RFK Jr.: Trump Has Lost 30 Pounds, "Despite All the Crap He Eats," Just By Taking the Buns Off His Burgers<br>Plus: GAINZZZ

RFK Jr.: Trump Has Lost 30 Pounds, "Despite All the Crap He Eats," Just By Taking the Buns Off His Burgers
Plus: GAINZZZ

Today is the fifth anniversary of "15 Days to Stop the Spread." Talk about a Grim Milestone.

The President of the United States just declared war.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested President Trump has lost 30 pounds, while commenting on the unhealthy foods the president eats.
Kennedy, during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, said he saw Trump the day before, adding, "I think he's lost 30 pounds." His comment came after the news host said the president "is getting healthier."
"He looks great. And he told me, he's not using ... for example, if he has a burger now, he usually doesn't have it with a bun," Hannity said.
Kennedy replied, "Oh, I didn't know that he was actually changing his diet."
"I have to say this ... and even with all the -- can I say -- crap that he eats," the recently confirmed secretary added.
The interview took place at a Steak 'n Shake in Florida after the company announced it would be using beef tallow instead of seed oils to make its french fries, a swap Kennedy has been promoting for health purposes.
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They joked that Trump likes McDonald's, KFC, pizza and Diet Coke, which prompted Hannity to ask Kennedy if he has an issue with sugary drinks or diet sodas.
"Yes," the secretary said.
Hannity asked, "But, again, you're not going to ban it."
"I'm not going to take them away from people, but we shouldn't be subsidizing them," Kennedy said. "We shouldn't, as you said, 10 percent of food stamps, which are federally funded, taxpayer-funded program ... is going to the poorest neighborhoods."

On that point, the American Heart Association -- a grifter organization that will say anything is healthy if you just pay them enough money -- appeared in Texas to argue that people should be allowed to use SNAP vouchers on cookies and soda.

Why Does The Heart Association Favor Subsidizing Cookies, Potato Chips, and Sugary Soda? Guess.

You would be forgiven to assume The American Heart Association would top the list of organizations supporting restricting government subsidies for cookies, potato chips, and sugary drinks.
You would be wrong. The AHA flew its top lobbyist to Texas to testify against a very simple bill that would restrict SNAP recipients from using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from purchasing these products. After all, the largest percentage of the assistance goes to buying sodas, one of the biggest sources of non-nutritious calories in a child's diet.
Texas Senate Bill SB 379 is very short and to the point. It doesn't cut benefits, doesn't even restrict most processed foods; it just bans purchases of sugary drinks, candy, cookies, and potato chips using SNAP benefits. And since SNAP is supplemental--intended to increase the amount available to purchase food for lower-income folks, it doesn't even prevent such people from purchasing these products with their own food budget.
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Frankly, you shouldn't be surprised. The AHA is part of the "blob," and the blob is all apart ensuring that the current establishment remains fat and happy. It's stated purpose is to promote heart health; its real purpose is to perpetuate a system in which its donors and partners make as much money as possible.
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I looked up who funds the AHA Nutrition Forum, and as you would guess, it is filled with big food industry corporations including Cargill, PepsiCo, and seed oil companies. And even more troubling is that the VAST majority of Heart Association funding comes from Big Pharma.
Conflict of interest, much?

It's so much worse than that. The American Heart Association lets companies print their "Heart Healthy" seal of approval on the most unhealthy foods.

They still think it's the 1970s and that they can get away with telling you that health beef tallow is bad for your heart -- but seed oils are good, healthy substitute.

I'm not at all down with banning foods. But I would like to see the real science promoted by the government. Not what Kellogg's and Pepsi pay NGOs to claim to be healthy.

I am disgusted.

The American Heart Association just sent an employee to TEXAS to fight a bill that would stop food stamps from covering candy & soda—a bill to reduce heart disease.

Why? Because the AHA takes money from Kellogg’s & Pepsi, whose profits would tank if it passed.… pic.twitter.com/RPymDbQz9H
— Grace Price🧬 (@travelingenes) March 12, 2025

In some GAINZZ news:

Spot reduction does work?

For fifty, maybe one hundred years, the accepted science has been that spot reduction doesn't work, at all. When you lose fat, you lose it globally, and you cannot influence where it it lost from.

This new study, which hasn't been confirmed yet, says that if you perform cardio exercise getting your heart to about 70% of its maximum for about 25 minutes, and then do abdomen exercises, your body will burn fat selectively from the fat stores nearest the muscles being taxed, that is, from your belly.

Is it true? No idea. We need to fund bigger studies. Very basic nutritional science and exercise science never gets tested appropriately, with big test groups and over the course of, say, six months, because such large-scale tests are expensive.

No one can make money off an exercise or dietary protocol. The kind of "studies" that get funded are by corporations testing products and pills.

That's why we need the government to do this kind of basic science -- literally no one else will fund a test for something you can't sell to the public at the end of the day. And the most important health interventions are the free ones, the one that Big Pharma can't make a trillion dollars off of.

Below, "What I've Learned" makes the case for an all-carnivore (or mostly-carnivore) diet.

I'd like to see some real testing for this.

I've seen it noted by many, many people in nutrition science that the entire field is dominated by vegans, who essentially rig tests to prove that their religion of veganism is right. All government health advice for the past seventy years claims that we must eat lots of bread, pasta, and vegetables, and minimize meat, because the vegans have huge influence in the field.

A year ago, the people at the DOJ were trying to put President Trump in jail for life.

Now, his picture is in the lobby and he’s doing the dance inside the building.

Unfathomably based.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 14, 2025

STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/2BiV8lxM8O
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 6, 2025

Since the New Year, I've gotten back on keto. Not super-strict but mostly keeping clean. I've lost about eight pounds. Maybe ten. Not a lot but it's something. I just chowed down a pizza yesterday so I probably added a pound back.

What about you? Got any GAINZZZZ?

And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots? I just got tested because for five or six years I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think. Every spring is miserable for me now. (I never had allergies until recently.)

I'm hopeful that the shots will fix this.

Have you had positive results from allergy shots? I want to know where to set my expectations.

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Posted by: GF at March 14, 2025 06:32 PM (iVUs+)

2 Shouldn't Spot reduction be on the Pet Thread?? [Not the Cooking one I hope!]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 14, 2025 06:32 PM (/tzYP)

3 I'd go with setting expectations to zero, that way even minuscule relief will seem like a miracle.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 14, 2025 06:35 PM (tT6L1)

4 I just started back onto Keto - I lost about 30lbs to get to 200lb last november. Christmas, holidays and various other events meant I went off it a bit, and I haven't gotten back into it too quickly, but I am about 12lbs heavier.
Key for me was to get back to bulletproof coffee in a morning, its the only thing that really got me started with it. Before then, Keto for me was just eating low carb (being miserable) and not losing weight. Eating enough fat is really an important part of it.
The other important thing is walking, I had to be walking in order to lose weight even if it was just my 10K steps. Weather is getting better, I'm in Ketosis, so lets see where it goes.

Posted by: PoliticalMcguffin at March 14, 2025 06:36 PM (Yr9Q+)

5 To crave carbs is natural, everyone has from time to time.
To not succumb to the cravings is the challenge.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 14, 2025 06:36 PM (c6hLR)

6 At our house we have added a new dietary supplement. Methylene Blue 1%.
A drop or 2 in a glass of water 3 times a week.
Seems to fight the brain fog, from which we all suffer to some degree or other, which is understandable. Our ages are 70, 73, and 96.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 14, 2025 06:40 PM (c6hLR)

7 I had allergy shots for environmental factors [dust, pet dander etc.] and had the 3 years or so of shots for it.

After that treatment, for years now I've just used 24hr XS Reactine once a day and things are fine.

I think they started with two shots a week; then down to one a week; then one every second week but I assume your allergist has told you that already.

It worked fine. I did it so I could play with family members' doggehs! And hay fever was getting to have been a PITA too.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 14, 2025 06:40 PM (/tzYP)

8 Ace, I took weekly allergy shots for several years. Never had seasonal allergies until moving to central TX. That was 20+ years ago. It helped me tremendously. I keep a little bottle of Claritin just in case, but rarely need it.

I hope you get some allergy relief soon.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 06:40 PM (i/l90)

9 Good job on the weight loss, Ace!

I'm focused on flexibility and mobility lately. I feel like it's not being able to move this way or that that contributes to the feeling of being old. Losing fat probably helps on that front, and I've been doing time-restricted/fasting again.

Also some probiotics. It's kind of interesting that there are different strains purporting to have different effects. Like videogame potion powerups, but slower. (Can't report on any effects personally et, though.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at March 14, 2025 06:41 PM (asXVI)

10 It is beyond absurd that we let people use government benefits to buy things we know are unhealthy for them like cookies.

Of course the other problem with EBT type benefits is that it is trivial to sell them anyway so you can then go buy liquor or drugs.

If you really want to solve the problem have a weekly food basket with completely unprocessed, wholesome food.

So you can take the time to prepare healthy food or get off welfare if you want to eat Doritos and Little Debbies

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:41 PM (t0Rmr)

11 Personal GAINNZZZ--just hit a new squat PR of 3x5x295.

Not a truly big number, but for this old man--it felt really good!

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at March 14, 2025 06:42 PM (/xmMU)

12 Speaking of GAINZZZ, I got a bad flu a few weeks ago and lost 5-10 lbs. I'd been eating a little healthier since my last weigh in, so honestly I can't tell how much was the flu and how much was the better eating.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:43 PM (t0Rmr)

13 Trump lost 30 lbs? That PROVES he has AIDS!!

Posted by: James Carville at March 14, 2025 06:44 PM (PiwSw)

14 Tallow is also used in a lot of beauty products.

Don't ask.

But I wonder if that's having an effect too.

Or is it another type of "tallow?" Whatever... the price of this stuff in a jar is unreal. Time to start a tallow farm, distillery, whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 06:45 PM (Q4IgG)

15 And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots? I just got tested because for five or six years I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think. Every spring is miserable for me now. (I never had allergies until recently.)

