The official diet and nutrition thread

[FMCoug]

Glad you are happy with your situation. :P

Touché. Not saying Ray. Just saying I’ve gotten away with it apparently due to genetics.

[smokymountainrain]

I've been blessed to be pretty healthy and able to shed weight fairly easily but am getting old, and after traveling a ton for business for a while in late 2021, early 2022, I had a few extra pounds that I was worried was putting more stress on my old legs and joints on my daily runs then I needed. I was kind of stuck at about 170 pounds for a while (I'm 5'9" so not really heavy but not ideal fighting trim) so I decided, for the first time in my life, to try out a low-carb/Keto kind of thing just to see how it worked out. My basic rules are:

1. I didn't read hardly anything so I may be doing it completely wrong
2. I have a 24 hour cheat period each week. We always go out for a family dinner Saturday night, and I always cook Sunday, and I didn't want to limit myself for those two meals (You can probably already tell that I am not going to get a book deal out of this)
3. For the rest of the week, I eat almost no carbs and zero added sugar. I've always skipped breakfast, so I've just kept on with that. For lunch, my most common meals are air-fried veggies or three boiled eggs. For dinner, I don't really restrict my volume all that much, as long as there are almost no carbs. I eat a lot of chicken, pork, steak, avocado, veggies, salad. I eat enough that I am never going to bed feeling hungry.

So, for whatever reason, it's worked well. I'm generally 4-5 pounds heavier Monday morning than Saturday morning after my weekend of cheating. The last couple of days I have been around 153.

I think the biggest factor may be that when I work from home it is easy to snack, and all of my favorite snacks have carbs, so this has severely curtailed my snacking habits. I don't see myself staying on this diet forever, but a nice way to get down to my target weight as well as make my wife mad by reminding her that I can still drop 15 pounds in 3-4 months without too much trouble.

before i reached age 30, i was a 6'1 guy who weighed about 160. after age 30, i started to gain and was hovering around 220 by my early 40s. that is when i started intermittent fasting. I got down to about 205 and stayed there for a few years until covid hit and i started working from home. with as much food as i could ever want within about 50 steps of my office, i ballooned to near 240 in the subsequent 12 months. i decided i didn't want to be fat any longer and started a disciplined intermittent fast - within about a year and a half was down to 185. since that time i've hovered at around 185-195 depending on how disciplined i'm willing to be in regard to my calorie intake. after cruising for 7 days and gaining 8 lbs during the week, i'm up over 200 for the first time in about a year. so back to a disciplined "diet" so i can get back down around 190. i like food too much to go much lower than 190, so that's the realistic goal at this point.

[Pelado]

Nice! I’d love to get back down to 155 but I like eating too much.

Better than me. I like eating too much too much.

[Moliere]

I've been blessed to be pretty healthy and able to shed weight fairly easily but am getting old, and after traveling a ton for business for a while in late 2021, early 2022, I had a few extra pounds that I was worried was putting more stress on my old legs and joints on my daily runs then I needed. I was kind of stuck at about 170 pounds for a while (I'm 5'9" so not really heavy but not ideal fighting trim) so I decided, for the first time in my life, to try out a low-carb/Keto kind of thing just to see how it worked out. My basic rules are:

1. I didn't read hardly anything so I may be doing it completely wrong
2. I have a 24 hour cheat period each week. We always go out for a family dinner Saturday night, and I always cook Sunday, and I didn't want to limit myself for those two meals (You can probably already tell that I am not going to get a book deal out of this)
3. For the rest of the week, I eat almost no carbs and zero added sugar. I've always skipped breakfast, so I've just kept on with that. For lunch, my most common meals are air-fried veggies or three boiled eggs. For dinner, I don't really restrict my volume all that much, as long as there are almost no carbs. I eat a lot of chicken, pork, steak, avocado, veggies, salad. I eat enough that I am never going to bed feeling hungry.

So, for whatever reason, it's worked well. I'm generally 4-5 pounds heavier Monday morning than Saturday morning after my weekend of cheating. The last couple of days I have been around 153.

I think the biggest factor may be that when I work from home it is easy to snack, and all of my favorite snacks have carbs, so this has severely curtailed my snacking habits. I don't see myself staying on this diet forever, but a nice way to get down to my target weight as well as make my wife mad by reminding her that I can still drop 15 pounds in 3-4 months without too much trouble.

Nice! I’d love to get back down to 155 but I like eating too much.

