Ask HN: If you could spend $100k to get healthy and fit, how would you do it?

Some others have already mentioned some of these things. My approach is one of both mind and body.

Mind: 1. Do a 10-day Vipassana[1] to jump into meditation (this could take some time as they usually have a wait list). My belief is everything starts with the mind. This will help establish a foundational meditation practice (which in time will become your ultimate weapon against stress). Not to say one can ever be stress-free, but more along the lines that you will have tools to deal with it in a healthy manner. 2. See a therapist so that you can talk to someone about the struggles you have (using BetterHelp you could start this today). I don't think anyone is immune from stress. Stressors (like work, relationships, money, kids etc) can (for some people) show up as weight on the body as a defense mechanism. Talking to someone regularly may help with this.

Body: 1. Hire a sport nutrition person to come up with meals that work for you that take any food allergies into account. Sounds like you already found something that works for you. 2. Do blood work regularly (every 3 months) to track various health markers. 2. Hire someone to cook the meals from the nutritionist 3. Hire a personal trainer that can help keep you getting to the gym. The personal trainer can help come up with a program that will help you achieve your goals.

Consistency is more important that how much weight you can lift or how far you can walk.

[1] https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Do what Jesse Itzler did and have someone live with you and be around 24x7 to make sure you’re eating the right stuff, doing the workouts, etc. But it has to be someone who can stand up to you and has the authority to not let you quit when it gets hard or you have weak moments.

I’m sure if you throw up some ads offering a free place to stay for a year and $75k, you’ll get a lot of applicants. Maybe also offer a 25k bonus at the end of the year if they get you to hit your goal, or hit the goal and maintain through the full year.

Itzler wrote a book about his experience called, “Living with a SEAL”. He lived when David Goggins (who you may have heard of). They’ve done some podcasts taking about it as well.

Stop drinking alcohol, soda and eat salad and meat... some carbs are ok. I lost 40 pounds just doing that. Well that and walking every day for 30mins plus moving house by myself.

Keto is hard to stick with and you tend to yoyo. Integrate exercise into your daily routine.. so get a job where you walk to work, or walk to the store or just walk. (Or move a lot of boxes) -- ask me how I know) but it was more about caloric intake than anything.

But more seriously ask your doctor about ozempic.

To buy:

1) Get therapy. There’s something wrong if you can’t stay reasonably healthy. Don’t have to be a nut just to take care of yourself.

2) Change your lifestyle. Move one mile or so from work and walk everyday. Preferably in a walkable neighborhood.

Standard advice, after the two above: Take stairs, eat vegetables, don’t eat late, have normal size dessert on Saturday evening only. Remove bad people from your life, etc.