I have a minor grass allergy, but I found that just wearing a mask while mowing the lawn and then showering right after I am done resolves the issue for me

And yes you can see the grass dander on the mask so unlike COVID it does work.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:45 PM (t0Rmr)

16 AOC not looking hot anymore. Kind of strangely bummbed.

Posted by: Max Power at March 14, 2025 06:46 PM (q177U)

17 I did really well on Atkins 15 years ago. I should get back on it again.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 14, 2025 06:46 PM (+oR7L)

18 I get close to my "Normal" weight for my height and think ... OK, good enough, then drink more or eat late. So stay around 215, with 210 the top end of "Normal" for my 6'5" height.

I really need to do more fasting for more than 12-18 hours, for my other health, besides just the weight parameter. BP is still too high ... want to get that low dose viagra ... if I can find the right health oriented doctor. But I feel good, get work done, will start collecting my SS soon at almost 70.

Life is easy ... have a plan.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2025 06:47 PM (Cus5s)

19 I have an amazing protein supplement that will bring amazing health to athletic college school girls.

In yellow plaid skirts

Posted by: Stateless...60% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 14, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

20 Over the 3 years I had two severe reactions to an overly-strong batch of the shot, requiring the small adrenaline needle shot to counteract it; and two medium reactions that just required taking a Reactine in the doctor's office and waiting the hour or so until I was okay to go.

So when your doc says, "Wait an hour to ensure you don't have an adverse reaction", listen to him.

The worst reaction was after having waited the hour at the small shopping plaza where the clinic was, but then walking home 20 minutes on a windy pollen-filled spring day so don't do any exercise after either. The doc had never seen anything like it before as my ears turned bright red as well as having had the throat constriction. I was rushed to a room and given the adrenaline shot, waiting more than an hour to recover.

I had a much-less severe reaction to the following week's shot so the doc said he'd refuse to give me another from the same dose so it was sent back to the allergist whose next batch for me was less strong.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 14, 2025 06:47 PM (/tzYP)

21 I did sugar busters (a precursor to keto) 20 years ago. I lost 20lbs in a year. When I quit, I gained 40lbs back in less than a year. My metabolism adjusted to the weight loss by slowing down. It didn't increase when I gained the weight back. So until they find a way to control a person's metabolism, IMO, we will have trouble keeping off weight.

Posted by: Turn 2 at March 14, 2025 06:48 PM (6TlG5)

22 Despite all of the polls saying that DOGE is popular with the voters, I'm getting the distinct impression from comments on social media and just snide comments in podcasts that the popular culture is turning against its efforts. It seems that its turned into some kind of Euclidian Postulate (yes I read that blog post earlier this week and I'm stealing this) that Musk is cutting Air Traffic Controllers, clashing Medicaid and about a dozen other things. Just today I was listening to a car podcast and they covered the whole "Tesla on the Whitehouse" and the host was like "So Trump bought a Tesla and Musk, who is doing a terrible job supposedly making our government more efficient... delivered it to him."
Outside of the info bubble - what is the impression y'all are getting. I'm stuck up in deep blue NE so I can't really get a feel for whats going on with popular sentiment.

If these

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 06:48 PM (7+nfw)

23 >>At our house we have added a new dietary supplement. Methylene Blue 1%.

They use that to keep Fish Eggs from going to Mold when breeding Tropical Fish.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 06:48 PM (npXNI)

24 hat's why we need the government to do this kind of basic science -- literally no one else will fund a test for something you can't sell to the public at the end of the day. And the most important health interventions are the free ones, the one that Big Pharma can't make a trillion dollars off of.

Wait, that can't be right. I have it on good authority from some of the more...enthusiastic sorts here that any government scientist is a joke and on the take.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2025 06:48 PM (xCA6C)

25 Yes the M.B.1% has myriad applications.
I see anti-fungal in its properties.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 14, 2025 06:50 PM (c6hLR)

26 I GAINZed 6 pounds somehow. Someone take it back.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 14, 2025 06:51 PM (i24o9)

27 I was off the cigs for five months, then during my colonoscopy fast I relapsed. So now I've been back on them for six weeks. I did make minor gainz this week in house cleaning. Yay.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 06:51 PM (3l52y)

28 Government has no incentive to provide "good science" in the same way it has no incentive to provide good service for anything else it nominally does.

While this is partly a problem with the nature of government itself, it is honestly more immediately a result of the government being allowed to explode its budget while it screws around doing nothing the taxpayers want.

Ironically if you want "good government" the best thing to get that is for Trump to fire 90% of Fedgov workers now as incentive for the current and future workers to do a better, less corrupt job.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:51 PM (t0Rmr)

29 In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2025 06:52 PM (QAkQ3)

30 10

If you really want to solve the problem have a weekly food basket with completely unprocessed, wholesome food.

So you can take the time to prepare healthy food or get off welfare if you want to eat Doritos and Little Debbies

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:41 PM (t0Rmr)
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There are many reasons that some people on welfare are not able to cook.

Posted by: Ciampino - Keep clear of rocket exhaust at March 14, 2025 06:52 PM (KjLnc)

31 I have seen burgers that replace the buns with slices of pineapple, I think you can get them that way in Hawaii from McDonald's. A slice is good on a burger, but I can't imagine two, that's too much.

Evidently I'm doing fine for carbs, but I did discover I can keep my blood sugar at a nice low even steady level by small amounts of carefully selected trail mix through the day. I was worried that the fruit and yogurt chips would have too much sugar but apparently in small doses the protein from the nuts make it work out okay. Just gotta be realllly careful not to eat too many nuts. Those give me... other complications.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 06:53 PM (2VST1)

32 11
'Not a truly big number, but for this old man--it felt really good!'

This old man is impressed. Are you able to do squats without either of your knees hurting the next day?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 14, 2025 06:53 PM (3wi/L)

33 Just need to get outside and moving.

Been so House-Locked this winter.

Hate being stuck inside.

Posted by: jsg at March 14, 2025 06:53 PM (UJ+K5)

34
Less than T - 10m. Smelly chick, here we come.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 06:54 PM (w6EFb)

35 "The other important thing is walking, I had to be walking in order to lose weight even if it was just my 10K steps."

10K steps is a lot ... I tend to go out on my EV golf cart, but need to get back to just walking. Or maybe do more work in the woods clearing bush honeysuckle, and honey locusts. Honey locusts are the only trees with compound thorns (afaik) ... the thorns have their own thorns ... can flatten tractor tires.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2025 06:55 PM (Cus5s)

36 Less than T - 10m. Smelly chick, here we come.

Your Taco Bell order is on the way!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2025 06:55 PM (mH6SG)

37 At our house we have added a new dietary supplement. Methylene Blue 1%.

Supposed to be good for you but boy is that stuff spendy. I have been trying Dihydroberberine to see if it can help me metabolize sugar better, but I cannot tell if its working or not. The doc said I am handling my diabetes excellently but I don't know if that is contributing or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 06:56 PM (2VST1)

38 Sorry - to get back on GAINZ... I've been on the Wegovy for about 6 months and have now lost 30 lbs. It wasn't until I hit my latest dose that my appetite really took a dive and I started regularly skipping meals. This is huge for me as I've always been someone who wasn't huge (6'6" about 290 at the heaviest) but definitely ate too much. Portions were too big.
The appetite destruction has definitely helped - but I've been working out with a Personal Trainer 2 or 3 times a week now for about 2 years now. I've made modest muscle gains in that time but I don't really push myself that hard in those sessions like I really need to. So about a month ago I decided to wake up and go right to the treadmill and do 30 minutes on there before I do anything. That has made my insulin sensitivity go waaay up and I've lost about 7 of those 30lbs in the past 2 weeks alone. I fucking hate the treadmill though.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 06:56 PM (7+nfw)

39 the doc said he'd refuse to give me another from the same ~~dose~~ vial so it was sent back to the allergist whose next batch for me was less strong.
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Ooops. Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 14, 2025 06:56 PM (/tzYP)

40 For those who like walking, this is a fun book:

https://tinyurl.com/3shtuj8m

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (PiwSw)

41 This new study, which hasn't been confirmed yet, says that if you perform cardio exercise getting your heart to about 70% of its maximum for about 25 minutes, and then do abdomen exercises, your body will burn fat selectively from the fat stores nearest the muscles being taxed, that is, from your belly.

I have heard that under stress and muscle use, lipids are used from the fat in the area of the muscles, in that doing upper arm reps, or biking, the muscles first use stored fats from the areas around the muscles being used.
I think this has some caveats, and may require that the body be in a ketogenic state, as opposed to burning blood glucose, but I have heard this and didn't connect it to the idea of "zone reduction"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (D7oie)

42 There are many reasons that some people on welfare are not able to cook.

Mostly its laziness or ignorance. Hunger is a powerful incentive to resolve the former, and honestly you could give welfare recipients that know how to cook a small bump for helping those in their area to learn.

As for the small portion this doesn't cover, this is why you need to get government out of the charity business.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (t0Rmr)

43 I just heard that Vladimir Putin kidnapped a bunch of children from Eastern Ukraine early on the war. Is that confirmed?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (3AwA+)

44 I am now making my own rehydration drink because my body does well on sugar. The concoction is cheap, easy and always available.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (j6NlC)

45 Have you had positive results from allergy shots? I want to know where to set my expectations.
Posted by: Ace

My sinuses go on a snot fest similar to a Biden funded NGO for frat boys & titty bars at Pensacola Beach during Spring Break. It ain't purty. Three seperate surguries, (rhinoplasty, septoplasty, and a hot iron to the tubinate filters) and no real change other than the random bloody noses are gone. I shattered my septum in the Army and all that was supposed to fix it.

End of the story, 30 years later, after a final round of allergy testing. I ain't allergic to shit. Just a slime, snot, and mucus factory out to male production quotas for Big Snot.

I take two hits of Azelastine Hrdrochloride and Fluticasone Propionate in each nostril twice a day, and a 10mg Cetirizine tablet in the evening.

About an 80% improvement. But Instill have to sleep on a 15° incline to keep the snot from clos___ everything up.

Stoopid cave dwelling troglodite genes from my Norwegian iceback viking ancestors.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (MsrgL)

46 >> I fucking hate the treadmill though.

Hills. If you have a hill you can walk / run / bike up, replace the Treadmill a few times a week with hill sessions.

Nothing burns fat like gravity.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (npXNI)

47 I'm still curious what is going on with everyone being overweight. I get the constant device use and kids don't play outside like they used to but it has to be something else? I mean no one was fat growing up. You had maybe one chubby kid and that was it. They were called husky.