[old_gregg]

That’s pretty much what my cousin said. I guess if you look at it that way it’s similar cost wise to gastric bypass. Just not all at once.

and without undergoing major surgery. you should do tirzepatide (mounjaro) instead of semaglutide (ozempic) anyhow--has worked better for me and side effects have been much more tolerable (but have to force yourself to regularly eat simple carbs and drink water constantly). i'm on a year of sub-5 a1c, which is extremely low for t1d. my t1d specialist endo is prescribing it to nearly all of his patients.

[Clark Addison]

I've been blessed to be pretty healthy and able to shed weight fairly easily but am getting old, and after traveling a ton for business for a while in late 2021, early 2022, I had a few extra pounds that I was worried was putting more stress on my old legs and joints on my daily runs then I needed. I was kind of stuck at about 170 pounds for a while (I'm 5'9" so not really heavy but not ideal fighting trim) so I decided, for the first time in my life, to try out a low-carb/Keto kind of thing just to see how it worked out. My basic rules are:

1. I didn't read hardly anything so I may be doing it completely wrong
2. I have a 24 hour cheat period each week. We always go out for a family dinner Saturday night, and I always cook Sunday, and I didn't want to limit myself for those two meals (You can probably already tell that I am not going to get a book deal out of this)
3. For the rest of the week, I eat almost no carbs and zero added sugar. I've always skipped breakfast, so I've just kept on with that. For lunch, my most common meals are air-fried veggies or three boiled eggs. For dinner, I don't really restrict my volume all that much, as long as there are almost no carbs. I eat a lot of chicken, pork, steak, avocado, veggies, salad. I eat enough that I am never going to bed feeling hungry.

So, for whatever reason, it's worked well. I'm generally 4-5 pounds heavier Monday morning than Saturday morning after my weekend of cheating. The last couple of days I have been around 153.

I think the biggest factor may be that when I work from home it is easy to snack, and all of my favorite snacks have carbs, so this has severely curtailed my snacking habits. I don't see myself staying on this diet forever, but a nice way to get down to my target weight as well as make my wife mad by reminding her that I can still drop 15 pounds in 3-4 months without too much trouble.

[Green Monstah]

Houston ram out of all of the drugs two months ago. So I’m back to au naturale.

[FMCoug]

I thought semi-glutide injections were the new gastric bypass.

That’s pretty much what my cousin said. I guess if you look at it that way it’s similar cost wise to gastric bypass. Just not all at once.

[falafel]

I have been lucky in that I am a morbidly obese man in my 50's with a high stress job.

Glad you are happy with your situation. :P

[Shaka]

I have considered it. I have been lucky in that I am a morbidly obese man in my 50's with a high stress job but my numbers (BP, Cholesterol, etc.) are still fine. Slightly elevated but nothing too scary. But that can't last forever. My PCP recommended I look into gastric bypass but after looking into it and discussing with a cousin who is a doc he recommended looking at these drugs first. Damn expensive is right though. Like $1600 a month or something for me when I looked.

I thought semi-glutide injections were the new gastric bypass.

[FMCoug]

I’ve been overweight my whole life, but I’ve always been active. Recently, my knees have basically put a stop to sports for me.

Tonight, I took my first dose of Wegovy. Shit is expensive. I hope it helps.

I have considered it. I have been lucky in that I am a morbidly obese man in my 50's with a high stress job but my numbers (BP, Cholesterol, etc.) are still fine. Slightly elevated but nothing too scary. But that can't last forever. My PCP recommended I look into gastric bypass but after looking into it and discussing with a cousin who is a doc he recommended looking at these drugs first. Damn expensive is right though. Like $1600 a month or something for me when I looked.

[Copelius]

I have been on Ozempic, the weaker stepsister for my diabetes for the past 9 months. It has kept my A1C in a respectable range and I initially dropped 20 pounds. However I am not at all careful about what I eat or active, so I have plateaued. I think if not for the VA, I would not be on it because of the cost.

[Green Monstah]

I’ve been overweight my whole life, but I’ve always been active. Recently, my knees have basically put a stop to sports for me.

Tonight, I took my first dose of Wegovy. Shit is expensive. I hope it helps.

[BigPiney]

Kind bars are delicious. I just hate picking them out of my teeth for the next hour.

That is why I hate things with chia seeds in them. Those suckers swell up and are found in all the nooks and crannies.

[Green Monstah]

Kind bars are tasty…because they’re not good for you.