I discovered the easiest way for me to lose weight, although I exercise to stay healthy, is time-restricted eating. I dropped 12 lbs in 2 months and I was not overweight, just wanted inches off my waist.
I discovered the easiest way for me to lose weight, although I exercise to stay healthy, is time-restricted eating. I dropped 12 lbs in 2 months and I was not overweight, just wanted inches off my waist.
Pamela. I cried a little tear reading about your easy weight loss. I will assume you are young and have a hard time keeping weight on and hope you do NOT tell me you are a lady in your 50's. Haha. Congrats on getting those inches off! I too time restrict. 10 - 5. No snacks. My husband keeps 12-5. He drops weight if he stops eating nuts. Grrr. I have started doing keto because hubs does it and other ladies I know look terrific and have boundless energy. So far - I have good energy and I look the same. I really do think time restriction is a winner.
Raptor, I'm about to turn 74 and I got myself to my best weight ever a couple of years ago by eating mostly keto...cut all sugar, eating natural good fats, mostly no dairy, no grains of course, limit veggies to mostly green ones. I almost always managed a 14-16 hour fast between an early dinner and a late breakfast the next day. I ended up doing all my eating in an 8 hour period and I found I was good with just 2 meals a day: breakfast and dinner. When you switch your body over to a fat burning metabolism (takes a few days usually), it gets easy. No cravings, no major hunger, you end up eating less, and the weight drops off. You can do this at any age, and anyone who says you can't lose weight after a certain age is WRONG.
Thumbs up to you CMCM! Your reply was an inspiring way to start the day! I love that you did it in your 70's! IMO Keto plus exercise keeps the thin fat away )where the person is thin on outside and fat on inside). I base this on a limited sampling of people and how keto works. I know 2 people who developed insulin resistance and elevated liver enzymes as older folks. They are both endurance athletes. One is an Iron man competitor. The other exercises almost every day and is a terrific athlete. Long story short, they tossed aside the advice they were getting from docs, went on keto and returned their A1C (a measure of your blood glucose over a 3 month span) and their measures for liver enzymes dropped into normal range (meaning their liver lost its fat and became healthy again). Why people (mostly docs and people devoted to another way to eat)) dis this eating is somewhat of a mystery. Eat how you'd like and what works best for health. Congrats to you. What an inspiration!
Raptor, I should have elaborated about the ‘easy’ part. It was difficult to restrict my eating, and I did cut carbs and sugar. (I meant that of other ‘diets’ I’ve tried in the past, this one dropped the weight faster). As I got use to the time-restrictions, I lengthened them from 12 hours to 14/15.
Great news on your good energy; it does take time for the inch loss to kick in.
PS: I won’t tell you my age so not to discourage you. Hugs.
Thank you. Haha! I got on the scale this morning after vacation - and thought of you. Not kidding. Heading out for a ride before it hits the 100's. Blah.
I discovered the easiest way for me to lose weight, although I exercise to stay healthy, is time-restricted eating. I dropped 12 lbs in 2 months and I was not overweight, just wanted inches off my waist.
Pamela. I cried a little tear reading about your easy weight loss. I will assume you are young and have a hard time keeping weight on and hope you do NOT tell me you are a lady in your 50's. Haha. Congrats on getting those inches off! I too time restrict. 10 - 5. No snacks. My husband keeps 12-5. He drops weight if he stops eating nuts. Grrr. I have started doing keto because hubs does it and other ladies I know look terrific and have boundless energy. So far - I have good energy and I look the same. I really do think time restriction is a winner.
Raptor, I'm about to turn 74 and I got myself to my best weight ever a couple of years ago by eating mostly keto...cut all sugar, eating natural good fats, mostly no dairy, no grains of course, limit veggies to mostly green ones. I almost always managed a 14-16 hour fast between an early dinner and a late breakfast the next day. I ended up doing all my eating in an 8 hour period and I found I was good with just 2 meals a day: breakfast and dinner. When you switch your body over to a fat burning metabolism (takes a few days usually), it gets easy. No cravings, no major hunger, you end up eating less, and the weight drops off. You can do this at any age, and anyone who says you can't lose weight after a certain age is WRONG.
Thumbs up to you CMCM! Your reply was an inspiring way to start the day! I love that you did it in your 70's! IMO Keto plus exercise keeps the thin fat away )where the person is thin on outside and fat on inside). I base this on a limited sampling of people and how keto works. I know 2 people who developed insulin resistance and elevated liver enzymes as older folks. They are both endurance athletes. One is an Iron man competitor. The other exercises almost every day and is a terrific athlete. Long story short, they tossed aside the advice they were getting from docs, went on keto and returned their A1C (a measure of your blood glucose over a 3 month span) and their measures for liver enzymes dropped into normal range (meaning their liver lost its fat and became healthy again). Why people (mostly docs and people devoted to another way to eat)) dis this eating is somewhat of a mystery. Eat how you'd like and what works best for health. Congrats to you. What an inspiration!
Raptor, I should have elaborated about the ‘easy’ part. It was difficult to restrict my eating, and I did cut carbs and sugar. (I meant that of other ‘diets’ I’ve tried in the past, this one dropped the weight faster). As I got use to the time-restrictions, I lengthened them from 12 hours to 14/15.
Great news on your good energy; it does take time for the inch loss to kick in.
PS: I won’t tell you my age so not to discourage you. Hugs.
Thank you. Haha! I got on the scale this morning after vacation - and thought of you. Not kidding. Heading out for a ride before it hits the 100's. Blah.