I remember the 70s diet plate was a plain hamburger, cottage cheese and tomato, so about 10 net carbs. We knew what worked.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (JObcD)

48 And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots? I just got tested because for five or six years I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think. Every spring is miserable for me now. (I never had allergies until recently.)
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Old school pseudoephedrine.
It just works.

Granted they treat you like a meth head when buying it...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (/lPRQ)

49 There are many reasons that some people on welfare are not able to cook.

Mostly its laziness or ignorance.

I would say 99% yeah. Maybe 1% mentally incapable or too ill to do it for themselves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (2VST1)

50 I have had much gainzzz over the past few months, and the biggest lesson is: just because I retired from the military, there's no reason I can't still do PT from time to time.

I walk a lot, lift and do crunches, and - I can't believe I'm typing this - I even run. I hate running. But done in moderation, it seems to help. The weather was so nice I ran to day - just one lap, easy pace. I'll probably pick it up a bit more, but biking I think is better.

My weight is 10 pounds over what I was when I got out of Basic more than two decades ago. Since I'm 29, I apparently I enlisted when I was 8.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

51 Less than T - 10m. Smelly chick, here we come.

Your Taco Bell order is on the way!
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2025 06:55 PM (mH6SG)

Don't forget Smelly Chick's curry!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (VNX3d)

52 43 I just heard that Vladimir Putin kidnapped a bunch of children from Eastern Ukraine early on the war. Is that confirmed?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 14, 2025 06:57 PM (3AwA+)

lol Wut what ? Maybe eat a Snickers.

Posted by: jsg at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (UJ+K5)

53 Allergy shots, you will positively be taking them forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (j6NlC)

54 Almost back to 2019 me ...

COVID / Cancer / Stress almost got me.

But this week we:
Squatted 330lbs for 3
Benched 185lbs close grip for 7
Deadlifted 430lbs for 4

Maybe 2025 will have some PR's for the Gainzzz Report

Posted by: browndog spreading chalk dust everywhere at March 14, 2025 07:00 PM (TTAGa)

55 "a plain hamburger, cottage cheese and tomato,"

I could go for that right now. Triple-sized, please.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:00 PM (3l52y)

56 I mean no one was fat growing up. You had maybe one chubby kid and that was it. They were called husky.

It is worth remembering that the average fat level of the USA has risen exactly the same time as a HUGE influx of chubby hispanics across the southern border. Yeah Americans are fatter but its not as bad as the stats suggest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:00 PM (2VST1)

57 Actually, because it is GAINZZZ...

When Snowflake and Trumpy lived with me, they had neverending food, especially after my Mother died.

Snowflake went from about 8 pounds to over 12. Trumpy went from 9 to 13. But they are outdoor cats again. But I do let them in the house in the afternoonnto sleep.

Snowflake is back down to under 10 pounds. Trumpy is a bit better too. They come here and sleep. I don't give them food.

Posted by: Stateless...60% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 14, 2025 07:00 PM (jvJvP)

58 Old school pseudoephedrine.
It just works.

Granted they treat you like a meth head when buying it...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (/lPRQ)

Seconded.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 14, 2025 07:00 PM (i24o9)

59 46 >> I fucking hate the treadmill though.

Hills. If you have a hill you can walk / run / bike up, replace the Treadmill a few times a week with hill sessions.

Nothing burns fat like gravity.
Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM

I hate climbing hills. I can handle gradual rises but I hate going down steep hills covered in poison oak.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:01 PM (JObcD)

60 If I simply took off the buns on burgers I would not lose 30 lbs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 07:01 PM (42Vb+)

61 I'm still curious what is going on with everyone being overweight. I get the constant device use and kids don't play outside like they used to but it has to be something else? I mean no one was fat growing up. You had maybe one chubby kid and that was it. They were called husky.

Several things all combined in roughly the same time period
1) Carbs were deemed good and protein bad
2) Smoking went out of style
3) Fewer people get enough exercise
4) Fat shaming went away
5) People started eating more prepared/restaurant food and less home cooking
6) We started giving the poor large amounts of money to spend on food with no restrictions as to what they could spend it on

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 07:01 PM (t0Rmr)

62 I just heard that Vladimir Putin kidnapped a bunch of children from Eastern Ukraine early on the war. Is that confirmed?

I have heard that but I strongly suspect that is orphans of the war being picked up and taken to Russia, not kidnappings. But I could be wrong. Just doesn't sound like a Russian thing to do, although they do really love kids.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:02 PM (2VST1)

63
T -2 m. First stage topped off.

And stage 2 is now loaded.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:02 PM (w6EFb)

64 I hate climbing hills. I can handle gradual rises but I hate going down steep hills covered in poison oak.

Oh, boohoo.

Posted by: Sisyphus at March 14, 2025 07:02 PM (xCA6C)

65 My weight is 10 pounds over what I was when I got out of Basic more than two decades ago. Since I'm 29, I apparently I enlisted when I was 8.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

That's about where I am at - was about 5 over - but even adding on a few pounds and I can feel it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 14, 2025 07:02 PM (i24o9)

66 this is the SpaceX "save the stranded astronauts" launch I think. Coming in about one minute. YouTube has it, don't have a link.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2025 07:02 PM (Cus5s)

67 Fellas, fyi the chick interviewing AOC in the fake(?) vid is what AOC will look like in about 10 years, so be prepared.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (Dv3i1)

68 >>I hate climbing hills.

My favorite part of Mt Biking is the climbing. I am weird like that.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (npXNI)

69 "I'm not going to take them away from people, but we shouldn't be subsidizing them," Kennedy said."

Now do Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (0CU3H)

70 66 SpaceX site has it.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (3l52y)

71
Here we go...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (w6EFb)

72 I checked the hamburger rolls I have and they clock in at 160 calories. 1/3 lb of hamburger is around 380 calories, so I guess the roll is a higher percent of the calories then I thought

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 07:04 PM (t0Rmr)

73 When it's too cold and windy to walk outside, I grab a small cart at the supermarket and walk up and down the aisles twice. I usually end up buying something I need . but I probably look less suspicious to whomever is monitoring the store cameras than if I'm just walking up and down the aisles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 07:04 PM (42Vb+)

74 Information is trickling out about the difference between American fast food and European fast food restaurants. One thing is that Americans eat a lot more additives that serve no purpose beyond extending the life of the French fry oil. The Europeans apparently don't allow it. Some type of formaldehyde, maybe?

Regardless, I'm betting a lot of our health problems aren't because of the fries and potato chips and such, but because of the unknown additions that aren't food and that people don't know they're eating.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 14, 2025 07:04 PM (V0m8t)

75 Since I'm 29, I apparently I enlisted when I was 8.

An early achiever, very precocious

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (2VST1)

76 Up it goes

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (nfa82)

77 Poison oak builds character.

Posted by: eleven at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (0HaGk)

78 If you want to get really angry look up the Kentucky pop train on youtube. Basically people on food stamps in the state take their money to Walmart at the first of the month and buy all of the soda they can get their hands on. They then take it to two places in Lexington and Louisville and "sell" it to the people there for 50 cents on the dollar. Those companies then go around and fill soda machines and coolers all around the state using taxpayer subsidized cans of soda.

The State says they are not breaking any state laws and point the finger at the Feds for allowing this to happen. The Feds pull a "what me worry" attitude and claim it is the State's problem to fix. Nobody does anything. I am not sure if it is still happening as we moved away from there 8 years ago but it was going full blast then.

Every month when we lived there when I went to Walmart at the first of the month they were dragging pallets of soda up to the front of the store so people could buy them with their food stamps.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (e5NfL)

79 5) People started eating more prepared/restaurant food and less home cooking
6) We started giving the poor large amounts of money to spend on food with no restrictions as to what they could spend it on
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 07:01 PM (t0Rmr)

I think you're right. It's probably an all of the above situation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (JObcD)

80 I'm still curious what is going on with everyone being overweight. I get the constant device use and kids don't play outside like they used to but it has to be something else? I mean no one was fat growing up. You had maybe one chubby kid and that was it. They were called husky.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 06:58 PM (JObcD)
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I think it has to do with additives and overmedication.

I don't like processed food, and never did. I like fresh, simple ingredients and this agreed with my wife's dietary restrictions. We kept pop out of the house for the most part, and limited sweet snacks. All are kids were skinny, sometimes being teased for it.

Years ago we dropped the seed oils in favor of olive oil. It wasn't anything I read, I just realized the rape seeds were never meant to be eaten, but olives are. Anyway, it seems to have worked out well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

81 >>I checked the hamburger rolls I have and they clock in at 160 calories. 1/3 lb of hamburger is around 380 calories, so I guess the roll is a higher percent of the calories then I thought

Now.
Check the Ingredients on that Bun and compare it with the Ingredients on a McDonald's Bun.
There should be maybe 3-4 ingredients total. Depending on whether or not they are Seeded.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (npXNI)

82 "When it's too cold and windy to walk outside, I grab a small cart at the supermarket and walk up and down the aisles twice. "

Mall walkers, especially for the elderly, has long been a thing. The plan to euthanize those over 75 is on hold for at least four years, I presume.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (Cus5s)

83 I probably look less suspicious to whomever is monitoring the store cameras than if I'm just walking up and down the aisles.

Trust me, the people working at the store would think its neat if you walk in their store instead of outside when the weather is bad. They get paid the same whether you buy anything or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (2VST1)

84
Booster will attempt to land back at the Cape, not on the barge.

Boostback burn started. Watch this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (w6EFb)

85 Whaddya know? F does = ma!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (3l52y)

86 I would expect allergy shots to work pretty well.

Not really related to that but I started taking shots for psoriasis.

GAINZZZ up the wazoo. I don't know what's in it but damn it works.

Posted by: eleven at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (0HaGk)

87

Semen prevents tooth decay, 4 out of 5 Brown Willies surveyed agree!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (x0n13)

88 I’ve maintained 185-190 for 15 months now (down from 355). Mostly keto, though I’ve started to add some carbs back. Still working out like a demon on meth. Easily did 17 leg raises like in the video, just to see if I could. Running 3x a week, 3 to 10 miles, rucking 40lbs 10k the other days. Magic scale says I’m 176 lbs of muscle, 9 lbs of bone and under 5% body fat.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (hlNLQ)

89 I checked the hamburger rolls I have and they clock in at 160 calories. 1/3 lb of hamburger is around 380 calories, so I guess the roll is a higher percent of the calories then I thought

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 07:04 PM

The salt content is up there as well. Sodium is typically 230-250 mg per bun. The wife and I sometimes skip the bun just because of the salt content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (e5NfL)

90 Ive lost 5 pounds by not eating. It hurts but it works.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2025 07:08 PM (GhQvH)

91 SpaceX launch - so very cool. Godspeed.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2025 07:08 PM (mH6SG)

92
The crackle of those nine engines is so satisfying

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2025 07:09 PM (xG4kz)

93 68 >>I hate climbing hills.

