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Started a healthy diet, when do I start to feel better?
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There is a certain amount of body fat that is healthy and even necessary. By my very simple calculations, I am well over 20% body fat. In fact, at 150 pounds I will still have over 20% body fat. My wife says at 158 I will no longer be over weight. That gives me a good shorter term goal.
I had the roll, I had the butter, I had the drinks. My weight was up 2/10 of a pound this morning. I had my evening of excess, now to move down again.
Last nights dinner at a roof top restaurant in Virginia. Seared Tuna and they brought a salad to our table by mistake and given to me to eat.
I have become a fan of Tuna steaks, really stepping out of my box now. This one was more medium, a week or so ago I had true seared, raw on the inside.
Complete disclosure ) (FYI) I avoid the dressings whether salad or the Tuna, if anything just a very, very light touch of any dressing all the time.
I have become a fan of Tuna steaks, really stepping out of my box now. This one was more medium, a week or so ago I had true seared, raw on the inside.
Complete disclosure ) (FYI) I avoid the dressings whether salad or the Tuna, if anything just a very, very light touch of any dressing all the time.
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A few nights before the post above another Seared Tuna. Yeah, I know, I did partake in a little pasta side dish 
Im getting there! Still at a lifetime high weight discounting last year massive weight gain now gone. 25 lbs more to go for what my high side of BMI says I should be 175. Cant wait to knock off another 15 lbs to do the hip to waste ratio to check progress but won't do it now as I will get depressed *LOL* The shirt is a large, I used to be medium so I look more skinny then I am in that photo *LOL*
During the next 25 pounds, now at 199 lbs. I need to work on getting some muscle and strength back. Slow and steady it's been, really like re-learnng everything. IN a strange way it might be a lifesaver that this happened. AS long as the radiation effects dont kill me in 10 or 15 years or cancer come back. This new way of eating might further prevent cardio intervention (stents or worse) Im in a rough place with that. Plaque all over, not just my heart area, pert scan even showed some in my prostate and I am someone who ate far, far more healthy than most Americans ever. My problem is the genes I was handed. Good news is, 5 years ago low levels meaning no obstructions greater than 20/25%
I attribute this to my health conscious food choices for the last 3 decades maybe. But now taking this to a next level. Not as good as you guys but not that far off.
Because of these threads, videos, books and was introduced to some of it at Duke conference in Sept 2025 in regards to diet and fasting being investigated which I realized after the threads started. I have learned so much about nutrition and I know I can have intelligent conversations with my doctors. I will admit, I think I know more than them for my medical case. They can't possibly review my history in the 15 minutes they meet with me, keep in mind we are now to this area and all our doctors are new to us.
The big test will be with a cardio NP June 24th. I will insist on a CT angiogram. See how far I get with that, if not, I will seriously consider moving to the "other" new medical network that expanded here. Gotta be proactive! I want to KNOW if plaque has increased and bringing me to more blockage than 20/25% .. Im not going to wait for a heart attack (if I didnt already have a light one a few weeks ago) not wait for any blockage to get to 70% where it will show up in a stress test. I want to know now.
Thanks! feels good I look skinny! *LOL* my wife shows me photos from last year. I find them hard to look at. My neighbors all noticed too. Yeah, I know, mercury ... I was going to have grilled tuna tonight now that we are home. After your post, I think I will go for the 93 or 95% lean burger to grill. *LOL*
I eat salmon instead of Tuna. It's low mercury risk. Costco sells convenient frozen packs in nice-sized portions, as well as fresh.
I've hit the 80 lb lost mark. 10 to go. The loose skin is ugly, but better than fat. Yard work is my workout right now; I built a sprinkler system and paver stone path, the latter using 24x16x2" stones, which are heavy!
The weight loss is much harder now. I'm still limiting my eating to once per day, in the evening, but when I start, it's hard to stop. That's going to be a challenge going forward.
100% awesome!
Loose skin, yeah I know thee well.
YES - I eat all kinds of fish, yes even smaller tuna. Hg is tough to reduce once in the system.
I'm back to my OMAD today!! I have not weighed myself since return though. But we were very active at least.
Yes, wild caught Salmon is unbeatable. Farm raised might be questionable. My wife is big on wild caught salmon and trout.
Too fishy for me though. I was eating flounder for a long time, recently got into tuna, yeah, mercury is a thought. Dont think I eat too much of it yet. Will see, I have become hooked on it, had it for dinner last night at a restaurant.
When not eating out, we get our Tuna, Salmon and Trout at Costco but most times at Sams club, better price and more easy to find the tuna @Sams club. With all this said, if the American public ate any of these fish regularly instead of fast food, health insurance costs would plummet!
