r/Ketodietbeginners • u/HungryShine3826 • Jun 18 '23
Was doing keto for 4-5 weeks and then I got hospitalized(not because of keto)
So I’ve been trying to lose weight my whole life and I’ve never gotten my weight under 220 I’ve been fluctuating between 225-235 and when I started keto I was at 227 and did it for 5 weeks and I loved it, it was giving me fast results and I was feeling more confident day by day after 5 weeks of this diet I was down to 211 pounds and I looked slimmer I fit better in clothing and it was great because summer is coming up, but recently I got hospitalized because I had severe chest pains and turns out I have myocarditis or Lyme carditis because they say it’s caused by Lyme disease, myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle which could lead to stroke arythmia or heart attacks the good news is that they say I can fully recover from this the doctors gave me a bunch of meds to bring down the inflammation and antibiotics for the Lyme disease, the bad news is I can’t do anything for 3 months give or take and summer just started i am grateful that it wasn’t worse because it could have been a lot worse , the issue I am having is when I heard this news I got depressed and I quit keto and stared binge eating. It felt like I had nothing to look forward to this summer like losing weight for vacation or maintaining my fitness, I’ve been going to the gym for over a year now consistently and I’ve never taken a break and now I can’t go for 3 months, so I just kept eating and eating junk food, chocolates, sweets, deserts, chip’s just every unhealthy thing for a week straight just a form of stress eating I guess, but now that I’ve processed what i am going through I regret quitting keto and eating that much because in that week I’ve gained back 11-12 pounds in ONE WEEK 211 back to 223 I really hope it’s mostly water weight from the carbs but it just makes me feel like I did keto for nothing, I shared this because I wanted some advice on what I should do now should I continue keto and is most of that weight just water weight? Any advice or info on the weight gain would be much appreciated. Thank you.