My favorite part of Mt Biking is the climbing. I am weird like that.
Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 07:03 PM (npXNI)

You are a glutton for punishment. I enjoy walking outdoors on flat or gentle hills but I'm amazed at the discipline it takes to ride or run up those mountain passes.
I'm basically lazy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:09 PM (JObcD)

94
I can hardly believe that Kelloggs and Pepsi will suffer that much if Texas takes them off their food stamp program. I can see them wanting to nip this in the bud, or cover all their bases, but if candy and soda get canceled from Texas's food stamps, how much really would they lose?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:09 PM (lCaJd)

95 The Palis have their own methods of encouraging running for health.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1900388206547222682

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2025 07:09 PM (xCA6C)

96 82 "When it's too cold and windy to walk outside, I grab a small cart at the supermarket and walk up and down the aisles twice. "

Mall walkers, especially for the elderly, has long been a thing. The plan to euthanize those over 75 is on hold for at least four years, I presume.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2025 07:06 PM (Cus5s)

Wait this is a thing? My neighbors do it, I thought they invented it and were just kooky.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (x0n13)

97 I just gloat a little. At 75, I am on no medications, cook at home 99.9% of the time and eat one meal a day. Drink a few glasses of wine in the evening to ease general old age aches and life is good.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (j6NlC)

98 checked the hamburger rolls I have and they clock in at 160 calories. 1/3 lb of hamburger is around 380 calories, so I guess the roll is a higher percent of the calories then I thought
-

Leave one uneaten for six months and you'll see part of why I think our obesity and health problems have less to do with what we think we eat and more to do with what we eat no longer being food.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (V0m8t)

99 Musk has gotta be one of the most impressive humans ever to walk on the earth. Guys in Air Force 1 flying to Mar A Lago with POTUS after another week of rooting out corruption in the government while his rocket his heading into space.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (LkLld)

100 Gainz? Over the last 5 months I've lost about 30 pounds and 3-4 inches of the waistline. Just ate and drank less alcohol and beer. Same exercise program probably less as my hips are trashed. A little more manual labor but it is amazing what less intake does. I'm about 10 pounds from my college weight when I was benching 350. No where near the muscle mass of back then but wearing jeans from 25 years ago.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (17s+e)

101
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (hlNLQ)

Well done! That's amazing!

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (JObcD)

102 An early achiever, very precocious
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:05 PM (2VST1)
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The only 162-pound 8 year old in my class! Gimme that paste! And the ball!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

103 I can hardly believe that Kelloggs and Pepsi will suffer that much if Texas takes them off their food stamp program

Frankly, if they go bankrupt I would not care. The crap you can buy on SNAP or whatever its called now is baffling to me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:12 PM (2VST1)

104
Beautiful landing. Perfect. That never gets old to me, watching that booster come down ass-end first and then light off and land vertically.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)

105 Everything is a scam and an op. Including Health organizations.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:12 PM (TQz1o)

106 "Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (hlNLQ)

Well done! That's amazing!
Posted by: CaliGirl"

Yes it is.

Posted by: eleven at March 14, 2025 07:13 PM (0HaGk)

107
They called "Shannon", final abort mode. They'd land near Shannon, Ireland if need be.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)

108 100 Well done!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:13 PM (3l52y)

109 Beautiful landing. Perfect. That never gets old to me, watching that booster come down ass-end first and then light off and land vertically.

*fist bump*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2025 07:14 PM (mH6SG)

110
Orbit achieved. Now watch for Dragon separation. You'll get a beautiful view.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:14 PM (w6EFb)

111 ***" ... for example, if he has a burger now, he usually doesn't have it with a bun," _Hannity
Kennedy replied, "Oh, I didn't know that he was actually changing his diet."

"I have to say this ... and even with all the -- can I say -- crap that he eats," the recently confirmed secretary added.
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Started ordering double meat burgers instead of two regular burgers. Only complaint is they don't add double veggies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2025 07:14 PM (c9zag)

112 I can hardly believe that Kelloggs and Pepsi will suffer that much if Texas takes them off their food stamp program. I can see them wanting to nip this in the bud, or cover all their bases, but if candy and soda get canceled from Texas's food stamps, how much really would they lose?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:09 PM

They are afraid that other States will follow. Remember the food stamp industry in the US is well north of $100 BILLION per year. And that is just the Fed's portion. A lot of states add $$$$ to that number and there are almost 50,000,000 people collecting SNAP.

It is a huge business.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:14 PM (e5NfL)

113
What I'm looking for is a way to get exercise. I'm furloughed by my employer right now and I could easily spend the entire day in my pajamas if I don't have a need to get out for something. Seems like I need to pay an atrocious sum in advance for a month of 7:00 am cardio or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (lCaJd)

114 97 I just gloat a little. At 75, I am on no medications, cook at home 99.9% of the time and eat one meal a day. Drink a few glasses of wine in the evening to ease general old age aches and life is good.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (j6NlC)

You also lift things and are in the sunshine. Moving hay around is no joke. I can only moves flakes.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (JObcD)

115 Wait this is a thing? My neighbors do it, I thought they invented it and were just kooky.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (x0n13)

It's a thing, for about 25 years.

Posted by: long night...lifted at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (2NXcZ)

116 I have to get back on the !Gainzz plan. I've been stress eating the last few weeks. The weather is getting nice more often now so I should also be able to get myself to do more outside.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (bP/i4)

117 I can hardly believe that Kelloggs and Pepsi will suffer that much if Texas takes them off their food stamp program

They're afraid that everyone will start doing it.

About a quarter of SNAP payments go to junk food.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (xTIDn)

118 I'm trying to get back to keto. Getting too fat for my pants, so I need to dial the carbs back. Step one: stop making bread. Step two: prep all the veggies I got at the grocery store today so I am ready to make quick stir fry for lunches.

And the hip tendons are feeling a little better, so back to the gym I go, with a rebuild workout plan.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (OX9vb)

119 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (x0n13)

Malls are so empty now that that is who you usually see-not a lot of shoppers, but mostly older people in their sneakers walking, but I don't live close to a mall, so that's why I walk at the supermarket sometimes, and anyway our son takes his lunch to work everyday so I am usually buying sandwich fixings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (42Vb+)

120 This storm hitting all across the east is looking to be pretty bad.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (Dm8we)

121 I like the way the bugs cluster around the fiery plume.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (3l52y)

122 Orbit achieved. Now watch for Dragon separation. You'll get a beautiful view.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:14 PM (w6EFb)

After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)

123 >Wait this is a thing? My neighbors do it, I thought they invented it and were just kooky.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:10 PM (x0n13)

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My dear departed Grandma did the mall-walking thing for years. She was very spry and active 'til her late '80s.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (i/l90)

124 om 25 years ago.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (17s+e)

You people are all on fire. Amazing and congratulations.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (JObcD)

125 Musk has gotta be one of the most impressive humans ever to walk on the earth. Guys in Air Force 1 flying to Mar A Lago with POTUS after another week of rooting out corruption in the government while his rocket his heading into space.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 07:11 PM (LkLld)
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The "great man" theory of history was vigorously attacked by academic mediocrities who were conscious of their own inadequacies.

The fact is that any serious student of history - particularly military history - knows that there are moments in time where a man's head is grazed by a bullet and he chooses to rise up in defiance rather than cower in safety.

Upon such unplanned moments, the fate of empires turn.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

126 LOL a reporter team bonked the president in the face with a boom mic by accident, his reaction is hilarious

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (2VST1)

127 You know why he lost weight? Because he went into a calorie deficit. I don’t think you can spot reduce, but you can target muscle build. Does it get to the same end? Not sure- depends on your goals and what you are seeking.

Note that I don’t think calories are all that matter when it comes to eating. What you eat impacts a whole host of things. Gut biome, energy, skin, hair, muscle, etc.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (p4NUW)

128 What's that lingo he's speaking?

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (3l52y)

129
Now, Jap and Rooskie talking Jap and Rooskie.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

130 All health associations and organizations are scams. All of them.

PS: I would not eat a hamburger without a bun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (/U5Yz)

131 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (lCaJd)

You got dogs? Go walk them. No dogs? Go walk. I find that walking even just a mile or so every day helps me sleep and regulate my diet.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (3Ope8)

132 >>>3 I'd go with setting expectations to zero, that way even minuscule relief will seem like a miracle.

sort of what i'm expecting.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (KRtlO)

133 I’ve maintained 185-190 for 15 months now (down from 355). Mostly keto, though I’ve started to add some carbs back. Still working out like a demon on meth. Easily did 17 leg raises like in the video, just to see if I could. Running 3x a week, 3 to 10 miles, rucking 40lbs 10k the other days. Magic scale says I’m 176 lbs of muscle, 9 lbs of bone and under 5% body fat.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 14, 2025 07:07 PM (hlNLQ)

Nice work. Congratulations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (i24o9)

134 willowed:
Who owns Citigroup? By Zippia Team - Aug. 21, 2022

Institutional Investors own CitiGroup. The top shareholders of the company include:

The Vanguard Group, Inc (8.27%)

SSga Funds Management, Inc (4.8%)

Berkshire Hathaway (2.84%)

BlackRock Fund Advisors (2.32%)

[Founded June 16, 1812; 212 years ago (as City Bank of New York) [DeepRoots], Founder Samuel Osgood - wiki]

CitiGroup was formed in October 1998 following a $140 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group to create the world's largest financial services organization.

