Welcome inside my world

Hello, and thank you for taking some time out of your day to read about my life.  
My name is Ken and I started my weight loss and wellness journey on October 8th, 2018.  Like most people I began this journey very pessimistically, extremely depressed and morbidly obese.  

Over the past 11 months I've learned a lot about who I am as a person and changed my entire lifestyle so much so that I'm writing this blog today, which is something I swore I wouldn't do.  As time has progressed I realized If I could reach out and help just one person with the struggle that I went through it would all be worth it.

First things first I should probably explain to you my "why", why now? Why did I finally start to change my life when I did.  This is always the hard part to explain to people when they ask me, but to start 2016, 2017 and most of 2018 my life was spiraling out of control.  I went through a divorce at age 36, almost lost my father to illness once he got better my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer.  Everything piled on and the depression dug in deeper and like a lot of people in the world I dug deeper into the fast food bag, sugary foods, and lots of alcohol.  My life was spiraling out of control and I was the captain of the ship.  Living 1800 miles away from your family they had no idea what was going on in my head and with everything going on with my parents I had to have a real conversation with myself about fixing my life or dying alone.  I picked up the phone and called my mother and asked her how she felt about her diagnosis and what her plan was to fight cancer.  She was defeated and did not want to fight it she was scared of chemo and all that comes with fighting and surviving cancer.  I promised my mother that day on the phone that if she fought her fight with cancer I'd fight my fight with depression and my weight.

So what did you do Ken to get to where you are at now?  After that conversation with my mother I started doing research on what types of eating lifestyles have had some proven success, knowing I've tried multiple and failed numerous times.  Two weeks later I settled on and decided I'd start living a Ketogenic lifestyle and gave myself the time frame of 3 months to see if I could stick with it.  Well closing in on a year I'd say I stuck with it.  Six months in my mother had successfully defeated cancer and I was well on my way to where I am today.  

Since committing to a Ketogenic lifestyle I've also started at the gym 6 days a week most weeks and use an intermittent fasting window.  

With this blog I'd love to get feedback from you as what you want to see or hear from me.  This hasn't been easy and I'll be sharing stories and giving a weekly update.  Together I'm hoping we can evolve this into a supportive community where we can all help each other.  

Thanks for stopping by and taking a quick glimpse into my world.   


Here are my starting numbers:
475+ lbs (I say + because the only scale I could find maxed out at 475 and when I stepped on it gave an error message)
Size 58 pants
Size 6xl shits (very snug)

Today:

289 lbs (still a long ways to go to hit my goal of 225)
Size 42 Pants
Size 2xl and 3xl shirts