/is-it-still-possible-under-80s-or-over-80s-diets-for-windsurfers "Is it still possible: Under-80s or over-80s? Diets for windsurfers")
Yes, lose a bit of weight, knock five or six kilos off from over 80 to under 80. That's the speed booster for windsurfing in general. 100 grams less, one km/h more. Ten times more effective than lighter material. And if your best friend joins in, it works like clockwork.
Call Freddy right away, ringing - "Hi Freddy, do you want to lose weight together, I've been researching all the latest diets, are you in?" "Nah, you, I'm a partially gluten-incontinent vegan with hemp-almond milk arrogance. I only eat probiotic tofu from free-range soya beans." Well done. Until now, I only knew about his latent tendency to spontaneous sweating. But please, alone then.
Keto, low carb or paleo?
Let's see, there's this "keto diet": no sugar, no cereals, no alcohol. Hmm, no chocolate, no pasta, no bread, boah. At least there's beer, beer isn't alcohol - that would be two months of delirium. Maybe I'd rather just eat with chopsticks, you can't get much in there, especially with soup.
"Low carb diet". Only meat, fish and eggs sounds good, but with the prices for fillet of beef and halibut, only my bank account is losing weight, not me.
The "Mediterranean diet". Perfect. A different pub every day. Italian today, Greek tomorrow, then Spanish, French, Turkish, Moroccan and back again. But it will certainly be even more expensive than "low-carb", I'd be chomping at the bit after a few days.
This "paleo diet" is just what you need. Eating like in the Stone Age, when there were no posh butchers or greengrocers with pharmacy prices. Okay, collecting nuts, berries and seeds in the city could be tedious. Hunting poultry or cattle was even more complicated, not to mention mammoths, and you don't run over a wild boar every day either.
Ultimately, losing weight is too complicated, too expensive and terribly annoying. Why should I agonise over an extra five km/h? It works the other way round too. I'll happily eat five or six kilos on top of my over 90, without a weight waistcoat, two square metres more, which is guaranteed to give me more speed. Fat speed! And from now on, the formula is: more speed through more weight!
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