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Originally Posted by mello
How do you not gain weight eating out with carby foods and beer/cocktails all the time? Also doesn't that hit your budget hard? I do keto diet and eat only one meal a day to stay super lean at 41. Do you do intermittent fasting or just stay really strict and these pics you take are on "cheat days".
Do you have a certain amount of money budgeted for eating out. I guess to spend more money on health supplements than eating out.
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My partner and I are the proverbial DINKs, I guess---and we don't really spend money on material things. We don't have expensive cars, clothes or TVs or anything like that... we like to spend money on experiences, I guess. We have no kids to pass anything down to... so...
And we have a bad habit: We like to eat out. When California "locked down" again the week of Thanksgiving to the end of January, we missed eating out... hehe and saved some money in the process. And since outdoor dining was allowed again, we've really been going to town!
Ethnic restaurants are also quite affordable. We really only splurge once or twice a month.
I actually calorie-count. I'm able to keep my daily caloric intake to about 1100 calories per day. I often skip breakfast, and my lunches during the work week are very light. I don't like to eat heavy meals in the middle of the day. And my dinners are often light too, with very little carbs, though I don't eliminate carbs altogether. I like whole grains, like corn. I eat a lot of quinoa, which I love. And then on the weekends, I splurge, but not too much, hehe, though sometimes I can go overboard, like last Saturday I did.
I actually eat a lot of salads, too. In that one "What are you eating?" thread where I post pictures of my food, you can see that I eat a lot of salads. I used to want to try the keto diet thing, but isn't it red meat intensive? I used to have issues with cholesterol, so I didn't think the keto thing would be good for me. I basically only occasionally eat red meat now; I usually eat chicken and fish. Lots more veggies than I used to, too. And nuts. They say proteins take longer to digest, hence a lot of it makes you feel full longer. So they say.
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Originally Posted by LAsam
I'd guess one, or some combination of the following three:
1) Has a naturally high metabolism
2) Exercises a lot to offset the intake
3) Eats super healthy a lot of the time and is only showing us the indulgences
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I don't know about the metabolism; I feel it's slowed down as I've gotten older, as it does with most people. I do try to exercise; I don't have a gym membership, but I like to take long walks, and in the mornings I'll do simple cardio like jogging in place for 10 minutes and/or a hundred jumping jacks, just to get the blood flowing and some calories burning. I tend to take the stairs and not the elevator, unless of course it's more than 5 floors or something, and sometimes to the annoyance of my partner, when parking in a huge parking lot, I tend to park far, which forces me/us to walk, but I do that not necessarily because I want to walk more, but because it makes my car less likely to get dinged, not that I drive a fancy car, but I definitely do not drive a raggedy car.
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