I look at my body and health as a resource, and a limited one at that. It’s also the single most valuable thing I own and it’s wearing out fast. Our bodies don’t have a great shelf life, their “best before” is at about 25 year’s old. It takes exceptional care to maintain them in decent condition for 50 years past that point. Neglecting it is the biggest and stupidest waste of resources well beyond any level of face punch worthy spending. (Especially for me, I have an auto immune disease that will rapidly damage my body if I don’t take care of myself, but it’s still true for everyone)
I love this quote. I have similar health issues plus learned I had crossed over into prediabetes last year. I used a ketogenic diet and reversed the A1C back down to normal (lowest in 4 years). I assumed that weight loss would follow once I was insulin sensitive, but I kept gaining and losing the same 8 lbs. Maybe I never became insulin sensitive? When I took Christmas off from keto (planned), I spent the past two weeks in pain as a lot of nerve pain and inflammatory symptoms came back.
So, I'm joining for accountability. Starting weight 1/1/18 153.4lb, currently down to 152 which I'm assuming is water weight from being low carb again.
Weight goal: less than 140 lbs
Strategy:
Food:
Low carb (50g carb).
Cut dairy, eggs and nuts for 1 month. I leaned on these hard to maintain net carbs of 20g last year. I think the dairy and nuts stalled weight loss, and the eggs contributed to inflammation.
Fasting: I did a couple rounds of the fast mimicking diet last year. It was actually harder than just a plain water fast. I'll try combining the two-2 days of water fast + 2-3 days of FMD once/month.
Movement:
Workout at least 3x/week. I'm starting with New Rules of Lifting for Women. I can either workout at home, at the regular or powerlifting gym at work. None of those places have all of the equipment I need, so I will decide in advance what exercise to substitute rather than use that as an excuse to not work out. For example if there is no squat rack, I can either do goblet squats or split squats with dumbbells, or use a leg press.
Find a sport kettlebell class or teach myself from youtube 1x/week
Yoga 1x/week
Swing dance class at least 1x/week. Next session starts on the 8th.
>30 min walk at least 3x/week, regardless of weather. I already do this, because I'll walk to the grocery store, library etc. When it started getting really cold these past couple of weeks, I planned to substitute the elliptical for walking. Nope. I couldn't bring myself to do it.