ooo… A Taylor. I kind of have the hots for a T-5z, but can’t justify the expense (I’m retired, “on a fixed income” as they say - as if anyone could just go and get a raise whenever they felt like it). My main acoustic is a Breedlove with a long, weird story behind it, and the electric I play the most is an Epiphone Les Paul. I play it more than my Gibson LP.
Anyway, if I can’t start on the carnivore approach that they’re talking about, I could start tracking what I eat. It still seems like a lot of work for dubious results, but I suppose it might help.
Years ago, I started at 265 and declared that my goal should be 195. I’ve gotten there a couple of times, but I always did during periods with lots of fasting and (if nothing else) that messes with your fluid balance and I was always concerned I was seeing water weight and I should shoot for 190 or a little better. I never broke 192. No matter what I did. That should have been achievable; I’m not talking 2% bodyfat, it’s more like 25%.
While I loved fruit and miss it, I think I had pieces of a peach last summer ('21, not a few weeks ago), and a few pieces of freeze-dried strawberries back around New Year’s. I still use various artificial sweeteners, have a diet root beer once a day (aspartame, ace-K) and while I’ve tested myself by measuring blood sugar after drinking one, it has been a while (two years?). My carb intake today so far has been 2 grams in some hard cheese, and I typically stay under 30, like I said somewhere above.
Yesterday, I intended to start a 40 hour fast until today at noon, but after the endoscopy, I felt bad enough by dinner time that I had a pure protein dinner. Doing one fasting day a week helps with maintaining, but I’d like to drop down that 190lb goal for once and for all.
Some people are even special and they just can’t lose fat (unless they eat, like, nothing but maybe their body break down first). Their body responds to a small deficit with lowering the metabolism, it’s quite crazy. We normal people lose fat without any such problem at a cute deficit (while the metabolism stays the same) as far as I know but it’s definitely true for my family members and tons of other people. But those people are different. I knew such a person, she did keto too, among others, she tried basically everything (oh and needed a restricted diet due to various health problems, poor one)… It was such a struggle, experiments and efforts and nothing happened. I only need to eat little! Not like I can without very serious “tricks” but still, at least my metabolism is pretty okay for my stats and I can eat much and still don’t gain.
