Lose Weight Gardening
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- As many of you have so kindly notices I have slimmed down over the last few months and many of you have asked what I have been doing different in order to lose weight.
So I decided I needed to make a change so that I could continue to keep up with my son and really enjoy exploring the world with him.
When I started this journey I wanted to keep things simple much like in the garden. I try to achieve my motto every day and that is to “move more and eat less.”
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I demand a work out video of you in your garden bench pressing giant zuchinni's. Bonus points if its to some rad 80's music and you wear a sweatband
lol that would be funny! although it might have to be buckets of compost ;)
I need to see this too!
Ha ha, a cringe worthy show like 'the office' but called 'the garden'... lol lol..
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Another great video, Steve. Keep up the good work, in every sense!
Thank you my friend !
A great informative lifestyle change in a masculine and unconventional (gardening focused) focus. Loved this
Well done Stephan . You certainly look very healthy . Keep the activity going.
Thank you my friend!
You are a lot lighter now than in your older uploads for sure, good for you. I can tell you from personal experience that you can't out exercise a bad diet. This winter I lost 27 lbs in 12 weeks and the only change I made was no beer for that time. If I would have exercised as well probably a 40-50 lbs would not have been unreasonable to lose.
I can tell you Corey it is absolutely possible!
thank you for the kind comment!
Your looking great and now that it's spring where I am it's time to get out and about more.
Enjoy my Southern Hemisphere friend ! It's time for me to fight the ire to hibernate !
I have noticed the change in your face, you look much younger now. Since my journey with heart failure. My doctor said to get a dog, so that I will get out and walk. Also he has told me to start a garden. With these two simple things, and change in diet. I have lost 35lbs. So I thank you. 😊
Keep up the great work my friend ! I know how tough it can be !
Thank you for the kind words ! I don't mind looking younger !
That's great to see Stephen & am sure you';ll see this lifestyle change through 👍😊
As our spawn grew up I slowed down. Time for me to get moving again I think 😉
Cheers sir.
I certainly need to ! I want to keep up with my crazy son!
After he slows down I'll need to keep up with my wife too !
I've lost over 12 pounds gardening this summer. Gardening is a great weight to loose weight. And, eating clean & healthy is very important. I'll probably get a gym membership during the winter months when I have a tendency to put the weight back on. I use MyFitnessPal to track what I eat. It very handy to know what I am consuming & what I should not be consuming.
congratulations!! With winter coming it is time for me to recommit and fight the tendency to put on weight as it cools down!
Good work Pops. The changes are worth it. You can live longer with baby boy and wifey too. They need you in their lives.
Thank you my friend! I agree! I want to grow old with my beautiful wife and watch my son grow up too!
I have been binge watching your channel lately and I really like all your gardening tips. Thanks for posting all these! With all your plants it would not be hard to be plant-based! I've been plant based/vegan for 21 years and at 40 years old I've never felt better!
I think I stumbled on this at the same time too roughly. I skip the gym now and just stay in the garden longer and set goals of tasks rather than a distance jogged. Gameification with fitness trackers is awesome too.
That is wonderful ;) my son and I have been motivating each other and boy do I feel quite a bit better.
I would definitely enjoy seeing more of these types of videos on your channel! Great job and congratulations!!
Thank you for the kind words! Ill see how the rest of our community respond and see if its something that might catch on!
This is great Stephen. I have never struggled with a weight problem. Glad to see you back. Keep up the good work. You are right to set realistic goals. Best wishes my young friend. Bob. Congratulations. I have a son-in-law that has achieved the same thing.
I am so glad your son-in-law is having success!! It certainly is a journey but smaller goals make it a much more rewarding one!
Greetings, Steven. Do you have any advice on how to get tomatoes ripe earlier? We had frost warnings in early June and I couldn't get plants in ground until June11(zone3). My plants did great and have a ridiculous amount of fruit but it would be nice to get it before sept.Is there anything I can do to get ripe fruit earlier?
Right now especially with my larger tomatoes I just have to wait and see. I pull them in as they begin to blush but usually end up in a mad rush to harvest what I can one evening before our first frost.
