Weight loss and perseverance

Great job on the weight loss!

Not all of these diets that you have listed are NOT science based NOR ineffective. To throw them altogether as magical is misleading, incorrect, and ignorant.

Although I will admit KETOSIS/ATKINS really is a slooow way to kill your self, I have seen sailors combine that diet with exercise and lose 64 pounds in a three month deployment. Meat and vegetables, no bread, no sugar, nearly two gallons of water a day, 3000-5000 calories burned on stationary bike/elliptical/treadmill (we were on a submarine, deployed) his friend lost 50, I lost 26 pounds.
You have to be monitored by a doctor, but scientifically proven to burn your own body fat.
This is one of the most effective diets for females in their late fifties or older. It has also been known to moderate the symptoms of children with refractory epilepsy. For obese or significantly overweight people ketosis has been found safe in several studies.


Vitamins and lots of water required, and there is a transition day or three where you feel like you have the flu. During that transition the individual feels fatigue. There are drawbacks like the individual must exercise to fend off muscle loss, quantity of fats in that are increased in the arteries, and this diet is hard on the kidneys and liver.

Ketosis is designed for for significant, initial weight loss, and is considered short term.
This information comes from YEARS of SCIENTIFIC study-not magic nor fad.

Even dieting and keto do not work effectively on a few type of people whose ancestors survived in harsh climates (?Pima Indians of New Mexico/Arizona, indigenous people of northern Russia {Siberia}) where fat deposits saved people through years of famine. Those people’s metabolisms genetically changed significantly from the general population.
I am a Pharmaceutical Development Scientist currently working with 2 registered licensed Ph.D Dieticians and a registered licensed Ph.D. nutritionist. I fully understand the science of what the Keto diet was originally developed to do back in 1921 and what it has been used for in controlled science since. No ignorance here.

Today, the Keto diet is being touted as a modern miracle and is being used as a fad diet with magical claims around it. That makes it like all the other fad diets that gained popularity over the decades and were all eventually found to be unsustainable...and really only worked by simple energy balance over the long term.

Like I said in that post, people generally want to believe in magic and quick fixes...but choose to ignore the basic science.

Long term success can only be achieved by controlling energy balance. Calories consumed and calories burned. If one is more that the other, the mass balance moves to that side of the equation.

It is that simple.