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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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Deety said:
I highly recommend the Stomach Ulcer diet (thank you, Ibuprofen). It's amazing how fast pounds drop off when eating dairy, butters and oils, red meat, anything with spices, starchy vegetables, caffeine, chocolate, or over 1000 calories a day leaves you keeling over in pain. Easiest New Year's resolution follow-through ever.

Really, though, now that I've figured out the right foods for feeling okay while it heals, there's a pretty good silver lining (not in my tummy, unfortunately). Pretty much all my bad habits have been broken by force. When I'm sure I can handle it, I'll keep doing what I'm doing now, and add back just a bit of the other stuff to reach a reasonable calorie level. Might as well keep on keepin' on.
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Yikes! Get well soon!

My best diets are always thru illness. I broke my caffeine dependency last year when I had the flu. At least the illness and medication masked my withdrawal symptoms because I would have been a miserable SOB had I just been going about my everyday life trying to quit caffeine.
 
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Deety said:
I highly recommend the Stomach Ulcer diet (thank you, Ibuprofen). It's amazing how fast pounds drop off when eating dairy, butters and oils, red meat, anything with spices, starchy vegetables, caffeine, chocolate, or over 1000 calories a day leaves you keeling over in pain. Easiest New Year's resolution follow-through ever.

Really, though, now that I've figured out the right foods for feeling okay while it heals, there's a pretty good silver lining (not in my tummy, unfortunately). Pretty much all my bad habits have been broken by force. When I'm sure I can handle it, I'll keep doing what I'm doing now, and add back just a bit of the other stuff to reach a reasonable calorie level. Might as well keep on keepin' on.
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I used to bite my nails until I got braces when I was a kid. My teeth hurt so bad for 2 weeks that I had to start clipping my nails. Nothing like positive behavior change due to pain. Hope you get better soon.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
:lol: I've put on a few lbs being a family man. No more 90 hr work weeks and I'm finding out a three year old ain't trying to hear [Mark May] about being too tired to do stupid toddler [Mark May].

But give me pig bacon or give me death.
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Right, if there's one thing we know about AKAK by now, its that turkey ain't what's for dinner. If he had said pastrami bacon, fine, maybe I'd try that. Do they have that? Probably not... but yeah, no, turkey isn't sausage... and I don't remember it having a fatty belly.

Buckeneye said:
I see a concerning lack of inclusion of quinoa in diets listed here. Just tossing that observation out there...

A solid alternative to oats or wild rice on occasion.
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Ah yes, quinoa... the turkey of grain. Concerning indeed.


jlb1705 said:
Yikes! Get well soon!
My best diets are always thru illness. I broke my caffeine dependency last year when I had the flu. At least the illness and medication masked my withdrawal symptoms because I would have been a miserable SOB had I just been going about my everyday life trying to quit caffeine.
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The mormons will be proud, you're off the drugs.
 
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Deety said:
I highly recommend the Stomach Ulcer diet (thank you, Ibuprofen). It's amazing how fast pounds drop off when eating dairy, butters and oils, red meat, anything with spices, starchy vegetables, caffeine, chocolate, or over 1000 calories a day leaves you keeling over in pain. Easiest New Year's resolution follow-through ever.
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Could end up being the healthiest thing that ever happened to you. I'm very intrigued by the many correlations that have been presented between animal-based (meat, dairy*) diets and disease, among them, Campbell's China Study.

Hope you fell better and better every day.

*Yes, I can hear the screaming as I type. I know it's blasphemy to lots of you.
 
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Down over 40 pounds now compared to this point 18 months ago. It's incredibly slow, but it's a definite life change. I was a binge dieter before, trying different extreme things. Now it's simply about making small tweaks from time to time to create an ever more healthy lifestyle.

It all came together when I started logging my intake. I had no idea how bad I was eating back then. You can't improve if you don't measure.

I'm about 10 pounds away from entering the "Normal" range of the BMI scale. Next task will be getting some more muscle definition (been a cardio/weight loss junkie up to this point).
 
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LostLassie said:
Could end up being the healthiest thing that ever happened to you. I'm very intrigued by the many correlations that have been presented between animal-based (meat, dairy*) diets and disease, among them, Campbell's China Study.

Hope you fell better and better every day.

*Yes, I can hear the screaming as I type. I know it's blasphemy to lots of you.
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Oh, blasphemy doesn't begin to cover it. Though I do look forward to your showdown with the Paleo crowd. Josh may love his DELICIOUS VEGGIES! But, he's no Vegan. Campbell is though, and his agenda is reasonably obvious. (oh, and the data is cooked... like bbq pork)
 
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Merih said:
Down over 40 pounds now compared to this point 18 months ago. It's incredibly slow, but it's a definite life change. I was a binge dieter before, trying different extreme things. Now it's simply about making small tweaks from time to time to create an ever more healthy lifestyle.

