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Happy Saturday my Fabulous Followers:
Once again, people want to dictate how I should eat...I am laughing!
Here is a quote from the recent TIME magazine article dated June 5, 2017:
"What scientists are uncovering now should bring fresh hope to 155 million Americans who are overweight, according to US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Leading researchers finally agree, for instance, that exercise, while critical for good health, is not a reliable way to keep off bodyfat over the long term. And the overly simplistic arithmetic of calorie in vs. calories out has given way to a more nuanced understanding that it's the composition of a person's diet - rather than how much of it they can burn off working out - that sustains weight loss."
"They also know that the best diet for you is very likely not the best diet for your next-door neighbor. Individual responses to different diets - from low fat and vegan to low carb and paleo - vary enormously. Some people may lose 60lb. and keep it off for two years, and other people follow the same program religiously, and they gain 5 lbs....Hall, Sachs and other scientists at the Harvard School for Public Health are showing that the key to weight loss appears to be highly personalized rather than trendy diets."And later in the article: "Why weight loss can vary so much for people on the same diet still eludes scientists."
SO, THE POINT is what works for me may not work for you, and what works for you may not work for me. Again, people can have opinions different from mine but I dislike posters telling me I am wrong and should do what they do! Ridiculous idea!
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle - Tom Venuto
Short Range Goals:
* Macros 60%-70% fat, 20-30% protein, 10% carbs - better under 10%!
* Back in the "Blue" on Idiot Boxes while retaining muscle - July/Aug?
* Bodyfat % reading with trainer for June 23
* Drink at least 12 - 16 cups of fresh water daily - especially on gym days
* Continue HIIT mixed in with weight lifting four to five days a week
* Keep up the training notebook to achieve progressive overload
Long Range Goals: 2017
*Bodyfat at 22% or less (Current 24.5%) by year end 2017
*Maintain Idiot Boxes around 152-158lbs staying under goal weight
*Increased strength, endurance and flexibility during workouts
NEW Words of the Week:"Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight."
I am dedicated, determined and diligent!
Diet Calendar Entries for 03 June 2017:
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1130 kcal
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Fat: 60.66g | Prot: 36.15g | Carb: 86.47g.
Breakfast: Water, Silk Pure Almond Milk - Unsweetened Vanilla, Viva Labs MCT Oil, Trader Joe's Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds). Lunch: Water, Full Circle Organic Green Tea. Dinner: Water, Manchu Wok Vegetable Egg Roll, Fried Rice, General Tso (General Gau) Chicken. Snacks/Other: Alamos Malbec. more...
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2324 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Driving - 15 minutes, Desk Work - 6 hours, Sitting - 7 hours, Sleeping - 9 hours, Resting - 1 hour and 45 minutes. more...
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Erika, is individual as well. The gluten issue is one that people here kept telling me I was doing all wrong. For some people like you gluten sensitivities are crucial. For me I eat little meat and whole grains and legumes including whole grain and seed homemade bread are a mainstay of my plan. I have been at goal or below for 3 years, I'm one pound over but that's no biggie. It will go back down over the summer and below.
06 Jun 17 by member: wholefoodnut
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I googled what Catherine suggested, "by John McDougall, MD". John McDougall is a long-time Atkins critic that sells a fad diet, really no reason to care what he has to say about low carb.
06 Jun 17 by member: @philrmcknight
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SWprowett, My neurologist slowly weaned me off strong migraine meds to taking magnesium supplements nightly. I had horrible chronic migraines that my docs could not control. He was terrific. He had me keep detailed records of everything I did for months. Food, weather, activities, stress, sleep, how my headaches were, my asthma you name it. I would turn it into to him every 2 weeks and the next visit we would discuss what could be migraine triggers. Most of the triggers are chemicals and artificial scents in foods and in the environment. Slowly I've eliminated processed foods and chemicals in my home and rarely have a migraine, maybe one or two a year and if I can get something to eat and take magnesium I can usually stop them before they get very bad. I keep magnesium in my desk drawer at work. Many migraine triggers for me are also asthma triggers. Of course asthma triggers include some things I can't control like some pollens, humidity and ozone that reduce the available useable oxygen in the air. DON'T take magnesium on an empty stomach it can make you feel awful.
06 Jun 17 by member: wholefoodnut
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@wholefoodnut sounds like you found a wonderful doctor! I'm having to do quite a bit of this on my own and deal with competing doctors while on disability. 🙇🏻♀️ I've been taking huge amounts of magnesium citrate for years now 400-800 mg /day but am still thinking I'm low because of the amount of other meds/conditions going in that are making changes. I'm thinking that the recent spate of abdominal migraines I've been suffering from would have been much less if I'd had more magnesium in my system. I think my only save has been the Epsom salt soaks I take daily. 💁🏻 Dosing myself without really realizing it, getting the magnesium there into my skin (largest organ on the body) to effect my muscles, to keep my fibro at bay and help my arthritis. It didn't help the migraines much, but gee, them's the breaks! 🤷🏻♀️
08 Jun 17 by member: smprowett
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I take about 3 times that much magnesium - I was told that you'll know when you've overdone it because you'll be running to the toilet - ha -still having problems with constipation - so every few days I up my dose. I take epsom salt baths, use magnesium oil, magnesium rich face cream and the doctor has given me magnesium rich, sugar free anti constipation powders. Mainly because she'd forgotten that I came off codeine to take tramadol - though I do take some of Tony's co-codamol most days.
I had a look at the anti grain brain book and thought it seemed a bit lightweight. Odd isn't it we've all known for a long time that there are as many ways of eating needed as there are people, now science is catching up. I'm reading about gut microbiome - we are our bacteria - they outnumber our cells and direct our health.
08 Jun 17 by member: minitata
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@ Minitata yeah, I'm working my way up as well. I keep getting raised eyebrows at the doctors' but I'm tired of feeling like crap. I had a doctor actually preach probiotics to me a few years back, and since I've got 3 or 4 autoimmunes I listened and take my 20 billion strains every day (and make my kids!) I think it actually helps my CFS and the other immune stuff I deal with. Pretty soon We're going to be taking more pills than eating food because our food won't have any nutrients!🤦🏻♀️
08 Jun 17 by member: smprowett
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CatherineShelton you might not want to blindly follow the garbage written in those books. I'm pretty sure very few people on here make any brash or impulsive decisions. I went to doctors for years trying to figure out why I had severe abdominal pain, and constant fatigue. I also had pretty severe depression. I gave up gluten and my life changed instantly. I mean within a month all symptoms were gone. Two of my siblings had similar symptoms, my brother died at 47 from stomach cancer and my sister at 48 from colon cancer. Celiac disease and gluten intolerance run in my family, and it is more not less common than you think.
14 Jun 17 by member: 2426girl
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