CitiGroup is headquartered in New York City, New York, and is broken down into four divisions:

CitiGroup is the third largest banking institution in the United States, alongside J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. CitiGroup is incorporated in Delaware. In 2021, CitiGroup had annual revenue of $71.88 billion with over 223,000 employees working for the company.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (c9zag)

135 I checked the hamburger rolls I have and they clock in at 160 calories. 1/3 lb of hamburger is around 380 calories, so I guess the roll is a higher percent of the calories then I thought
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2025 07:04 PM (t0Rmr)

commercial bread and buns have a lot of sugar in them. It keeps the bread moist and acts to absorb moisture to keep it from going hard and stale. It also browns quickly so the bread toasts faster. It also covers up the bland flavor of commercial bread that is raised by chemical leavening.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (D7oie)

136 I'm furloughed by my employer right now and I could easily spend the entire day in my pajamas if I don't have a need to get out for something.

Take a walk if you can. Its free and its a nice break every day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (2VST1)

137 Drug addicts in Portland buy bottled water with their food stamps, pour out the water, and return the empties for the 10 cent Oregon deposit (in cash).

Such a useful Federal program...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 07:18 PM (xTIDn)

138 I had a pretty good week in the gym. On Wednesday I did bench. For my top set I got 195lbs x 8 and felt like I had more in the tank. Then I did four sets of 175lbs x 8.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (lIio7)

139 >>I would not eat a hamburger without a bun.

They are actually pretty damned good on top of a number of different salads.
Cheeseburger, though.
Not a plain Hamburger.
Kosher is not an option.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (npXNI)

140 >>> had allergy shots for environmental factors [dust, pet dander etc.] and had the 3 years or so of shots for it.
After that treatment, for years now I've just used 24hr XS Reactine once a day and things are fine.
I think they started with two shots a week; then down to one a week; then one every second week but I assume your allergist has told you that already.

no not really. I just got the test and a date for a follow-up. I know nothing about this. I'm worried I'm being scammed.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (KRtlO)

141 Getting too fat for my pants, . . . .
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I will come as no surprise to you that the remedy for this, as listed in the Moron's Handbook is, DON"T WEAR PANTS!!

You're welcome, always trying to help.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (cYBz/)

142 Hey Ace- allergy shots can cause temporary water retention is muscles, so make sure you don’t panic over an uptick on the scale, it is not real weight gain, and drink plenty of water, adding lemon is helpful.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (p4NUW)

143 What I'm looking for is a way to get exercise. I'm furloughed by my employer right now and I could easily spend the entire day in my pajamas if I don't have a need to get out for something. Seems like I need to pay an atrocious sum in advance for a month of 7:00 am cardio or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (lCaJd)

___
Do you need a gym setting, or are you ok on your own? There are lots of workout channels on Youtube. I've worked out at home for years, but am rural and driving to the gym is just not convenient.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 07:20 PM (i/l90)

144 "Big Food" is more *evil* than you believe. My sister sent me a link where they are worried because Ozempic and its copycats are working so well that overall caloric demand is DOWN...noticably. Fewer calories consumed means less food sold. Their solution: They are actively trying to "hack" the diet drugs by developing chemicals that will make food items MORE ADDICTIVE.

Tell me, on a scale of 1-10, how that's not 11-venty billion worth of evil?!?!

Posted by: Crusader at March 14, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)

145 You got dogs? Go walk them. No dogs? Go walk. I find that walking even just a mile or so every day helps me sleep and regulate my diet.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM (3Ope

Yep. And if you do have dogs and don’t walk them that’s kinda mean to the dogs. They need that exercise as much as their owners.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:20 PM (TQz1o)

146 And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots? I just got tested because for five or six years I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think. Every spring is miserable for me now. (I never had allergies until recently.)

Ace, have you tried Quercetin? We do 500 mg morning and evening, and my wife in particular does really well. She did shots, and they worked, but she had to go once a week. I wouldn't say they're equal, but the Quercetin is 90+% of the shots in effectiveness.

We use Solaray QBC.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2025 07:21 PM (a3Q+t)

147 The shoulder I busted in 2012 was starting to ache again, and I tried ibuprophin, tylenol, lidocane patches, and I finally got DMSO for it.

The DMSO seems to be doing the best for me, though I am paranoid about getting anything in with it.

yesterday I smeared some on and realized I had been working with red pepper and I suspected it hadn't all come off when I washed my hands thoroughly

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:21 PM (D7oie)

148 Once upon a time, didn't they use Soyuz for these missions?

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:21 PM (3l52y)

149 105 Everything is a scam and an op. Including Health organizations.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:12 PM (TQz1o)

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Yup. There is a massive amount of money wasted on these non value added organizations.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 14, 2025 07:22 PM (7geUv)

150 141 Getting too fat for my pants, . . . .
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I will come as no surprise to you that the remedy for this, as listed in the Moron's Handbook is, DON"T WEAR PANTS!!

You're welcome, always trying to help.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM (cYBz/)

Except for the Book Thread.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 07:22 PM (PiwSw)

151 61
Sugar or HFS is added to everything and in excess. Regular sliced bread is a good example.

Posted by: Ciampino - Keep clear of rocket exhaust at March 14, 2025 07:22 PM (KjLnc)

152 It’s funny how you’ll have people drive a couple of miles to the gym. Only to then get on the treadmill. It’s like uhm why not cut out the middleman?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:22 PM (TQz1o)

153
Now, 28 hours until they dock with Smelly Chick.

Orbital rendezvous is...not trivial. There will a serious of phasing burns to slowly match position and speed with the ISS.

ISS is just turning up past Australia over the Pacific, headed toward NA. Dragon is matched inclination but ahead of it in roughly the same orbit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 07:22 PM (w6EFb)

154 "commercial bread and buns have a lot of sugar in them."

Anything other than produce and meat most likely has added sugar these days.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:23 PM (3l52y)

155 Cheeseburger, though.
Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2025 07:19 PM

Happy to show anyone who needs to know how to grill one!

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at March 14, 2025 07:23 PM (a3Q+t)

156 no not really. I just got the test and a date for a follow-up. I know nothing about this. I'm worried I'm being scammed.
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Just because my serum tasted like sugar-water doesn't mean I was being scammed!!

Mmm. Sugar-water.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (/tzYP)

157 Silver Hills makes a good low sugar, whole grain burger bun. Ozery has whole grain sandwich thins that are good as well. Rudi’s another good brand that is low sugar and what they do use is actually agave, their English muffins are good.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (p4NUW)

158 >>You also lift things and are in the sunshine. Moving hay around is no joke. I can only moves flakes.

If you want to get strong, not gym strong real strong, do farm work. You don't ever realize it but all day long you are exercising every muscle in your body.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (LkLld)

159 Not a truly big number, but for this old man--it felt really good!
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at March 14, 2025 06:42 PM (/xmMU)

Sounds like a lot to me! Of course, my PR for squat is 75 lbs, so. I really hate barbell squats. I'm actually more inclined to do split squats--I think I'm getting faster results with them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (OX9vb)

160 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (lCaJd)

You got dogs? Go walk them. No dogs? Go walk. I find that walking even just a mile or so every day helps me sleep and regulate my diet.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 14, 2025 07:17 PM

We walk our dogs 3-4 times a day. 15-20 minutes each walk and they are not leisurely walks, we are moving at a brisk pace all of the time. The only time we do not walk them is during thunderstorms or pouring rain, other than that we are out there 3-4 times a day even if it is 10 degrees of 115 degrees.

If we did not have the dogs bugging us to walk all of the time we would not be out there doing it. We don't have to do it as we have a huge 3/4 acre fenced in back yard for them. They keep us 29 year olds moving.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (e5NfL)

161 I find it rather touching that RFK Jr. is concerned about President Trump's health above and beyond RFK's concern for MAHA. I get the sense that the Trump Cabinet likes each other. I hope that is true. Its makes for a better working relationship.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 07:24 PM (42Vb+)

162 I remember the AHA ripping Atkins diet and then dancing on his grave when he passed away while suggesting it was because he was 400 pounds as a result of his unscientific diet low carb diet and thus he deserved to die

I hope they all get a heart attack

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM (HYKHz)

163 And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots?

I did for years when I was a kid, and I had terrible allergies all along.
They cleared up a bit when I stopped smoking, and when I started using a sinus rinse they went from impacted sinuses that made me sound like Snuffelupagus to mild drippyness.
The side benefit is the first week it made my previously stuffed sinuses feel like an empty warehouse with the barn doors open allowing the breeze to flow through
The downside was that since I was using an Iodine based rinse it made everything smell like Worcestershire sauce

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM (D7oie)

164 AOC video is funny. Took me a couple of watches to make sure it wasn’t real. She’s retraded enough to really say that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM (TQz1o)

165 drat

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM (D7oie)

166 I just gloat a little. At 75, I am on no medications, cook at home 99.9% of the time and eat one meal a day. Drink a few glasses of wine in the evening to ease general old age aches and life is good.
Ben Had
*************
You gloat girl, that's fantastic. Of course, you are quite active mentally and physically - which makes a huge difference in one's life.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

167 Thanks! Personally, I’ve always loved running uphill, especially in races. There’s a nice 50+ bike ramp at the Market Street exit on the Schuylkill River trail- it’s at my 1.5 mile turnaround point from Boathouse Row. I do 5 hill repeat sprints up it before heading back.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 14, 2025 07:26 PM (hlNLQ)

168 Feed me.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 14, 2025 07:26 PM (i/l90)

169 If you want another space launch, Rocket Lab has one a 0000Z (8 PM EDT): The Lightning God Reigns

https://www.youtube.com/live/C_0MLtKwN9Q

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:26 PM (VNX3d)

170 Oh Kindltot....

Posted by: The Barrel at March 14, 2025 07:26 PM (PiwSw)

171 I just heard that Vladimir Putin kidnapped a bunch of children from Eastern Ukraine early on the war. Is that confirmed?
Posted by: Brunnhilde

That was us. We just like to blame Putin since he cut off our supply of Russian orphans

Posted by: GloboHomo at March 14, 2025 07:27 PM (D0HYP)

172 Subway Sandwich bread is loaded with sugar.
We eat them occasionally but yeah, loaded.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 14, 2025 07:28 PM (c6hLR)

173 Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:25 PM

* beckons *

* snaps mandibles *

Posted by: The Barrel at March 14, 2025 07:28 PM (a3Q+t)

174 My son is involved with tillering and cutting off tops of grasses, and even from that every day he is developing stronger upper arm muscles and is getting more toned.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 07:28 PM (42Vb+)

175 Yes Putin kidnapped kids. Just like Trump is a Nazii, J6 was an insurrection, Joe Biden was senile and Kamala is a very smart woman.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 07:29 PM (TQz1o)

176
You got dogs? Go walk them. No dogs? Go walk. I find that walking even just a mile or so every day helps me sleep and regulate my diet.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

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You've definitely got something there. I used to have a cat -- I've talked about him on the Pet Thread -- but my mom stole him because she liked him. I used to take that cat out for a walk around the block every day. Just go around the block and call him from time to time and he'd come trotting after me. I would pass people on the sidewalk and they'd say "You're walking your cat?!" Yup.

