Keto changed my life

This is me at the middle of last summer. I was fat, unhappy and tired all of the time. I was sleeping the days away and eating what ever the hell I wanted. After trying several different diets I found they left me in depression and even more frustrated. Then someone on my FB mentioned a sub Reddit called /r/keto. I looked at the diet and decided what the hell.

This was my highest weight. I had started to get stretch marks which is why I knew I needed to do something drastic .

What several months of recording your weight on keto looks like. The first week was so rough cutting off carbs. But the results were so dramatic I kept to it.

Salads became an actual part of my daily food. Its actually pretty good

Fat head pizza crust! This entire thing has 25 carbs.

Edit: http://hip2save.com/2017/05/31/fat-head-pizza-crust-recipe-finally-a-low-carb-pizza-i-love/
Substituted almond flour with flax meal seed 1 to 1

I had started to make some scale gains but couldn't really see it. Still was happy with progression

Being able to loose weight and eat steak and eggs was awesome.

Learning to make buns that were not overloaded with carbs was hard. Finally did it though. Double stacked burgers galore!
EDIT: mean't to say not loaded with carbs, Also Recipe! http://cavemanketo.com/faux-bread-quest-flax-buns/

By the end of summer I had made some serious losses. I felt so good

Also cauliflower was a fucking lifesaver. You can grind that beautiful broccolisque plant into paste to simulate potatoes, or cut it to have the texture of rice. Cauliflower Shepards pie was awesome!

Edit:
Recipe: http://www.ovenloveblog.com/shepherds-pie-with-cauliflower-topping-gaps-paleo-grain-free-dairy-free-option/

Can you have enough protien? Don't think so. /s

Burgers avacado, salad and eggs became my staple meal. Tastes great.

190! I haven't been 190 since freshman year of high school

I can't even begin to talk about how nice it is to look in the mirror and be happy looking at myself.

I finally figured out how to look at the camera

EDIT: I just wanted to answer a few questions people have asked.

Starting Weight/stats: 240 pounds was where I started, I'm 5'10. I'm currently 190 at the last photo
Recipes: I'm going to compile all of the ones i included in the post and a few more and add the link to them here in a bit. Thank you all for the interest!

Working out: I haven't gone to the gym during this, All of the weight loss was from diet alone. I'm a pretty nerdy guy and I program / play video games so i get a lot of screen time. I'm working on a plan and researching to start here in the next week or so!

Keto: Refers to the ketosis diet. The Diet is focused around reducing carb intake to less 50 or less carbs. Most people find 20-30 is the number to follow. Some people have higher limits. Protein and fat are where you get your calories from. For carbs, you want most of your carbs to come from Veggies, and Water water water! You still need to track calories and eat at a deficit. That being said the results were crazy compared to other diets i tried

Drinks: Personally I found going from a MTN dew lifestyle to straight water to be really hard. I used carbonated water to help encourage me to drink water everyday, diet sodas as well. I bought alot of carbonated water but then ended up getting a machine for it.

Apps/tools: For keto I used MyfitnessPal to track all my food and macros (how many grams of fat, protein, and carbs a day) . I used https://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/ to calculate out my daily calories and my macros.

More Questions: I'm trying to go through comments and respond to people, if you have a question or anything just throw me a PM! ill get to them all eventually :)