Another year has arrived..

jetmex · January 01, 2015, 05:26:21 AM

Happy New Year, everyone!

wtxsflyr · January 01, 2015, 06:07:07 AM

Happy New Year!

Onepoint · January 01, 2015, 07:39:43 AM

Yes, may it be better than the last!

Buzzardbeak · January 01, 2015, 08:30:35 AM

Happy new year to everyone.

stetto · January 01, 2015, 09:53:14 AM

Have a good one, folks. I started my resolution early, quit the habit on December 14, almost three weeks now and the outlook is good.

balsum fractus · January 01, 2015, 01:08:38 PM

Happy New Years everyone!

Like Stetto, I started my resolutions a bit early (out of necessity)....a daily session on the exercise bike, and I divorced sugary foods - we are still friends, but don't see each other as often any more

Frazz · January 03, 2015, 08:55:16 AM

HNY to ya alls too. Well, mr fractus, we have a lot in common it seems. I have been a very sweet person myself it turns out. I did real well with diet a couple years ago then just kind of gradually changed back, or didn't eat as well as I should have. The blood tests don't lie it seems. A couple years ago my doc put me on a "no white diet" and it worked very well. I gotta start doing that again. One of the big baddies is potatoes, and me and spuds have a secret love affair that is hard to break.

balsum fractus · January 04, 2015, 11:49:11 AM

It sucks, don't it? ....when you have to deny yourself the culinary pleasures which one has been accustomed to..........

stetto · January 07, 2015, 05:28:22 AM

Wow, I just looked at the calendar, and I burned my last cigar on 12/13/14!! Doing good, and maybe this toxic industrial cold bug is helping...

Actually, my doc wanted me off the salt, caffeine and smokes, I told him to pick one. Next I'm getting probed and pricked in various cancer screenings, and I just know that embarrassing treadmill is coming.

Scary part is that our health insurance policy changed on Jan 1 without notice, and I may have to cancel a bunch of this stuff. I've aleady learned they won't help on some procedures I need done, wish I'd have scheduled them for last month...

zrct02 · January 07, 2015, 11:54:41 AM

Re: salt and caffeine. Moderation is dp[tofujm-ebniry5h probably better than dfa;khg abstinence. Very few people need to limit salt aeowwtghia and you may or may not doifhgarge be one. As you mihght guess oarhgiuh I'm still aiurfgawiewn off cigarettes. Been neigh zsdrioghj unto 4 zoidshgf[AQ years. No aiuerfhgp9uefhg problems.

Onepoint · January 07, 2015, 05:30:07 PM

No Problems at all.

balsum fractus · January 08, 2015, 09:09:45 AM

My nemesis is sugar and fat (cholesterol)........ aren't too many foods that don't have either!

zrct02 · January 08, 2015, 10:30:27 AM

Dietary cholesterol contributes very little to no blood cholesterol levels. The molecule is simply too large to be absorbed in the gut. However, there are dietary foods that will lower blood cholesterol which should be consumed. Lipids (fat) will contribute to weight gain. Unfortunately, fat also contributes to the taste of foods. Eating meat without fat - well, one might as well become a vegan as fr as taste is concerned. Fortunately, I can do without added sugar.

By the way, as far as sugar is concerned, sugar contains 50% fructose and high fructose corn syrup contains 55% fructose. I rather think this difference is negligible and HFCS is being give a bad rap by those with an agenda (money). It is far more likely, the problem is with sugar, in any form, in large quantities.

stetto · January 09, 2015, 05:14:21 AM

My doc is claiming that salt blocks the conversion of "bad" cholesterol to "good"...He also wants me to eat fish on chicken night and start taking fish oil.

Knowing that the bulk of dietary information comes from a government that is rarely accurate and researchers dependent on said government for perpetual livelihood, I choose skepticism. I love how the official line on stuff like fat, salt and coffee swings from very bad for you to not very bad for you to good for you and back again, seemingly upon whim.

Onepoint · January 09, 2015, 06:52:10 AM

Funny, my witch doctor says your body will tell you how much salt you need, if it tastes too salty, its too much. He does say the optimum is 80% vegetable and 20% carbs, sugars and proteins. Right now I am at 50% according to the 2 day food survey I had to do. I can't eat that much to make that work out and still retain enough calorie intake since I don't eat breakfast.

I did also tell him that it will probably workout OK since chocolate is a vegetable and I try and balance some of that up.

I have to keep a food journal for a month, so the ratio will likely change.