I am convinced eating keto saved my life.
I am on a road to health now......still have work to do but getting there.....
You are not by yourself. I’m approaching 81, and I never had a weight problem, until I got past 56.
Then, I was told to follow the food pyramid and watch my calories and if hungry go for the carbs. I seemed to be dieting all the time and starving for the carbs.
So for about a decade and half, I followed this advice and yoyoed up and down with my weight.
I had a severe foot operation short after I turned 70, and I was not able to walk far or due exercise while standing for about a year. I bloated up to 225 pounds from 180.
Finally, a friend with a similar pathway told me about the Keto diet.
I discussed it with my Primary Care Doc, who inspite of being 60+ was/is the same weight as his basketball days in college. He told me what to buy food wise and not to buy.
His advice was to throw away any processed food and carbs in our kitchem. Then, throw away any so called diet or low cal food.
Only buy food in the outer edges of a grocery store and stay away from any processed food or more than a few ingredients and any ingredients we with more than a couple of sylables.
Eat one small chocolate bar a day for dessert and learn to eat the fresh veggies and get back to walking.
Get back to eating a few eggs (one a day) and never have cereal or toast for breakfast.
He told me wife to have a section of the kitchen counter with fresh fruifit, veggies and almonds and pecans for snacks.
Then, after my first 6-8 weeks on his modified Paleo to go to the Mediterrian diet.
I leveled off at my old weight after the 6-8 weeks, and I have been there for about 3+ years now.
We/I are never hungry with the Med diet and the fresh fruit/veggie/nut snack bar.
My wife’s lab work according to our primary care doc, is like a 30 year old female in training. She is heading into her 80’s.
My last lab tests showed everything normal for a guy in his 40’s not his early 80’s.
I make my own chocolate treats. I use Hershey’s 100% Cacao Powder, with Swerve Confectionary.
I mix it in with Butter, MCT Oil, Heavy Cream, One Egg, a dash of Vanilla Extract, and toss in frozen bits of Avocado, to make it all nice and cold, mix em all up, and I’ve got the “Mother of all Fat Bombs” with no more than maybe 3 grams of carbs.
That is what everyone needs to hear.
None of us needs to end up chronically unhealthy as we age, and it’s not hard to change to the better habits.
Congratulations to you both!