I was on my way to a much better version of me before the onset of the Coronavirus outbreak. I even had to get my old pair of shorts resized as they were getting too loose on me.

I was at the top of my game because I was oozing with self-confidence and knowing that I look good when I look at myself in the mirror and that I’m no longer overweight. My self-esteem has never been in such a perfect place.

Then lockdown happened.

I went from 159 lbs to 178 lbs that fast! That’s because I stopped doing Keto. I convinced myself to gradually transition to only doing Low Carb but I couldn’t help myself as soon as I start getting back to my old way of eating.

I just ate whatever was available to me during the lockdown

The only thing I have not gone back to doing is eating rice. It’s been over a year now that I have not consumed rice. But when I stopped my Keto diet and started eating white bread again, It’s basically eating rice just the same. I still constantly do intermittent fasting. I actually believe that’s the reason why I didn’t go beyond 200 lbs during the lockdown. The only bad thing that came back besides my weight gain is my Psoriatic Arthritic symptoms like swelling of my finger joints. I had to move my ring from my right finger to my left because the swelling in my right finger is too much and my nails have become pitted again.

My ring finger is swollen and my nail is back to pitting again

After the quarantine has been lifted, that’s when I started noticing that my resized walking shorts were getting tight and some don’t even fit me at all. I felt so bad. All of my efforts before the pandemic seemed to have gone to waste and I know I have to go back to Keto again not just for losing weight but I have to make sure my overall health is going to stay in the normal range.

Luckily though, despite my weight gain, my blood sugar level has been well-controlled. I don’t know if that is the long-term effect of the Ketogenic diet or I just haven’t really been eating too much sweets. But that is a good thing.

I had to get back on my Ketogenic Diet.

The only way I will feel better about myself living in a shitty year of 2020, is to go back to eating healthy again. With Keto diet, you don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right. I need to re-motivate myself into getting back in shape. I believe I was happier then. Healthier as well.

With Keto diet, you don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right.

As I write this post, It’s only been two days since I started on the Ketogenic diet again. Hopefully, I will have the willpower as I had once to keep doing this. The world seems to be nearing its end and I just want to, at least, spend my remaining days feeling good about myself.

You should too.