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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #45 on: February 06, 2025, 07:37:28 AM »
You first.

And by that I mean post something relevant instead of criticizing others.

Well my comment was on topic as to suggesting people stay on topic. Yours on the other hand was totally usless and a dick move that didnt need to be said. Welcome to the ignore list.



I love this thread!

Im 66, 6'1" 275 lbs My doctor says Im diabetic though my A1C has not gone over 7.1 ( yes I know that is on the high side) and my BMI is just over 36. I dont believe in the BMI because I'd have to have a leg cut off to even start to come close. I got out of the service in 1980 and was at 186. I got married a year later and if you saw my wedding picture you'd swear I wasnt over 150. I do take metformin, I do have aches in my hands and knees and I do have low energy (thought it was because I retired) as well as some depression. I dont eat horribly, but I cant get under 250 and even then it seems like Im starving myself.

This thread has given me something to look at, something to think about and research.

What do you guys eat in a normal day? What kind of exercise do you do weekly? I would love to lose 40-50 lbs, but just dont think I can.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #46 on: February 06, 2025, 08:32:53 AM »
Scrambled eggs, oj and bacon for breakfast..
Turkey or chicken sandwich for lunch..
Whatever the wife cooks up for dinner..

Not a dessert guy but get the munchies sometimes so we have something we should not after 9pm..

Rinse and repeat..

We don't eat out unless we are forced to..

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #47 on: February 06, 2025, 09:06:43 AM »
What do you guys eat in a normal day? What kind of exercise do you do weekly? I would love to lose 40-50 lbs, but just dont think I can.
I already told what I'm eating, the animal protein is mostly pork or chicken as beef is more expensive. Carrots, cabbage, rutabaga, parsnip, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes... This week we've had pork neck steaks over a root bed, simmered in the fireplace for several hours. Then we've had cabbage casserole including minced meat and barley. From the same ingredients I also made cabbage rolls, filling leaves with the meat mix.

As for excercise, I'm not a gym guy nor do I like jogging - running to end up being where you started from just doesn't make sense to me! Instead I do some excercizing on the bedroom floor including sit-ups and other belly strengthening stuff, pull-ups, push-ups, squats and bows. The belly stuff and squats I do 20 reps each, 30 push-ups and 5 pull-ups. That takes about 15 minutes. Six days a week because even the greatest role model ever rested on the seventh day. - Plus I don't mind using stairs instead of the elevator when visiting customers. That said, the houses here rarely exceed 6 floors. But they say that 5 floors up and down equals 500 yards of jogging so much better than nothing!

As you can see I'm a lazy excersizer but that 15 minutes in the morning makes my blood circulate and gives my muscles some basic tension that lasts for the rest of the day.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #48 on: February 06, 2025, 09:25:24 AM »
My concept has always been,..I’m not afraid dying, I just don’t want to be maimed.

My job kept me in great shape, especially for my age. As strong and agile as a 40 yr old, in some cases more better.

I’ve been fortunate enough to learn how to eat healthy food to maintain the build and energy I exerted moving 7-28 semis trucks of gear. I average 9 miles oer day walking for setup and liad-out. I’ll have to buy a weight set now.

I’m pretty damn in tune with my body and health. But not a health freak.

Sometimes you don’t realize bad habits until its a problem. Some are unfortunate to have issues out of their control.

For all my own unfortunate experiences,…that last minute contains regrets. Do the right thing for others, be good to yourself. Stay out of the cess pool, trouble will find you without looking for it.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #49 on: February 06, 2025, 11:14:35 AM »
Scrambled eggs, oj and bacon for breakfast..
Turkey or chicken sandwich for lunch..
Whatever the wife cooks up for dinner..

Not a dessert guy but get the munchies sometimes so we have something we should not after 9pm..

Rinse and repeat..

We don't eat out unless we are forced to..

Eagler

I use to mix up my breakfast with oatmeal or cereal but after reading some of the info here and researching Im going to cut out that stuff and stick with eggs. I may add in some yogurt but have to watch out for sugars in those. Lunch is either some burgers or grilled chicken and a green pepper. Recently made up a batch of bean burritos and froze them so I can have one of those for lunch. Supper is steak, chicken, fish, or shrimp with a veggie or salad with rice. Wife is Italian so we use to have lots of pasta but with the kids gone I took over the cooking and she learned there are other flavors out there   :D

Exercise is 30 minutes on the tread mill each day and about 15 minutes of stretches'. Im far more active in the spring/summer/fall months just keeping up the yard, but like everyone really slack off in the winter. Altho I just spent a bit over an hour shoveling the snow out of my driveway  :mad:

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #50 on: February 06, 2025, 12:11:30 PM »

Those 100 year olds in rural areas got there using lard.

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« Reply #51 on: February 06, 2025, 12:21:00 PM »
Those 100 year olds in rural areas got there using lard.

And demographically in the US, obesity rates exploded right at the time the low-fat trend started.  They though it was best to replace natural bad fat with good sugar and magical high-fructose-corn-syrup(the blood plasma of Satan) and Frankenstein lab made oils like canola became the rage.   :O

Remember when you were supposed to eat more margarine?  Now those trans-fats are outlawed.   :rofl



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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #52 on: February 06, 2025, 01:28:34 PM »
Those 100 year olds in rural areas got there using lard.

The whole zero fat thing is kinda stupit. The brain and other parts needs fats and oils. I wouldn’t eat lard with knife and fork, but I do cook with it.  Everything, in moderation. Some people who remove all fat may be dumping IQ too.

