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“Home Improvement” star Richard Karn is happy with weight loss but doesn’t want it to become the whole focus of life.
Karn, who has partnered with the DIY lawn care company, DoMyOwn, lost 30 pounds last year with wife, and couple still following diet “as much as we can.”
“When something’s that strict, it can’t, for me, become a whole lifestyle,” he told Digital. “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.’”
He continued, “So it’s like everything within moderation, obviously. I mean Oscar Wilde said anything worth doing is worth doing to excess. 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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“Home Improvement” star Richard Karn lost 30 pounds through diet and exercise, but warns against taking it too far. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
The 69-year-old’s diet focused on “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.”
But he warned, “You can get in trouble with drinking too much water.”
“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.”
The former “Family Feud” host has also been incorporating Pilates into fitness routine.
Karn warns you can get too extreme with things like drinking too much water, “you just have to pay attention.” (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
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“Pilates helps a lot with golf, because you need to turn,” he said. “You need to have hip flexors and knees working well, and that helps with golf. And that’s one of things that keeps me going as far as keeping in a routine. Routines are important, but you have to find nucleus of why you’re creating and keeping that routine.”
Karn is maintaining health but also shifting focus to new partnership with DoMyOwn, the DIY lawn care company that gives homeowners access to professional-grade products as well as advice and guidance with videos, step-by-step instructions, and seasonal advice.
Karn credits Pilates for helping golf game, explaining it helps with turns and swings. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA)
The actor is company’s new spokesperson and, for a limited time, will be on hand as a resource for lawn care advice.
“I’ve always appreciated beautiful, beautiful landscaping, gardens, things like that. I grew up in Seattle. Seattle is a big town for that, taking care of yard, taking care of flowers and around your house. I think that’s important because it shows that you care, that you’re making an effort keeping that routine,” he said.
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As a landscape fan, Karn said biggest thing people can do to keep yard in good shape is to understand what they’re actually growing.
“Probably more than three-quarters of people that have lawns don’t really know what kind of grass they have,” he explained. “They don’t know if they have Kentucky bluegrass or tall fescue or Zoysia or St. Augustine. I mean, these all different types for different types of places you are around United States.”
A lover of landscapes, Karn has partnered with DoMyOwn as their new spokesperson. (Courtesy DoMyOwn)
He continued, “What’s really cool about store is that guys, it’s a store, obviously, to buy product to help you around your yard, different pesticides, different lawn-growing things like that. But they’re also a free service for information, so you can use them without having to pay for it to say, ‘Listen, I have this problem with my lawn. I’ve got shade tree here and lawn isn’t growing well’ or this and that. So it’s like you know what you want to do with your own yard.”
Karn’s onscreen persona of Al Borland, reliable handyman sidekick to Tim Allen’s enthusiastic but haphazard “Tool Time” host on “Home Improvement,” led to his new role with company.
