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It's been a while since I posted to this thread. Glad to see it's still here.

The last few months, I've eliminated starch from my diet, with surprising results for my weight and blood sugar. ...

Treat it as a challenge. Focus on the workout and forget about your daily cares for a half hour or an hour. Feel the blood pumping and washing away the cobwebs; feel the good-tired feeling...

Let's face it, it's hard to turn down a cookie today for better health two or three years from now, especially when there's no obvious immediate benefit from denying yourself that delicious cookie...

That's what Love Handles are for.

Best shape ever is TODAY! Today, for the first time, I used dumbbells from the second row in my bench press. It's taken me a long time to get here, so this feels like a major milestone. Woo hoo!
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You should of course take professional advice over any advice you get on the internet. That being said, here are a few comments based on my own experience.

1. Soda is the devil; you're right to...

I'm not sure what you mean by a "whole food" -- white potatoes are whole, natural and unprocessed, but they do me real bad.

I dunno about that, since there's glucose, fructose, and sucrose.

Personally, I don't find fruits a problem, but starch send my blood glucose soaring. (Starch is just long chains of glucose.) ...

Just for the sake of clarity, I'll point out that everyone knows about the ice ages, so no one has ever claimed that climate change is something "recent and the direct result of man's existence" --...

Thanks!

The diabetes may well affect my progress. I am certainly very careful about my caloric intake, so I'm not surprised that I'm not getting bigger -- but I am surprised that I have made so...

Reading Tropzzz's thread about waist size got me looking at my workout records. By coincidence, today's the fifth anniversary of my starting to exercise. (I didn't start lifting until later.) ...

It seems to me that you knew well enough which side you were playing for, if you were looking at pictures of Bo Derek. If you were looking at pictures of Christopher Reeve instead, you'd know well...

I hope the kid knows about whatever gay community centers there are in the area. They usually have some kind of support programs for kids. He may need it, if his father goes as far as kicking him...

If your body is healthy, it keeps your blood sugar very tightly regulated. Thus, if you have high blood sugar, it probably because your muscle cells are unable to absorb the glucose they need from...

I use 3 cups of water to 1 cup of brown rice in my rice cooker. Try different proportions until you get a result you like.

It also takes about 10 minutes longer than white rice.

No soaking,...

Even if that were true, what do you think we should do about it? It seems like the solution is the same, whether the scarcity is real or artificial...

What difference does it make why oil prices...

I wonder if we are using the word "nutrient" to mean the same thing? Carbohydrate is a nutrient (at least according to my dictionary), so when I read what you wrote above, to me it says "wheat isn't...

Thanks, guys.

Servo, it's clear the doctor goes by the chart, since he has it on his wall and runs his finger down it every time I see him. And I've done my best to make the BMI chart...

Would those of you who have an eye for this kind of thing mind giving me an estimate of my bf percentage?

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I'm asking because my doc says I need to lose weight... I'm diabetic, so he...

I used to hate sweet potatoes when I was a kid, but I think it was because they were canned, and had a lot of sugar or syrup added. I've recently rediscovered them, and now I think they're great --...