Like on the old daytime talk shows where some hood rat on display would say "I have a job, I don't do drugs and I take care of my kids" then everyone claps like it's something special haha
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Like on the old daytime talk shows where some hood rat on display would say "I have a job, I don't do drugs and I take care of my kids" then everyone claps like it's something special haha
Aside from diet and fasting, if you want to talk exercise, sprinting is the absolute best exercise for getting lean. Look at how the average competitive sprinter is built.
A short max effort sprint introduces a very powerful stimulus that most people don't expose themselves to in the modern world. When you do them you're activating something deep and hardwired. We were made to do it.
It torches fat off your body, yes, but there's more to it than that. It's also hypertrophic, which is why competitive sprinters are jacked unlike marathon runners and cyclists. It stimulates production of hormones, nature's TRT.
If you're worried about injury, introduce a hill into the mix. Sprinting up a hill is safer, because you can't go as fast, but the brutal effort required and rewards are still there. My body has some miles on it, torn meniscus in my right knee from a downhill mountain biking accident years back, a chronic lower back disc issue from squatting and deadlifting... The sprinting doesn't aggravate them at all. Sometimes I'll feel a tightness in my groin if I'm not diligent about warming up and stretching, but that's about it.
A short max effort sprint introduces a very powerful stimulus that most people don't expose themselves to in the modern world. When you do them you're activating something deep and hardwired. We were made to do it.
It torches fat off your body, yes, but there's more to it than that. It's also hypertrophic, which is why competitive sprinters are jacked unlike marathon runners and cyclists. It stimulates production of hormones, nature's TRT.
If you're worried about injury, introduce a hill into the mix. Sprinting up a hill is safer, because you can't go as fast, but the brutal effort required and rewards are still there. My body has some miles on it, torn meniscus in my right knee from a downhill mountain biking accident years back, a chronic lower back disc issue from squatting and deadlifting... The sprinting doesn't aggravate them at all. Sometimes I'll feel a tightness in my groin if I'm not diligent about warming up and stretching, but that's about it.
Yeah I rarely see people talking about this. Especially when it comes to finances. They always seem to leave out the detail that you need to be making quite a lot of money to afford to live on your own comfortably AND save (probably $60-70k/yr minimum).
Often, the more practical solution is to just cut expenses. Sell all your bullshvt except the essentials. Live in a studio or in a camper or out of your car for a while if it affords you the ability to save up. Trying to maintain the status quo isn't always realistic especially when drastic steps should be taken. Same holds for eating. If you want to lose weight you might just need to accept that things like soda and snacks are non-negotiable.
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - Seneca
Is the Paleo Diet dead? I’m gaining friggin weight again and dad bod is getting more pronounced. My carbs are all shelf stable so could just store my cornmeal pasta and rice. I got cheese to finish though. Once I’m done with the cheese - thinking about trying paleo even though it’s not 2013 anymore. Anyone on here have any success with Paleo?
Your body needs carbs brother, it's really hard on your body when you deprive it of carbs. Sure you'll lose weight but that is more because you took out a massive part of your diet more than it has to do with carbs being the cause of making you fat. Eat less, stay away from processed foods and be active there is no secret or special diet you need it's just calories in vs calories out. If you have a vacation or occasion coming up quick then I guess you could cut out carbs temporarily and you'll lose some bloat but as a long term thing it's not viable and quite unhealthy.
Edit: apparently the "paleo diet" is more about eating natural foods than it is about cutting out carbs which sounds great, go for it.....doesn't need a label or a "diet" moniker eating healthy is eating healthy.
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Get cornmeal and pasta out of your diet.
You can have a morsel of cheese here and there.
If you cook meat and vegetables and serve it over rice, that's a great meal. Just ChatGPT "Stir fry sauce" and it's great.
I use as little oil as I can get away with, usually Avocado oil which is cheap, healthy, works at high heat.
I make a big batch of it so I have leftovers for a couple of days.
The best breakfast is 4-5 eggs, just don't use too much oil. If you want to fancy it up you can always add chopped vegetables.
How much are you exercising? Are you lifting? Calisthenics? Are you a potato or do you move a lot?
Of course you need carbs, but this can and should come primarily from fruits and vegetables.
Pick high satiety fruits like grapefruit, watermelon, and berries. Bananas are for bulking or for hard exercise, not for fat loss. Stay away from dried fruits, nuts, and oils. Or at least eat those in moderation.
