Low carb diet tips

[SunsetBengal]

(05-20-2020, 04:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This is how I kept my weight under control until I got married when I was 39.  I weighed about 210 then.  Now I am 57 and I weighed 275 before I started this diet.  I am only 5'10".  When I weighed 210 it wasn't that bad because I was fairly muscular.  When I weighed 275 it was mostly fat.

The problem is that I have bad knees, so that really limits running and biking.  For a while I lifted weights as cardio training.  Most people don't realize that weight training can be great cardio if you work fast and keep your heart rate up.  But I also have screwed up shoulders so that even limited my weightlifting as I got older.

I developed terrible eating habits when I was growing up.  I played football through my freshman year in college and I was eating to TRY AND GAIN WEIGHT.  I was so active back then that I had trouble adding weight.  Seems unbelievable now.  

That does sort of put you in a "box", as far as activity choices go.  Do you have access to a swimming pool?  Do you enjoy swimming as a form of exercise?  If so, there are a multitude of exercise regiments that you can do to train and strengthen muscles, with minimal impact on the joints.  And, of course there is always actual swimming.