It all came together when I started logging my intake. I had no idea how bad I was eating back then. You can't improve if you don't measure.

I'm about 10 pounds away from entering the "Normal" range of the BMI scale. Next task will be getting some more muscle definition (been a cardio/weight loss junkie up to this point).
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That is quite the accomplishment and a nice steady amount over that course of time. You did it the right way, which is never the easy way, but props on keeping up with it.

I've yoyo'd from 185 in 2010 to 154 in 2011 and then up to 235 early 2013. I moved cross country, took a stressful job, and moved in with the future wife....all easy ways to ignore what it's doing to your buddy. Luckily back to 205 and hit that dreaded plateau from just eating better. The treadmill sits and stares at me, now I just gotta find the motivation....
 
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Merih said:
Down over 40 pounds now compared to this point 18 months ago. It's incredibly slow, but it's a definite life change. I was a binge dieter before, trying different extreme things. Now it's simply about making small tweaks from time to time to create an ever more healthy lifestyle.

It all came together when I started logging my intake. I had no idea how bad I was eating back then. You can't improve if you don't measure.

I'm about 10 pounds away from entering the "Normal" range of the BMI scale. Next task will be getting some more muscle definition (been a cardio/weight loss junkie up to this point).
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Great job... I told my wife the other day what my scale number was after my weekly wiegh in, and I said something to the effect, whatever I'm doing I need to keep it up... and she finished my sentence "... for the rest of your life" - touche.

I won't comment on the BMI thing other than to say, if that was a goal for you, good job, but, I don't see it as any kind of real measure of... anything.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
That is quite the accomplishment and a nice steady amount over that course of time. You did it the right way, which is never the easy way, but props on keeping up with it.

I've yoyo'd from 185 in 2010 to 154 in 2011 and then up to 235 early 2013. I moved cross country, took a stressful job, and moved in with the future wife....all easy ways to ignore what it's doing to your buddy. Luckily back to 205 and hit that dreaded plateau from just eating better. The treadmill sits and stares at me, now I just gotta find the motivation....
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I'm going to have to now that I'm plateauing, but so far I've been far from a regular at the gym. I've just indulged in playing a ton of basketball and even more soccer. I've come to find that if I have a ball to chase, I'll run to the moon and back without even noticing. But once I'm in a gym/on a treadmill, I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I really have no other option though for the next step of toning up. I have the P-90x set as well... maybe a circuit of that will get me started down the "ripped" road.
 
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AKAK said:
Great job... I told my wife the other day what my scale number was after my weekly wiegh in, and I said something to the effect, whatever I'm doing I need to keep it up... and she finished my sentence "... for the rest of your life" - touche.

I won't comment on the BMI thing other than to say, if that was a goal for you, good job, but, I don't see it as any kind of real measure of... anything.
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Trust me I hate the BMI as much as you do. I'm 6'0 with a fairly squat frame, and legs like tree trunks... the BMI has never been kind to me. But, tbh, I do have around that much "fat" left to lose just looking in the mirror. So I guess it's not all that bad...
 
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AKAK said:
Great job... I told my wife the other day what my scale number was after my weekly wiegh in, and I said something to the effect, whatever I'm doing I need to keep it up... and she finished my sentence "... for the rest of your life" - touche.

I won't comment on the BMI thing other than to say, if that was a goal for you, good job, but, I don't see it as any kind of real measure of... anything.
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My goal is to go to my physical at the end of the year and have the doctor say "Well I'd like to see your BMI a little lower." Then show him my six pack.
 
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Merih said:
I'm going to have to now that I'm plateauing, but so far I've been far from a regular at the gym. I've just indulged in playing a ton of basketball and even more soccer. I've come to find that if I have a ball to chase, I'll run to the moon and back without even noticing. But once I'm in a gym/on a treadmill, I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I really have no other option though for the next step of toning up. I have the P-90x set as well... maybe a circuit of that will get me started down the "ripped" road.
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I'm the same way - listening to music or watching TV while on the treadmill still does nothing for me, but if it's a sport you're playing then it's enjoyable. I need to get a basketball hoop up on the house this spring to get that going.

P90X was a good routine; first time I did it, I nearly puked. But after a couple of weeks you'll be in a groove, although I could never do the yoga day....yoga kicks my ass.
 
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