Posted on 01/30/2021 6:01:42 AM PST by karpov
I eat LOTS of salt and have no issues with it. In my 60s now.
“All disease starts in the gut.”
No. Just no. I do have some issues with skin cancer. Those issues started in the SUN. But I still spend a lot of time outdoors and get checked twice a year.
I don't want to tell anyone what to eat or drink, just not my thing. I'm sure you got the idea from somewhere that drinking plenty of water is a good thing. It is not for some. Certainly, water is good for you, but too much is not. It puts a strain on your heart. One of the most prescribed medications for high blood pressure is Lasix. It's purpose is to remove fluid from your body. I used to take Lasix and I used to drink tons of water thinking water was a good thing. I used to have high blood pressure. I still drink fluids, but not as much. I no longer take Lasix or any other blood pressure meds. The major change for me was simple. Cut back on fluids. It didn't make a lot of sense to me to take a medication to remove fluids from my body when I could simply decrease how much I drink in the first place.
Here's what works for me: I don't go out of my way to put anything in my body. I don't force myself to drink extra when my body isn't telling me I need extra water. I don't force myself to eat foods that I am not hungry for. That would fall into the domain of some diet. It seems that my body gives me cravings for the things it needs. I listen to those cravings but just don't let it go too far.
I'm not telling anyone what to eat or drink, but drinking tons of water is one example that doesn't work for everyone. If it works for you, great. My body is craving protein right now. So I am off to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast. Just not a lot.
“Yes boys and girls, there are greedy souless humanists who would do that.”
Yes, and those people are capable of infiltration of government and academia and medical institutions to further their agenda. They would even go so far as to produce reality television shows that promote it. They want and need people to be fat and unhealthy and dependent on their pills.
Thanks for the extended link - really helps
Yeah full-Keto is great for short term weight loss but for longterm its better to wean off. The mistake ppl make is they lose the weight they wanna lose on keto, lose 50 lbs whatever then they go back to regular eating and balloon right back up. I’ve done it myself lol.
I’ve modified my own version of semi-keto when I wanna drop 20-30 lbs to get leaner for the summer, beach here in FL n pickup the hotties. lol. Basically a 12-week plan... First 4 weeks 100 carbs a day, next 4 weeks 75 carbs, then last 4 weeks 50 carbs. Then when I get to the weight I wanna be I slowly add carbs back in over the next 12 weeks so I dont pile the weight back on. While lifting weights and upping the cardio gradually of course. Also remember during an hour weightlifting/cardio session you burn like 30+ grams of carbs so this puts you at borderline ketosis anyways depending on ur bodyweight
My son, an ex-Navy Captain, is a fairly normal sized guy, a little over 6' and when in the Navy, had to keep his registered weight at 196 or less based on whatever charts the Navy had at the time.
He knew when his physicals were coming so he used the Atkins, eat all you want, but no carbs, diet and it was and is effective.
When he retired, he didn't watch his weight and ballooned up 20% to about 235-240.
He has since been using the Atkins type diet to maintain his weight at 190-195.
It works and he can eat plates full of bacon, sausage and eggs for breakfast and lose weight, but if he even looks at a couple pieces of toast or a cookie, his weight will shoot sky high.
I tried that diet and didn't like it so I've gone back to watching total calories and trying to stick with moderation, but dieting is not easy.
It is especially hard for anyone {like me} that has been blessed with a high metabolism all of my life {until the last few years} and was one of those people that everyone hated.
I could eat all I wanted of everything and didn't gain an ounce and my weight was between 175-180 for over 50 years, and then, nature played a trick on me.
Oh well, I'm grateful for the long free ride, and now I know what so many already learned, dieting is a bitch.
Between the intrinsic cruelty of industrial livestock production and livestock’s climate footprint—estimated by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization to be 14.5% of all greenhouse gases world-wide, significantly greater than that of plant agriculture
No bias there for the veggie heads, except it takes tractors burning fossil fuels to plant and harvest the carrots and corn, and when they cant use tractors, millions of greenhouse farting illegals are picking the fruit and spreading e-coli by not washing their hands after wiping their asses.
There’s a TV show about people who eat like that - I think it’s called My 600 pound life.
I also know people who have failed miserably on Keto diets.
It seems quite individual specific.
I share your dilemma...years ago, Atkins (Keto) worked great for me...until I started drinking more alcohol.
Alcohol is metabolized just like sugar in the body...your body will go after carbs, sugar, aocohol first for energy...before it starts after the fat.
Therein lies my dilemma.
Your eyes are on the front of your head because you’re a predator. Prey has them on the sides.
I’ve loss 30 pounds in the past five months on a Keto diet. No bread, sugar, pasta, potatoes. lots of red meat, fish, chicken, eggs, green vegetables. I also fast for a day every ten days or so. I feel great
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Same. No bread, tortillas, rice, potatoes or pasta. No rice is hell in the Philippines where that’s a staple food.
Just chicken, pork, beef and gulay (vegetables). Sugar only in green tea for taste. And no Red Horse Beer :(
ping!
I wish! (All of that is my favorite!!)
My wife went on a sort-of Keto diet. Limits her carbs and no sugars. Eats mostly meat and vegetables, is down 50 lbs in 9 months.
When one of uncle’s milk cows would go dry, she went off to the butcher. That was the tastiest beef I have ever had!
“What if” a bullfrog had wings...
And then give a special message to Peter: 13Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
Even though the passage is about certain animals no longer being considered “unclean”, the message is clear - animals are here for us to eat.
“Have you ever noticed that a lot of diet advocates are really messed up?”
Eric Hoffer observed that the strongest radicals and socialists he knew were all into dietary fads, even things as silly as chewing their food exactly X number of times. He likened it to a sort of secular purification ritual.
I would suspect that alcohol might have something to do with it...see my earlier post in this thread-
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