Fatphobia energy should be redirected into carbohydrate education. We ban cigarettes not smokers. Teach overweight people their problem is all the carbs in their diet (sugar, soda, pizza, candy, etc).
I'm the most clown show gym goer ever. I started late, with a huge physical deficit...
I workout in swim clothes, with flip flops, my gym bag is a canvas grocery bag.
I go to the gym itself, with a friend
Do cardio to get the heart rate up to 120ish bpm (5m)
Target a muscle group until its sore (legs, upper body, back, etc) (55m)
Hit the sauna after the gym (swim clothes)
Swim after the sauna (swim clothes)
The important thing is to build a routine, or even a sense of community, I've gain a bunch of muscle and lost 45kg going to the gym - people are super supportive, everyone at the gym wants to get better, and they love to help other people get better.
The gym isn't enjoyable usually, not exactly, but you can develop this love hate relationship with low level soreness and if everything is feeling great you start to think "I need to go to the gym".
What is enjoyable
Having a routine you can be proud of
Seeing metrics improve
Feeling the "soreness" of accomplishment
Meeting other people who give you positive feedback about your effort/progress
Jumping into a cold pool after a hot sauna - this is so good
Make a default plan. Before you learn everything, just say in 20 minutes I'm going to do x unless I know better. Then do all the research you want for 20 minutes, then if you don't know better, do x.
You can obviously modify this for longer time frames, deeper research etc. Just have a default plan that you will do by a time, rather than waiting for perfect information.
This is really good for executive function, and for emergencies, if you don't know better, you do the default.
low blood sugar - hypoglycemia is of concern for people who are not fat adapted, and it speaks problems with insulin function either from t1d or insulin resistance. The best way to avoid low blood sugar, is to avoid eating sugar, so that the body can have a very flat regulation of blood glucose
high protein - I've seen no benefit to eating high protein documented anywhere. In fact carnivore is not a high protein diet, its a high fat diet, with adequate protein. The protein targets for a healthy adult do not change based on their diet, they need the same amount of bioavailable protein on SAD, Mediterranean, vegan, keto, or carnivore. As far as any deleterious effects, you would be missing nutrition from fat, but I'm not aware of any actual downsides either.
Yes, A first step for everyone should be to eat less processed foods and exercise - totally agreed.
I was initially responding to the person above to said keto/carnivore were crackpot pseudo science bs.
elevated blood glucose will glycate the body. This is how the hba1c measurement works, it looks at the glycation of a sample and estimates the overall glucose rate based on that glycation.
Some people can eat a bunch of sugar and keep their blood sugar low, but most people can't over a long period of time, thats why prediabetes and diabetes are such huge issues.
Elevated blood sugar by itself can have tremendous emergent problems for type 2 diabetics.
The whole point of keto/carnivore diets is to take the sugar out, reduce the sugar, reduce the insulin, things get better.
Fatphobia energy should be redirected into carbohydrate education. We ban cigarettes not smokers. Teach overweight people their problem is all the carbs in their diet (sugar, soda, pizza, candy, etc).