Well, since my mom stole him, he does nothing but lie on the bed all day and he's gained three pounds. I've put on a few inches.

Since I no longer have a cat, I don't have to confine myself to a walk around the block -- I can go a lot further. Okay, tomorrow is it!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:30 PM (lCaJd)

177 Hubby was kind of ripped back in the day when he worked summers on his Granddad's farm.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 07:30 PM (i/l90)

178 122
After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)
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But will the SpaceRoomba have cats riding on it?

Posted by: Ciampino - Keep clear of rocket exhaust at March 14, 2025 07:30 PM (KjLnc)

179 I'm going to defend Big Sugar. Sugar has been used in food preparation for centuries and people were not dying of obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Sugar is an energy producer.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:31 PM (j6NlC)

180 143 What I'm looking for is a way to get exercise. I'm furloughed by my employer right now and I could easily spend the entire day in my pajamas if I don't have a need to get out for something. Seems like I need to pay an atrocious sum in advance for a month of 7:00 am cardio or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:15 PM (lCaJd)

I am obviously biased here, but group fitness with the right people can ensure 1. You are doing it right and 2. You get variety so you don’t get bored. You should find someone or place who will allow you to do cardio and functional strength (which doesn’t have to look like heavy weight lifting) in the blend that meets your goals.

For me, when I started my fitness journey, I needed the accountability of group fitness and not wanting to throw money out the window. I knew solo I would not push myself. But I am not everybody, of course. I had to force myself to go every time at first, and then there were just days I didn’t want to, but I forced myself anyway. I knew I was getting somewhere when how I was feeling because of working out trumped how I looked, and then I would feel like I really missed something when I didn’t work out.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:33 PM (p4NUW)

181 After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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But will the SpaceRoomba have cats riding on it?
Posted by: Ciampino

Stubentigers

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (MsrgL)

182 After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)
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But will the SpaceRoomba have cats riding on it?
Posted by: Ciampino - Keep clear of rocket exhaust at March 14, 2025 07:30 PM (KjLnc)

Why not? You could even create a mock-up of a tank for the cats to look outside.

The first ones could be named Kitty, Fluffy, Sylvester, and Snowflake. After that, we have name and logo competitions for the additional craft.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (VNX3d)

183
Do you need a gym setting, or are you ok on your own? There are lots of workout channels on Youtube. I've worked out at home for years, but am rural and driving to the gym is just not convenient.
Posted by: ScaryMary

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I have no excuse. I'm probably better off in a gym with someone saying "Three more reps!" but I could easily use YouTube. I'm looking for advice on lifting my psychological block. It's just too easy to start with coffee and news, and then dink away the whole day like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (lCaJd)

184 179 I'm going to defend Big Sugar. Sugar has been used in food preparation for centuries and people were not dying of obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Sugar is an energy producer.
Posted by: Ben Had at March

Our portions of everything is bigger and our activity is way less. That isn’t a great combo.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (p4NUW)

185 I'm using DMSO with frankincense and aloe. Works pretty well and cleared up some internal bruising from a fall in the house.

I have a rowing machine,the kind with water for resistence. I just can't use it long enough to get benefit from it yet. I am trying to do more walking with the dog for now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 07:35 PM (7PR43)

186 161: I get the sense that the Trump Cabinet likes each other. I hope that is true. Its makes for a better working relationship.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The thing that most of them have in common was is that they were all persecuted by the previous administration.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2025 07:35 PM (K9xEt)

187 I'm going to defend Big Sugar. Sugar has been used in food preparation for centuries and people were not dying of obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Sugar is an energy producer.

Posted by: Ben Had
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Seems that the fat epidemic started with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in the late 70s-80s. The "experts" say sugar is sugar but the end results appear to prove that wrong. Just my 2 cents and observations over 60 years.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 14, 2025 07:35 PM (17s+e)

188
Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:33 PM (p4NUW)

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That's my profile exactly. I need to commit some money and feel a little social pressure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:35 PM (lCaJd)

189 "Subway Sandwich bread is loaded with sugar."

They go through the show of making their own bread, and it turns out to be the worst bread ever. It would cost them no more to make good bread, but NOOOOOO!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:36 PM (3l52y)

190 High fructose corn syrup doesn't have to go into everything commercially made

Posted by: Skip i at March 14, 2025 07:36 PM (fwDg9)

191 122
After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)

Late70s TV show, Salvage One with Andy Griffith...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:37 PM (x0n13)

192 Been taking an hour work out class twice a week when not doing weights to mix it up a little. You hop around, do some exercises for every minute on the minute, run gassers back and forth, blah blah blah. Problem is some of the wimmens be wearing really tight outfits and they don't mind bending over and hopping around right in front of me. Being the only older guy in the class I don't mind it either and I don't have to tip!

Posted by: Heterosexual And Loving It! at March 14, 2025 07:37 PM (R/m4+)

193 Humans have a preference for carbs. They taste good, and give us a rush. They are calorie dense and require little or no preparation. Snacks.

Cooking requires effort, planning, and time. Notice what foods disappear first in your pantry (without discipline, at least) Chocolate, chips, etc. my weakness is Saltines. Love to snack on them.

Our bodies become used or preferred “sugar burners” right down to the cellular level, in the mitochondria. The pathways for the re-regulation and uptake of fatty acids become atrophied from disuse. Cut out the sugar, the carbs, and it forces the process to of using fat for energy. Just like when all the junk food is gone. “What else do we have to eat around here?”. Dig deeper in the pantry, you’ll find something!

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:37 PM (rJUaY)

194

The thing that most of them have in common was is that they were all persecuted by the previous administration.

Posted by: Puddleglum

And they are doing the people's will. That fosters comradery and the teamwork dopemine hit from doing good things and getting recognized for the work makes the normal humam brain want more of the dopemine hit.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 14, 2025 07:38 PM (MsrgL)

195 Saltines >>> Ritz

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:38 PM (3l52y)

196 So it's Trump's fault that AOC is hitting the Hispanic woman wall.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:38 PM (YqDXo)

197 I have no excuse. I'm probably better off in a gym with someone saying "Three more reps!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Even if you are in great shape a workout buddy or buddies is of great help. Sometimes you are tired or don't have the time. A buddy can push you to go workout and vice a versa. Finding one or two is a great help.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 14, 2025 07:38 PM (17s+e)

198 190 High fructose corn syrup doesn't have to go into everything commercially made
Posted by: Skip i at March 14, 2025 07:36 PM (fwDg9)

That we are making Food, into Alcohol, to add to gasoline... is both destructive to our vehicles and tools, but IMO, Evil, when there are hungry people in the world.

That our Government pays for it... is stupid.

Drill Baby, Drill.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2025 07:38 PM (QAkQ3)

199 >>>187 I'm going to defend Big Sugar. Sugar has been used in food preparation for centuries and people were not dying of obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Sugar is an energy producer.

Posted by: Ben Had
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Seems that the fat epidemic started with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in the late 70s-80s. The "experts" say sugar is sugar but the end results appear to prove that wrong. Just my 2 cents and observations over 60 years.

Nope. Sugar is bad.

Those saying "we've always eaten sugar" are wrong. We ate sugar in the form of fruits, which have relatively low amounts of sugar.

Processed sugar, cane sugar, was a luxury item until the last hundred years, when innovations allowed people to grow beets for sugar (rather than cane, which could only be grown in the tropics). In the last hundred years Americans' consumption of sugar has gone up twentyfold.

It's the dose that makes the poison, as they say.

Is it okay to eat sugar in the relatively low quantities we used to eat it in? Sure. But we haven't eaten sugar in such low doses since the start of the Industrial Age.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:39 PM (KRtlO)

200 Our bodies become used or preferred “sugar burners” right down to the cellular level, in the mitochondria. The pathways for the re-regulation and uptake of fatty acids become atrophied from disuse. Cut out the sugar, the carbs, and it forces the process to of using fat for energy. Just like when all the junk food is gone. “What else do we have to eat around here?”. Dig deeper in the pantry, you’ll find something!
Posted by: Common Tater at March

None of this is true.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:39 PM (p4NUW)

201 After SpaceX gets Starship up and running, they can create SpaceRoomba, to clean up all the debris in orbit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)

Late70s TV show, Salvage One with Andy Griffith...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 07:37 PM (x0n13)

I was thinking of Quark, with Richard Benjamin.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:40 PM (VNX3d)

202 Oh and I have been moving 20 qt bags of potting soil from the front yard to the back. Walmart helpfully dropped them off on my front porch, blocking the front door. I guess they thought I'd take them in the house

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 07:40 PM (7PR43)

203 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (lCaJd)

What I figured out is to find an activity you enjoy, and can commit to doing regularly. Walking? Yoga? Crossfit? The 24Hr Fitness place down the street? There are so many things to choose from. It is all good.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 07:40 PM (i/l90)

204 I have no excuse. I'm probably better off in a gym with someone saying "Three more reps!" but I could easily use YouTube. I'm looking for advice on lifting my psychological block. It's just too easy to start with coffee and news, and then dink away the whole day like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2025 07:34 PM (lCaJd)

A.J. Jacobs said something like "Most fitness programs can be summed up in five words:

"Eat less, move more, relax."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 07:40 PM (PiwSw)

205 The Heart Association recommended limit on red meat per day is 6 ounces.

Someone get over there and explain the difference between the words "snack" and "meal" to those idiots.

Posted by: Orson at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (dIske)

206 seriously read Gary Taubes book on sugar.

Diabetes and tooth cavities used to be diseases of the very rich *only.* The poor had cavity-free mouths, because sugar was too expensive for the poor.

But sugar got cheaper and more plentiful, until diabetes became largely a disase of the poor.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)

207 "Dig deeper in the pantry, you’ll find something!"

