I've lost roughly 42.5 in the same period. No Keto. I have a beer now and then, and even a little more often now that I do a beer swap with the new neighbor (although he takes beer off my hands, so maybe that's the secret), eat a lot of ice cream, numerous eggs, have some m&m's. If anything, my most common meal is a large pancake with a whole chopped banana, berries, and a bunch of whip cream almost every morning. Seriously. I have a plastic freezer bag with a series of dates on it going back to 3/16/2020 which is when I started making sure I always had a week to a week and a half of pancakes in reserve. If anything, my whip cream consumption is foiled by my niece who steals my whip cream and fresh strawberries about as fast as I can procure them. I've learned to create a glut before she gets here.
I'd add that most of that weight was the first 4 months. The last one has been a little slow. Cutting a big chunk of weight means you burn less calories day to day, so my speed of loss has slowed down. And I had a habit of a really long bike ride every third week or so that was foiled by some flats the last two times. I also slowed down my running a bit after I managed to run a couple of 5ks in a week (I'd never run a 5k before period before that). Seemed like I'd met my goal, so I lost some motivation. I ran on Sunday this week for 30 minutes and I can REALLY feel it, so I know a slacked off a bit and have to get back on the plan. I wanted to be able to do a comfortable (6.25 mph) 5k. I have made sure I baseline about 10,000 steps a day as well no matter what else I do. I walk to the grocery store or the other grocery store or Target or wherever I'm going. And if I'm an idiot and forget my mask, well then I walk further than 10,000 steps because I simply walk back to get it. For a while I was listening to podcasts, but my headphones died, and in the two weeks it took to get new ones I fell out of the habit. I'll get back in that groove too. Listening to music and jogging outside is far preferable to treadmill running, even if those 90+ degree days mean I wear out fast.
I think my point is, you don't have to do a keto diet, and what you're doing isn't necessarily going to work for others. I'm happy for the guy. 45 pounds is a big accomplishment. But for my part, I wouldn't consider that a mandate to explain to others on national television that what I do will work for you. Most folks I know have to find their own motivation and own groove - if keto makes you unhappy, you're unlikely to stick to it and there's probably a semi-low calorie food option that makes you happy, reasonably full, and doesn't deprive you of vitamins.
And iterate. If you find yourself in a rut, the biggest advice I have is mix it up a little and try something else. Don't shift the whole thing (per above, I stuck to 10,000 steps all the time), but mix up the exercise, the food, the destination, the music....lot of options to make things interesting (although I apologize if you're a woman and scared of exercising in the dusk/twilight/dark; that's a serious spanner in the works not to mention patently unfair on a variety of levels).
