Quote from: philipma1957 on January 01, 2025, 02:05:49 PM

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Quote from: philipma1957 on December 31, 2024, 06:45:52 PM

I do hemp seeds they are good.

I avoid the seeds at all costs. They don't burn well. Cheesy

Speaking more on healthy eating habits... I've never considered myself a healthy eater. Quite the opposite actually. I have always avoided foods that I think are horrible for you though. Mayonnaise for example. Why would anyone put that in their body?

One thing I have been adding to my protein shakes lately is superfood powder. Here's an example:
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Greens-Premium-Superfood-Powder/dp/B07FLDK6ZY/

I feel like these days it's pretty easy to get all the good nutrients and stuff. Sure, it might cost you $150/month, but it's worth it. I feel great these days. Sad that I went so long in life before really taking nutrition seriously. I always just thought I was athletic and looked good so I must be fine, but I can't imagine how great I would've felt 20 years ago on my current routine.

If you do keto mayo is zero carbs. With good fat

Many kinds of Mayo are made with variations of vegetable oils such as soybean, canola, sunflower. The more common kinds of oils are not good kinds of fats. The egg in the mayonnaise (to the extent that they include the yolk) would be good kinds of fat, too.

If they make the mayonnaise with some other kind of oil, then it might be acceptable... perhaps avocado, coconut, butter, ghee or tallow.. I am not sure if olive oil is good since there are many fake ones, but my understanding is that olive oil is not bad as long as it is real olive oil and cold pressed...

Quote from: philipma1957 on January 01, 2025, 02:05:49 PM

You need to eat a better quality mayo. where the oil is only from and avacado.
btw only eat avocado or olive oil.

sir kennsinton is the mayo I use.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BPYK9CV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Hahaha.. maybe I got ahead of myself in my earlier comment in regards to all of the bad things that I was thinking about your ideas of nutritious Mayonnaise.. .. that one looks pretty good... it has avocado.. rather than olive oil which can be a bit ambiguous if it is good or bad. .and people use olive oil for cooking, yet it has such a low smoke point, so sometimes the benefits will be lost if it is burnt, which I think that oil can become anti-nutritious if it reaches (or exceeds) its smoke point or it is overly used (overly recycled).

Quote from: xhomerx10 on January 01, 2025, 03:57:46 PM

I had one eye monitoring for auroras last night but while the CME arrived a little before midnight UTC, it wasn't as spectacular as I had hoped since it was more a glancing blow. High latitude viewers got a show (think Norway, Iceland...) but there wasn't much for the rest of us. That being said, Petr Horalek in Oravska Lesna Slovakia managed to capture a faint aurora backdropping the New Year fireworks:

He's a professional photographer though and I doubt the aurora in that location would have been visible to the naked eye. [https://www.petrhoralek.com/]

The Kp index is still increasing so auroras might be (more) visible this evening in Europe and (fingers crossed) perhaps North America. I saw only clouds and rain last night and now it's snowing here so... good luck to the rest of you!

Maybe I can try to remember to go take a look.. later on when it gets dark (darker).. though I wonder if there might be certain times that would be preferable? I know a few nights ago it was very clear and I did not see shit (but that was before your first post on the topic)... anyhow, maybe I will see if I can see anything.. just to say that I was cooperative in this.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 01, 2025, 04:19:51 AM

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What would 2025 be without a wall of text from JJG.
I'm kidding of course, this is actually pretty concise for you. Tongue

I was trying to boil down my statements to their bare essences, just for you.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

I feel like you've twisted some of what I've said here,

It is not called twisting, but instead extrapolating... Sure, maybe I got a few things wrong?.. especially, there were some parts that I responded to later, and then I realize that you had said something different from my earlier interpretation of what you had said.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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)

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

and with exercising daily, I'm not worried about the sugar here, although I agree with you I'd be better off without it!

We agree.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

I'm definitely eating fish as well as the supplements, I just lower the supplement on days I'm eating fish... like tonight, will be salmon, which I love.

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

I posted about this in another thread but my workouts are all calisthenics/body weight and could theoretically be done anywhere, excluding the 1-2 day a week medicine ball & free weight routines. I do all of my routines at home though, so I can shower afterwards. I'm generally following a box fit type of routine. Resistance bands & an exercise ball are mixed in with my normal routine, although honestly not a huge amount at this point maybe 10-15% of the weekly exercises include a resistance band and not every day, mainly moderate/intense cardio calisthenics to get the heart rate up, jumping jacks, high knee jump rope, normal jump rope, things to get the heart rate up, followed by slow and controlled calisthenics (which includes various lunges and squats, sit ups, etc... some normal, w/twists, etc.), then back to the more cardio calisthenics as the heart rate slows, then repeat, but it changes up each time. I'm not a runner or a walker, again these end up more boring and inefficient imo.