Wow, great for you on the 80lbs. I always have been a one meal a day person, however I DO UNDERSTAND once you start its hard to stop thing. I also know about being stuck. I took off now close to 40 lbs almost one year later post cancer treatment which put on a massive amount of weight, I was zoned out, still bewildered and still weight the most I ever weight in my life. Meaning until last year, I am now at my previous lifetime high before cancer treatment in 2025 and kind of got stuck there at 200 lbs. I will get down to the 175 range which it where I should be for proper BMI. I am now just about figured out what kind of eating plan long term. Which will integrate most likely one 48 hour fast a week. ... and again. I know that feeling, once you have that one meal a day, you break down and ended up "grazing" for a couple hours later! For the record, we have ZERO junk food in our home. Nothing, no snacks etc etc... I just have to cut back snacking after dinner on things like walnuts and one unhealthy thing, cheese.
Anyway you're almost there with only 10 more to go, I am dead set on dropping the next 20 ASAP after being stuck at the level for a few weeks.
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Still 154 pounds after the bread fest!
I concur on the last 10 lbs being the hardest. I'm down to 185 from 233 and still have a few inches of pants waist size to go to reach pre-marriage size.
Great News!!!!!!!!!!!
If you look back my post #127 from two months ago, you'll find my doctor wanted to start me on statins
because my cholesterol numbers were as follows.......
total cholesterol 213
hdl 66
triglycerides 58
ldl 133
I told him I would NOT take statins and he didn't like it. I ended up following Dr Ham on YouTube and at HAM.com who had way worse numbers and is working to REVERSE his heart disease. His diet is based on Caldwell Esseltyn's diet, but he investigated and went further.
I want you to note I wasn't following the diet nearly as closely as Dr Ham who has had fantastic results. But I followed it fairly closely, especially with the supplements he suggested.
Anyways my new lab numbers....
Total cholesterol down to 122
LDL down to 49
My doctor cant believe it LOL. He told me over the phone. I have no idea what my latest hdl or triglycerides are, but I don't care and he would have told me if there was a problem. My objective was to lower cholesterol and LDL and I kicked AZZ!!!!!
If you look back my post #127 from two months ago, you'll find my doctor wanted to start me on statins
because my cholesterol numbers were as follows.......
total cholesterol 213
hdl 66
triglycerides 58
ldl 133
I told him I would NOT take statins and he didn't like it. I ended up following Dr Ham on YouTube and at HAM.com who had way worse numbers and is working to REVERSE his heart disease. His diet is based on Caldwell Esseltyn's diet, but he investigated and went further.
I want you to note I wasn't following the diet nearly as closely as Dr Ham who has had fantastic results. But I followed it fairly closely, especially with the supplements he suggested.
Anyways my new lab numbers....
Total cholesterol down to 122
LDL down to 49
My doctor cant believe it LOL. He told me over the phone. I have no idea what my latest hdl or triglycerides are, but I don't care and he would have told me if there was a problem. My objective was to lower cholesterol and LDL and I kicked AZZ!!!!!
Good job taking control of your lifestyle. Your doc knows that what you've done is possible, but very few people will actually do the work to achieve your results and then keep it up long term. It's a lot easier to get patients to take a pill.
I still miss those corn chips and the junk food but it keeps getting easier the longer you stick with it. I get antsy, too, if I don't get a good long hike in most days.
So the wife bought bone broth based collagen powder. Unflavored but doesn't smell too bad.
Me being cheap, had bought "a complete meal" protein powder which turned out to have non-dairy creamer as the carb and fat component. Yuck, but I'm not throwing money away even if it means having to consume GMO stuff.
The morale of the story - find out the ingredients on supposedly healthy supplements.
Me being cheap, had bought "a complete meal" protein powder which turned out to have non-dairy creamer as the carb and fat component. Yuck, but I'm not throwing money away even if it means having to consume GMO stuff.
The morale of the story - find out the ingredients on supposedly healthy supplements.
"I paid good money for those strychnine laced corn flakes!"
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This strikes me as remarkable. Many people can't move their cholesterol despite drastic measures, and here you are, blowing it out of the water! Great job!
I personally think it was a huge amounts of fiber I was taking in. I really ate very little fiber in the past. I'd work out in the AM, then have a protein shake with blueberries, strawberries, green bananna, apple, 2 tables spoons of metamucil, chia seeds and flax seed. That's a chunk of fiber right there. An hour later I'd eat oatmeal with blueberries, strawberries, more flax and chia, apple and walnuts. More fiber.
In my salads I always added more flax seed, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds. More fiber. I snacked on carrots (fiber) and hummus. Wheat pasta and whole wheat bread added more fiber.Also I was supplementing with nattokinase and berberine which Dr Ham recommended.
Next I am going to reduce both the natto and berberine and re-test. If things look good I am going to add eggs back into my diet, rinse and repeat. I want to find the balance of what I can and can't eat to keep my levels healthy.
But I believe anybody can do this if they watch his videos, eat what he suggests, add the supplements,
and add huge amounts of fiber to the diet.
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It seems like you're highly chocolate deficient and your hops intake is alarmingly low!
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