An Addition to the "How Beat Up Are You" Question

Limit carbs and processed food, exercise at whatever you can handle.

Your going to get older and things break down. An annual physical helps keep you up to date. Figure that your doctor helps guide your personal maintenance much like your mechanic helps your car keep running.

Where does that pizza picture fit in?

It always comes back to that dang pizza picture!

www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

I swear by her yoga workouts. I used them twice a week with my class last year. I think step 1 is always yoga and 2 is portion control. I love to eat, so I have to work on portion control. Step 3 is some form of cardio. Step 4 is weights done right.

High fat, low carb. By eliminating carbohydrates, your body metabolizes and burns fat as its primary fuel source. 

Kinda like switching from rocket fuel to diesel 

Red meat
bacon
poultry
seafood
spinach, broccoli, other green veg (cauliflower, brussel sprouts, asparagus, cabbage, etc)
avocado
full-fat salad dressings
eggs
cheese

everything is cooked in oil and/or butter

snack on olives, pork rinds, salami slices.... and thats only when im hungry. Im not NEARLY as hungry as I used to be

Only hard alcohol, no beer

Also, this sh!t cannot be healthy for you in the long term. Just eat real food like someone said and workout anyway you’re able

I'll do fasting when it fits my schedule... i eat lunch at noon and then nothing til the morning. I teach PE, cant make it all day on an empty stomach.  But if im hungry at night, I'll have a snack.  Pork rinds are a great substitute for chips.  

Every 2-3 weeks I'll have a nice carb meal, so I can still get my fix in. Whether its something gross like Taco Bell or pizza, or a fancy dinner out with my wife, I'll eat whatever I want. The whole purpose to still eat and enjoy life.  And 1 meal isn't enough to knock me out of ketosis.

And CS I am only eating real food!!   This isn't about limiting specific foods for the sake of limiting foods. The whole purpose is to eliminate carbohydrates in order to change your body chemistry so you stay in Ketosis. Using diet to regulate your body's hormones has a huge impact on metabolism, digestion, and a host of other body processes. It isn't simply "calories-in, calories-out." 

I am a health teacher and Kinesiology major, I understand and teach nutrition twice a year. Ketosis flies in the face of everything I've been taught and teach, but the impact on my body the last year and a half is undeniable. I have regular physicals, my doctor is well aware of my lifestyle.

The only thing on that list that current science doesn't support as having health benefits is hard alcohol. Fat gets a bad rep because of its name and past biased and unreliable studies. Carbs, especially carbs from processed foods, have the worst effect out of all of the macro nutrients. 

Dr. Rhonda Patrick who is on Joe Rogan's podcast somewhat regularly recently talked about the benefits of time restricted eating. It's pretty interesting stuff. Studies show both weight and health benefits (reduced risk of certain cancers, improvements in heart function, etc.) 

I do intermittent fasting. I eat my last meal by 8:30 and don't eat again until 12:30. I do it every day but some people say you can get the benefits even if you don't do it every day of the week. I like it. The caloric should be similar to any other diet a person would be on. The benefits are supposed to come during the fasting gap by getting your body to a point where it is in a fasted state so produces different chemical levels that it doesn't get if you don't get to that state. I don't know a ton about all of that. However, it keeps me from snacking in my downtime out of habit and routine which helps me not gain weight.

I'm that guy...43 weigh 15 more pounds than I did in HS, about 175-180. Eat what ever and like a horse. Metabolism of a 5 year old. We do try and eat healthier and cook most meals at home with weekends kind of a take out kinda time. Work out 3-5 times a week, run a mile or two then do some weight stuff nothing crazy. Teach elementary PE so I am on my feet all day at least walking around. Guess I just have those good genetics when it comes to this area.

I think I can get used to this.  No potatoes would be really tough for me and no tortillas would me tough for me too. I live in Southern California and you can get tortillas with just about everything and turn it into a burrito lol.

The part I really like: "Honey I'm on a diet. So instead of coming home only slightly buzzed on beer. I'll be coming home completely trashed on whiskey!" 

Also, how about nuts as a snack? 

Honestly, and this may come off as a bit arrogant but whatever, work your tail off. I looked at all the answers in the "how beat up are you" thread and I was probably one of the worse off of the bunch; that being written I lift 5 days a week at least an hour a day. I may not be able to run as often as I used to (like on the track or treadmill) with my knee and back but In season I drop usually 15-20 pounds because I run around and coach hard.

Out of the season I teach my butt off and am very active in the classroom- which may read somewhat silly but there are no 'silently read days' its active and moving (History teacher).

Outside of that, you gotta be slick about what you eat. I eat 5 or 6 meals a day, but 3 of them are always the same: Eggs toast, sausage glass of milk everyday for breakfast, protein bar after workout, pb&j with milk before I go to bed. I am holding strong at 14% body fat and turn 38 in a month.

No secret, work hard eat well.