Nearly any vegetable is great. Avoid massive amounts of the big squashes (acorn squash) and eggplant. But almost all the others are great.
Potatoes and rice are starchy too, but they at least help tremendously with satiety. Pasta doesn't, nor pizza, unless you are in Europe. Then you can eat bread products because the wheat hasn't been poisoned.
We ball. I’ll take your word for it and rice time. Plov is awesome. However, what makes rice special? Polenta and pasta are poisoned? They are starchy staples like rice. Can you elaborate on poisoned wheat?
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I've been mostly eating eggs/ground beef, chicken, and some dairy, like protein shakes, since mother's day and I've lost 13 pounds (216 -> 203). My goal wasn't to lose weight, but to stop having IBS. It seems to have largely worked, although I had some IBS this morning, I think it was psychosomatic from my job, not my diet. I haven't felt bad at all otherwise. Goal weight is 170 and then try to be as lean as I can. I get calisthenics in when I can, and walk, but my current job has me glued to my desk.
Polenta may be fine, it's just less common so I'm less informed.
Wheat in the US has glyphosate (roundup) added as a desiccant. It's a weedkiller that's FDA approved but is clearly bad for you. Most wheat(and oats!!) in the US is treated with it. It is a Monsanto product, owned by Bayer, a German company. The substance is banned in Germany but they sell billions of gallons of it to the US and our idiotic FDA hasn't seen the problem.
So wheat/bread products are much less damaging in Europe. I have friends who get sick when they eat gluten in the US but they can pig out on pizza, pasta, bread, pretzels...etc in Europe and be fine.
Our food is poisoned. I recommend listening to Calley and Casey Means on the Tucker Carlson podcast. Even if you don't like Tucker, he mostly shuts up and lets them get their points across.
Have you figured out which foods trigger it? Fermented foods can help especially Kefir, fiber and probiotics also but that depends on which type of IBS you have everyone is different. If you want to take it up a notch BPC157 even orally has helped a lot of guys with IBS and also GLP1's have been found to calm down IBS. I helped a friend recently completely knock out his IBS with BPC157 recently.
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How to lose weight- Get out of any Western nation that is loaded with processed fast food at any corner and promoting short term gratification, and go live a peaceful, remote job life in places like South East Asia, middle east or Eastern Europe.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to acquire the items you mentioned. I have noticed bread, or anything with flour, seems to be a trigger. I have to try kefir still. I've been having a lot less IBS on a mostly carnivore diet. I experimented with having no fiber and that has gone okay. I could probably use more probiotics. I think a lot of my IBS is psychosomatic, at least when I'm eating clean and avoiding all sorts of junk food but still have a flare up, it seems to be related to the stress of my new job, but that stress will calm down as I accumulate weeks. Because before I hit the floor at this job, when I was in training, I had no issues, and had no issues for weeks before that.
I would suggest a food sensitivity test. I used to eat fried eggs for breakfast for years and in my 40s I started getting IBS and couldn't figure out the cause. I took a test like below and found out I had developed an allergy to eggs over time. I cut daily eggs out and the IBS went away
Just an example:
At-Home Food Sensitivity and Intolerance Test
At a glance: Test 200 foods that may be causing you discomfort with our next generation microarray Food Sensitivity and Intolerance Test. This test includes a wide and comprehensive range of foods including dairy, eggs, fruits, grains, seeds and nuts, wheat, legumes, meat, seafood, vegetables...
www.pblabs.com
Rice tends to be high in Arsenic and other heavy metals though.
If someone hasn't sprinted in a while, they still need to introduce proper strength training first. Otherwise the sprints will wreck you, unless you have exceptional genetics or know how to gradually work your way up from mild running to actual sprinting over a period of many months, depending on how long you haven't done it.
That said, I applaud you for finding ways to work around multiple significant injuries.
Mike Adams aka Health Ranger said American rice is clean, even non organic, while the Chinese grain is highly contaminated. Though it had to be more than a decade ago.
True in general. Yet in Mexico city even 20 years ago a lot of men and women were as fat and rotund as their countrymen in the US.
That’s because most Mexicans switched to eating tacos and other junk food rather than traditional Mexican dishes such as Mole, soups, etc which take a long time to prepare.