There is no way to force them to ripen so just keep an eye on the weather network!
It's not only about eating less, but about what you eat. Cutting down on meat, dairy and eggs helps, along with cutting out processed foods. Eating a mostly plant based, whole foods diet will go a long way. Good luck!
That's what I was eluding too in this clip!
wait you have wild sheep?
Sort of. They stay the summer mowing public spaces and really having free roam of large areas. I got caught in a stampede so I had to share that lol.
thank you for your video. it is quite inspiring and encouraging as well as very helpful.
I am glad I could help my friend!
Another great video! Good luck Mr. Stephen!
Thank you my friend!
Smaller goals are always the way to go, it's far easier to get those initial successful wins and thus the motivation to build on those successes. and yes, exercise more, eat a bit less and substitute for better quality food (home grown etc) seems a balanced winning and sustainable formula... too many people try going cold turkey and reducing their food intake by 50% and then fail.
btw: I've grown tomatoes this year for the first time ever, and I'm very surprised at how 'tomato' tasting they are (50% more than shop bought) and far more sweeter (seriously it's almost candy like). Needless to say I'm building a good repository of seeds for next year etc.
I am glad you have enjoyed your tomatoes! I agree I use mine as a treat!
I certainly hope this weight loss helps me achieve my garden motto of Sustainable too!
Thank you for the kind words!
One good video would be an analysis of the nutrient composition of say store bought tomatoes versus home grown. There's much discussion on nutrient density but no substantive youtube video evidence. Perhaps naively I am assuming chemical analysis of trace minerals shouldn't be any different to the soil analysis tests....
Nb:A video on this would be quite big on youtube assuming you got the keywords right in the title.
I have touched on this in the past but might have to take a direct crack at it!
My Fitbit and my fitness pal helped me lose weight. TFS!
Congratulations my friend !!
oh yea you deff lose weight gardening an the more garden you have the more weight you lose!! :: ))
It is a terribly good cycle :)
Drink plenty of water, eat clean, and do something. The something can be any activity like swimming, walking, lifting weights. Whatever you enjoy doing most. In fact, just drinking the proper amount of water per day will have an effect. You can eat as much as you like, as long as it's clean, unprocessed food. Last part? Do something, it's really that simple.
Great stuff. I did comment once or twice on your weight loss. Over 3 years ago I switched to a starch-based diet eating a large volume of tasty food, including my own veggies yum.
You certainly have and I appreciate your noticing! It has been a good driver for me to keep going!
I took a look at your strategy and am glad it works for you! I certainly have a different metabolism !
After studying the issue for the past few years I believe we (humans) all have the same basic biology and that is we thrive on carbohydrates. Ingested fat is easily stored on the body and highest in calories. But it's hard for people to "give up" the foods they ate from childhood as they see it as a sacrifice, etc even though the foods I eat are super tasty (pizza, pasta, waffles, burgers, burritos, pancakes, etc). If you study nutrition like you have gardening (the scientific method) you will discover all the harms of cholesterol, saturated fat, oil (omega 6), etc. The added bonus is you don't need to exercise much as the caloric intake is naturally lower than the higher fat foods. Either way all the best!
The only issue I have with nutritional research is the bias that is in the subject is massive and the subject has far wider variability in the stats. That said it is all about finding what works for you and is healthy. I keep with a varied diet and move more ;)
I have a weakness for sugary drinks like soda, gatorade and even fruit juices. But they make me gain weight. When I stop drinking them, I easily lose 5 lbs a month doing nothing but removing these drinks from my diet. You may be thinking, "well why fruit juice, if no sugar is added, it should be fine". My theory is that the natural sugar in fruit was not meant to be drunk in vast amounts. It was made to be released with the fiber of the fruit. The juicing craze, IMHO, is a dangerous craze. Just eat the fruits and vegetables, do not alter them. However, it is also possible that juice made from concentrate is also bad. It's hard to say.
Amazing! I do like this! I am using some of the same ways to lose weight. I even have a fitbit and beautiful 3 year old daughter to chase around and take walks with. Thanks for the motivation.
