Hello, i’m looking for some help with finding more information on something that was mentioned on a 2 dudes podcast. I can’t remember the episode but i think it was Richard who very quickly mentioned that there is someone who switched to keto, from hospital food, and lost a lot of weight without exercising at all. It was mentioned in the context of how very little exercise contribute to weight loss.
Does anyone know of this? where can i read more about it? Please help.
thank you very much!
Can’t help with the podcast but I can back up the report. I lost 100 pounds on keto while not increasing exercise one jot. Only after I lost the weight did I get the extra energy boost. The gym going didn’t last for long though ( 3 months) so I’m back to my sedentary ways with keto and no weight regain.
I can’t help with the podcast, but I can report that the suggested diet from the hospital was making my Type 2 diabetes worse. After 6 weeks I went keto. I was 245 pounds on that day. The entirety of my exercise was watching TV, and playing World of Warcraft. That’s it. Two weeks after starting Keto I lost 40 pounds. The only change was going Keto. Diet alone. 40 pounds in two weeks. That’s not a typo, FORTY POUNDS. 14 days.
Your body is capable of expending huge amounts of energy just in taking care of it’s own metabolism, keeping you warm, moving the blood around, that kind of thing. It’s also quite capable of conserving energy when it thinks it has to.
I am particularly fond of the saying that goes something like… “On the surface, it may look like I’m doing nothing. But at the cellular level, I’m actually quite busy.”
Add me to the camp that doesn’t “exercise”. That doesn’t mean I don’t do anything. It just means I don’t go for walks with no other purpose or pick things up and put them down without another reason to do so. I carry on a normal life. A trip to the grocery stores is probably the equivalent of walking a couple of miles. And checking on the property is another mile, and it’s not level ground. And I’m soon to start some large gardening projects… you get the point.
Not sure about podcast but I spent 2 months in the hospital with complications of pancreatitis. What an amazing array of lactose, fruit juice and ice cream they gave me. It’s a miracle that my diabetes went away with the dietary options presented. I was told to avoid fat and increase carbohydrate consumption. My pancreas continued to get worse. Who would have guessed that it needed bone broth and bacon…yum
You’re very welcome! I also haven’t done any exercise for the last 4 months and am still loosing.
I exercise because I want to, not because I have to. Lost 60lbs without any exercise but now I crave exercise so joined a gym and love it!
Interestingly, weight loss or being at one’s optimum weight does not equal optimum health. It’s good to be either losing weight (if we’re overweight) or maintaining a good weight (if we’re at an appropriate weight) but there is more to being healthy.
We humans are designed to move. Moving is good. Being active is good. Using our muscles is good. Breathing deeply is good. That may take on different forms for different people. But the weight loss is only part of the equation of being in good health.
I spent a few years working on dairy farms. I can assure you, some of those guys slinging hay bales and moving cattle around, shoveling feed and manure, and in between milkings working on the field crops, get some serious exercise. It’s not because they purpose to exercise, it’s just what they do.
Few probably work on a farm or want to. I’m the oddball that craves that kind of thing.
Do you remember that saying, “Make food your medicine and medicine your food?” If it’s possible, I’d prefer to, “Make my lifestyle my exercise and my exercise my lifestyle.” But that’s just the way I look at it. Won’t work that way for everybody…
Have a good day! 
IF/EF Keto WOE is amazing in that it Optimizes/Restores Health, Brain Function, and Body Composition.
The “Scale” is a very poor measurement of its benefits.
“May the Force (fat adaption) be with you”
IF/EF Keto WOE is Self-Discovery 
Good luck and much success in your journey in IF/EF Keto WOE 
Hi, my first post.
I started Keto August 21, and have lost 30 lbs with no exercise. I have gone off Keto a few times and instantly gain anywhere from 3-7 lbs. As soon as I’m back on for 3 days straight I lose the gain and get back to losing. This is probably a bad habit on my part.
I’ve been wondering if I should start some kind of exercise regimen but I’m quite happy with my results so far…
Me too. I have so much extra energy now, and my workouts make me feel even better.
Also, I’m 55 and it’s important to maintain muscle mass as we age, so I am motivated to be fit.
Last year my 15 yo son lost 60 lbs on keto — with zero exercise.
I’ll bet if you could reduce hospital length of stay if you:
The diuretic effect alone of reducing the carb-induced water retention would save lives …
The notoriously bad glucose management of hospitals would be reduced (can you say sliding scale pandemonium ?) with low carb
Better hospital glycemia, less infection, safer for everyone.
Everyone is discharged in Ketosis, and they’ll be so happy they never come back.
Now wouldn’t that be perfect! But at the moment they fill everyone full of carb fuel meals, I dread the day I end up in hospital and try to explain to them why I can’t eat the poison the are trying to feed me!
In 2016, I wasn’t in ketosis yet, so I could eat the hospital food. The hospital kitchen was pretty decent, and I’ll bet I could have eaten keto (or at least low-carb) if I’d been aware of it back then. But the kitchen at the nursing home where I went for rehab was abominable, and fortunately a lot of the carbs were inedible. (I’m talking half-cooked rice, rotten vegetables, etc.)
Hospitals could run intravenous ketones and titrate your ketosis level to what they want.
As well, they could take a carb burner with a liver and muscle overload of glycogen … infuse insulin to force the gluconeogenesis … and turn a carb burner to a fat burner in record time !