I had diverticulitis snd colitis at the same time. Painful as a mtr… so I had to change my diet 200 times until I figure out my deep fryer caused it. They don’t know what causes it nor what makes it go away. After 1.5 yrs if process of elimination, I tossed the fryer on a guess, it never came back.  But what caused it in me may be different for you. Blanket answer are kinda dangerous.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #53 on: February 06, 2025, 04:46:40 PM »
The whole zero fat thing is kinda stupit. The brain and other parts needs fats and oils. I wouldn’t eat lard with knife and fork, but I do cook with it.  Everything, in moderation. Some people who remove all fat may be dumping IQ too.

I had diverticulitis snd colitis at the same time. Painful as a mtr… so I had to change my diet 200 times until I figure out my deep fryer caused it. They don’t know what causes it nor what makes it go away. After 1.5 yrs if process of elimination, I tossed the fryer on a guess, it never came back.  But what caused it in me may be different for you. Blanket answer are kinda dangerous.

Good job there Animal! Many people don't figure it out. Sometimes doctors are not so helpful.

Fat helps your gut and brain. Eating fat doesn't affect diabetes and people of cured MS eating fatty meat. Carbs can end up in your liver if not immediately processed. Corn syrup and end up in your liver and brain. Dementia is very much affected by sugar. Does it cause it, I don't know. I know people have put it into remission by cutting out sugar.

I mostly eat beef. I do have some chicken, pork, and lamb. If I fry it using bacon grease mostly or butter. I need to learn to save my bacon grease and buy some Tallow.

A couple of days ago I bought the fattest and largest pork chop ever. It was 1.25 lbs. It was delicious! It still does not satisfy me like Beef and Lamb.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #54 on: February 06, 2025, 05:01:39 PM »
Good job there Animal! Many people don't figure it out. Sometimes doctors are not so helpful.

Fat helps your gut and brain. Eating fat doesn't affect diabetes and people of cured MS eating fatty meat. Carbs can end up in your liver if not immediately processed. Corn syrup and end up in your liver and brain. Dementia is very much affected by sugar. Does it cause it, I don't know. I know people have put it into remission by cutting out sugar.

I mostly eat beef. I do have some chicken, pork, and lamb. If I fry it using bacon grease mostly or butter. I need to learn to save my bacon grease and buy some Tallow.

A couple of days ago I bought the fattest and largest pork chop ever. It was 1.25 lbs. It was delicious! It still does not satisfy me like Beef and Lamb.


It was a pattern that evolved. Fried food in a restaurant didn’t start anything. But fried food at home 2-3 days later bam. Takes a long time to figure it out when the reaction comes days later. Feel sorry for those who can’t figure out their trigger. I clean my new frier every time I use it now. Cuz that sht seriously sucks.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2025, 05:24:09 PM »
A couple of days ago I bought the fattest and largest pork chop ever. It was 1.25 lbs. It was delicious! It still does not satisfy me like Beef and Lamb.

It seems a consensus in the Carnivore crowd that meat from ruminants is best for you on Carnivore.  I occasionally do some pork and chicken but mainly beef.  Beef is the most readily available ruminant for me.  I can get lamb.  That is a bit of an acquired taste but I eat it sometimes.

I keep trying to learn to tolerate liver and other organ meats.  I did make some marinated liver skewers grilled over hardwood a while back.  That wasn't half bad.  IF I had to eat liver, that's how I would do it again.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #56 on: February 06, 2025, 05:59:27 PM »

Fat helps your gut and brain. Eating fat doesn't affect diabetes and people of cured MS eating fatty meat. Carbs can end up in your liver if not immediately processed. Corn syrup and end up in your liver and brain. Dementia is very much affected by sugar. Does it cause it, I don't know. I know people have put it into remission by cutting out sugar.


The brain prefers salt way over sugar. But sugar can block salt from getting there. Some red fruits like apples can help block sugar saturation, which will allow more salt to pass. I know the brain doesn't like sugar, nor does your arteries that it can crystalize in.

Mom was an LP, wife was an RN, a GF was an RN.....it's kinda of a hex to learn all these nasty things. Seems like no matter what ya do it's wrong. Live life, just don't go overboard on anything.

I remember decades ago "bacon can cause cancer". Yet if you read the study it meant IF you consume 1lb+ per day every day. Well hell drinking a gallon of water can kill ya. Who eats 1lb+ of bacon every day? Oh that's right, they needed to make chicken more popular for marketing.

Face it humans are gluttons, and like animals (all puns intended) if it's in front of them they'll eat it, even if they explode doing it.

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #57 on: February 06, 2025, 07:55:50 PM »
I mostly eat beef. I do have some chicken, pork, and lamb. If I fry it using bacon grease mostly or butter. I need to learn to save my bacon grease and buy some Tallow.

This is all interesting, but...aren't you walking into a heart attack with all that cholesterol...?

- oldman (whose great grandmother poured bacon fat onto her breakfast cereal)

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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #58 on: February 06, 2025, 08:19:10 PM »
This is all interesting, but...aren't you walking into a heart attack with all that cholesterol...?

- oldman (whose great grandmother poured bacon fat onto her breakfast cereal)


Around 1980 is when the low-fat craze started in the US.  What the fraken-food industry found was that if you take out healthy fats, food taste like crap so you can hide it by adding tons of sugar and call it "Low-Fat!"  And the cheapest "sugar" for highest profit is high-fructose-corn-syrup.  You might as well be eating rat posion.

 Our bodies didn't evolve to absorb these toxins.





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Re: Everything Starts With Nutrition
« Reply #59 on: February 06, 2025, 08:28:00 PM »
picture is we changed since the 70 when tang was encouraged for growing boys,  after what boy don't want tang for breakfast.


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