Posted on 07/31/2023 7:27:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chris Stewart, 37, used to drink 12 cans of Mountain Dew a day and eat large McDonald’s meals for lunch — until he saw a photo of himself at his dad’s funeral that made him feel “sick.”
“Who is going to carry my casket?” Stewart recalled to SWNS. “I thought if I didn’t change something I’m going to die.”
The Illinois forklift driver weighed 400 pounds at his heaviest, wearing a size 5XL. He would consume two cans of Mountain Dew each morning when he woke up and two McDonald’s cheeseburgers, a McChicken sandwich and fries for lunch.
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And the reason those two teams rise near the top every year is they play a patsy schedule. FSU has been at best mediocre the last decade.
True that. But in college football the "cycle" seems to turn around to the southeast a lot in the past century. And Michigan seems to be back on track.
What was his cholesterol?
“Plenty ofways to workout cheap rightwhere a Person lives.”
Yes there are...for a while. One of the main destroyers of an exercise program is redundancy. Variety and entertainment is part of the scheme to make continuing an independent program worth the effort. For a while doing plyometrics inside the house can accomplish the physical goal but too many times it becomes boring and in time will be abandoned. If it isn’t fun and becomes work, people will reject it. Success of numbers is not enough for most people’s happiness. They want to like what they do. How many times did your parents tell you to et something because it’s good for you. Do you still eat it today? If you do, then you are really dedicated to your health and see quantity over quality. Rare you are. And what do you do when you do get into shape? Do you sit at home and look out the window? Get out there, have some fun, and feel better doing it.
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I’m not heavily affected by caffeine. I can drink coffee anytime if day and sleep like a baby.
But, when I was about 20, I shotgunned a Mountain Dew. I was immediately wired.
It’s still my soft drink of choice but I usually drink zero sugar.
I try to only buy foods with no added sugar. However, this means you need to stay away from "low-fat" versions of anything. Because when the fat is artificially taken out of anything, sugar must be put in instead so that the product will still taste good.
Yogurt is an excellent example. People think they are doing good for their body when they buy "low-fat" versions of sugar but if you read the ingredients, you will see the sugar added in (and they may have other names for it besides sugar like dextrose or fructose). The best yogurt to eat is the full fat versions, which are much more creamier and tastier. Some yogurt brands have "cream layer on top" which is the best.
If you eliminate added sugars from your diet, then you quickly lose your appetite for foods that are overly sweet. 85% dark chocolate will actually start tasting not quite so bitter and dark chocolate is far better healthwise than milk chocolate.
Beware of sugar in liquids however. During the recent hot weather, I switched from red wine to ice cold "hard" lemonade. I started putting on pounds quickly and I realized it was due to all the sugar in those hard lemonade drinks.
Way back when I used to commute for about an hour to work, I’d stop off at 7-11 and get a big gulp of MtDew on the way. Same on the way home.
Eventually, I decided to stop drinking soft drinks. Just quit completely, and substituted unsweet tea. Lost 30 pounds the first month or so. That’s the only change I made to my diet. HFCF is super bad stuff.
These days I’ll buy a 4-pack of Dr. Pepper made with actual sugar when I go grocery shopping. That lasts me for 2-3 weeks.
Wrong. It's High Fructose Corn Syrup, not sugar. Your body readily coverts cane sugar to energy. Not so much with HFCS.
YA. Sometimes the blood level in my caffeine stream would get too high, and I'd have another coffee.
We drank lots of Mountain Dew on the mid night shift in the power plant. Kept us awake. Drank lots of Diet Mountain Dew.
After I retired I ceased drinking it. Then one hot Hot HOT day I stopped and bought me a cool MD from a store. Almost gagged on it! It was horrible! How did I do it when I was working?
crusty old prospector wrote:
FSU and Clempson need to come over to the Big 12.
Reports are FSU is going to the Big 10.
I drank 10 or more Pepsis a day for decades. By age 54, I was over 366 pounds.
I had a stomach bypass and I don’t drink soft drinks anymore and I am much smaller.
Who knew that drinking so many could be bad for me?
Ain’t nobody buying that story.
Very true. You cut sugar out of your diet as much as possible and you will lose weight.
Oh, please....like other parts of the country don’t have health and fitness problems.
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