Priceless expression today

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #1

The lady that checks me in at the gym at 5 am every day has noticed the weight loss. She has congratulated me but not asked what I’m doing. She assumes it is the exercise. :joy:

Today I told her about my oldest daughters progress of losing 40 lbs in 5 1/2 months. She asked what kind of exercise is she doing. I said none. First puzzled look. “She is not eating carbs”. Second puzzled look. You could see her inability to process. I said, have a great day and left.

I usually keep my mouth shut most of the time. Most of the people I work with know that I don’t eat carbs. None of them ask except one of my staff from Ethiopia. He is not fat. But they eat a lot of their bread. He fasts for religious reasons.

He is very interested in keto and is going to try it. I have no idea how that will go over with his family and a very large Ethiopian community in my hometown. We will see.

(Bob M) #2

I was on a treadmill and exercising and a gentleman next to me said he’s lost a ton of weight by walking on the treadmill. Then he said, “Oh yeah, and I stopped eating sweets and other sugars.” But of course it’s the exercise that everyone thinks causes weight loss.

The two people that have lost the most weight in my office are me and a coworker, and we both lost over 50 pounds via diet. I continued to exercise the entire time, but have gone down in exercise and am now going back up. If you’re interested in scale loss, though, exercise, particularly weightlifting isn’t great, as if you gain any muscle, your scale weight will go up.

(Allie) #3

It’s always diet that makes the biggest difference, too many people mistakenly believe they can out run a crap diet if they exercise a lot.

(Marius the butter craving dude) #4

I started exercise after I lost 25 kg :joy:
Before going keto I had some attempts of going to the gym that lasted one week but I stopped going once I went keto. Now my goal is to raise muscle mass not loose fat.
It feels much more good to build muscle when you are thin than when you are fat.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #5

I have upped my strength training and have muscles in places I have never had that before. So my brain in confounded to count weight loss. Scale wt is about 25 lbs but I’m thinking 10 to 20 lbs of muscle gain. But I have no way to know accurately. My belt size just dropped another inch and my weight did not budge. So NSVs count.

(Janelle) #6

Interesting. I adore injera (the bread) and Ethiopian food. If I ever do a full on - take the consequences cheat - it will be a big Ethiopian meal.

What are his reasons for wanting to try keto?

(That was a reply to @daddyoh but it doesn’t look like it.)

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #7

He just wants to feel better.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #8

Thanks Janelle.

(Carl Keller) #9

You just witnessed a mind being blown away. She was probably horrified to think of a life without pizza and doughnuts.

(Carl Keller) #10

I watched a video about Doro Wat (Curry chicken) and it was fascinating and made me very much want to try it. It’s a dish that takes all day to make and it’s one of those things people eat at special occasions and maybe once or twice a year, if they are lucky.

(Janelle) #11

Interesting - of course, it’s served all day, every day at the local Ethiopian places in Atlanta. Beef tibs are also lovely. I avoid kitfo but I imagine some ketoers would like it as it’s basically steak tartare (very rare or raw). The spicy lentils and other not-keto-allowed sides are so flavorful.

(less is more, more or less) #12

Funny how parallel our LCHF lives are.

All the time. All the bloody time. It’s why I started blogging about it. People reject it anyhow.

I had people say; “Oh, you’d better be careful!” Despite all my markers improving and continued weight loss, I agree I’d better be careful, regardless.

Unless that’s a veiled mafia-type of threat? :wink:

(less is more, more or less) #13

Wait, you lose weight eating fat? FAT?!?

mind-blown

(Bob M) #14

Another problem with exercise is that it makes me hungry. For instance, on Monday (no exercise that day or since Saturday morning), I was able to eat one meal a day and keep to actually one meal (not even a longer window, which is what normally happens). But on Tuesday after weight lifting and HIIT at 7am, I could only make it to 11am before I had to eat. I ate again at dinner time, but that’s (at least) two meals, for what amounts to probably not that many calories burnt (about 50 minutes total, lifting to “failure”, many sets in a short time, HIIT of about 16 minutes). I’m sure I ate more than I burnt.

Today, I’m going to try to eat one meal again (no exercise today).

By the way, I’ve been doing cold therapy/thermogenesis on Saturdays in the morning after HIIT. I do HIIT (about 22 minutes) on my treadmill at home, then go outside into the cold. (I’d like to just go outside and exercise in the cold, but it’s too dark.) This weekend, I had to eat by 9am, and I could not get warm. I had to take a hot shower to get my body temperature back up. I ate quite a bit more that day than I normally do. Yet something else that causes increased hunger.

(Laurie) #15

In my 40s, I lost 30 pounds in 6 months through exercise alone. It was 2.5 hours of weight training every day without fail. Unfortunately, I burned out. Losing weight through Atkins (previously) and keto (now) is much easier.

I exercise, but for other reasons now.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #16

That’s funny because I stalled when I started exercising :joy:

(Marius the butter craving dude) #17

Just this Christmas I got this reaction:
I was at dinner at my girlfriend and her uncle remarked that I eat quite a lot of meat for a thin guy… My gf told him that I do so to lose weight… She told me he was lost of words :)))