Eleven year old can of black beans. For a special occasion.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (3l52y)

208
That's my profile exactly. I need to commit some money and feel a little social pressure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

There used to be an 'ette that lived in Decatur, AL (or maybe had kids/grandkids there). If that is you, go to the Madison Y on Hughes road and sign up for the adult Tang Soo Do classes. Good cardio, great muscle workout for the full body, and you learn some basic unarmed self defense. Bonus...Smash is a 2-stripe instructor for that class.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (MsrgL)

209 >>>205 The Heart Association recommended limit on red meat per day is 6 ounces.

six ounces is what a girl eats for a single meal.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)

210 Chemically fructose is sugar. True. However:

Glucose can be utilized by every cell in the body.

Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver. So while the molecule might be similar, our bodies treat them different.

My theory is 1. those who are trending towards overweight and into obesity suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrome, at that point the fructose is wreaking havoc, because the impaired liver function.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (rJUaY)

211 One of the drivers of obesity is sugar in everything processed.

One 12 oz can of Coke: 39g of sugar

One can Campbell's Tomato soup: 30g sugar

Posted by: Chuck C at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (D0HYP)

212 I hadn't thought about the frankincense. I have some that I inherited, but the only use I had for it was to add it to my pine tar and beeswax shoe grease. It is anti-inflammatory, isn't it!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (D7oie)

213 205 The Heart Association recommended limit on red meat per day is 6 ounces.

Someone get over there and explain the difference between the words "snack" and "meal" to those idiots.

Posted by: Orson at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM (dIske)

I say green meats should be completely avoided, even on St. Patty's Day. Green eggs too, Dr. Seuss.

Posted by: The Deep State at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (ynpvh)

214 I like the saltines with unsalted tops but they're still way too salty for me to eat very often. My preference is more for sweet than salty.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (eWe5g)

215 Even if you are in great shape a workout buddy or buddies is of great help.

Surely for most. I hate that, personally. Fine doing my own thing on my own schedule.

Posted by: To Each Their Own at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (iBuVT)

216 It is worth remembering that the average fat level of the USA has risen exactly the same time as a HUGE influx of chubby hispanics across the southern border. Yeah Americans are fatter but its not as bad as the stats suggest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Also why the "average height of Americans" suddenly decreased.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (LsB7C)

217 Piper, I would say over indulgence is indeed a problem.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:43 PM (j6NlC)

218 I mean, six ounces is what a girl eats in a single meal when she's not very hungry and orders the filet mignon.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:43 PM (KRtlO)

219 I don't even like hamburgers with buns any more.

At home, I put slices of home grown tomatoes and onion between 2 hamburger patties, slather the patties with butter and eat 2 or 3. If I don't have homegrown, I just eat the patties and butter.

I also take methylene blue. Amd a fair amount of taurine, and PQQ. The PQQ kind of upset my stomach, though.

At 61, my focus is on maintaining muscle. Went 90 percent carnivore a few years ago and never looked back. I do bedtvon high fat. I eat mostly rib eyes and bacon, but also the burgers, salmon, and a fair amount of chicken thighs. I do use non keto stuff like teriyaki sauce, pineapple and chipotle in adobo sauce when I cook the thighs, which I mostly cook in the crockpot.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2025 07:43 PM (Vvh2V)

220 >>My theory is 1. those who are trending towards overweight and into obesity suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrome, at that point the fructose is wreaking havoc, because the impaired liver function.

could be. Non-alcholic fatty liver disease is exploding. I think one third of adults now have it.

I had it, but then got rid of it through dietary changes. I'm not sure if I got it back. I probably did get it back over the last two years.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:44 PM (KRtlO)

221 The poor had cavity-free mouths, because sugar was too expensive for the poor.

Yeah, the poor just lost all their teeth from malnutrition and wearing them down on the grit that the millstones left in the flour.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2025 07:44 PM (LsB7C)

222 211 One of the drivers of obesity is sugar in everything processed.

One 12 oz can of Coke: 39g of sugar

One can Campbell's Tomato soup: 30g sugar

Posted by: Chuck C at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (D0HYP)

Oh, that's like 120 to 160 Calories. I'm sure Weasley Crasher would comment that 1000 calories = 1kcal = 1 Calorie, but we don't need rabble like that here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)

223 Is it okay to eat sugar in the relatively low quantities we used to eat it in? Sure. But we haven't eaten sugar in such low doses since the start of the Industrial Age.
Posted by: ace at March

We have eaten whole grains from the beginning of time. I am not a fan of a lot of refined sugar, as you know, it’s calorie dense with little nutritional value. But your body needs protein, carbs and fat to thrive. It’s also important how you get them as fiber is important for your gut, vitamins are important, etc etc. Macros and micros. But you don’t have to go nuts measuring- you can do it by how you load your plate, and frankly, retraining yourself to listen to what your body is asking for. We need to stop eating when we are full. Licks, bites and tastes all count.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:44 PM (p4NUW)

224 Nutrition and Physical Degeneracy by Dr Weston A Price will show you, in photos, what happened when people stopped eating traditional diets and started eating modern diets with sugar. He was a dentist and was very interested in how the change affected teeth and faces.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (7PR43)

225 One of the drivers of obesity is sugar in everything processed.

The more things are processed, the less energy it takes to digest it too.
One of the reasons the big food companies don't want snack foods taken off SNAP is because the kids won't be eating those items and will not create a lifetime preference to eating them

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (D7oie)

226 Best hamburger without a bun is made with gorgonzola and basil

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (j6NlC)

227 >>>216 It is worth remembering that the average fat level of the USA has risen exactly the same time as a HUGE influx of chubby hispanics across the southern border. Yeah Americans are fatter but its not as bad as the stats suggest.

mexico actually became the fattest nation in the world a couple of years ago.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (KRtlO)

228 Seems that the fat epidemic started with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in the late 70s-80s.
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Don't be silly. Hydrolyze sucrose with dilute acid (e.g., in the stomach 10^-2 M HCl) to get a 50-50 mixture of glucose and fructose, then eat an orange.

Voila! Stomach contents chemically indistinguishable from HFCS.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (YqDXo)

229 @Piper - this studio is in your neck of the woods. Master Smith is a really good instructor. If the ladies from your classes are wanting some self defense, send them here.

https://worldtangsoodo.com/
studio/endurance-karate-center/

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (MsrgL)

230 221 The poor had cavity-free mouths, because sugar was too expensive for the poor.

Yeah, the poor just lost all their teeth from malnutrition and wearing them down on the grit that the millstones left in the flour.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2025 07:44 PM (LsB7C)

Hey, stone ground teeth too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (ynpvh)

231 "I like the saltines with unsalted tops but they're still way too salty for me to eat very often."

Green olives. I rinse and wring all the brine out of them before eating. I'll try it with the crackers!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:46 PM (3l52y)

232 Surely for most. I hate that, personally. Fine doing my own thing on my own schedule.

Posted by: To Each Their Own at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (iBuVT)

This is me. I enjoy flailing about and sweating in private. I have taken group fitness classes in order to learn a new skill, like kettlebells.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 14, 2025 07:46 PM (i/l90)

233 214 I like the saltines with unsalted tops but they're still way too salty for me to eat very often. My preference is more for sweet than salty.
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 14, 2025 07:42 PM (eWe5g)

I like savory more than sweet.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 14, 2025 07:46 PM (JObcD)

234 228 Seems that the fat epidemic started with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in the late 70s-80s.
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Don't be silly. Hydrolyze sucrose with dilute acid (e.g., in the stomach 10^-2 M HCl) to get a 50-50 mixture of glucose and fructose, then eat an orange.

Voila! Stomach contents chemically indistinguishable from HFCS.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM (YqDXo)

I'm sure Avogadro has your number.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:46 PM (ynpvh)

235 Oh God, a nutrition post.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (YqDXo)

236 If you want another space launch, Rocket Lab has one a 0000Z (8 PM EDT): The Lightning God Reigns

https://www.youtube.com/live/C_0MLtKwN9Q
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:26 PM (VNX3d)

Working link

https://www.youtube.com/live/k-cuTDrVCmQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (VNX3d)

237 A pound of burger is roughly 975 calories, and about 75 grams protein. Adult males need about 100 grams if active. This is not widely known, but as we age especially. Protein is expensive and politics plays a role.

Meat, dairy, eggs, butter and cholesterol were vilified exactly when monetary inflation took off big time in the early 70s and the price of groceries became a hot button political issue. This was no coincidence. The “Science” followed the lobbyists.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (rJUaY)

238 231 "I like the saltines with unsalted tops but they're still way too salty for me to eat very often."

Green olives. I rinse and wring all the brine out of them before eating. I'll try it with the crackers!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 07:46 PM (3l52y)

Use then to salt up tamales, and add flavor, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (ynpvh)

239 Nood

Dems taking a dive.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 07:48 PM (3NiEn)

240 You will be surprised at how good the poor people looked in that study. And those traditional diets were all very different. Once they started eating sugar, their health went downhill.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 07:48 PM (7PR43)

241 235 Oh God, a nutrition post.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah, well.
How about a McTurtle on a post?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:48 PM (ynpvh)

242 226 Best hamburger without a bun is made with gorgonzola and basil
Posted by: Ben Had

Yum. On my way.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2025 07:48 PM (dg+HA)

243 ace, you have done more shit to your body than anybody I know. I want to capture you for 90 days and give you a reset.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:49 PM (j6NlC)

244 seriously read Gary Taubes book on sugar.

Diabetes and tooth cavities used to be diseases of the very rich *only.* The poor had cavity-free mouths, because sugar was too expensive for the poor.

But sugar got cheaper and more plentiful, until diabetes became largely a disase of the poor.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2025 07:41 PM

Our consumption of sugar took off after the end of WWII. I can remember as a kid in the 50s and 60s there was sugar in everything we ate, cereal, soda, coffee, white bread almost everything we ate had sugar added to it. Super sugar smacks was my favorite breakfast cereal when I could get it. We would pour sugar all over our oatmeal in the morning. When babies were fussy we would give them a bottle filled with sugar water.

My parents rarely had sugar as it was expensive and considered a luxury item for them. Now it is added to almost everything we eat and we are much fatter and have way more diabetes than ever before in our history.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:49 PM (e5NfL)

245 This is me. I enjoy flailing about and sweating in private. I have taken group fitness classes in order to learn a new skill, like kettlebells.

Well ... flailing about and sweating with one dedicated partner would probably be fine. But certainly not in a group. Not even to learn a new skill.

