Weight gain and age

[scaredyclassic]

Probably the manner of everything discussed here, from Trump to free range chicken could be categorized as the consciousness of a baby boomer.

I never Really thought of myself as a quintessential baby boomer, but this article persuaded me that both I and Trump are true representatives of our generation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/05/donald_trump_baby_boomer_how_the_candidate_was_shaped_by_his_generation.html

[no_such_reality]

The eggs are mostly due age. There are visible differences between farmed eggs and pastured eggs that vary with season. Farmer market Free range too depending on your source eggs and how much free range is actually pastured omnivore get chicken versus farm factory free range which means an acre chicken coop barn with a door that leads to a patio sized dirt spot.

as for diet and weight, it’s still reasonable eating and activity. Our bodies are designed to be on the move. Whether walking, chiseling tiles, climbing, raking, cleaning, but moving. Moving is not sitting in car commuting to sit extended hours.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Probably the manner of everything discussed here, from Trump to free range chicken could be categorized as the consciousness of a baby boomer.

I never Really thought of myself as a quintessential baby boomer, but this article persuaded me that both I and Trump are true representatives of our generation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/05/donald_trump_baby_boomer_how_the_candidate_was_shaped_by_his_generation.html
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Trumpismo is just populist (euphemism for you know what), big, rich country syndrome. It’s Americanismo which goes well with machismo and badass-ism. Like trump’s hands, his buildings or his own apartment, nothing small or modest.

China and Russia are still poor but there is a lot of that over there also. Populist, big country syndrome.

[scaredyclassic]

I think it’s not about machismo, but our feelings of inauthenticity.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=temeculaguy]
So mark me down for one of those guys who hates the ideology of the Flyerhi types, who wants to claim that third world countries have it right and we are wrong. Of course their lifestyle is better, But make no mistake their lifestyle is not a choice, hand them a winning lottery ticket and they will have diabetes in six months. So here I am, a Trump fan, who gives not one shit about the environment or animal welfare, hates rapid transit and urban dwellers and I hate myself that i have to admit that organic, free range chicken tastes better.
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Lots of contradictions here. But that goes with Trumpismo.

If a lifestyle is better, why can’t we adopt it as our own and change our culture? That’s what we have done all along and in this respect we are better.

That’s where food elitism is helpful. We learn to be choosy about what we eat. No different than driving an expensive car or living in a sought after neighborhood.

Btw, tg, i dont believe other cultures are better than us. But we have a lot to learn and we can adapt things as our own and improve them.

I like to watch hot Thai kitchen on YouTube (based in what you posted before, she might be your type). I like her because she’s a real cordon bleu chef who uses all the right culinary terminologies (more elitism). Her food is not all healthy (actually, a lot bad for you) but she’s entertaining and I use some of her tips to make my cooking more flavorful. Calling my cooking flavorful is a stretch. My friends think it’s awful and I have to order out when I have people over.

[bearishgurl]

Thanks for the “thrifty” barb, TG …. I’m taking that as a compliment. I believe it’s one of my best attributes which enabled me to get thru life with everything I need, regardless of my circumstances.

Your cultivating your expensive taste in food over my thriftiness boils down to just one thing and that is income. You are still working, no? And your salary is undoubtedly at least 4x mine was when I left the gubment’s employ. In addition, your pension will be calculated on a later tier than mine was and thus will be a larger percentage of your highest year’s pay than mine is making your pension approx 6x or more my monthly pension.

It also helps you that you recently posted that your youngest kid is graduating from university this month. I still have two years to go (June ’18) but my youngest kid will be attending classes this summer and next summer and is on track to graduate on time. Kudos to you for having your kids while young! I was the oldest mom on the ward in the *new-ish* Sharp Mary Birch Hospital when my youngest kid was born.

