Diets keto/carnivore etc
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Biggest change I've made as I've transitioned from 30s to 40s to 50s is gradually reducing the portion size of my meals over time.
In my 30s I would think nothing of eating 4-5 hamburgers at a BBQ, now I'm full (both physically and mentally) on 1. 2 at a push.
Full fat everything, just less of it.
Strong black coffee.
Dark chocolate. Don't need much.
Oatmeal, full fat milk, and berries for breakfast.
Dense wholemeal toast, butter, peanut butter for Hobbit second breakfast.
Normal mixed meals for lunch and dinner.
Eating out, I'll often have a starter, then a starter as my main.
Seldom drink pints, now it's wine or Gin & Soda.
Walk the dog 3 times a day.
Ski my arse off all winter.
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@mikethesnow it surprises me how little you actually need to sustain yourself if the food is good .
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I'm giving this sirtfood thing a go. I'm not really a buyer of crash diets / specific things, but I know a few people who have had a large amount of success with it.
It starts off with one meal a day plus 3 sirt food juices (kale, parsely, celery, rocket, granny smith, green tea, loveage). The meal is a specific collection of things which are high in some bollocks called sirtuin activators. Then as you get further into it you can have a different range of things such as red wine, dark chocolate etc.
WE'll see how it goes ... the book claims that most people ditch 7 pounds in the first week. I'm sure that's almost all water, and none of it fat.
We shall see
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I had a pixie caramel today because I saw them in the NZ section at Coles while searching for Biltong (in the SA section next to it) - I haven't had one in years, it was awesome.
Anyway, to stay on topic. My diet has been vegetables and meat for lunch and dinner for four years now when I lost roughly 25kg (and I keep 20kg's off normally unless I'm travelling). I like to have a piece of toast with marmite for breakfast although I'll swap to omelettes if I'm wanting to lose a bit of weight. On weekends I tend to be a bit more lax.
If I eat rice and pasta I stack on the weight. Earlier this year I did a month of eating the same amount of calories each week but for the first two two weeks I was on my usual diet and on the 3rd and 4th I ate carbs with my meals (rice, pasta and potatoes on occasion).
It was not pretty in the 3rd and 4th week, I ballooned up pretty quickly and just felt like shit. I've figured out that eating rice for me basically gives me the same sensation as eating lollies, i real high and then I just feel like shit the rest of the day with a headache. It's so weird that I'd barely last a day now on my previous diet that I was on for most of my adult life.
Anyway, what I'm really saying is that I agree with people that say just do what works for you personally. If you can eat lots of carbs and not turn into a fatty then go for your life - I'm very envious.
@Sapetyvi I'm lucky that I have an Asian foodcourt below my work and two of the places steam their veges and they'll happily cook my meat without sauces if I ask, so if my planning goes to shit my lunches don't tend to fuck up my diet.
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Last night I had two Almighty burgers from Grill'd. And a few beers. Not sure I could have fit a wafer-thin mint.
I know when don't have carbs the weight falls off.
Using an online calculator:
Your BMI is 29 and your waist measurement is 37 inches
What this means
Your BMI result indicates you are in the overweight category, and your waist circumference is in the ideal range.Don't really care about BMI for reasons we're all too aware of. The waist circumference is good.
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Pretty low carb day here which is common now for a Saturday
7am F45 workout just fuelled by bcaas and pre workout
815am two scoops whey
10am bacon and eggs and coffee
12pm salmon and salad
3pm whey
4pm the low carb beer train rolled in with a load of almonds
6pm ribs, steak and saladAnother scoop of whey to come, maybe something sweeter though depending when the low carb beers stop flowing
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@nepia said in Diets keto/carnivore etc:
I had a pixie caramel today because I saw them in the NZ section at Coles while searching for Biltong (in the SA section next to it) - I haven't had one in years, it was awesome.
Anyway, to stay on topic. My diet has been vegetables and meat for lunch and dinner for four years now when I lost roughly 25kg (and I keep 20kg's off normally unless I'm travelling). I like to have a piece of toast with marmite for breakfast although I'll swap to omelettes if I'm wanting to lose a bit of weight. On weekends I tend to be a bit more lax.
If I eat rice and pasta I stack on the weight. Earlier this year I did a month of eating the same amount of calories each week but for the first two two weeks I was on my usual diet and on the 3rd and 4th I ate carbs with my meals (rice, pasta and potatoes on occasion).
