Weight / Fat loss

I haven't tried it, but I can think of several diets I would prefer to try first. If I had no success with basic calorie counting, low carb, ketogenic etc diets, or with changing my activity/exercise levels, then I might give it a go.

This is partly because fasting sounds unpleasant, but also because I feel that the more radical the diet, the harder it is to transition back to a sustainable long-term eating plan without gaining weight again.

That said, I haven't tried it, so it might all be unicorns and milkshakes for all I know.

Earlier in the year I did 10 weeks of keto, lost weight and was probably the leanest of my life (also climbing at my best).
Moved cities, slept on sofas, ate shite and fell off the wagon as spectacularly as possible.

I'm now back on keto but I'm not sure I can be arsed cutting carbs in such an absolute fashion as this seems unsustainable (as it was first time around). I had a brief look at tkd and ckd variations today but didn't conclude that either of these were what I was after. I then tried to get my head around leangains but there seemed to be a strictness with on/off days having pretty different diet plans - this is a problem as I often don't know if I'm going to train or not in the morning and thus planning my day's eating would be difficult. Also, I'm not sure how practical an 8 hour eating window would be. Another issue was leangains' 3x1 hour training sessions a week - at periods of excess, I've averaged 8-12 training sessions a week and even when just going steady I'm quite likely to want to train more than 3 times a week.

It also seemed to me that leangains has a bias to aesthetics rather than performance. I want to lose weight for the associated performance benefit (in climbing specifically) and "6 pack abs" while not undesirable, are sadly not my main goal and I couldn't quite pin down any empirical data about leangains and athletic performance.

Apologies because this is a rant as much as anything.

Anyway, back on the training now, should help the weightloss along and if nothing else it'll do me good!

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