Posted on 01/28/2016 3:31:41 PM PST by SamAdams76
BML...
I also avoid added sugar as well. So I'm one of those guys who shops the perimeter of the supermarket. Produce, meats, fish, cheese, yogurt, nuts, eggs, yogurt, the occasional dark chocolate, black coffee, a little red wine and lots of water. That pretty much sums up 95% of the food I eat now. And I'm losing over 3 pounds a week.
I agree with Denninger. Until I got to be in my fifties, I could eat anything, and as much as I wanted, and maintain my weight at 105 lbs. After I got to 155 7 years ago, I cut bread, pasta, potatoes and sugar and lost 60 lbs. my exercise routine has been consistent for 30 years, so I know it was the food. I still eat the same way I did when losing weight, but have stopped losing. I’m able to stay between 95-100 and haven’t been hungry in 7 years. I will never stop low carb.
I started with a Fitbit Charge HR in May of last year. After 6 months, I lost 30 pounds. That was with diet and exercise. I ate my share of pizza! I also found that I really liked the chicken salad at Quiznos. It is really tasty. I also agree that full fat yogurt is the way to go.
Being a male, I set goals at 3,000 calories expended per day as a minimum. I also averaged 16,000 steps per day. A lot of those steps were on an elliptical trainer which allowed me to get my heart rate up. I also goaled myself for at least 1 hour of cardio exercise a day. On most days I was over 1.5 hours of cardio. Getting your heart pounding really makes a difference.
My doctor is quite happy with my new weight and says that at this point, being fit is more important than further weight loss.
As an added bonus to being fit, my son invited me to go skiing with him this weekend. :)
Two of my favorites that opened my eyes
Why we get fat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDneyrETR2o
And the book ‘eat bacon, don’t jog’
I’m down 26 lbs and that happened through thanksgiving, Christmas and a Cruise in the last 3 months! Never hungry once...
-26lbs And that is with zero exercise, almost sedentary :)
I try to walk at least five miles a day (briskly) which is easy for me to do as I work in Manhattan and even on the inclement days, I can walk the underground tunnels of Grand Central - which is right by my office. I'm trying to avoid the weight room as I like being out in the fresh air.
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I would also love for people to post tips and tricks, for those of us who are on a paleo/primal approach. For example, tip # 1: for anyone looking for a great source of fat and protein, canned chub mackerel is the answer. It is among the healthiest fat available, it contains skin and bones, it is packed with high quality protein, and, being a small fish (actually, one of several small fish), has no mercury concern. It is ridiculously cheap (~ 1 to 1.5 dollars per large can), and also delicious (I say this as someone who doesn’t normally like fish very much, and would rather starve than eat something like tuna).
Thanks for posting this.
I think a lot of dieters make the mistake of exercising after eating. If you put food in, the new calories are being absorbed and are readily available in the bloodstream to be burned by the activity of the exercise so no stored fat needs to be burned.
To burn fat off the body needs to be active at a time when you have been in a fasting state. I think exercising before breakfast is ideal in that you have not taken in calories for many hours so the muscles have to tap into the stored calories. For fat loss this works well. For general maintenance of physical fitness it is less important.
He does mostly economics and politics stuff:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?forum=Market-Ticker&page=1
He also does various other topics, including his views on food, diet & exercise:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker&page=1&cat=Personal%20Health
Some of his really good stuff on diet, like the above chunk that I posted from a much longer article, has "aged off" his archives.
I'll see if I can find it [and others] laying around on the Internet anywhere.
Do you know how to make greek yogurt?
I can keep my net carbs less than 65 grams/day, and still gain weight. Inevitably, it’s the calories. But low carb diets often result in lower calorie counts. I just need to keep things around 1900 kcals/day to maintain.
BTW, I now use a teaspoon of olive oil to fry my egg — an effort to balance the animal fats.
I used to think that too. After all, it was so common sense.
I posted my story elsewhere but I'll summarize it here. In 2003, I lost over 100 pounds on a low carb diet in just over 7 months. I did this by walking first 5 miles a day and then eventually 10 miles a day. On weekends, I would take extended 10+ mile hikes in the woods. I was in fantastic shape and I attributed my weight loss to exercise more than my low carb diet.
So once I started bring carbs back into my diet, I found that I had to exercise harder to keep up. Eventually I started to put the pounds back on even as I exercised more. Now I kept the calories about the same, but was now having more pasta, rice and breads and less steak, eggs and cheese. I thought that was a more "balanced and healthy" diet as I could not believe eating mostly meat and high-fat foods was good for the long run.
Well last November, I realized that I had put all my pre-2003 weight back on and then some. I now have to lose 120 pounds. I've lost 36 pounds in just over 10 weeks. It's almost scary how fast the pounds are dropping off just by changing what I eat. Yes, I still exercise but I think that's just a small part of it. And with the snowstorm we got last week, I haven't been out for my daily walks at all. Yet I've dropped 3.5 pounds since Saturday.
6th post down by Von WC Ohio has the complete article from which I posted a small portion.
Awesome article. I saved it on my PC, but it's gone from Denninger's website.
Don’t lose weight TOO fast - that can be dangerous, also.
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Low-carb diet works for me. Every time.
Thank you for that video. I get horror looks when I say I carb diet, which I do every year from Jan 1 until Memorial day. But it just works...down 8 lbs since Jan 4. I believe in the past humans naturally carb dieted in the winters as the grain stocks ran out and they survived on canned vegetables and meat and dairy.
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