Posted by: To Each Their Own at March 14, 2025 07:49 PM (iBuVT)

246 No. Unsalted Saltines are an abomination. You should be shunned, your car keyed, and the can opener hidden in your kitchen.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:49 PM (rJUaY)

247
Late70s TV show, Salvage One with Andy Griffith...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Cement mixer on the moon nipping it in the bud!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2025 07:49 PM (63Dwl)

248 >> I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think.

Ace have you ever tried D HIST?

https://tinyurl.com/2wetfmj2

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 07:50 PM (LKBWf)

249 Don't be silly. Hydrolyze sucrose with dilute acid (e.g., in the stomach 10^-2 M HCl) to get a 50-50 mixture of glucose and fructose, then eat an orange.

Voila! Stomach contents chemically indistinguishable from HFCS.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:45 PM

You probably pronounce it un-IONized, don'cha?

Posted by: Plumbers Local #602214 at March 14, 2025 07:51 PM (a3Q+t)

250 Piper, I will add also that genetic ancestry has a lot to do with what diet is best for you. My wife is very different as to what she can eat, and how her body reacts to food. She will live on rice and noodles, but it drives me insane to try it, her genetics is long on rice and I can only eat so much.
I joke that a Mediterranean diet doesn't suit a genetics that has been living for four millennia on turnips, mutton and oats

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2025 07:53 PM (D7oie)

251 228 Seems that the fat epidemic started with the introduction of ~~high fructose corn syrup in the late 70s-80s~~ video games, eliminating gym classes, labor-saving devices, cable TV, concerns over kids being molested by Democrats, and hence not getting much or any exercise, replacing playing football etc. in the street with "playdates" and travel teams (for the athletically talented; the others sit on their butts), and the practice of sticking yams up your butt.

I might have made up that last one. But see my book, "Cram a Yam and You'll Never Be Sick." Operators are standing by.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:53 PM (YqDXo)

252 Our bodies become used or preferred “sugar burners” right down to the cellular level, in the mitochondria. The pathways for the re-regulation and uptake of fatty acids become atrophied from disuse. Cut out the sugar, the carbs, and it forces the process to of using fat for energy. Just like when all the junk food is gone. “What else do we have to eat around here?”. Dig deeper in the pantry, you’ll find something!
Posted by: Common Tater at March

None of this is true.
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It is absolutely true. Nice try, though.

Fat is not for decoration.

Answer this. Fat and protein is required for human survival.

How many “essential carbohydrates” are there?

We’ll wait for your answer.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:55 PM (rJUaY)

253 241 235 Oh God, a nutrition post.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:47 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah, well.
How about a McTurtle on a post?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2025 07:48 PM (ynpvh)
___________

Or a Disney or Marvel comics post?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:55 PM (YqDXo)

254
the American Heart Association -- a grifter organization that will say anything is healthy if you just pay them enough money -- appeared in Texas to argue that people should be allowed to use SNAP vouchers on cookies and soda.

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DEI Academic: "Non-white, non-asian people are unhealthy because of racism."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2025 07:55 PM (xPNeT)

255 Our bodies become used or preferred “sugar burners” right down to the cellular level, in the mitochondria. The pathways for the re-regulation and uptake of fatty acids become atrophied from disuse.
________________

Evidence?

And please, not anecdotal. "I knew a guy who ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:56 PM (YqDXo)

256 NZ Launch of Rocket Lab is next.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Nbp-ZRAULvY

Posted by: Ciampino - Keep clear of rocket exhaust at March 14, 2025 07:57 PM (KjLnc)

257 LOL a reporter team bonked the president in the face with a boom mic by accident, his reaction is hilarious

Did he do a LeBron James dramatic squirrel flop? J/k. I'll have to look for that; funniest Trump for me is his off the cuff remarks.

Posted by: Nelly at March 14, 2025 07:58 PM (pSknm)

258 Our bodies become used or preferred “sugar burners” right down to the cellular level, in the mitochondria. The pathways for the re-regulation and uptake of fatty acids become atrophied from disuse. Cut out the sugar, the carbs, and it forces the process to of using fat for energy. Just like when all the junk food is gone. “What else do we have to eat around here?”. Dig deeper in the pantry, you’ll find something!
Posted by: Common Tater at March

None of this is true.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2025 07:39 PM (p4NUW)
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Blasphemy! A heretic!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:58 PM (YqDXo)

259 There is only a single organ in the human body that requires Glucose, the brain - and our bodies can synthesize all that is needed from fat.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:59 PM (S79R3)

260 I no longer take 'shots'. I allow NO 'injectables' into my body simply because I can no longer trust what's in them. The TRUE vaccines we USED TO KNOW have been (or are being) reformulated to be mRNA 'vaxxines' - I will NOT allow that to be introduced into my body. Wanna do a blood DRAW? I'm okay with that. I am NOT okay with anything now being introduced INTO my body. Color me distrustful ...

As for weight, I've dropped 11 or 12 lbs. 'How he do dat!?' you ask ... simple: I've cut WAY back on chocolate chip cookies and the Little Debbie Frosted Fudge Cakes that are designed solely to make us into Frosted Couch Potatoes. This morning's weigh-in showed a reading of 211 and change.

The other bright spot is that Property Mgmt FINALLY installed a PROPER set of handgrips on the weight machine. Now it's possible to do lat pulldowns again - unless something else breaks or goes missing ... you knowwwww ...

Posted by: Dr_No at March 14, 2025 07:59 PM (ayRl+)

261 DEI Academic: "Non-white, non-asian people are unhealthy because of racism."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2025 07:55 PM (xPNeT)
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Are you saying 300 lb. ghettopotamuses are unhealthy?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 07:59 PM (YqDXo)

262 How many “essential carbohydrates” are there?
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Just one: cellulose.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 08:00 PM (YqDXo)

263 People used to do a lot more manual labor, which helped burn off what carbs they consumed.

And I also think some people process carbs better. My God, a billion plus Asians eat rice all day every day, and they're fine.
Asians have slightly different liver metabolism, maybe that helps. (Some antibiotics are not as effective for Asians because of this. It's a lack of a certain enzyme, iirc)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2025 08:00 PM (Vvh2V)

264 How many “essential carbohydrates” are there?
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Carbohydrates - apart from cellulose, I was kidding - are largely interconverted and prepped for metabolism in the citric acid cycle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 08:02 PM (YqDXo)

265 DEI Academic: "Non-white, non-asian people are unhealthy because of racism."
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That's why black athletes perform so poorly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 08:03 PM (YqDXo)

266 People used to do a lot more manual labor, which helped burn off what carbs they consumed.
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This is apparent looking at Hispanics. Hispanic men do a lot of heavy manual labor (such as the guys building the house right outside the window of my study), and they're almost always in good shape.

The mamacitas and los ninos, OTOH, living in the same household as the male manual laborers, are almost always seriously overweight.

Inference?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 14, 2025 08:06 PM (YqDXo)

267 Evidence? LOL

Ah, the explosion in Diabetes? Fatties everywhere? Duh. Some of you sound like Democrats. Carbs are really really bad in excess.

Restrict calories, and your body will burn fat. If you need a cite for this, you’re not paying attention.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 08:08 PM (HqEP8)

268 This is a GAINZ tip that if nothing else will make you laugh. It dates back at least a dozen years to an interview when Christopher Walken was asked to what he thought he owed his great career. Talent, he said, but also he had great hair.
(I'm quoting, not agreeing.) Because every day he pulls his hair in little bunches. Why? Because he heard that JFK did it, and he had great hair.

I thought, why not? Free, and it doesn't take any special time: waiting for a light to change, watching TV, reading comments at Ace . . .

Fast forward a couple of months, and my hairdresser says, What are you doing to your hair? I know it's not Rogain, that only helps the hairline, but you have new hair coming in all over your head. So I explained. She started doing it too!

There. A genuine GAINZ, for free. Not as strenuous as a treadmill.

Posted by: Wenda at March 14, 2025 08:11 PM (ipU9j)

269 Since there seems to be some basic misunderstanding on how our bodies actually work.

No fat burning (weight loss) can occur unless and until the carbohydrate stores are exhausted first.

Sugar/carbs is burned first preferentially. This is a fact. This is also true right down to the cellular level. They “prefer” to burn sugar. Excess calories including carbs, are converted to Adipocytes (fat cells) Hope this helps.

Because sugar can be burned instantly, it is preferable. Make sense? I certainly hope so. Incidentally this is why Alcohol is verboten in weight loss strategies.

Alcohol is treated like poison in our bodies. Before any carbs can be burned, the Alcohol must be metabolized. Hence “beer gut”.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 08:15 PM (gIVe3)

270 Is it okay to eat sugar in the relatively low quantities we used to eat it in? Sure. But we haven't eaten sugar in such low doses since the start of the Industrial Age.
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And yet, those who are over 29 talk about how skinny they were back in the '70s and '80s. (Not just themselves but everyone.)

And also how they lived offa twinkies and ate entire boxes of serials and ate fried bologna sandwiches on Wonder bread.

I'm sure this is a problem with many factors but I'm not sure we know the prime factor.

For example, microplastics. Microplastics are endocrine disruptors and they are increasingly ubiquitous and nigh unavoidable. They are in the air.

Maybe what we're seeing is that most people's bodies can't handle the level of ingestion of plastic we currently have. (Something like a credit card a week.)

There's a bitch for ya. Our puritanical ethos says "We're sinners. Fat is our punishment."

But maybe? It's just plastic.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at March 14, 2025 08:35 PM (asXVI)

271 I tried allergy shots for a year: no effect. I did learn which allergens affect me most, however.

What knocked my lifelong allergies completely out was helminthic therapy. I started it 10 years ago, and within six weeks of the first application, I could be in the same house with a cat and have no reaction. Other known allergens failed to affect me, as well.

I have renewed my colony every 3-5 years since then. Waking up every morning to a rush of air through two clear nasal passages is a sensation I did not know for 50 years.

Too much to explain here. See the wiki linked below.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at March 14, 2025 09:19 PM (WIBH6)

272 Acupuncture and Chineses herbal medicine cured my seasonal allergy’s 30 years ago, Try it out.

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RFK Jr.: Trump Has Lost 30 Pounds, "Despite All the Crap He Eats," Just By Taking the Buns Off His Burgers
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