The keto flu and the scale.
Three days in, the headache shows up. So does the first 4 pounds. Which one am I supposed to celebrate?
A personal journey · est. 2026
Following the Keto path back to who I used to be — and bringing whoever wants to come along.
01 · My Story
I've been doing the gain-weight, lose-weight, gain-it-back dance for longer than I care to admit. Diet on, diet off. Scale up, scale down. Pant size up, pant size down. I'm 60 now, and I look at that pattern and I think — that can't be healthy. Nobody's body was designed to be jerked around like that for forty years.
Here's the thing though. About 13 years ago, in my late forties, I did Atkins. Properly. And it actually worked. The weight came off, my head was clearer, I wasn't hungry every two hours. Life got in the way and I drifted, the way you do. But I never forgot how that felt.
So I'm going back to that same idea, in its 2026 form: Keto. Get my body off the sugar rollercoaster, back onto fat as fuel, and stop pretending willpower is the answer when biology is the question. I'm doing it in public — here, and on every channel I can find — because if you're tired of the same cycle, maybe it's easier with someone else doing it at the same time.
“I'd rather do this hard once than keep doing it badly forever.”
02 · Why Keto, for me
Not a medical claim. Not a guarantee. Four honest reasons I'm walking this road again.
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Late forties, Atkins, same broad idea — the pounds came off and the foggy head went with them. I'm betting the body remembers.
02
When I'm on fat instead of sugar, I'm not standing in the pantry at 10am wondering what to graze on. The trigger just goes quiet.
03
Every diet I've quit, I quit because I was starving and angry. Keto isn't about discipline — it's about not needing any.
04
No app, no point-counting, no special meals for me while the family eats real food. Eggs, meat, leafy greens, some cheese. That's the whole game.
03 · The Journal
Just getting started. These are the first entries I'm sitting down to write. Subscribe below and you'll get them as they land.
Three days in, the headache shows up. So does the first 4 pounds. Which one am I supposed to celebrate?
What actually goes in the cart when you cut every carb that's pretending to be food.
It's never about hunger by then. Here's what I tell myself, and what actually works.
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