How to Lose 100 Pounds in a Year ? (Success Story)

This is Tom and his before & after picture.

Tom attributes the weight gain to a combination of factors, including working a lot, frequent consumption of fast food, and being busy with his wife and first child.

“It crept up on me. I didn’t keep track of my weight at all. I realized I had put on some weight but didn’t really think much about it because I was young and healthy. But when I’d order food in a restaurant, the server would say, “And what do you want, big guy?’ And I’d never heard anyone call me that before,” he says.

At around 30 years old, he went out and purchased a scale in order to find out just how much he’d gained.

“I thought I’d be maybe 200 pounds (91 kg) or so, but when I stepped on the scale, I was shocked to see the number 250,” Tom remembers. “I’d been about 160-170 pounds (73-77 kg) in high school, and I just couldn’t believe I’d put on so much weight. That was pretty much a wake-up call.”

At first, Tom figured he could take the weight off by just being more active again. However, working out at the gym only led to about a five-pound loss. Although disappointed that his efforts hadn’t produced the kind of results he’d hoped for, he realized that exercising definitely made him feel better.

“Then I tried a number of different things to lose weight, including Weight Watchers. But their point system didn’t work at all for me, because I’d just use all my points on junk. I had some success cutting calories to 1200-1500 per day but then would regain all the weight really fast once I started eating more.”

But everything changed in December of 2018, when his wife showed him a handout with basic Keto guidelines and asked him what he thought about this approach.

“After looking over all of the foods allowed, I thought, I could do that. So we decided that we’d both start the diet on New Year’s Day.”

Although he felt good following the low-carb diet and was happy to be losing weight, he wanted more information about carb restriction, along with more concrete guidelines about how to move forward. So he purchased two Atkins books, began following the protocol, and never looked back.

“I started low carb on January 1, 2019, and by January of 2020, I had lost 100 pounds (45 kg), which I’ve kept off ever since,” he says.

Although he’s maintained his weight loss relatively easily for more than seven years, a few months ago he began noticing some undesirable changes in body composition.

“I think it was due to working out less because I was really busy with our kitchen remodel, along with eating higher-fat keto. When I did an experiment where I increased my protein intake, ate more fish and leaner cuts of meat, scaled back my fat intake a bit and avoided most dairy, I got noticeably leaner and more defined, even thought I still didn’t have time to work out. I shared pictures of my experiment on social media,” he adds.

Tom has since added dairy back into his diet but is sticking with higher-protein intake for now- you can buy his plan here - Custom Keto. His carb intake varies from day to day and may even be zero carb if his only option is hamburger patties or other types of meat. Although he doesn’t track his food, he estimates that he eats about 20-50 grams of net carb most of the time.