|
|
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 59,256 Likes: 39
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 59,256 Likes: 39 |
I went back to a strict low carb diet in April.
I've lost over 20 lbs and feel so much better.
I'm never going back. Wow! Twenty pounds since start of April. That's quite an achievement. Congrats. What sorts of food did you eat and not eat? Stay away from carbs, sugar and processed foods and you'll lose weight. after my heart episode in January I lost 20 lbs the first month and didn't go hungry once. In total since Jan. I've lost 35 lbs but now I lose about a pound or two a week, I do no exercise except for what I get at work, it's all in the foods I eat. lots of fruit, vegi's and chicken, beef twice a week, Culver's once a month. The other thing is I'm not always hungry like I used to be.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 910
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 910 |
Thanks for posting this RHC. We are about the same age, and I aspire to get where you are at one day soon. Lord knows I need to make a change. Thanks for the info and inspiration.
Tall
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 |
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden .
If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 8,923
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 8,923 |
267 on 4/1/17 with 9% A1C, diagnosed with diabetes and focused on Keto.
222 on 8/1/19, quite Metformin and Lisinopril about 5 weeks ago, fasting blood glucose was 96 this evening.
Dave
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,831 Likes: 2
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,831 Likes: 2 |
"A Republic, if you can keep it." ~ B. Franklin
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2 |
WOW! That's me. I had to relist here and lost my old post count. I'm about to be 55 and weigh 200 lbs right now. I'm trying to get back to my best at 180 lbs. I got to feeling so good there for a while that I gave myself a double hernia. Had surgery 7 weeks ago and back to cycling now.
Not meaning to toot my own horn here. I'm hoping someone else as fat and miserable as I was back then will get encouraged enough to do something about it.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840 |
59 and 185# fully clothed, just a smidge under 6 ft.
Need to lose 5 #.
Last couple yrs bread has gotten to where i cant stand the smell of it. Soda, too sweet, cant do the Dew anymore. I had about 12 oz of soda in 8 hrs.
My job has me hustling, lifting for several hours a day. Gets me sweatin a little, and heart rate up. Not like running or hard work, but it keeps the pounds off.
If i stay away from junk food at work.
Job will kill me in other ways.
Most ive ever weighed was IIRC 193.
Last edited by hookeye; 03/17/23.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,961 Likes: 54
Campfire Sage
|
|
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,961 Likes: 54 |
I am about convinced. I quit sugar,bread,grains,rice,pasta, potatoes and any and all processed foods last August and I have aged backwards at least 25 years so far,if I went by how I feel.
I was 330 lbs a year ago May 7 when I turned 50. I now weigh 208 at 51. I was wearing a 48/32 Jeans and 4XL shirts. I now wear 32/32 jeans and a medium shirt.
I have been doing calisthenics training for a few months,watching Chris Heria on Youtube . It's made a huge difference. I intermittent fast now,and my energy is through the roof. I actually do feel 25 again in every area.
I'm putting this out there for any of you older guys that want to feel great and young again. Sugar is a liver toxin. The info is available if you want to stop eating poison and get your health back again. I thought I was old and sick. It turned out I was just fat and poisoned. Yep. I've gone that way a few times (Atkins, Caveman), and felt the same. I find it hard to stick with for more than a couple years, though.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840 |
A medium shirt at 200.lbs? How tall?
Hell a large across most brands is too clingy on me.
Been an XL loose kinda guy since I was in my 30s at 170#.
Last edited by hookeye; 03/17/23.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2 |
I am about convinced. I quit sugar,bread,grains,rice,pasta, potatoes and any and all processed foods last August and I have aged backwards at least 25 years so far,if I went by how I feel.
I was 330 lbs a year ago May 7 when I turned 50. I now weigh 208 at 51. I was wearing a 48/32 Jeans and 4XL shirts. I now wear 32/32 jeans and a medium shirt.
I have been doing calisthenics training for a few months,watching Chris Heria on Youtube . It's made a huge difference. I intermittent fast now,and my energy is through the roof. I actually do feel 25 again in every area.
I'm putting this out there for any of you older guys that want to feel great and young again. Sugar is a liver toxin. The info is available if you want to stop eating poison and get your health back again. I thought I was old and sick. It turned out I was just fat and poisoned. Yep. I've gone that way a few times (Atkins, Caveman), and felt the same. I find it hard to stick with for more than a couple years, though. I'm weak too. Covid destroyed the world and I had a hard time finding out what was wrong with me when I first got the hernias. It was a rough time and I got to drinking way too much red wine. I couldn't exercise for the pain, and I put on this 20 lbs over my most fit weight. I've cut back on drinking now and just about convinced myself to quit completely.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,921 Likes: 2 |
A medium shirt at 200.lbs? How tall?
Hell a large across most brands is too clingy on me.
Been an XL loose kinda guy since I was in my 30s at 170#. 6' 2" tall. I got to 170 when I was averaging 100 miles a week on my mountain bike. I was a bean pole though with saggy belly skin. I put on some muscle and liked 180 best.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 11,822 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 11,822 Likes: 2 |
I’d say the devil is sugar AND eating to much of anything, lack of exercise.
NRA Patron
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,840 |
I dont experience hunger.
Just know i have to eat or Ill get a headache.
Not tied to social ritual of eating either.
Proly why i havent had problems.
Seen folks that have a lifestyle about dinners. Buddy that way
He got BIG. On lots of meds, contributed to other issues, whicj did not get resolved by surgery. Now hes in very bad shape.
And my age.
Pharma let him.get away w a crappy lifestyle but it eventually caught up w him.
Sad, hes a great guy.
IMHO ya gotta keep the pounds off and keep moving.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 17,874 Likes: 3
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 17,874 Likes: 3 |
Carb awareness, portion control and exercise are the winning formula in my case. I'm in the gym 3x/week and walk a mile every day with a 2-3 mile walk a couple times a week. So far I've lost 70# + and feel great, B/P and a1c are well controlled and mitral prolapse has remedied itself on my last echocardiogram the cardiologist could find no evidence of it. I'm within 7# of reaching my goal weight which is what I weighed when I got married 36 years ago. All accomplished with subtle diet changes guided by dieticians and my doctors. Nearing 74 years of age I'm in the best shape I've been in many years, my dad followed much the same protocol and lived to be 89.
|
|
|
|
|
548 members (17CalFan, 12344mag, 10gaugemag, 10gaugeman, 19rabbit52, 10ring1, 56 invisible),
2,092
guests, and
1,256
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,194,086
Posts18,521,930
Members74,024
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
