These are my actual lab results. Before and after keto. No medication. Just real food.

I'm going to be honest, I already knew something was wrong. I just didn't want to look at it too closely.

I'd been overweight my whole life. The classic happy fat guy. The one who laughs loudest at the table, orders dessert, and tells himself everything is fine. And then forgets about it. Until the next scare. And then forgets again.

I'd already had a high blood pressure episode before. You get scared, you promise yourself things will change, and then life keeps moving and you go back to not caring. It's very easy to do that when nothing hurts yet.

But this time was different.

I emigrated and wasn't in my home country anymore. My house, my family, everything depended on me and only me. And sitting in that cardiologist's office, looking at numbers I didn't fully understand yet, I felt something I hadn't felt before.

My triglycerides were at 642, normal is under 150. My cholesterol ratio was 7.7, should be under 5. My glucose was 99, one point away from prediabetes. And my weight was 210 lbs.

The doctor didn't sugarcoat it.

My knees went weak, not from fear exactly. But from the specific feeling of knowing that you've been lying to yourself for far too long, and you just can't anymore.

I've always said I would give my life for my sons. But was this the way to do it? Slowly, quietly and with bad numbers on a lab report?

I couldn't picture them without me. I couldn't picture me without them.

I asked about surgery. Bypass, gastric, whatever would fix it fast. The doctor said no. Surgery would just let me keep eating badly in smaller portions.
What I needed was to learn how to eat.

He sent me to Robert. A specialist in ketogenic nutrition. The man didn't have a single gram of fat on his body.

I will never forget his first question... What do you think is a healthier breakfast: a skim milk coffee, a glass of orange juice, some cereal and a fruit, or a coffee with coconut oil and heavy cream, and scrambled eggs with butter and bacon?

I didn't hesitate. "The first one", I said, "obviously".

"You're wrong", he answered.

I want to be clear. I was skeptical, didn't believe him. But I had two kids at home, so I tried.

By day three I was already losing weight. Around day five I felt terrible. I was dizzy, nauseous, my vision blurred. My body was fighting the change.

But you know what they say, "Pressure creates diamonds".

And then something shifted.

The hunger disappeared, my energy stopped crashing in the afternoon, I stopped falling asleep after lunch and I started sleeping better at night. My kids would complain because dad was eating things that smelled very good. My wife would look at my plate with worry and tell me that thin people had heart problems too.

I kept going.

Three months later I went back for labs.

Triglycerides: 642 to 108.
Cholesterol ratio: 7.7 to 4.5.
Glucose: 99 to 86.
Weight: 210 lbs to 175 lbs.

No medication. Not a single pill. Just food.

I'm not a doctor and I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not saying keto is for everyone, or that these results will be yours too. What I can tell you is what happened to me, with the lab reports attached to prove it, signed by Quest Diagnostics.

I started running after a ball with my kids again without losing my breath. People asked if I'd had surgery. I had actually considered it. But this was different, this was my body finally working the way it was supposed to.

Fat stopped being my enemy and became my ally.

That's where Fatly Good came from.

Not from a business idea. Rather, from a parking lot, a lab report, and two kids I wasn't willing to leave behind.

Every product we make carries the weight of that story.
That's not marketing, it's the reason I get up in the morning.

Gustavo Rodriguez, Founder