A Dietitian’s Journey
“A Dietitian’s Journey” (Part I) is my personal weight-loss and health-recovery journey that I documented on my low carb web site and which began on March 5, 2017 when I was obese, had type 2 diabetes for the previous 8 years, and extremely high blood pressure.
Two years later, on March 5, 2019, I accomplished all but one of my goals, and the last one I achieve 3 months later.
I lost:
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- 55 pounds
- 12- 1/2 inches off my waist
- 3 -1/2 inches off my chest
- 6 -1/2 inches off my neck
- 4 inches off each arm
- 2- 1/2 inches off each thigh
- I met the criteria for partial remission of type 2 diabetes 3 months earlier
- my blood pressure still ranged between normal and pre-hypertension
After recovering from Covid the first time, I began hiking and posted this encouraging “mountain top experience” post as my 5-year update. That was the pinnacle of recovering my heath. Unfortunately, my heath took a turn I could not have expected.
I maintained my weight-loss until becoming severely ill with profound hypothyroidism in June 2022 and that’s where A Dietitian’s Journey – Part II begins.
To read my weight loss story from the beginning, please scroll down and begin reading there.
Journal entries, by date (most recent first)
- From the Mountains Through the Valleys – 5 year update
- Video Update: Maintaining Weight and Health – Four Years Later
- Losing My Covid 19 – (update) to Covid and Back – A Dietitian’s Journey
- A Dietitian’s Journey – rewriting the script of my life
- A Dietitian’s Journey – to Covid and back
- My Three Year Health Recovery Anniversary — a Dietitian’s Journey
- Five Pounds or Fifty Pounds of Fat – in very real terms
- A Dietitian’s Journey – update of lab tests and metabolic markers
- Holiday Eating: a harsh reminder that I am not ‘cured’- a Dietitian’s Journey
- Embracing Health and Self-Acceptance – a Dietitian’s Journey
- A New Little Black Dress – a Dietitian’s Journey continues
- Two Year Anniversary of Adopting a Low Carb Lifestyle- a short video update
- Why I Posted My “Before” Pictures When I was Still Obese
- My Weight Loss Progress to Date
- Getting to Know Me – a short video introduction
- Different Ways to Measure Success – a Dietitian’s Journey
- Beyond Appearance to Health – 22 months of A Dietitian’s Journey in video clips
- 2018 in Review – a Dietitian’s Journey
- Where the Last Twenty-Five Pounds of Weight Came From
- Twenty One Months – a major goal achieved
- Twenty Months Today
- I Did This – a short summary of a Dietitian’s Journey
- 19 month update – A Dietitian’s Journey
- Coming Out of Denial to Achieve Health – a Dietitian’s Journey
- A Dietitian’s Journey – a very short video update
- Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome IS reversible – a Dietitian’s Journey
- Much More than “Eat less and Move More” – a Dietitian’s Journey
- The LCHF-Dietitian – a significant milestone
- A Dietitian’s Journey – one of the most popular stories
- A Dietitian’s Journey – defeating discouragement
- A Dietitian’s Journey – featured on Diet Doctor
- A Dietitian’s Journey – first anniversary
- A Dietitian’s Journey – how old would you be?
- A Dietitian’s Journey – changes and progress
- A Dietitian’s Journey – benchmarking my results
- A Dietitian’s Journey – discontinuation of medications since beginning to eat low carb
- A Dietitian’s Journey – competent to counsel
- A Dietitian’s Journey – a picture tells a thousand words
- A Dietitian’s Journey – remission from Type 2 Diabetes
- A Dietitian’s Journey – a breakthrough
- A Dietitian’s Journey Progress Report – is the glass half empty or half full?
- A Dietitian’s Journey – 9 months since beginning LCHF
- A Dietitian’s Journey – before and since
- A Dietitian’s Journey – progress not perfection, 7 months in
- Reversing the Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes – a Dietitian’s Journey
- A Dietitian’s Journey – two and a half years of change in photos
- Food as Medicine; dramatically lower blood sugar – a Dietitian’s Journey
- A Dietitian’s Journey – the 25 week breakthrough
- A Dietitian’s Journey – visibly evident progress after 5 months
- A Dietitian’s Journey – living on Tatooine
- A Dietitian’s Journey – 5 month update
- Fasting Blood Glucose – the evening walk
- A Dietitian’s Journey – what’s that on the floor?
- A Dietitian’s Journey – four month update (with lab test results)
- A Dietitian’s Journey – how I got my weight moving again
- A Dietitian’s Journey – a few thoughts on “exercise”
- A Dietitian’s Journey – 3 month update
- A Dietitian’s Journey – practicing what I preach (9 week video update)
- A Dietitian’s Journal – seven weeks eating a low carb high fat diet
- A Dietitian’s Dichotomy
- A Dietitian’s Journey – out of denial and approaching health
- A Dietitian’s Journey – three weeks in
- A Dietitian’s Journey – the road to better health
- A Dietitian’s Journey – the beginning