Where is your wife, let her chase him....................
We take turns but I really enjoy going on adventures with my boy!
Wonderful information, thanks for sharing...I would like to see more weight loss videos.
Are sheep really just wandering around your city? Wildlife? It looked like you were in a park!
Yes they roam around the parks in our city and mow the lawns and fertilize for free. I had other shots for wildlife but that happened as I was shooting and I could not pass up the opportunity!
***** That's neat. I'd have never of expected that!
We are an odd community :)
Congrats on the weight loss, Stephen!
Thank you Patrick!
I hope life is going well for you. I Loved this channel.
How much weigh have you lost Stephen and over what time. Gyms are boring as hell, I always say to my neighbour, If you got a garden why do you need a gym. Because in the garden you can dig, lift, stretch, bend, and pull many times over. For example my garage is around 200m from my back garden, but I need to store my Garden compost there and then carry it up a 10% gradient over three flights of steps. These are not small bags but 75litre bags (weighing 23 kg) uphill is such a great exercise. Doing this and walking more, since February I have lost 12kg of weight and feel much fitter. It is a good idea ditching the car, as car equals weight put on. You are right what you put in your month also controls weights, so ditch the beer, ditch the cake and biscuits, and reduce the amount of pasta you eat. I have discovered that eating more pearl barley and buckwheat and rice instead of pasta really does reduce your weight. I also changed to eating lean meat so I eat more chicken, turkey and lean pork and Beef and hardly no red meat. I also started eating more mackerel as it is such a cheap fish. Hope you diet works and you reach your ideally weight?PS I do not calorie count at all. See it this way if you eat what you want and you are still loosing weight. then you are doing something right, so why count?
AS i mentioned weight loss is a personal venture and if its working for you all the power to you!
I have lost an appreciable amount but I dont focus on how much I have lost rather focus on where I want to be!
Steven, I'm glad you're attaining success and there was a lot of great advice in your video (like goals, looking forward, move more in regular activities, and it's about what you eat...not how much you exercise.)
I have one beef with the advice resulting in not following the recommendation for tracking calories. While reduced calories will undoubdetdly end up with reduced weight, calories in / calories out is a fallacy that induces failure in many who try. A better eating strategy is one that involves reducing carbohydrate intake and increasing healthy fats (either directly, or indirectly through fiber in the gut). The science involves a model that acknowledges hormonal (insulin, ghrelin, and microbial inputs) rather than biochemical potential (or, Calorie) in energy flow.
I like Peter Attia's blogging on the subject as he, like you in gardening, spends a great deal of time understanding and quantifying seemingly logical advice...like Calories in / Calories out (and, happens to also have a great deal of research in impact to cardiovascular health).
eatingacademy.com/nutrition/do-calories-matter
eatingacademy.com/weight-loss/how-to-make-a-fat-cell-less-not-thin-the-lessons-of-fat-flux
You are right as I mentioned at the end of the video this is a method that has been working for me but some or all of the components may not work for others.
The part I left in the blog post that goes with this video is metabolism is not that simple.
Well done, Stephen! It's a journey but worth it. As someone with overweight parents, i know how important that is for children. For that reason, i was always too concerned with my weight. Not consciously but resulting in 20 years of borderline anorexia. I would die before ending up overweight and i nearly did. I still remember the night when the thought crossed my mind, that if i would close my eyes now and not plunder the fridge, i would not open them again. That was the day i changed for good. The last 3 years have been a fight to stabilize my eating patern and now i'm slowly building up muscle mass. The garden helped in so many ways. Good food, good exersize, plenty of sunlight, all good. I actually got a bit overweight in the process but i stabilized it within a year. It will always be a fight and fallbacks are just a part of the deal. Getting back in the saddle is the only option, Stephen. I admire your iron will and cheer you on, garden friend!
Thank you for sharing your story my friend. It certainly is not easy as I am well aware.
One must have an iron will to stay healthy. As you mentioned it can go either way pretty quickly. That said the garden helps both cases and that is the wonderful healing part of being a gardener !
