The thing is I had a problem with carbs… carbs to me are like heroine to a drug addict! I just can’t control it. I heard keto was easy to lose weight on and I was tempted being told I could eat lots of bacon! The thing with keto is you get to eat so much nice food. I didn’t feel bloated or lethargic all the time, and I just found I got on so well with keto. I felt alive, I felt great and that makes it easy to stick to.

The constant weight loss and feeling great made it really easy to keep going on keto. I also lost my father last year, I was close to him, but life and distance meant I had not seen him for many years. I saw him for the first time in maybe 5 years face to face a week before he died and he was so happy to see my weight loss journey. Apparently, it was all he spoke about during the time leading up to his death, he was so proud. His wife told me it was like he was able to let go as he knew his little Thor would be ok.See my dad was overweight. He was a body guard for Iron Maiden for many years, and after years of work and abuse and a rock and roll life style, he ended up having numerous health issues. He was in a lot of pain for the last 5 years of his life, and he was so scared I was going to follow in his footsteps with the health issues that he had so it was like he could die and not have to worry about me anymore.

I get asked a lot what motivates me and while I do it for myself, I feel that my gift to my dad was giving him that reassurance before he died that I would be ok, and on that reason and that reason alone I cannot fail. I will die before I fail (I know there is irony in that but you know what I mean.) Because of his death and the travelling I had to do around visiting him prior to his death and his funeral I ended up intermittently fasting and it’s something I’ve done ever since. I follow a 14/10 or 16/8 window and I love it.

It would be either losing over 200lbs or getting to 16.7% body fat which was done via a DEXA scan in December. Only 15% of people they have ever scanned have less body fat than I did and that blows my mind seeing how massive I once was.

Electrolytes, electrolytes and electrolytes! Seriously I have seen so many people over the years fail because they are tired, have no energy, have keto flu and are grouchy and it’s all down to lack of electrolytes, mainly the sodium. I am taking this from the ketogains.com website as per their electrolyte recommendations and this is what I follow and I feel great all the time “Even if you go out of your way to eat lots of table salt and foods containing potassium and magnesium, you may find you need to take supplements. The minimum daily intake for the three electrolytes suggested by Lyle McDonald as: 5000 mg of sodium (not just salt) 1000 mg of potassium, in the form of potassium chloride or potassium sulfate 300 mg of magnesium, preferably in the form of magnesium citrate All these electrolytes should be preferably consumed in addition from what you get from your food; so then it would read: 5000 – 7000 mg of sodium (not just salt) 1000 – 3,500 mg of potassium 300 – 500 mg of magnesium”

Currently I am following a TKD (Targetted Ketogenic Diet) which means I have 10g of Dextrose pre-workout. An example of what I eat in a day would be:

Ketogains.com they are a science based group who keep up to date on the latest studies and research, it’s a really good group.