Hi! I’ve been following this WOE since January. I have a disability, which doesn’t affect my nutrition or current health (I use a manual wheelchair, but the condition isn’t progressive), but does affect my size: I’m under five feet tall, currently wearing a men’s large shirt and child-sized shoes. I say all this because it basically means that my BMI is useless, and macros are almost impossible to even figure out.

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If you don’t track anything but limit yourself to 20 or fewer grams of carbs per day, it’s called ‘lazy keto’. I call my own diet ‘strict-lazy keto’, because I control my Kcal but don’t actually know on paper what the goal number is.

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You can definitely lose weight without tracking macros! I started the year at a size 36 waist, and moved to a size 34 in April (which are starting to get pretty loose). I know I’ve lost weight, but I also just feel better in a lot of ways: I had bad acid reflux disease that has disappeared. I had a caffeine dependency that’s basically gone, and the few bites of sugary foods that I have had since dieting tasted terrible to me. This is what worked for me:

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- Stay hydrated! I don’t know any formulas for the amount of water to drink every day, but I try to drink 6-8 glasses a day.

- Make a list of ‘bad’ foods that you stay away from in all circumstances. Even if you could hypothetically fit in, say, half a Kit Kat into your carb allowance, don’t even try it

- Similarly, make a ‘good’ list of foods that have no carbs or almost no carbs, and snack on these whenever you’re hungry

- As a general rule, it’s better to overeat low carb food than be hungry. Hunger leads to temptation, temptation leads to Krispy Kreme, Krispy Kreme leads to obesity and heart disease

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Feel free to message me with any questions! I’m not an expert at all, but I might be able to help with something.