My history with my weight is one of many ups and downs. I would frequently go on diets and successfully lose weight only to have some stress induced binging.
In High School, I was most successful with calorie counting, losing 30lbs before switching to Atkins. This resulted in a cheat day, which turned into a cheat week binging on sodas, which turned into a nasty kidney infection.
A second attempt at Atkins ended similarly. After that I learned that my love for breads and pasta needed to be moderated, not squashed. The self-induced depravation caused me to binge.
Fast forward to today. I've gone from 285 to 246 by calorie counting.
Enter my co-worker. She is sweet, and we are friends, and she is currently on Keto. Her goal is to get off her heart medication, and I try to support her despite my doubts about her diets. I have read sources that suggest keto diets are inconclusive. Also, she's mentioned she can eat all the bacon she wants (but no heart healthy grains like oatmeal). To me, it doesn't make sense, but I made the concious decision to support her because this might work for her because most diet research is inconclusive anyway. The one thing I would hate though, is to say something that will make her give up completely and go down a path that is ultimately worse for her health.
But she keeps pushing Keto on me, even though I've told her about my awful history with low carb. Anytime I speak about a slight bump in the road, she keeps asking about my sugars and carbs. And today when i mention I was hungrier than usual and might eat at maintenance today, she came back with the repeated, almost condescending, "watch your carbs, sugars, etc."
So now I'm disheartened, and currently on the threshold of the place that I didn't want her to go down.
TLDR: Despite being successful with calorie counting, my coworker keeps pushing the diet that's she's on that has work horribly for menin the past.
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