30+lbs to lose in 60 days while driving team

I didnt exercise at all and was still loosing 4 pounds a week

 

I basically lived on steak eggs cheese and salads and ate as much as i wanted just no carbs

 

I am 53 years old. I say this because a lot of people will say that they can still eat carbs and lose weight and then it turns out that that they are in the early 30's. Well duh. I have gone to the gym on and off most of my adult live, never eat a lot of junk food or soda or sugar.
Mostly eat a lot of beans, cheese and bread and crackers and avoided meat and fat. Still I managed to gain weight until I hit my all time high of about 270 (i'm 5` 11) when I was about 40. This was probably from beer. While I still drink it is nothing like I used to. I gradually came down to about 240 when I was 45. Then I started going back to the gym about 3 times a week for for about 2 hours, about 1/2 hour pretty intense cardio and and 1 1/2 hours strength training. Still after almost 3 years, I only dropped to about 220 lbs.
All I had to do when I was in my 20's was think about exercise and I would lose weight. In my late 40's exercise seems to barely help.

Then on Jan 1, 2015 I started a keto diet and dropped a lot a weight really fast. So fast that I thought I had cancer or something. The keto suppressed my appetite so much I had to force myself to eat sometimes. In only a few weeks I went from 220 to 180 were I leveled off for a long while. Then in the middle of 2016 I started fasting and dropped from 180 to about 155 and actual fit into a pair of Levi's had I in my closet from when I was in high school.

In the last 2 years things have kind went a little in reverse. I was living in Colorado and moved to Florida. I am much less active outdoors here as the heat seems to drive me indoors. My old job involved quite a bit of walking and there was never any food around and my new job is in an office and people always seems to have cookies and candy around. With food around it is much harder to fast as just little nibble of something can raise your insulin and make you hungry. Hence I have gained some of the weight back.

Some of the things that I think will help if a person decides to do keto.
1) Learn to cook a little. Keto gets old fast if you just eat things that are ready to eat or just require heating. Learn to cook a few good fat rich sauces like hollandaise or cheddar sauce an put them on everything. I always make a sauce out of some combination of butter, cream, cooking wine, stock, egg yolks , mushrooms, garlic, pepper, horseradish, spice, clams, thickeners, what_have_you at about every meal. Eat eggs, put a sauce on it. Eat steak, put a sauce on it. Eat asparagus, put a sauce on it.
2) Any time you eat something made from plants smoother it with fat. Eat salad greens, smoother with blue cheese dressing. Eat celery, smoother with artichoke/cream cheese dip. Eat berries, smoother with cream.
3) Buy a little bit more expensive food. High quality butter is maybe $5 a pound (vs $2.50 for the cheap stuff) and 1 pound has enough calories for 1 day (about 2400) and taste much better. Same is true with eggs. Rib-Eye at $9.00/lb has about 32 grams of fat per 4 oz vs. a cheaper cut of meat that might have as little as 12 grams/4 oz. (Meat serving sizes are generally listed as 4 oz). Macadamia nuts have about 22 grams of fat per oz vs 14 for peanuts (and macs have much few carbs).
4) Buy a blood glucose meter and some strips ($10@walmart for the meter and about $0.17 per strip). Anytime you eat one good serving of something new, check you blood sugar one hour later. If your level is less than 100 that food is fine. If it is above 140 you should not eat that food. Between the two is a grey area. This is how I found out that I should not eat very lean meat like deli meats, chicken breast or venison, and cabbage or peanuts. Turns out chicken breast with the skin on is fine, and venison ground and mixed with fat is fine. We all react differently to certain foods.
5) There are a few versions of low carb favorites like crackers (google the recipe for optimist crackers or nooch crackers), chocolate (and other flavor) fat bombs, low carb ice-cream (google recipe for "get some" ice-cream) and waffles. Most of these you will have to learn to make yourself as you will not find them in a grocery store often. You can make a low carb cracker by baking grated Parmesan cheese (with small amount of spice and flavorings) on a parchment liked cookie sheet. I have found the same thing in a grocery store for about $20 a pound.

It goes with out saying that a lot of this is much harder in a truck but then again so is everything else.

 

There is so much sugar in foods these days it's the reason we are overweight. Combine that with corn syrup (because we overproduce corn do badly) that losing weight is very difficult. Pizza is the number one food because the crust is loaded with sugar. All these fat free foods use sugar to put the taste back. Good luck.

 

I was thinking of trying out body weight exercise apps to do in cab. I think there is just enough room, barely. And then there is the exercise you can do outside. What exactly are you doing?

With Keto you lose size before you lose weight.

 

Cut our sugar and breads

 

All diets relate back to the basic premise for losing weight. Do more, eat less.

It's all about calories. Not about what you eat. If you truly want to control mass, you need to measure your caloric intake, against what you use on a daily basis. With an online app and a small food scale, it's easy to do. Shoot for a 500 to 1000 calorie deficit per day. A pound of mass is about 3000 calories. Try to maintain these three types of caloric intake, 1. Protein ( about 1g per pound of mass or your ideal mass) 2. Fiber ( at least 40g per day) 3. Fats ( your body needs these), whatever you have left, you can fill as you please with carbs or whatever as you see fit. If your in a cut, you won't have much room left.

Warning: Note I say pound of mass. The body won't distinguish between fat and muscle mass unless you force it too with resistance training. Get on a good all around program using body resistance and bands to keep active all your muscles so as to maintain muscle mass on a diet/cut. Drink lots of water, which also helps curb hunger.

 

Read the 4 minute workout. Great book for truckers