A SET BACK

160 pound weight loss in about 2 years

I had lost a lot of weight in 2 years. After I lost the weight I started working out. I got in shape, toned up and felt like a young man again. One day I was loading wine barrels in my pickup truck. By myself, 125 pound barrels. Like I said, I felt like a young man. BIG MISTAKE. As I picked up a barrel something pulled, and burned, and hurt. I thought I had just pulled a muscle and it would be better in a day or 2, it got worse. I went to a doctor and found out I had a hernia. I thought, what is a hernia but a torn muscle. I can deal with this on my own, after all, I had just lost 160 pounds with no doctors. Well I was wrong. I went for quite a while trying to fix the problem on my own, but it kept getting worse. At the prompting of a very special lady, I went back to the doctor and found out how bad it was. I had to have surgery. This was the first time I ever had surgery.

The day of my surgery

Every thing went well but I was afraid to work out like I had in the past. With the injury and the recovery I had put on weight. I found myself with 50 pounds that I had to lose. Once you lose as much weight as I had, a 50 pound gain is a disaster. 

Loading barrels again. See the 50 pounds I have to lose.

Harder to lose 50 than it was 160 pounds, But I'm doing it.

Over time I had let carbs slip back in to my diet. It's called "carb creep". I got back to my LCHF lifestyle, cut out all the junk that had crept back in, but still had trouble losing the weight. 

I started researching why. That brought me to fasting, intermittent fasting. I now only eat 1 meal a day. I'm on a 20-4 fast. That is I fast for 20 hours and have a 4 hour window in which to eat.  Still on my LCHF lifestyle. I eat as much as I want in that one meal. Now the weight is coming off. I have 24 more pounds to go. It was easier to lose the 160 than it has been to lose this 50. But I am 7 years older now. It's taking longer, but it's happening. I hope to be at my goal weight by the end of January. 

A setback can happen. 

But it can be overcome.