It was not pretty in the 3rd and 4th week, I ballooned up pretty quickly and just felt like shit. I've figured out that eating rice for me basically gives me the same sensation as eating lollies, i real high and then I just feel like shit the rest of the day with a headache. It's so weird that I'd barely last a day now on my previous diet that I was on for most of my adult life.
Anyway, what I'm really saying is that I agree with people that say just do what works for you personally. If you can eat lots of carbs and not turn into a fatty then go for your life - I'm very envious.
@Sapetyvi I'm lucky that I have an Asian foodcourt below my work and two of the places steam their veges and they'll happily cook my meat without sauces if I ask, so if my planning goes to shit my lunches don't tend to fuck up my diet.
I agree, everyone is different so has different needs. I'd say evolution has a fair bit to do with it - PI people don't tend to do so well on a European style diet.
My wife had gestational diabetes while pregnant, which means she had the symptoms of type 2 diabetes (goes away after giving birth). It was pretty interesting measuring her sugars and seeing what spiked them - any carbs, especially breakfast cereals (even the supposedly healthy ones) just shot it through the roof. But a big feed of meat and veg had little effect (she is PI btw).
Whereas for me I need the carbs to keep my energy levels up through the day - I'm naturally skinny so tend to drop weight very easily and feel like shit if I don't eat enough. So we've realised our diets need to be a bit different, notably on portions - I'll serve myself out a big helping of carbs but will give her very little, and top it up with meat and veg as that seems to be what works better for her.
I'm not a big fan of extreme diets, I think it's pretty well known what foods should be part of a healthy diet to ensure you get all the nutrients you need, but portion size of each food type will vary between people. A lot of people only really need 1 - 2 servings of carbs per day.
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2 weeks on the diet and despite coming down with a cold at the end of the week and therefore an inability to train the last 3 days I still find my energy levels and mental focus are good, and certainly my mood is still in good shape. I've even been able to finish a small writing job I'd been putting off all year.
Pre-diet if I went more than 2 or 3 days without some sort of training I tend to get a vague negative feeling first thing in the morning, kind of like a combination of laziness maybe even depression or dread, nothing too bad but that's normally my cue to get my ass into gear and get the body going again. Well that feeling doesn't seem to be occurring now, again this could just be coincidence maybe it'll come back with another couple days on inactivity but still even while sick motivation and energy levels seem to be doing really well.
Diet is still reasonably easy to stick to, biggest problem is cost so I'm trying to use that as motivation to make my own lunches, have less dinners out and put a hold on my weekend brunch outings.
*edit Mods, might be worth moving this into Fitness forum
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Update on the diet thingy, 100.5kg this morning, so much slower weight loss now during the last 3-4weeks than the first 6, but overall feeling much better. Was just out with the dog and we went to the dog park and then jog back from there, about 3km, hardly broke sweat and didn't breath heavily at any point. Been ages since I could jog without feeling like shit all the time, unfortunately the dog was a bit slow as he got his excersice at the dog park, could have ran much faster.
As for the diet itself, I have given myself much more freedom with what I eat, for example today went to a Chinese buffet, but only ate half of what I used to, portion sizes are so much smaller that it doesn't really matter if I take a carb here and another there.
If you think you should drop some weight, I just can't recommend it enough, no matter how you do it, after 10kg I feel so much better and exercising is so much more fun now. So much easier to look myself in the mirror too, probably going to try to settle somewhere around 90kgs, I remember I was pretty satisfied with myself years ago at 94, but think I packed more muscle then too, so need to whip my ass to the gym more too.
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@sapetyvi said in Diets keto/carnivore etc:
Update on the diet thingy, 100.5kg this morning, so much slower weight loss now during the last 3-4weeks than the first 6, but overall feeling much better. Was just out with the dog and we went to the dog park and then jog back from there, about 3km, hardly broke sweat and didn't breath heavily at any point. Been ages since I could jog without feeling like shit all the time, unfortunately the dog was a bit slow as he got his excersice at the dog park, could have ran much faster.
As for the diet itself, I have given myself much more freedom with what I eat, for example today went to a Chinese buffet, but only ate half of what I used to, portion sizes are so much smaller that it doesn't really matter if I take a carb here and another there.