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).

I will also concede that there are some guys who have jobs that are physically demanding, and they may not need to engage in very much (if any) physical exercise, even though surely some guys who even have physically demanding jobs might still benefit from various kinds of supplemental exercises to stretch or perhaps to strengthen or loosen certain parts of their body in order to better be able to perform in their physically demanding jobs - and the kinds of supplemental exercises may well depend on what kinds of work they are doing.. in terms of which muscles they are working and whether they have resistance kind of movements or if their work involves more cardio kinds of activities.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

As for the peanut comment, why do you think I called it my "treat"? Tongue

Even a diabetic prone person deserves some "treats" I suppose.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

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.

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

Then to say I'm brainwashed because I increased my vegetable intake? Roll Eyes

I'm far from a vegetarian if that is your concern, but yes I do believe vegetables add substance that is beneficial, and fill the belly/control hunger, but I wouldn't eat like a vegetarian personally... although I know many who do and seem fine with it, and are in better shape than I am, that's just not me.

If you are trying to tout supposed benefits of plant based proteins, then might as well label you as vegetarian inclined, even if you aren't. What is wrong with that? You seem to have vegetarian inclinations in your supposed concerns about meat.. and probably you are fat phobic too..

Quote from: ibminer on January 01, 2025, 05:30:07 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 01, 2025, 05:22:16 AM

Whoops. I forgot to respond to your assertion about "I don't do pushups because pushups are no good unless you do them slow."
What a bunch of nonsense. you likely can do them however you like which is better than not doing them, yet even not quite clean techniques can lead to cleaner techniques and even benefits in being able to do pushups for so many days in a row and even getting through some of the soreness that seems to be inevitable, especially for guys doing them every single day..

I did not like or want to do pushups prior to getting involved in the pushups thread, and I even recall being in some kind of an exercise program for one month in 2011, and one of the guys was doing pushups, so I tried a few pushups. I did not like them, and so I had been thinking that I probably did not do any pushups since 2011.. even though I did some weight lifting and even a lot of stretches, but not really pushups in any kind of a meaningful and/or memorable way since my memory of how I did not like doing the pushups in 2011 when I was trying to replicate what another similarly aged guy (a peer of mine) was doing.

I still don't really like doing pushups but I have been doing them every day for the past 331 days, and I am pretty sure that they have been helpful to me in a few ways.. sure it hurts and sure there could be some better efficiencies, but largely pushups can be done anywhere.. which is so lovely about body weight type exercises when any of us might choose to incorporate them into our lives, and yeah maybe I have to reincorporate lunges into my routine, which I was doing lunges during various periods while doing my pushups, but I became more obsessed with trying to get quantity of pushups, and surely doing pushups every day, I have at least gotten way better at pushups and some other strength (exertion) requiring activities, and even less sore in regards to the actual pushups, which so many parts have gotten sore over the past 331 days, and even in the past 2-ish months, I have added one set of slow pushups to my daily pushup routine, which have also gravitated towards 5 sets of pushups per day, which might be a bit excessive.. but I am currently thinking to get my quantity of pushups to the BTC dollar price, at some point.. hopefully.

At the same time, I still take the position that the slow pushups were not necessary for me to get benefits from pushups, yet my having had added some slow pushups to my daily routine in the past 2 months did end up adding variety in terms of how I am doing pushups and how I am measuring my pushups, and I probably would not have had been ready, willing and/or able to do the slow pushups until I had gone through a process of regularly, persistently and consistently doing faster pushups.

Also, I started to time my pushup sets about two months after starting the pushups, so I have been timing my pushup sets for about the past 280-ish days, and I probably also would not have timed my pushup sets until after I had been routinely doing pushups on a regular, consistent and persistent way, and then wanting to try to get more granular in terms of looking at how time fits into my pushup sets... which my push up sets, how they are done and how many and what kind of frequency also varied in the last 331 days of ongoingly doing pushups on a daily basis. I still am not going to claim to like doing pushups.

Well, that's not what I was trying to say. Roll Eyes

I was asserting that they'd be better slow & controlled, especially if you are doing push-ups for the resistance to gain muscle, which you seem to be doing, so I'd think you should be doing them slow and controlled for a better result since slow pushups increase your muscles time under tension, but I'm certainly no push-up expert, that's just what I've heard from personal trainers I've talked with, but pushups are not a part of my routine.

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.

Quote from: AlcoHoDL on January 01, 2025, 09:06:17 PM

First, seventy-two.
Up seven, down eleven.
Finally, up eight.

What does it mean?
#riddlehaiku

Beyond my abilities to even figuring out what is the referenced context.