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I need to find a way to distill whiskey, directly in my stomach.

So carb free would entail eating no vegetables or carbs. Practically, it's rare that any diet that one could actually eat would be completely carb free, as things like cheese and whatnot have small amounts of carbs, but theoretically, one could subsist on a diet of completely fat and protein if necessary.

The answer is still no. :)

My fault. Hard to discern motivation at times, especially with the IIFYM comment you made before. So, please accept my apologies. To answer your question, the answer is no, though it's not uncommon to see strict carb restriction in bodybuilders as part of stage prep.

You should do some more heart presses. I eat copious amounts of meat. If someone wants to eat tons of vegetables instead, that's cool. More meat for me.

Are you trolling? Obviously that's untrue.

I don't think that avoiding a certain food group automatically causes your inference that the person doesn't live a relaxed life -- any more so than those who continuously wonder whether or not something will bump them over in calories, at least.

There's a joke somewhere about your grandmother being worse, because she ate your brother, but it's too early to really work it out. I need some coffee.

Ever have a cheetah over for dinner? They're jerks. They pee on everything, and they're messy eaters.

I don't have my exact numbers handy, but my doctor had prescribed me statins prior to going on this diet, and my trigs were in the 500s. As of about 6 months ago, I'm off statins, my HDL has increased, my LDL has stayed about the same, and my triglycerides are under 200. Once I get home, I could likely give you some actual…

Think he'll respond and admit that he was wrong?

I think, like with anything, it involves a little bit of planning. The willpower aspect of it was a bigger deal early on, eventually I realized that he benefits of eating this way were enough that a lot of carb-rich food doesn't appeal to me anymore. Most fast food places will make you food however you specify (i.e. two…

Dude, he's a paramedic. Enlarged hearts are just fine.

My life involves few carbs. I have been eating this way for well over a year.

That's not an assumption, that's a fact. Ask your cardiologist.

The person on an average diet derives energy primarily from glucose, a product of carbohydrate (and to a lesser extent, protein, and an even lesser extent, fat) metabolism. Once you subtract carbohydrates from the diet, your body begins to product ketone bodies, a byproduct of fatty acid metabolism. Your body will adapt to…

Can you? Sure. Carbs aren't an essential nutrient. Would eating 20g of leafy vegetables a day negatively impact what he's trying to do nutritionally? Probably not. Would it make it easier to get a wide variety of vitamins and minerals? Yeah.

Why not?

For what it's worth, you generally don't want to build that one.

Not alberta, but I'll step in here as a T2 who is philosophically aligned with albertabeefy. The answer, in my opinion, is "as few as possible". Ketogenic diets are extremely effective for blood glucose control, and they generally start at less than 20 net carbs per day. Without knowing a lot about you, I'd likely…

Bump. Good thread.

Err -- I think the picture has two slices at 500 calories. :wink:

It's not a personal attack. Plenty of lovely people have poor reading comprehension skills. What I wrote was quite clear. You should go back and reread it.

That's a pretty great argument against your hypothesis, actually. People from other cultures come to America and get obese. A couple of things could be happening here: 1. There's something about American food itself that is inherently fattening (i.e. they are eating the same as they always have, and getting fat) -- I think…

Just so you're clear -- you're the one only saying "it absovles people of bad personal choices to eat everything in those large sizes". It sounds like a cop out, because that attitude is a cop out -- unfortunately, it's also a straw man, because you're the only one saying it.

More like: 1. Post that states America has a cultural problem that contributes to our propensity towards obesity. 2. A bunch of people post straw man comments about "restaurants didn't make you fat, your lack of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY did" 3. Repeat number 2 enough, the straw man is accepted as the original argument. 4.…

We certainly seem to have a culture of not listening, and arguing against whatever we feel like, as opposed to what people actually say.

Or, in the case of your posts, "try to discern some meaning from what was written"/say to myself, "did she really just type that?"/try to comprehend how someone could seriously write that/respond in as nice a way as possible, given the absolute abuse of logic that occurred in the original post. Ohhh, now that you wrote it…

Not to copy another person's post, but did this sound like a good argument in your head before you wrote it out? You deny any sort of cultural influence on obesity. To support this, you use the example of a cultural that has strong cultural influences towards obesity. :huh: Then, since we don't have that particular…

No one is saying it is. In fact, the restaurants would, in a normal market, be driven by the same cultural influences as individual people.