Health, fitness, gains and wellbeing

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This dexascan was taken the same time as that last blood test, one week before the half marathon, first week of Jan 2025

I am surprised I was able to do an 8m/mi average at 17% bodyfat, that is a lot of dead floppy saggy weight to carry for 13miles

These past two weeks I’ve been dieting down kinda hard for summer. It hasn’t been too bad though. Before I was doing like 4 eggs, toast, or big egg sandwiches, which I switched to 2 hard boiled eggs and a low sugar greek yogurt for breakfast. And instead of huge plates of rice and chicken/steak from places like panda for lunch, I switched to just like a salad wrap with extra chicken, and later in the day a power bar if my stomach feeling hungry and some fruit (berries) when I get home from work

And at night always just chicken, veggie mix, and a tiny half cup of rice. Along with a half cup of mixed nuts. It ended up coming out to like a 3/4 reduction in carbs and like an ~600-800k reduction in calories per day from my prev eating

And I figured with so little carbs my workouts would suck and I’d have no energy. But after only a few days my body seems to have switched to burning fat as alternate fuel source and completely disregarded carbs. I feel like I have even more energy than before. I have been losing a lot of fat, I just never realized how well of a fuel source that is

And with the tons of protein (I do 2-3 protein shakes/day at 25g per) and 3x the normally daily Metamucil fiber powder, I pretty much never have any hunger pangs on this. I would normally say this is amazing and I’ll do it for the rest of my life, but once I run low on fat, my body is going to either start crashing or eating muscle I’m guessing. So dunno what I’m going to do then, but something will have to change when I don’t have a plentiful fat surplus (which is actually amazing energy when burned!) to draw on

[shovelquest]

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Wisdom

did quinten tarrentino not like this guy? Why he make him get his ass kicked in that hollywood movie?

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did quinten tarrentino not like this guy? Why he make him get his ass kicked in that hollywood movie?

No idea, never seen it. I only seen the old ones with the actual actor

Bruce’s memory is likely going to fall into the same trap of looking at older martial arts eras through the lens of modernity, “that obviously wouldn’t work in real MMA or even real kickboxing” type of attitudes

Just the same as how people are furious that hundreds of years ago some historical figures that we actually look up to thought and did things that we find upsetting today, how could they not know back then? They were so stupid and wrong

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Everything is genetics, smoke if u got em, eat mac'y D's and play sports in a golf cart.

Trump is healthier than all of us.

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Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everything is genetics, smoke if u got em, eat mac'y D's and play sports in a golf cart.

Trump is healthier than all of us.

Genetics are so weird to me

Like my aunt has drank alcohol like a fish and smoked like a chimney, and is now in her 70’s still drinking and smoking away

There is something in her genetics protecting her against cancer (she’s only had some minor skin cancer from sun tanning through the 70’s and 80’s with only “tanning lotion”) and I don’t know what those genes are

But I am not as big of a believer when it comes to genetics and being fat or fit. IMO that is 80 or 90% your choices, and the rest genetics

But protection from cancer and illnesses, that seems to be like majority genetics, secondary is life choices

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The biggest example of why it’s about genetics that I’ve seen was this amazing doctor and human being that I stumbled upon, who led a very healthy and active lifestyle, and so when he was diagnosed with an aggressive stage 4 cancer and given 6 months to live, he wasn’t too worried in this vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6463REbh2HM

Then his last vid, only around a year later, he was basically ravaged by the cancer, saying his goodbyes: https://youtu.be/sESvfpNQJ1I?si=fei3iGOxHt_kmKf8

Dr Dan was a real good dude. I haven’t seen any other person face down death with such grace and poise. RIP

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Bummer

First timed run since the half-m and when my stomach started rumbling I figured I just did a messy crap before I left, I have nothing left in me, so that has to be a fart. Time to fire up the fart jet pack and get a speed boost!

Then I realized right before I let loose NOPE NOPE NOPE! I don’t trust that fart

So I held it in. And the rumbling grew and grew. I had to slow down and stop early, wanted to go to 5mi, instead I had to stop at 3 AND do the walk of shame home (I always run home normally but I was considering having to run to the ditch to take an impromptu shit)

When I got in I painted the bowl. Never trust a fart, especially when running

Next time will be better. Was holding up good, energy wise, for being on a calorie deficit

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Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Genetics are so weird to me

Like my aunt has drank alcohol like a fish and smoked like a chimney, and is now in her 70’s still drinking and smoking away

There is something in her genetics protecting her against cancer (she’s only had some minor skin cancer from sun tanning through the 70’s and 80’s with only “tanning lotion”) and I don’t know what those genes are

But I am not as big of a believer when it comes to genetics and being fat or fit. IMO that is 80 or 90% your choices, and the rest genetics

But protection from cancer and illnesses, that seems to be like majority genetics, secondary is life choices

My grandma is 98 this year. Smoked her whole life. Genetics are a crazy thing when it comes to some things.

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Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But I am not as big of a believer when it comes to genetics and being fat or fit. IMO that is 80 or 90% your choices, and the rest genetics

im pretty fit, and healthy and so i have been judgemental against people who are not.

But i saw a thing that said that some people burn calories more than others, and they gave an example like, some when they sit naturally sit, others shake their legs etc tap their feet, and that actually burns calories, those people are more prone to be thinner.

And while watching I realized that the whole time my 2 feet were moving like a hummingbird wings as I was watching this stupid thing on tv for the last hr at 11pm, and thought well shit i guess I am genetically lucky.

Still a conservative though.