If you think you should drop some weight, I just can't recommend it enough, no matter how you do it, after 10kg I feel so much better and exercising is so much more fun now. So much easier to look myself in the mirror too, probably going to try to settle somewhere around 90kgs, I remember I was pretty satisfied with myself years ago at 94, but think I packed more muscle then too, so need to whip my ass to the gym more too.
Farken well done mate! So good to hear things are going well. Dieting doesnt have to be hard and when you start seeing/feeling success it then gets even easier!
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So Ketoish diet update... Well that was fun while it lasted!
I got to 4 weeks in before I had a trip away for a wedding with family where it became far too much of an issue for meals to continue with, so I had 3 days off enjoying normal food. I did however keep relatively strict on my drinking avoiding beer and instead sticking to whiskey on the rocks or dry white wine. Managed to run another 10K with ease during these days off too.
The night before the wedding I went to try on my suit in order to work out which shirt would be better...well it felt a little loose so I asked my siblings their thoughts. Ah the beauty of family they have no interest in protecting peoples feelings, the verdict the suit is far too big for me and I have literally no ass in it (Clue 1)...interesting, oh well mad dash to the clothing store the next day to get some new trousers...hmmm down to a 30" waist that's weird haven't worn that size in a long time (Clue 2) , maybe Target's clothing size is differently sized.
Anyway to work this week so back on the diet, learned some new recipe ideas in the last couple weeks which makes this diet even easier such as zucchini noodles, cauliflower rice and even how to make a keto bread substitute. A colleague at work commented that I'd looked like I'd lost weight, another collegue who had been away for a month said I looked really withdrawn (Clue 3). I didn't think much of it. Did a 5km run this week plus 2 hour long weight sessions, out of interest I installed that 'My Fitness Pal' to see exactly how much carbs etc I have been eating..interestingly enough I got a warning alert that my calories were far too low (Clue 4), ha funny, that's probably because it had pulled my previous data 6 years back when I was trying to bulk up after marathon training.
Anyway cue this morning, casual Friday at work. I go to put on my new jeans only purchased a couple months back ..huh need to go in a few belt notches..and the legs are kind of loose, these used to fit me well (Clue 5)
Yeah I'm done. I didn't do this to lose any more than a bit of a holiday belly. My actual weight has only dropped maybe 2-3 kgs max and I've still got a little left to lose on the belly..but I hadn't planned on losing any bulk on my legs or torso as well they didn't exactly have any fat on them.
Still I have learnt a lot.
- I now know how to lose excess weight in a short period of time.
- I have some terrific meal alternatives which I can mix in with my normal eating to balance out the odd poor-eating days.
- I can massively improve concentration levels if I cut out carbs from my work-day lunches
- I don't need carbs to train
- Fats are not the enemy when trying to lose weight
Now the goal is to try and pack on some bulk again so my damn clothes fit!
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Nice work bro, thanks for sharing the findings of your research project
We've been doing the cauliflower as rice substitute a bit, and the missus has one of those farking zoodle machines for making noodles out of poor unsuspecting veges!
Interesting how much change you saw in body shape/bulk with a reasonably small weight loss. Let us know how your bulk goes on the back of your cut!
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It's great isn't it when you try out something, stick to it and can then assess results and make adjustments. Everyone is different and it takes time to find the right balance.
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If I want to lose weight, I just cut out carbs. Weight falls off me like I'm spending winter in Auschwitz. Problem is I like carbs.
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I found this podcast on diet very interesting, even if I had to rewind a number of times. Joe Rogan with Dr Rhonda Patrick
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Having all but hit my goal weight of 95kg (hit 96kg on weekend) I decided I need to track my intake, as I dont feel I am getting the required protein (reckon I was <50g yesterday) and I dont actually want to keep losing weight, if I can maintain this weight I'll be happy.
So started recording my food (just used the Samsung Health app - seems to have plenty of NZ foods in there)
Today after bringing some boiled eggs, left over roast pork, protein shake and protein bar, usual fruit, I am sitting just over 90g of protein for today so far - althogh one of the girls at work today bought in a big old cake for her birthday, woulda been rude to say no.
Looking at various sites, some say I should be having 1g - 1kg, seen another that says 1.5g for 1kg of body weight, what does TSF collective say?
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@taniwharugby the app i am using to count my calories has my goal set at 119g of protein a day. And i get that every day. which given my current weight is almost bank on 1.5
