Lifestyle or Diet?

This entry is about my lifestyle; 

- Weight loss goal 

- Intermittent fasting 

- Carnivore Diet 

 

What follows is not advice but my situation only. No, I don’t care about your friend who said that his friend said his doctor told her that they know someone who said you shouldn’t do that because this person said…blah blah blah. 

No more Mr. Doughy 

Starting Weight: 109-110kg , Bodyfat around 20-25%

When I quit consuming alcohol plus sugary energy drinks and began to live the sober sugar-free life, its remarkable how quicky my body changed for the better. From Dec 18th 22 to Jan 18th 23 I lost 11kg and down to 18% bf, no change in food intake type, a gym session every other day when I could be bothered, just simply quit poisoning my body. Within the first fortnight the changes came fast and strong. Clear mind, focus, stress management amplified, and the kilo’s disappearing off the scales. Unfortunately, it all came back after a visit to my wife’s home country during February, but once back in Australia and I got my arse into gear with discovering my new love of boxing, I became a calorie burning furnace. By November I was down to an average of 95-97kg, 15% bf, but not really monitoring food type, calorie intake or timing. Along comes a trip to Adelaide where we spend one of our days on Glenelg Beach. Shirt off, I feel as though I look a lot better than I did in March when I would jiggle when just brushing my teeth or struggle to fit into 36 pants, but I am more aware now than ever after spending a solid 8 months around boxers and martial artists that I am no Roman Soldier. More a training dummy with tattoos and love handles. Changes must be made and fast. I consult Doctor Google and Doctor YouTube, coming across Intermittent Fasting and the OMAD (One Meal A Day) Carnivore Diet (meat only, high protein, high fat, zero carb, zero sugar, zero vegetables). Extremely Impressive results, very quickly too. I watch countless hours of footage and read page after page on the two and decide its worth the try. 6 weeks later as I write this, can give it my full support.

-        Starting weight: 97kg

-        Starting waistline: 36

-        End weight: 89.5kg

-        End waistline: 33

First time seeing 90kg in 15+years.

 

Results have been far exceeded than actually expected. Muscle loss acceptable too, though the excess skin fat cells thinning out has made remaining muscle seem thicker and more hardened being its missing the excess fat sitting over it. The biggest improvements though, putting appearance aside, I have taken from this diet change are:

-        inflammation of joints, especially knees, zero

-        facial eczema, zero

-        digestive issues, zero

-        bloating after eating, zero

-        oily skin, zero

-        stress, zero

-        negative and overthinking in intense situations, almost zero

 

I kicked myself into gear and changed from a casual every-now-and-then approach of afternoon workouts, straight into early morning 5.30am consistent workouts. 3 days boxing, 3 days weights, 1 day rest. All workouts timed around 90 minutes, 5.30am to 7am.

-        4.45am wake up; WPI 30g Protein shake, zero carb and sugar, water, Pre-workout, 200mg caffeine, zero sugar, 3 x fish oil, 1 x vitamin D, 1 x Zinc

-        5.30am to 7am gym, including 3km eliptical warmup

-        2pm fatty casserole grass fed (not corn) steak, 200-300g + 4 whole organic eggs (not corn fed either)

-        3pm 3km walk

-        Water intact kept to once a day, not constantly sipping throughout. This assisted greatly in stopping the need to wake up in the middle of the night for the bathroom too.

It appears the more research I do into corn fed animals, the severe impact it has on the health of the human body. The human body actually has no way of fermenting and diggesting corn and heavy fiber products. Intriguing and will look more into that.

 The experience of changing from not really paying attention to diet and exercise to experimenting with this over the last 6 weeks has been a fundamental improvement to my life. In fact it may be kept permanent if these changes continue and level out positively. At some point once I am satisfied with the fat loss, I’ll begin to add in more heavier weights to my weight days and build strength and muscle again, where now I am just lifting to keep muscles strong but elastic for boxing, but it doesn’t concern me anymore. Once of the happiest items of losing so much fat quickly has been buying normal sized clothes again, especially slim-style business shirts and polo’s now I no longer need to worry about gut issues and bloating. Changing to a zero carb and zero sugar diet has had its mountains to climb, but just like when I set me mind to becoming sober, I have found a strong will to trump out the negative voice trying to talk me into “oh, just do it one time, you’ll be fine…”. Something else I am interested in trying is extended fasting, instead of the 18/4 window I do now, attempting once or twice a week 24-48hrs and seeing its outcome. 

Cavemen from 100,000 years ago would be proud.