I think more weight loss and health oriented videos are a great idea Stephen. I need to shed around 30-35 lbs myself. I am a house painter, and often climb hundreds of steps per day on ladders up to 40ft in height, but it doesnt keep me at a healthy weight. My 4 pint per day beer habit seems to counteract any benefits i get from my exercise at work lol.Seriously, i do need to get more steady cardio like walking and biking, and get my caloric intake in check. Being overweight just drains the energy right out of me
That is what I found is being over weight just drained me and made it hard to get started so I did not. Its a cycle one must break!
I really appreciate the simple and realistic goal setting you presented coupled with the mentality of looking forward instead of dwelling in the past. I am sure your video will help a lot of people and you look great. Best of luck on your journey.
Thank you my friend ! I love looking forward and hopefully I can help others!
Love this. It was my now 2 year old who turned us all towards the benefits of healthy living. Kids can be wonderful teachers, can't they? 😉
I certainly agree ! It's great they come into our lives and change them forever !
It would be good to see recipes that include items from your garden. I've seen people grow stuff, then not know how to eat it.
I was thinking about doing that. It would be fun to share how we use our produce !
Great job. Like a boss. Recipes would be helpful. But keep the garden the main thrust on the channel.
I certainly will keep the garden as the centrepiece !! I am looking for an interesting way to add some cooking into the channel.
Nice going Stephen!
Thank you!
Smart discipline, Stephen! I'm gonna have to pass on the Pokémon go though ; )
As with everything it is just a tool I use and wanted to present it. the game is fun but mostly because my son really enjoys it!
I believe Stephen, most won't
Omg! Pokemon go had to be part of this. So funny
I'll be honest is has been responsible for a few 10+ Km walks on weekends.
Thank you! Just found your channel through Mother Earth News, and this covers another make-life-better subject important to me and my husband. Really appreciate your stuff!
awesome clip. Nice work. gain a lot of knowledge from this clip.
Glad I could help.
Look at you! all skinny, fit, cheekbones and handsome! Keep it up!
Thank you my friend !
I see you bending forward when ever you’re try to reach out to anything in the garden.
I would thing squatting repeatedly in front of a plant bed would indirectly protect your back and work on your leg muscles.
If you like pokemon go, you'll love ingress. Check it out;)
I certainly will ! Thanks
Thank you for speaking about your experience. It takes courage to admit you're getting a bit fat and all of us should strive to live a healthier life so that we can live a longer life with the ones we love.
Great advice and tips buddy, keep up the good work
Thank you my friend. Hope it helps !
you look much thinner in this video then the past. Nice work!!
Cheers
Thank you Adam ! It's kind of funny to add in older clips of myself doing things and then show myself now.
lean, mean, gardening machine!! lol
That is right my friend!! Come with me if you want to harvest....
Outstanding. Congratulations to you and your family.
Thank you my friend !
awesome videos man 👍🏿👌🏿✌🏿 respect
Thank you !
You're looking amazing! Keep it up!
Thank you Alexander !!
you can really notice the difference in your glow too. it maybe due to your son though, not the garden. the garden helps but children are the best way to live healthier and happier lives. I'm not a father but my life was twice as good when my brother first found out he will be a dad. I live in Newfoundland and your site is the closest to our weather out there so you helped me out a lot in my garden. thank you very much.
I certainly can agree that becoming a father was the best thing I have ever done. My son and I explore and I love that.
I am glad I can help with your garden !
In view at 2:45 is Ye Olde Rustic Penitentiary
It's the original site of the Fort that founded my community. I love going there and walking around.
Congrats on your weight loss!
Thank you!
How sweet. Enjoyed seeing your positive attitude alongside with gratitude!
looking good, and glad you're feeling good.
Happy Gardening!
Thank you my friend!!
Lose weight and phone while gardening.
Lol
Good for you !
lookin good sir!
Thank you very much!
thank you!
my pleasure
what is your recipe for your pizza? I am gluten intolerant and your pizza looks gluten free.
We use wraps as the crust but one can really use anything.
Ok...i've heard of that...