Back in November, we reported that the former Home Improvement star Richard Karn had lost an impressive thirty pounds.
Karn Loses 30 Pounds
Karn, 69, revealed that he lost the thirty pounds with his wife Tudi, who he’s been married to for forty years. He told Fox News that they are both still following their diet “as much as we can.”
“When something’s that strict, it can’t, for me, become a whole lifestyle,” Karn explained. “I mean, you have to go, ‘Well, you know what? I really would enjoy this piece of cake, or I would like a slice of pizza.’”
“So it’s like everything within moderation, obviously. I mean Oscar Wilde said anything worth doing is worth doing to excess,” he continued. “But I think that can get a lot of people in trouble. It becomes manic in a sense, but you do feel better. Your doctor is happier, and your clothes fit better when you do pay attention to certain things.”
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Karn’s Diet Warning
Karn went on to say that his diet revolved around “staying to smaller amounts of food that you realize you don’t really need more than four or five ounces of meat, and then vegetables, and drinking water.”
That’s when Karn issued his warning.
“You can get in trouble with drinking too much water,” he said. “That flushes out some of the salts and things in your system, so when you take things too far, you just have to pay attention, kind of like with your yard.”
Aside from his diet, a fitness routine that includes Pilates has helped Karn lose weight.
“Pilates helps me a lot with golf, because you need to turn,” he said. “You need to be able to have your hip flexors and your knees and everything working, and that helps me with golf. And that’s one of the things that keeps me going as far as keeping in a routine. Routines are important, but you have to find the nucleus of why you’re creating and keeping that routine.”
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Karn’s Time On Home Improvement
Karn starred on the sitcom Home Improvement from 1991 until 1999. He played Al Borland, the reliable handyman sidekick to Tim Allen’s “Tool Time” host Tim Taylor.
“I remember laughing a lot,” he recalled of Allen. “It was just a joy to go to work.”
Being cast on Home Improvement changed Karn’s life forever.
“Before ‘Home Improvement,’ all of my work had been in theater,” he recounted. “I was in New York. I was in Manhattan for like 11 years, and I would do theater Broadway, off Broadway, off Broadway regional theater. And you go into these little, kind of, companies or groups of people for a few months, and then you move on. And with Home Improvement, we had eight years. I’m 25 weeks out of the year of being together and having fun. That was really a joy.”
Reruns of Home Improvement continue to be extremely popular to this day. Indeed, Karn and Allen are still making millions of fans laugh decades after Home Improvement went off the air.
We applaud Karn for getting healthy enough to lose so much excess weight. In the end, we could all learn a lot from him and his dietary warning!
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