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As of tomorrow, July 8, 2014, I will have been on NF for One Year. One year ago, I weighed over 260 lbs. I now weigh 249 lbs. Not super impressive, but... at the time I could barely do 10 pushups. Now I don't do pushups, I just lift heavy shit. Sometime, a little longer than one year ago, I saw the scale inching toward 270 and I was feeling week and tired all the time. As a busy grad student I spent a lot of my time in front of a computer, eating crappy food, and when I had downtime, I'd be drinking beer and stuffing my face with even crappier food. Enough was enough. I already had a g

Are there any rebels out there who want to chat about keto diets? Either regular low carb high fat (LCHF), or cyclical ketogenic diets? Earlier this year I was doing a moderate ketogenic diet (about 40-50 net carbs, paleo + dairy and fairly high in veggies), and lost about 15 pounds, without a lot of effort or suffering. In fact it worked a little too well... I ended it after I came down with salmonella, felt really weak and I needed the carbs back to recover. After a few months of my weight staying relatively steady on a higher carb paleo diet, I went a little food & cocktail crazy o