What would 2025 be without a wall of text from JJG.
I'm kidding of course, this is actually pretty concise for you.
I was trying to boil down my statements to their bare essences, just for you.
Much appreciated! Time is valuable.
I certainly eat red meat occasionally, which I said, and by occasionally I mean 1-2(max) times a week,
I interpret that as you likely erroneously believing that there is something wrong with eating red meat, whether you consider the matter to be diabetes related or for some other reason that you consider red meat to be bad or in need of limitations.
and yes that includes bacon, definitely not every morning though. There have been some studies that show it increasing fasting glucose levels, so I keep it limited but I get enough red meat to make me happy. Plus, the weird shit people inject animals with to mass-produce meat doesn't make me want to consume more of it. Eggs I've already mentioned, but there is nothing wrong with plant-based proteins.
For sure humans are pretty damned omnivorous, so we can actually absorb nutrients from a variety of foods, even less nutritionally dense foods and even some foods that cause us issues, which are included in some plants (legumes and inflammation) and defensive mechanisms in plant foods, and it may not be a big deal if we are eating a variety of vegetables, legumes. ...
So I suppose that I am not completely against the idea of getting some nutrients from plants, yet plants are not really even needed in the diet.. so we can usually eat as many fats as we like, yet we don't really get any benefits after reaching a certain nutritional amount of protein, so if we overload on protein then our body is going convert that excess to sugar...especially if we are eating low fat protein, we might not get filled up.. since fat will give us a satiated feeling that we might not so easily get from protein. limiting bacon seems unnecessary, and I doubt that you are getting failures of your blood sugar to drop because of your eating high fatty foods such as bacon. There might be some other ingredients contributing to the glucose levels not dropping. I do understand that bacon can have added sugar and added nitrates in the smoking process, so I may well agree that pork belly may well be more nutritious than bacon, even though there may well be more nutritious ways to smoke bacon without sugars or nitrates.
red meat is a problem for me, imo too much of anything can be a bad thing, including bacon, there are reasons outside of sugar to not eat a ton of bacon. Must have balance, Daniel son.
I definitely use REAL butter, specifically irish, fat I burn, sugar is generally the issue. 2 slices of wheat for lunch occasionally isn't going to kill me,
I am glad that you are not butterphobic, and surely about 10-14 years ago when I was first reading and looking into these matters, butter was still being demonized, and perhaps only the past 5-ish years has butter reclaimed some of its stature for nutrition (and it tends to taste good too). Regarding bread. You don't need it, so why do you eat it? You eat it because you like it and you are addicted to it. It is not doing you any favors nutrition-wise, especially if you already proclaim to have glucose issues (or perhaps insulin resistance issues that likely get worse the older you get - and speaking of get.. get some daily pushups in there too.. .hahahaha)
Are you asking me about my bread usage or answering for me?
Nutrition-wise, I agree I don't see much value with bread I've been using, it's more of a convenience for me since I'm usually moving and doing stuff and can carry a sandwich around and eat it. I'd see more value with a multigrain bread, which I've used in the past and did like, but tbh it's something we cut out of the budget so I just use what we have and limit it... the economy is going to shit, sometimes I just have to take what I can get! Good news is kids love ramen, we buy in bulk.
I did a quick google search and the recommendation is 250 Mg to 4,000 mg per day, and I suppose dangers of exceeding 5,000mg per day. My supplements tend to be between 500mg to 2,000mg per day, so I usually am not making any adjustments, even though I suppose in theory if there were days that I were to eat a lot of fish, then I could over do it, yet I have my doubts, and I had never given too much consideration to making adjustments.. though I could that as being something that could pop up from time to time.
For example in the winter I tend to double my vitamin D3 so I take something like 50mcg twice a day, yet if I am getting a lot of sun, and if I am going out every day, then I will tend to discontinue taking those. I am not really a very BIG believer in supplements, even though I do take several.. so I spend quite a bit of money on them, even though I simultaneously question if they are doing much of anything for me in any materially meaningful and significant way.
If you are doing D3 you should combine it with K2 as I've heard it helps with absorption, I use one that has both. I wouldn't make any guarantees myself with any of the supplements I've mentioned, like philip said somewhere, everyone's body is different and may have different needs or goals.
