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@Dooks-Fatberg
Hi I'm a Fatberg. Long time lurker, first time fat-sharer.
5'10" about to turn 48, currently 15st 3lbs (95kg?). Aiming for sub 14 (88kg).
Background excuses: the usual. Was relatively trim all through my 30s and could eat and drink whatever I wanted because I cycled, swam and ran a lot. Would start every day with 100 pushups and a hilly cycle commute. Same one the way home (often via the pub) and swim club three nights a week. Did long rides at weekends and regular runs. Think I was around 13st (82kg) for most of my thirties.
Then I had kids and moved out of London. Lost the bike communte for the train and got a busy stressful desk job and became sedentary. Drank to decompress, had a hernia and stopped swimming and running. Lockdown happened and I became almost totally immobile. An interest in cooking and brewing (actually more like eating and drinking beer) resulted in a 34" waist and medium tees balooning to 38" and XL tees bulging at the front and finding it hard to tie my shoelaces.
Have had a series of false starts mainly based on unrealistic plans to acheive an infinite percentage increase in exercise in a total lack of free time. Quitting booze for a while did help as I think that's been my achiles heel for a long time. Especially beer. Mmmm beer. The drinking is under decent control these days so I'm currently off beer and enjoying the occasional G&(skinny)T or a scotch.
This time, for the first time, I've accepted I've got to do something targetted and deliberate with my diet rather than rely on unrealistic expectations of the amount of exercise i'm going to do or vague notions of slight adjustments to very ingrained (bad) behaviours so i've started keto. I'm not folowing a plan or anything, just doing some reading and am sticking rigidly to a low carb, low sugar, no processed food diet. Annoyingly I didn't weight myself when I started but I'm pretty sure at my biggest I was close to 16st (+100kg).
Been on it for three weeks now. I'd been on the diet for a few days when I first weighed myself and was 15/7 (98kg). I'm away at the moment with no scales to hand, but was was down to 15/1 (95kg) before the weekend which is about 1 kg lost per week.
This feels pretty sustainable and although it's not easy, i'm not finding it as hard as I was expecting. It's a bit like when I quit booze. The way I look at it is that nobody is making me do this - I want to do this - so this is what i'm doing.