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Name:
Leanne T.
Weight Loss:
60 lbs.
Approach:
Keto
Discovering keto:
A Google search on the keto diet led Leanne to Dr. Berg. She purchased his adrenal kit, sleep support products, and lemon wheatgrass juice powder, and loved them all.
Challenges:
Leanne’s weight loss journey hasn’t been easy, however. Her biggest frustration with her keto transformation has been the slow, but fairly steady, pace. In the first two weeks of keto, she lost a whopping 22 pounds (10 kg), but after that, things came to a halt. She went from two meals a day to one, but she struggled to get enough calories. And still she felt like her weight loss was moving at a snail’s pace.
Many people experience a weight-loss plateau at some point on keto. Leanne seemed to fit that pattern. There was a time when she was just seeing small fluctuations, up and down. “I would lose 2 to 5 pounds and then gain it back,” she explained.
But then, just when she might have decided that nothing at all was happening, she saw change: “…eventually I’d see that the lower number on the scale in those fluctuations became the higher one. It was happening, just slowly.”
Motivation along the way:
When she feels discouraged, she reaches out to her eldest son, who is doing keto with her after being diagnosed with some health conditions himself. He helps her stay on track during those times. “I also look at old pictures and remember how badly I felt,” she said.
Health improvements:
Despite her frustration about her weight-loss pace, she was feeling better and saw other improvements that motivated her to keep going.
Leanne worried about skin sagging after losing weight, but she found that with keto, her skin is shrinking. “Fat is coming off places it never did before,” she said.
Since starting keto in January 2018, Leanne has lost 60 pounds (27 kg). “The reason I finally decided to do something was watching my husband go through cancer and have a horrible, rough two years. I knew this, too, would be my fate if I continued down the road I was on. So, I think of all that every time I want to give up. I want to live!”
Favorite ways to exercise:
Leanne enjoys doing chores, mowing the lawn, and parking at the far end of the parking lot to get exercise.