None of that really sounds bad, even though there might be a bit more cardio than necessary in the mix, but surely the combination of stretching and various kinds of resistance exercises does not sound bad at all. I just wonder why you are such a pushup hater, and even proclaiming that the only (or the preferred way) is to do them slow... yeah, sure there is more resistance and less cardio when done slow, yet at the same time, there are a lot of guys who are not even able to do 10-20 pushups in a stretch whether fast or slow, and to do 3 sets of 10-20 pushups in a day, may well end up causing them considerable pain and suffering (and they likely would be benefitted by getting their body up to being able to do something like 3 sets of 10-20 pushups without feelings of major strain upon them).
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It's working for
me, and imo those guys you mention in extreme pain should be doing them on their knees and progress up. I don't think I'm a pushup
hater.. if that's what gets you off your couch, good for you. For
me, they are boring and not a good use of my time given the other things I'm doing.
If I were doing them, I would be doing them slow & controlled. Hey maybe if you start doing that, we'll get over 100K again and the jinx will be over!
Back to reality.. you do what makes you happy.
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And who the hell said anything about me eating beans? That's another thing that doesn't agree with my stomach.
That might have had been one of my extrapolations since so many persons getting plant-based proteins seem to gravitate towards beans.
Well I might have beans maybe once a month, maybe I'm
beanwashed now
They're not a big staple in my diet though, we have a bean & meat dish the family likes but I have to separate mine out since they use baked beans which is a bit high in sugar, other than that I try to avoid them. I don't mind the taste, but my stomach doesn't appreciate it.
For dairy, really just mozzarella cheese, I don't even put milk or cream in my coffee anymore.
People with dairy sensitivities frequently will get over them with raw dairy.. and by the way, butter is a dairy. #justsaying.
Milk spikes my sugar much more than butter, of course I'm not using a
ton of butter either, but had to reduce the milk.
Soda?... again I never said that and don't drink soda. I used to (years ago), and once in a blue moon if I'm out at a restaurant I might get a diet coke, but I'm all water these days w/ the added minerals I mentioned previously.
If you only drink soda once in a while, then there probably is no benefit in diet soda as compared with regular soda.
Frequently I will order a carbonated mineral water at a restaurant, so the carbonation can sometimes give a soda sensation, and of course no sugars and no additives... but sure soda once in a while o.k... and so many diet sodas have aspertame... or perhaps some other unknown sweetener substitutes.
Regular soda is loaded with sugar, my sugar level isn't really impacted by diet sodas from what I've measured, overall I just don't like the chemicals and shit that goes into any sodas so I try to avoid them entirely.
I will suggest that the sentiment of my earlier response is that sometimes just getting started doing pushups on a regular, consistent and persistent basis is better than allowing perfect be the enemy of the good. Yeah, we can improve our technique at a later point down the road, yet if we had not been doing pushups for 10 years or more, we might need to first get our body to include them in our routine so our muscles get used to them. Also some folks are at different ages and different levels of physical fitness, and for sure the older that we get, the more we need to be engaging in various kinds of resistance training to maintain and preserve whatever muscle mass that we have left... and it becomes more and more difficult to build muscle mass after we get older too... perhaps older than 40, yet still each decade of additional age is likely is more challenging to both maintain and preserve, and might even be near impossible to actually build at certain age points.
I've got more muscle in my 40's now so I guess I'm doing OK. You don't have to believe me but I am being open. Anyone wanting my opsec-violating
sexy dad bod pic as proof, it wouldn't be worth the risk posting that. Just visualize
this guy's attitude, combined with
this guys body, loose skin included, then add
slightly more definition, and much more hair! ...no need to thank me.
OK I'm done talking about this now!! Keep up your health and fitness goals gentlemen, whatever they may be, live to see $1M
BTC 
This was great! As soon as I saw it I said to myself "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta gum", then I was like wait that's duke nukem! Can't recall how much I played doom but duke nukem I remember.. Rex Nebular was another one I got into, in my head I remember the graphics being as crisp as most modern games these days, but looking at the images now is completely different, crazy, but fun.
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