Hey I probably should have joined this thread months ago!
My weight has been creeping up for years:
in high school: I was underweight (~100 lbs) and actually had trouble gaining weight.
in my 30s: Perfect weight, 125 lbs (I'm 5'5").
in my 40s: Drifted up to 135 lbs, mostly in the tummy.
after I hit menopause: first up to 140 lbs then the real badness started. Over the past 7 years I've drifted up and in August I crossed the 160 lb mark. YIKES!!!!
I won't even bother trying to list all the diets I tried during this time....everything from Fit for Life to paleo. Nothing helped.
I started the ketogenic diet in midsummer when I was 161 lbs. I spent a few days religiously counting macros for all the foods I planned to include, calculated menus etc, then decided to wing it from there.
I'm now 138 lbs! Yay!! But, I still have a ways to go, I'd like to lose the menopot and get down closer to the 125-130 lb range. I've been stalled for several weeks due to all the holiday parties and a couple of out of town business trips, and decided, heck with it, I'm going to enjoy my egg nog and rum, Baileys etc this Christmas. Hoping to get back on the wagon come January. There will be a 2020 thread I presume?