Self Improvement During Quarantine

[LittleLebowski]

Have you done keto? How does the carnivore diet compare?

My (limited) understanding of carnivore is that it's basically keto without the vegetables. Is this a correct assumption?

Correct. Never really done keto, but with this diet I think you do go into ketosis. I was skeptical of the claims of increased mental clarity until I experienced it myself. It’s strange and cool.

[Duces Tecum]

Your mileage may differ, and I hope it does. But I've tried a couple of Atkins-type diets and on each of them I eventually stopped losing weight short of my goal. It's the normal adaptation process at work. But adaptation never happened when I combined a protein rich diet with intermittent fasting. It's hard for a body to adapt to "nothing", I guess.

Jason Fung's book ("The Obesity Code") was helpful in understanding the process:
https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code-...6370178&sr=8-2

[LittleLebowski]

Your mileage may differ, and I hope it does. But I've tried a couple of Atkins-type diets and on each of them I eventually stopped losing weight short of my goal. It's the normal adaptation process at work. But adaptation never happened when I combined a protein rich diet with intermittent fasting. It's hard for a body to adapt to "nothing", I guess.

Jason Fung's book ("The Obesity Code") was helpful in understanding the process:
https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code-...6370178&sr=8-2

I never had a goal, still don’t. I’ve never worried about weight, even 22lbs ago, most people wouldn’t have considered me fat.

[ER_STL]

It’s just meat. I will cook up some polish kielbasa sausage with a small amount of onions and peppers and eat on that for two meals easily. Snacks are cheese wheels, bacon, jerky, and pork rinds. I really can’t stress the lipase supplement enough, get that if you’re eating a lot of meat.

[critter]

Your mileage may differ, and I hope it does. But I've tried a couple of Atkins-type diets and on each of them I eventually stopped losing weight short of my goal. It's the normal adaptation process at work. But adaptation never happened when I combined a protein rich diet with intermittent fasting. It's hard for a body to adapt to "nothing", I guess.

Jason Fung's book ("The Obesity Code") was helpful in understanding the process:
https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code-...6370178&sr=8-2

The trick to keto is the fat consumption. Roughly 80% of your diet is fat, 15% protein, 5% carbs. The fat is what complete satiates hunger but for me it's the most difficult to consume. Lots of butter, bacon, fatty meat cuts.

I dropped 50 lbs in 90 days last year, total of 60 in 120 days with the mental clarity, stamina, etc. of 25 - 30 years ago. Now I rotate through carnivore, then keto, and then only fruits/veggies for a couple of weeks.

No one would have mistaken me for skinny before that.

[P30]

Wall sits (new personal record: 145 seconds)
Mountain climbers
Stretching of the front and back of the legs

=> Makes the legs strong. Stretching is good for the knees.

Plank (new personal record: 130 s)
Stretching of the chest muscles (see link above)

=> Good for the upper body

[Yung]

Here's a decent primer that helped me make my decisions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq

[Jay585]

The trick to keto is the fat consumption. Roughly 80% of your diet is fat, 15% protein, 5% carbs. The fat is what complete satiates hunger but for me it's the most difficult to consume. Lots of butter, bacon, fatty meat cuts.

I dropped 50 lbs in 90 days last year, total of 60 in 120 days with the mental clarity, stamina, etc. of 25 - 30 years ago. Now I rotate through carnivore, then keto, and then only fruits/veggies for a couple of weeks.

No one would have mistaken me for skinny before that.

Not arguing here just saying: I've done 65% fat 25% protein and 5% carbs with success. So if someone's new and they're struggling with the fat intake (diarrhea after meals), you can drop fat, up protein and should still be in (or get into) ketosis.

[Darth_Uno]

With nowhere else to go after work, I thought I'd use this extra time to get prison buff. So far I've put zero effort into that, but I have finished a bunch of projects at home for my wife. Which she thinks is way sexier than getting buff. Or so she says.

[Bratch]

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Working out daily and dry firing as always but somehow staying motivated with dry fire is harder.

The G-Sight laser bullet and app have really helped my motivation, being able to see hits and track has been good for me.