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One Year On Keto Update | Type 2 Diabetes | Keto Anniversary | Results | Cooking With Thatown2

hello guys it's me the town 
two um today is my keto bursary   keto anniversary keto birthday whatever you want 
to call it uh basically one year on the keto diet   this didn't hardly expect to 
be doing this for this long   it's just crazy how all this 
has been going and everything   starting off i didn't even know i was going to be 
doing keto i didn't plan on doing it i randomly   got introduced to it by a few people um i had one 
friend who was posting stuff on facebook saying   down 10 pounds since christmas down 20 pounds 
since christmas down 40 pounds since christmas   like each month just kept posting that in my head 
i'm like what what is he doing how's the dude   losing so much weight um but i never asked him 
never asked any questions just was like you know   great job um and in september i met two different 
people randomly that i had never met before and we   both ended up started talking about keto diet 
and i didn't really know what it was but they   both were telling me bits and pieces of it and how 
it worked and everything so i ended up eventually   looking up some information and decided to try it 
out um i had a doctor's visit and was talking to   my doctor and told him that i was thinking about 
doing it and he was against it he told me no   i don't think you should do it i 
don't think it's a good diet to do   due to the fact that um it's like a fad like 
people get on it and and don't uh stick to it or   they'll stick to it but as soon as they get off of 
it they'll go back and he's basically just saying   that you know i'm more into lifestyle changes 
where people make healthy choices and everything   and those things stick with them which technically 
doing a keto diet is a lifestyle change you alter   everything that you eat and it's not something 
that's generally done for a short period of time   but he still was against me doing it um but i 
told him like hey i mean because i was diagnosed   with diabetes uh so i had to see him every three 
months anyway i was like i'm gonna try it out and   see if it works and after three months you know 
we could see because i think my blood work drawn   and everything um so i went up ended up starting 
uh i started september 16 of 2019 well the first   week of that i kind of prepped into it i just 
slowly cut carbs out of what i was eating but   i really went full blown on september 16th after 
the first month of being on it i lost 27 pounds   my starting weight was 400 421 pounds 
421.8 and after the first month i was down   27 pounds i was like man this is working um i 
might as well just keep keep wanting to keep going   after the second month i was down 15 pounds 
and after the third month i was down 16 pounds   um so i believe like so when i went back for my 
three month checkup i think i was down like 57   pounds total and he was like you know good job 
we know what are you doing and you know i told   him i started doing a keto diet he was like well 
it you know keep it up it looks like it's working   um when i went in september my a1c was a 7.3 
and that was like the highest has ever been   um after those three months of being on the keto 
it dropped down to 6.2 from september to december   um continue staying on keto and you know eating 
right and didn't really um cheat or anything i   mean i may have had like a french fry or so here 
or there but i didn't have any bread or any ice   cream any sugar anything like that um my next 
month checkup was supposed to be in march and   that's when covert and everything started and i 
really didn't go back i didn't go to the doctor's   offices were closed so i couldn't go back so 
i ended up going back in june uh the doctor's   offices were still closed but they allowed 
you to go in for the blood work just to get   your blood drawn and that was it so that was fine 
for me i just wanted to know those numbers anyway   when i went back in uh june my numbers had dropped 
to 5.6 and so i was like wow you know this is this   really going i mean i'm past i'm not even i'm 
like just out of the pre-diabetic uh range i'm   not out of the spectrum completely i believe 
then i just went back uh two days ago for my   one year checkup technically from the start of 
doing it on the 14th and i got my results back   uh yesterday and my a1c dropped down to 5.2 so 
my diabetes is completely under control i don't   know if once you are out of the range of numbers 
if you completely are no longer with diabetes or   something that they claim is just with you all the 
time it's just all based on what the numbers are   but my numbers are very very much under range 
and under control as now and everything is my um   kidney liver all those functions everything all my 
numbers are within well range for being on this um   just cutting back cutting back on alcohol i still 
drink alcohol every now and then just drink it   straight just with no sugar no no sugary drinks 
or anything like that or if i do i'll have uh   a uh sparkling water which i previously hated 
i talked so much stuff about them but now i   can tolerate them um and i use uh the walmart 
squirts the uh little flake water flavor enhancers   that wasn't uh with uh sparkling water 
to me it tastes just like soda um but the the starting weight again when i started was 
421.8 pounds and today when i weighed myself i was   293.2 so i the whole year i lost a 
total of 128 pounds 128.6 pounds and   it's just you know big differences and 
changes in my life his quality of life just   little things would have my back hurting 
walking short distances doing some things   my wife wanted to go places and i tried to find 
my way to get out of it because i knew walking   and all that would be i'd be tired and didn't 
want to do it and hot and sweaty and all that but   now we're going on walks going 
on hikes playing with my kids   just a lot more stuff that i'm doing and don't 
have any issues or problems with doing which   i definitely want to continue and keep up and 
everything um i will plan on you know continue to   making keto videos and everything i may cut back 
and start making some meals that do have carbs   in them i may post those i may not but i still 
do plan on keeping keto meals and keep making   keto meals to keep it up because the lifestyle 
change is definitely helpful and beneficial for me and if anyone has any questions or comments 
or anything let me know um not used to being   on camera like this normally i just make the 
video and do the voiceover and say what i did   how it was and all that but um just wanted 
to hop on here say hello uh show my face   and um say thank you guys for rocking with me 
on this journey um i know i didn't start posting   the videos and everything for about three or 
four months ago but i was always posting all   my stuff online on instagram and facebook so 
that just made me want to just post it online   because to me the hardest part of the keto diet 
was at the beginning was finding the information   you know you don't really know that many people 
that's on it or unless you start talking about   it and then people come to you like hell yeah i'm 
doing that i'm trying that but for me you know i   was doing everything on my own looking up recipes 
and just looking up information and the thing is   everything is online all this information 
is available for you on the website   uh you just have to just look it up and search 
and like i always say what i try to do is i just   try to keep it simple um pick a healthy fat pick 
protein and some low carb veggies and try to keep   that and put that in every meal i don't really 
track what i eat that much uh but i do every now   and then if i stall like there has been times 
where i've been about a month time frame where   i didn't really lose no weight and it gets a bit 
frustrating everything because you don't see the   scale moving or anything but your clothes and 
everything start fitting differently you know   when i started i was a 5x shirts and now i'm in 
a 3x comfortably almost in a 2x on some brand you   know some are bigger some are small but um yeah 
the hardest part was just finding something to eat   so i wanted to post these videos uh of what 
i eat this is everything you see on here is   what me and my family ate for dinner that night um 
and if i can help anybody with this i'm happy if   you have any questions please feel free to hit 
me up or ask me any questions i can definitely   help with what i can or what information that i 
have but all this information is available for   you online if you look up look it up and look 
for it what i do is anything that i want to   eat i just put keto in front of it keto lasagna 
keto uh pasta but they'll have their versions of   what alternative methods you can use but just 
put keto in front of whatever you want to eat   and just look at the recipe look at what it is 
and just know what staples or whatever things   you can interchange or change out you can swap 
this for that or use this instead of that but uh   i want to say thank you guys um have a 
great day thank you guys for watching enjoy

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