Lose Weight (and get fit) Before Roo Thread

honestly I listen to podcasts when I go on a treadmill lol

I'm in a pretty disappointing spot. 6'1 225. Fattest ever. Trying to use the cheat code that is keto and i've been good... other than the last two Saturdays when the Jags win and celebration takes over.

Ideally, I'll stay true to it through March and get to about 195. At that point the real challenge would start where I try to transition to lifting / running and being a non-degenerate while not following Keto. We'll see.

uh no thank you. I’ll worry about my heart when I’m 87 years old. It works and is easy to follow. Body feels great when on it.

when you're 87 feels a litttttttttle too late, bb.

i just cannot understand how a diet can tell you "no carrots, no bananas, no quinoa, limit your squash intake -- but eating a bacon wrapper burger with cheese on top, sans bun, is totally fine."

im not here to tell everyone to go vegan, but if looking for longer term sustainable weight loss, just adding more veggies, fruit, unprocessed whole grains, and healthy fats like nuts, avocado, etc. does the trick. i lost 25 pounds that way.

WHATEVER YOU DO WITH KETO OR NOT, YOU BETTER NOT SKIN MY CAT Jake Jortles

OR ANY CAT.

lulz

Same here on the smoking aspect! With me lowering my drinking ive been smoking more zaza and it helps me control my appetite better

5'8" 267. Goal by Roo is 225 (eventual goal is 150 by 5/1/24). Plan is intermittent fasting (eat only noon-8 pm), calorie counting 6 days a week (starting w/ 2500, lowering incrementally to 1750), walking 30+ minutes daily, running at least 3x / week (but ideally I'll get really into and do more like 6x, time permitting), and weening off soda/coffee (I only drink diet soda as is but it's not great for the health despite 0 calories).

Have lost 100 lbs before in my life w/ calorie counting + walking, but that was pre having a corporate job and other life responsibilities (which are the reason I gained it all back to begin with). Festivals are a real strong motivation, the difference between Firefly 2018 when I was half marathon fit and able to run back and forth between stages and Roo 2019 when I'd gained most of the weight back and literally had to sit through Post Malone and Gambino and skip some sets out of sheer exhaustion was night and day.

i lost 55 lbs on keto, from 235-180. this was a long time ago, god almost 15 years ago. since then i have gained 15 pounds. so a pound a year! thats not too bad, even if i'd like to lose it again.

i made changes to how i eat after i reintroduced carbs in my life. before keto i would eat BIG meals, like several pieces of pizza. i'd routinely eat until i felt totally stuffed, because that was just how i grew up eating. keto taught me how to listen to my body's satiation signals. now i kind of know when i get to a point where i can stop eating, and in ten minutes i'll feel satiated. just takes a little time for the signal from my stomach to reach my brain.

i am NOT the healthiest eater in the world. i'll go out to eat and get apps and shit. i'll eat a french dip for lunch sometime. i am overweight, but i haven't been obese in a long time.

and really when i say "keto", i don't necessarily mean going hardcore <20g carbs a day for a year. maybe go hardcore for like two weeks, but after that just don't do breads, sugars, or potatoes. eat all the vegetables, carrots/onions whatever. a carrot carb is a hell of a lot different then a cheese danish carb. i don't think i'm ever in danger of mindlessly eating 800 calories worth of carrots but you can but your ass i'll house one of those fuckin costco coffee cake muffins.

actually i wonder what it would be like to eat 800 calories worth of carrots. kind of want to try it. maybe we could have a carrot eating contest at brunch. bunch of little bunny rabbits at brunch just munching carrots.

I'm not surprised about people having opinions.

My perspective is that the Keto did work. It worked when I was doing it. Then when I didn't do it, and simultaneously didn't do any sort of healthy routine, I became less healthy.

When I did Keto for 2 months or whatever it was, I didn't go into it thinking that these two months were going to have my body looking good for the rest of my life. I wanted to lose weight, did, then became sloppy for reasons that had nothing to do with the specific diet I was on before.

In 2015, I had a really great 3 month stretch of working out and eating healthy and got into really good shape. Then I fell off the wagon and in turn my body looked worse and most progress was lost. In my mind, that doesn't mean that the 3 months of working out and eating healthy didn't work.

Of course, I agree that there has to be a lifestyle change regardless of what method / route you are using to see permanent results, but even then you can slip into bad lifestyle routines later on and it still wouldn't mean that your progress at one point was positive.

Aggravated an ankle injury… looks like I’ll be on the bike for a little instead of my walks

20 weeks until Bonnaroo week! I am looking to lose 1 pound a week for a total of 20 pounds! Let's do this everyone!!

Been biking the past few days and I think this is gonna replace my walks. There's a bridge I can bike over every day and it's a reminder that I live in a vacation destination, something I take for granted pretty often while I bitch about the cost of living here. Burning more calories in less time, and loving the leg workout.

There's data supporting low carb life styles as well as intermittent fasting on lowering cholesterol and helping lower a1C. Of course if you eat a bunch of trans fats it is not good for your health and heart but the blanket statement that keto is bad for your health is inaccurate.