[skymuse]

That diet is more important than exercise. I wasted so much time in my younger years working out hard and eating like crap. This lead to an unbalanced body, i.e. a muscular outer frame paired with a fatty belly.

When covid hit and going to the gym was out of the question, I was forced to optimize my diet in order to stay “healthy”. The result of this is that I lost 20lbs of hard-to-lose weight, putting me squarely in the median weight for my height.

Now when the gym opened back up, I had the foundation of a solid diet paired with consistent exercise, which lead to me being in the best shape of my life.

I’m still tweaking my health strategy, since there is no such thing as perfect, but now I always start with improving my diet.

[marto1]

Out of curiosity. What did a crap diet constitute for you exactly ? And how much moving around did you do prior(e.g. running/walking/cycling) ?

I'm trying to figure out why people in my age group, with not so much different diets than mine, put on a lot more weight and so far I've narrowed it down to general lack of movement, but would gladly compare notes.