Janessa lost 58 pounds. This petite young lady was shocked when she stepped on a scale earlier this year at work. Eating low carb and working out has taken her from a size XXXL to XL. Check out her story.
My name is Janessa. I’ve lost 58 pounds this year. In mid April 2016, I decided to start my weight loss journey. My motivation started when I stepped on a scale at work. The numbers where shocking. At 5’1″ tall, I weighed 302 pounds. I’m only 25 years old and it was shocking to see that I’d let myself go to that extent.
I cut out all carbs and I am doing the Ketogenic/Keto diet. I only eat low carb/no carb foods, like meat, cheese, eggs, and vegetables. I workout at least 5 times a week and strength train when I can. I do various workouts, from Taebo to just hitting the gym for a couple hours. Anything to get my heart rate up and get a good sweat going.
I went from a XXXL to a XL in 5 months. It is mind blowing and so amazing. My advice to others losing weight is to take it a day at a time and don’t give up. The results are so rewarding. Remember, it takes time and effort challenge yourself. You have control over every aspect in your life, whether you believe it or not.
I’m losing this weight to inspire people and to be a healthy, strong mother for my 5 year old son. This is just the beginning. I want to lose a total of 120 pounds by this time next year. The BWLW page inspires me every day on my journey.
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There has been quite a low-carb craze over the past few years and that only seems to be growing in popularity. A growing number of people want to know more about what they are eating and its effect on the body. Perhaps they are younger people doubting how healthy the average American diet is or the older generation looking for an answer to their health problems. Recently, there has been a buzz about how low carb diets, and American diets in general, should include more healthy fats.
The human body runs on glucose and there are two main furnaces that consume our glucose stores. The first is the body and the second is the brain. Surprisingly, the brain consumes over 80% of our fuel supply. This is why you can think yourself into exhaustion, working your brain will cause your body to manufacture as much glucose as possible to keep the brain in good supply. Our body structure is designed to create glucose from the carbohydrates that we consume. If we lower our carbohydrate consumption, then the body will eventually run out of that source and turn to our fuel reserves, the fat stored in the body. To consume the fat, the body creates something called ‘ketones’ which are fat transformed into a form that the glucose furnaces can use as fuel. A high protein diet promotes ketone creation which in turn allows for the faster consumption of fat stores which leads to weight loss.
The ketogenic diet, better known as the “keto” diet, is a diet that was originally developed to help people with difficult to control epilepsy (specifically, children with epilepsy). It is a high-fat, moderate protein, low carbohydrate diet. Here’s why it has been recommended for epilepsy: Carbohydrates are important for brain function, usually in the form of glucose. If there are very few carbohydrates in the diet, the liver is forced to do something different to make up for it. The liver converts the fat into fatty acids and a substance known as ketone. Ketone bodies replace the glucose, and are used in the brain instead. Apparently, this state of elevated ketone levels (known as ketosis), actually helps to reduce how often seizures occur in epileptics (not a cure all but it has worked for some people).