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Yeah, by itself tastes like sour cream to me. I add dried cranberries or dried cherries to it, a tablespoon or two or either, and that tastes really good.
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I forgot... If you can, garden. Include the kids and make it fun. Compare a squash, green bean or a cucumber you grow in the garden to the sickly things they sell at the grocery store and fast food restaurants. We did this when our kid was 5. Couldn't get him to eat green beans from a can, but let him "pick dinner" from…
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Me: Overweight Wife: Obese Kid was a little on the chunky side, to be honest. But he ate what was offered, and what was allowed, which was everything, within reason. Kid is now 18, in college, and skinny as a rail. He has seen us struggle with diet, complications, obesity, diabetes, heart attack. He knows what is sensible…
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RE: Protein... grilled chicken breasts and greek yogurt are my favorite ways to get protein. Plain greek yogurt tastes a little more like sour cream, so add some fruits and nuts (walnuts - also a very good source of protein). Dried beans - pinto and white - are not only good sources of protein, but pottassium as well. As…
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MEJo, Very natural questions to ask. Let me ask a few: What's the alternative to losing weight? Is the alternative somehow preferable? Didn't you already come to the conclusion the "devil you know" needed to go? So, why all the self-defeating, freak-out questions? I don't get to use this a lot, so don't hold it against me…
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I'm exclusively incline bench when it comes to benching, elbows in, shoulder-width grasp. Also did db flies and lat lifts for upper body yesterday. Not much weight, 15lb to 20 lb, 10-15reps / 4 sets each. For triceps, just some standard forward and reverse-overhead cable stuff.
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Every danged day!
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Over at bodybuilding.com, they have plans for experienced lifers that are a few weeks, but not anything that's 3 weeks. Could you start an 8 week plan and finish it while going to school?
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Unexpected sources of sugar: High starch foods like bread, potatoes, carrots, rice, pasta. Replace with whole grain bread, sweet potatoes (yes, really, sweet potatoes) brown rice, wheat pasta (yuck), and "hidden vegetable" pasta (yum!). The reason for this is enriched starchy food and "white" starchy food lack fiber and…
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I'm more of a schedule-and-list guy than a variety-and-mix-it-up guy when it comes to breakfast. I eat 1.5 servings of eggbeaters with 3-pepper blend (or baby bellas, or both), 1/2 cup of oatmeal with cinnamon and no sugar. A couple handfulls of medicine, vitamins, fish oils, and some stuff to make my coat all shiny and a…
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I thought this thread was going to be about Munchausen-by-Proxy... Anyway, my young teen and young adult nieces and nephews use to give my kid chocolate at family get-togethers in the minutes before we left. I guess it was all fun and games for them. We would figure it out on the car ride home because chocolate made my…
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Deli meat is a rich source of the vital nutrient "sodium". If you need for your blood system to be at a higher salinity than, say, sea water, deli meat is the way to go. If you are trying to lose weight or be healthy or something, you might want to rethink the cold cuts.
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Type II here, for 15 years or so. Didn't control it for a long time. Paid some heavy prices - now insulin-dependent, had a heart attack, etc. But over the last year, got it more or less manageable with diet, exercise, and paying attention to my blood glucose levels and taking insulin as prescribed.
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Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? I say, WHY?
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New here. 44. Diabetic/Cardiac. Bald. And awesome. Kid comes home from school tomorrow, can't wait! Tonight is triceps/chest. Well, last night was, but I missed it. Tomorrow is leg day - squatting 4 sets of 15, that's 104 for the first two sets, then 114 for the next two. Goal is weight loss and overall health. Cardio…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xjGEi89aI
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Take little steps towards the big goal. A few have said it, and Imma saying it again - your first small step has to be DIET. Wrestle that tiger until it's tame. If I have to eat Cambell's healthy request soup instead of going out to mickey d's or the steakhouse with the family, I'll do it. I've done it. I'll probably do it…
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seriously beautiful eyes (for andrea, not that dude I crossposted with)
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My endocrinologist said I probably wasn't going to get a six-pack. I'm cool with that. I do, however, want to build those muscles that make a six-pack, even if I could never lose the blubber over them. My overall goal is to build strength and live healthier - eat/work/play healthier.
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If I haven't exercised in a great long time, then I diet + exercise...I may lost a pound or two at the beginning (and weight fluctuates more than a pound up or down daily so a one lb change may not even be a change at all), but I realize that I am gaining muscle mass. And muscle mass per cubic inch weight more than fat per…
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cardio (warmup) > strength training > cardio The warmup is just to get the blood pumping, and isn't tiring at all. My warm up is 10 minutes on a stairmaster doing 2nd level interval training. Strength training = weights, levers, nautilus. Cardio for the end - 20-30 minutes on a treadmill, 3.0 mph walk to 4.5 mph jog. Once…
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For a lot of people, this is all very good and a beneficial attitude to have. I do have other conditions - diabetes and heart disease, which make sodium intake a little more worth monitoring and caffeine worth cutting out. Mayo clinic recommends 2300mg/day sodium for a healthy person, and though I feel healthy at the…
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Your gym dues go to help pay for the utilities. So, heck yeah! I use their shower, their soap, I go to their dry sauna, if I had hair, I would use their electricity for my blow-dryer, and if there were less people at my gym, I'd use their electricity to charge my phone! On sundays, I can watch the game while doing cardio,…
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Self doubt? Not so much for me as self-sabotage. If I had to guess, I'd say that failure in diet and failure in exercise are similar in my own personal history in fundamentalist churches and failures in sin. "The best way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it." The moment I saw that my sedentary lifestyle, my poor…
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6 inch cold cut trio with pepper jack and a bag of Sun chips for dinner last night. Stayed under my daily cals. Did not stay under my fat. Went over in protein, but I always go a little over because of my workout needs.
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Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke have the same sodium content as their sugary counterparts. http://www.livestrong.com/article/460635-the-sodium-content-of-diet-soft-drinks/ Now, you may not think 35 mg sodium for an 8 ounce glass is heavy, and I might agree with you. But I'm countering the whole "let's drink 2 2-liters of diet…
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Green tea - helps lose weight, has a small caffeine kick, and promotes cleansing. And if you are new-agey, you can get that zen-like inner glow. If you want something a little heavier and don't mind a bitter taste....Apple Cider Vinegar - a half-a-shot of it in a glass of water. It's heavy like a soda, bitter as all…
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Understanding and agreement are not prerequisites of cooperation. 20+ years of marriage wisdom: you cannot put important things in your partner's head, you can't expect your partner to comply with the small things even when they are important to the big picture. You do what you have to do. And if he feels that he has to go…
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Keep a sign handy on the fridge and in your office. "THIS BODY HAS HAD ___________ DAYS WITHOUT A BINGE" Start at "0".
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I go to the $30/mo gym. I like it. My wife wants to go to the $60/mo gym across the street. So she can have an hour and a half of elliptical. And then pester me about shortening my workout because she wants to go home. And even if I quit my workout now, I would want to hit the dry sauna for at least 5 minutes, use their…
