Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire ‘‘Tis the season for diet talk

Bris,

You do realize that a good number of big game hunters workout and adhere to a strict diet for over six months of the year to be able to perform at a high level to be successful at something they love, right?

The reason for this time of the year: January gives you six months until July. In six months you can adequately be ready for whatever tags you might draw. Usually we will kick the diet for hunting season, and go ape [bleep] for the holidays. Then do it again. Again, it’s not about losing weight, it’s about being able to walk up and down mountains and kill stuff. Which I really like to do.

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I doubt if Bristoe ever hiked more than 2 miles in his life

,...said as he lays in the recliner trying to button them britches he got for Christmas.

Bristo is fatter than I am and hoggin on an ice cream sandwich.

Yet an expert on diets and being an ass hole. 🤣 TFF

lol,.....

A year somewhere else taught me it's not what you eat, it's what you do. So, forget "dieting", but up my physical exertion level significantly is my hope.

Purchase a Concept rower and about 350 lbs of free weights is my goal for 2020

I retired a couple years back and got fat on the couch.
Couldn't stand myself any more, so I did the low carb thing again.
May 22 I weighed 260...at 6'2".
Sept 22, I weighed 207 and was climbing mountains in Idaho.

Willpower is everything.

There is no better way in the world to lose weight.
Its stayed off too....at near 60 years old I have 6 pack abs.

"Me? No carbs, high fat. Lots and lots of rucking and jogging. Need to get some weight training into the mix."

You need some carbs because your body will absorb muscle before it absorbs fat.

Anyone can lose weight just by eating fewer calories. One huge problem I see in that approach is that people eat all kinds of unhealthy ways to accomplish that. No matter what you eat,if you don't get the proper nutrition from your foods,you will not be as healthy as you could be with a better diet.

I now eat a whole foods plant based diet. I do still eat some fish but only occasionally.

I'd be a walking skeleton if that were true.

Nice. You get it.

I’m back on keto after the holiday free for all.

Amazing how much it helps your joints/inflammation. My head and memory have cleared up as well.

Amazing how good the body feels when you stop giving it junk.

I never noticed these things when I was younger, could eat anything and work all day. I’m 40 now and it makes a hell of a difference.

Work my ass off for 6 months working out, scout by hiking giant mountains and distances with weight finding big bucks, eat mainly meat and veggies unprocessed but drink plenty of beer while grilling, hunt in areas you have to be in shape for planning....

Love the outdoors and like to suffer.......it's a way to test yourself.....

The bigger bucks are at the end of suffering, on average.

Exercise and water. Everything else is just also.

You've got to push yourself exercising.

Running a treadmill while breaking a sweat is a way to get your butt kicked.

Everything is relative in hunting or any outdoor activity....

Sure it is.

No it isn't; sugar is sugar. Does not matter if it's a donut, snickers bar, teaspoon of honey, banana or grapes...….it's all sugar.

They all the same in that they all cause blood sugar spikes, all being carbs, which are forms of sugar.

A couple of personal observations. Folks have different metabolisms. The protein/veg diets or “keto” type diets do work very well for some folks but not for others doing the very same thing. The key is you need to get into ketosis which for this purpose, this kind of diet means, you are spilling ketones in your urine. You can confirm this (or not) by getting ketone sticks from any pharmacy. They’re color-coded and after a small bit of urine on the tip will tell you if you are spelling ketones and qualitatively at what rate. If you are you will probably lose some weight, at least short term. But adhering to these diets can become tiresome.

I struggle with cravings for pasta, whole milk with sugar and cereal, and other good stuff. I’m 6’ and 215 and overweight by the charts, but also captive by genetics as is everyone, for better or worse, and have not been able to get under 195 since my 30’s. So be it.

Probably, for most, the best diet will be the one you can adhere to long term and is moderation in all things along with regular exercise. Forget the TV cultural madness of the professional urban thirty-something’s.