I'm 26 and I've never been obese. Just chubbed. I remember weighting around 148 when I was 14 after backpacking in the New Mexico Rockies. Best shape I'd ever been in my whole life. But after that my weight slowly crept up and a few years later I woke up and cared how much I weighed. I was 190. I did a strict 1200-calorie diet and was down to 162 in nine weeks.

Slowly crept up for a few years and there I was staring down on 180. Fortunately severak healthy habits I learned from the calorie diet stuck and I put it on slowly and evenly, so I looked much better at 180 than I had in the past... but still, I wasn't happy.

Four months of keto and I'm down to 158 from about 180. 6 pounds a month isn't as monumental as many of the stories here... but I'm not in a race. This is weight lost while not being a diehard. I keto most days (and was religious the first two months). Sometimes I want pizza. Or beer. I get my fix and I just start back up again.

And I'm still losing weight.

The reason I'm posting at all is because I want people to know that all of our goals are different. If you're not obese or morbidly so, you can still see results doing well even just "most of the time". Don't give up just because you cheated a day... or two... or even seven. It's never a bad-time to start up again. Just be smart and you'll get there. Maybe slower... but slow is still progress.

Keto is hands-down the most sustainable diet I've ever done. It just works for me. And even when I have carbs on "screw it i don't care about carbs" days... I rarely go over 100, and never go over 150. It my pre-keto life, 200-300 was an average day. I'll never order a burger with a bun ever again.

PRO TIP: Being hardcore with your macros but break and eat an extra 100 carbs? Either immediately before or after, go to the gym and burn 400 calories. Your ketone level shouldn't skip a beat. This saved me many a night.