Working out..

So I have always been overweight and trying different diets. I have yo yoed so much. My last diet was Alternate Day Fasting. I lost 40 lbs... fast, and gained 40 lbs right back.. fast.

My guess is that of the 40 lbs I lost... 20 of it was muscle.

So I heard a doctor talking about how all her sickest patients had poor muscle and how muscle has a lot of good effects. Her question... are we obese or under muscled?

So, I have never been able to work out before because I work. I leave at 7 am and come home at 7 PM.

But working from home has changed that. I at least, have a shot at working out now.

I also have worked out before and not gained muscle but, this doctor said you can't gain muscle without eating sufficient protein. And I had no idea that sufficient protein was wayyyy wayy more than I was eating and when I was working out before.... I probably wasn't gettting even close to enough.

So I have decided to try to maintain working out for at least 6 months. Weight lifting and some cardio. I have been doing that for about 2 months now. The hope is that I will gain about 10 lbs of pure muscle and that will help with a higher TDEE.

But it is difficult. I hate to have this chore over my head every day and I hate that I have to sometimes break off to get back to work.

I've not heard that one before. That's just a correlation between muscle and health. There's no causation shown. For example, does it mean that poor muscle leads to poor health? Or more likely, that the poor health causes the patient to become inactive or even bedridden, which leads to muscle atrophy.

I had heard that fat somehow goes along with inflammation. As well, the body tends to sequester toxins in fat stores if it can't eliminate them.

There are scales that report % of bone, water and fat along with weight. If you can afford one, it would be motivating to use it to track your progress as I've done on my blog.

There's an upper limit to how much protein a body can tolerate before the kidneys become overloaded. Please look into that, especially if the diet seems ridiculously overloaded with protein.

Oh you know i knew that but i forgot it. My kidney numbers were a little bad just recently, but my cholesterol improve like 20 pts. I attributed the chol improvement to my increased intake of salmon - it might also account for the kidney numbers. Thanks guy!

I have a hard time even getting the recommended amounts of 1G per KG of weight. (about 100gs). I suppose someone could really over do it with supplements but I find it difficult to even get close to what thy recommend. This is the book / doctor https://www.amazon.com/Forever-Stron.../dp/B0BTZ9Y6G7

Sadly, however, I just got notified that I will have to return to work and won't be able to work from home any longer. I swear the universe just wants me unhealthy. I am hopeful I can still do 1 or 2 days per week at home but it will be infrequent.

We do what we can. It's not all or nothing.