait for the chest pain to pass. I have been fine for over 15 months now, back to the way I was!
I went very strict LCHF, with lots of saturated fats. Mostly coconut oil, pure grass fed butter and Tallow. Today I look ahead just as I did when I was 40 again, 26 years later! The killers were the sugars and carbs in everything I used to eat. Then I could not see any future, I din't know I had any.
It was exactly 135 pounds on the one year mark. I have lost an additional 9 pounds since that photo. I have NO motivation to lie, and I have nothing to prove to the likes of you.
I suggest you go back to ripping people off on the internet. I saw your site, it looks like the typical scam. You claim a "revolutionary" and 'miracle' system (only 29.95 a month). I doubt it.
Once I achieved ketosis I felt so good I didn't want to cheat.
Eating outside of my plan was just not part of the loss. In the year plus, I haven't had a bite of birthday cake, a piece of Halloween candy.... nothing outside of the healthy foods on my ketogenic diet plan. I feel fantastic and I don't want that to change. Also, I don't feel denied, I eat very well and I am always satisfied. It has gone beyond a diet now, it is my lifestyle.
A big part of my success was being prepared. When I make dinner, I make extra to have the following day for lunch. I always have keto snacks available. When I travel I plan ahead and bring or buy things to have on hand so I am not tempted. When a business meeting is planned I call ahead to the caterer or bring something myself.