Three months ago, I shamelessly embraced the new year, new me cliché. A winter of comfort food and some serious dedication to the Christmas party scene meant that weight had been creeping on, and I’d gotten to a stage where I knew I needed to get my act together.

I know my body pretty well. It gains and loses weight easily. I know my brain pretty well, too. I’m an all-or-nothing kind of person when it comes to health kicks: super dedicated or caving in and chain-toasting. (It’s like chain-smoking, but with a loaf of bread. The struggle is real.)

Keto works for me for this reason – you have to throw yourself into it wholeheartedly, but once you do, you’re rewarded with fast results. So, January rolled around: I filled my fridge with cheese, and took the plunge.

Here’s what my first 90 days of keto eating have done to my weight.

I’ve found weighing in weekly helpful for a few reasons. Firstly, I don’t obsess about daily fluctuations. Knowing that I’m going to step on the scales (naked, after a wee) on a Monday morning has kept me accountable and committed over the weekends. Finally, I’ve been able to track the steady, sensible loss that keto rewards you with. After the typical initial big drop of the first week’s water weight, eating high fat / low carb has given me an average loss of just under 3lbs weekly.

What this chart doesn’t show are all the other benefits. I’m just going to throw some bullet points out there because that’s how many there are. Smug, much?

• Energy. Shedloads of energy. Duracell bunny levels of energy. Aside from the weight loss, this is hands-down the best side effect of eating this way.
• No period pain, no PMT.
• Generally more alert, more focus and mental clarity.
• No peaks / slumps in blood sugar, just feeling nice and steady throughout the day. Which leads to…
• … no cravings. I feel like I might finally have broken up with bread.
• Better digestion, flatter tummy (not just from the weight loss.)
• Not hungry! Ever, really. Filling up on fats means I have to remind myself to eat, rather than counting down the minutes to the next meal. If you know me, you’ll know that’s some serious shit.

So, there we go. Three months in, and I’m finding eating this way very easy to stick to, bolstered by some excellent extra side effects and consistently effective in terms of weight loss – no plateaus so far.

I still have a way to go to my goal weight (another post about goal weight to come), but in conclusion, I’m pretty thrilled with the results of first 90 days of a fat fuelled lifestyle. Here’s to the next 90…