'home Improvement' Star Warns Of Dieting Dangers After Dropping 30 Pounds

"Home Improvement" prima Richard Karn is happy pinch his weight nonaccomplishment but doesn’t want it to go nan full attraction of his life.

Karn, who has collaborated pinch nan DIY section attraction company, DoMyOwn, mislaid 30 pounds past twelvemonth pinch his wife, and nan mates are still pursuing their fare "as overmuch arsenic we can."

"When something’s that strict, it can't, for me, go a full lifestyle," he told Fox News Digital. "I mean, you person to go, ‘Well, you cognize what? I really would bask this portion of cake, aliases I would for illustration a portion of pizza.’" 

He continued, "So it's for illustration everything wrong moderation, obviously. I mean Oscar Wilde said thing worthy doing is worthy doing to excess. But I deliberation that tin get a batch of group successful trouble. It becomes manic successful a sense, but you do consciousness better. Your expert is happier, and your apparel fresh amended erstwhile you do salary attraction to definite things."

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"Home Improvement" prima Richard Karn mislaid 30 pounds done fare and exercise, but warns against taking it excessively far. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)

The 69-year-old’s fare focused connected "staying to smaller amounts of nutrient that you recognize you don't really request much than 4 aliases 5 ounces of meat, and past vegetables, and drinking water."

But he warned, "You tin get successful problem pinch drinking excessively overmuch water."

"That flushes retired immoderate of nan salts and things successful your system, truthful erstwhile you return things excessively far, you conscionable person to salary attention, benignant of for illustration pinch your yard." 

The erstwhile "Family Feud" host has besides been incorporating Pilates into his fittingness routine.

Karn warns you tin get excessively utmost pinch things for illustration drinking excessively overmuch water, "you conscionable person to salary attention." (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)

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"Pilates helps maine a batch pinch golf, because you request to turn," he said. "You request to beryllium capable to person your hep flexors and your knees and everything working, and that helps maine pinch golf. And that's 1 of nan things that keeps maine going arsenic acold arsenic keeping successful a routine. Routines are important, but you person to find nan nucleus of why you're creating and keeping that routine."

Karn is maintaining his wellness but besides shifting his attraction to his caller business pinch DoMyOwn, nan DIY section attraction institution that gives homeowners entree to professional-grade products arsenic good arsenic proposal and guidance pinch videos, step-by-step instructions, and seasonal advice.

Karn credits Pilates for helping his play game, explaining it helps pinch his turns and swings. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA)

The character is nan company’s caller spokesperson and, for a constricted time, will beryllium connected manus arsenic a assets for section attraction advice.

"I've ever appreciated beautiful, beautiful landscaping, gardens, things for illustration that. I grew up successful Seattle. Seattle is simply a large municipality for that, taking attraction of your lawn, taking attraction of nan flowers and astir your house. I deliberation 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 scenery fan, Karn said nan biggest point group tin do to support their gait successful bully style is to understand what they’re really growing.

"Probably much than three-quarters of nan group that person lawns don't really cognize what benignant of writer they have," he explained. "They don't cognize if they person Kentucky bluegrass aliases gangly fescue aliases Zoysia aliases St. Augustine. I mean, these each different types for different types of places you are astir nan United States."

A person of landscapes, Karn has collaborated pinch DoMyOwn arsenic their caller spokesperson. (Courtesy DoMyOwn)

He continued, "What's really cool astir DoMyOwn.com is that these guys, it's a store, obviously, to bargain merchandise to thief you astir your yard, different pesticides, different lawn-growing things for illustration that. But they're besides a free work for information, truthful you tin usage them without having to salary for it to say, 'Listen, I person this problem pinch my lawn. I've sewage shadiness character present and nan section isn't increasing well' aliases this and that. So it's for illustration you cognize what you want to do pinch your ain yard."

Karn’s onscreen persona of Al Borland, nan reliable handyman sidekick to Tim Allen’s enthusiastic but haphazard "Tool Time" big connected "Home Improvement," led to his caller domiciled pinch nan company.

Karn starred arsenic Al Borland connected "Home Improvement" for 8 seasons. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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"That benignant of highlighted my skills arsenic acold arsenic that's concerned," he said. "I mean, my dada was a builder. My grandfather was a builder. I became an actor, but I grew up astir builders and knew really to do stuff. And, you know, I'm mowing my ain lawn. Growing up, that was 1 of my chores. And now that ‘Home Improvement’ has afforded maine to bargain a home, I now person a gait to support up also. So that's benignant of why I'm excited to beryllium their spokesperson."

"Home Improvement" remains 1 of nan astir celebrated and beloved sitcoms of nan '90s, and Karn looks backmost connected it conscionable arsenic fondly arsenic fans do.

"I retrieve laughing a lot," he said of his co-star Allen. "It was conscionable a joyousness to spell to work."

Landing nan domiciled connected nan sitcom was a awesome profession displacement successful much ways than one.

Karn remembers "laughing a lot" pinch co-star Tim Allen while moving connected "Home Improvement." (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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"Before ‘Home Improvement,’ each of my activity had been successful theater. I was successful New York. I was successful Manhattan for for illustration 11 years, and I would do theatre Broadway, disconnected Broadway, disconnected Broadway location theater. And you spell into these little, benignant of, companies aliases groups of group for a fewer months, and past you move on. And pinch ‘Home Improvement,’ we had 8 years. I'm 25 weeks retired of nan twelvemonth of being together and having fun. That was really a joy."

Karn besides sewage to impressment his builder dada pinch his character’s onscreen know-how.

"That was a learning experience," he said of nan different "Tool Time" group pieces. "My dad, being a builder, he conscionable looked astatine maine 1 day, and he goes, ‘My gosh, you really look for illustration you cognize what you're doing.’ And I do. I do cognize what I'm doing. But dads deliberation of america arsenic [being] 12 [years old] and we can't lb a nail successful straight. But I learned that because I now person a 33-year-old son. So, we study and hopefully we study from those experiences."

His son, Cooper, wants to beryllium an actor, and Karn is happy to guideline him arsenic overmuch arsenic he can, but nan acting world has changed since he began his ain career.

"Home Improvement" changed Karn's life and impressed his dad, who he described arsenic "a builder." (Getty Images)

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"The full world of really that is processed aliases really you spell astir doing that has changed because you now tin conscionable make your ain small movie. You tin make your small ideas. You tin person your ain website aliases whatever, which was not thing that was disposable to maine to do erstwhile I was increasing [up], unless I had my own, you know, camera, but I wasn't that industrious," he said. 

Karn continued, "I liked having a script, moving connected nan script, and doing it connected stage. That was my routine. That's what I for illustration to do. But, you know, actors coming now person to navigate a batch of things. And, you put thing retired there, and it's retired there. Whether it's bully aliases bad." 

Karn said "actors coming now person to navigate a batch of things" compared to erstwhile he started. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

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"So you conscionable person to beryllium careful," he added. "And that's what I support telling him. I mean, it's good that you person a batch of likes, but you besides person to cognize what to do erstwhile you get that opportunity. When I sewage nan opportunity for ‘Home Improvement,’ I was 35. So I had a batch of things nether my loop that I could propulsion from that I didn't person astatine 25."