You are not yet 50, correct? If you decide to retire at age 50, you’ve got a helluva long time to pay for health insurance and as you know, it’s going to cost you a fortune thru your retirement assn, you are not eligible for a HIR and may not be eligible for any kind of (now minuscule) allowance. I recall that you posted here recently that you are looking forward to getting married this year (Congratulations!) and retirement but this paragraph is just an FYI that the health insurance fiasco that is the ACA in CA is a colossal mess and there is very little choice out there for individual coverage, which is exorbitantly priced (esp if you are not eligible for a “subsidy”). It gets worse and worse until the premiums nearly fall off a cliff at about age 57 (depending on carrier) and it is all (very steeply) downhill from there. Good luck to you, TG, and I hope you will have more healthcare choices than I do!

This is all the more reason that a Republican needs to get elected President this year. The ACA needs to be summarily scrapped . . . yesterday. I just got my postcard last week from the Registrar of Voters telling me that I am an “official” Republican permanent mail-in voter!

I haven’t voted R since the Reagan era but I feel it’s time to change the status quo when it clearly hasn’t been working for decades. This country definitely needs someone with business savvy and street smarts to shake things up and I feel Trump is that person. I could care less about “personalities” and bluster and whether Trump was a “philanderer” in his past or whether Bill and Hill have had a “gentlemen’s agreement” to be “roommates” for the last two decades. They wouldn’t be the first “married” couple to put on this charade “for show” and won’t be the last. None of us knows what really goes on in other people’s relationships or what decisions they made in the past with their relationships that they now regret. The way I see it, long married people have three choices … sleep in the bed you made, get new bedding and to try make it work better going forward or leave. It takes two to tango. None of this affects a candidates ability to lead the country out of the morass it has found itself in of late, due partly to incompetence and partly to adherence to what I now see is an unsustainable ideology.

[livinincali]

[quote=FlyerInHi]
I like to watch hot Thai kitchen on YouTube (based in what you posted before, she might be your type). I like her because she’s a real cordon bleu chef who uses all the right culinary terminologies (more elitism). Her food is not all healthy (actually, a lot bad for you) but she’s entertaining and I use some of her tips to make my cooking more flavorful. Calling my cooking flavorful is a stretch. My friends think it’s awful and I have to order out when I have people over.[/quote]

Well you told us you don’t like to use salt so of course it’s going to taste bad. I haven’t found anybody that can make good food without at least using some salt. Even Asian food where you might not use table salt directly is going to have a salty component like soy sauce/fish sauce/Oyster sauce/Hot sauce.

[spdrun]

This is all the more reason that a Republican needs to get elected President this year. The ACA needs to be summarily scrapped . . . yesterday.

You mean “Sanders needs to be elected President.” So the ACA can be scrapped, replace with national insurance, and a few insurance CEOs can be burnt at the stake on CNN.

[skerzz]

pick up a copy of the book “4 Hour Body” by Timothy Ferris. You can implement bits and pieces of his advice and/or modify the plan to work for you.

The book outlines a diet and workout plan all based on a “minimum effective does” theory — 20% of a standard weight training plan will give you 80% of the results. If you don’t have aspirations of becoming a fitness model / body builder, blow off the remaining 20% of results as the the incremental effort to obtain them isn’t worth the effort.

First, and most importantly, make sure you correct your diet — no (reasonable) amount of exercise will overcome a crappy diet.

second – Add weight resistance training to your routine. Contrary to common belief, cardio exercise, while great for endurance, is not an effective fat burning tool. This means you don’t need to (and shouldn’t) spend hours running on the treadmill each week like a gerbil!

I picked up the 4 Hour Body in mid-February and began my goal of dropping the 30lbs I gained after graduating college while working my desk job. In 2.5 months I’ve dropped over 20 lbs (fat loss offset by muscle weight gain) and my strength is nearly as high as it has ever been with very little effort/time commitment (I used to religiously lift weights 4x per week in college). The best part, the diet and workout routine has been extremely easy to follow and stick with due to limited time commitment and the fact that I’m not hungry while eating in a caloric deficit. Here’s an example of what’s working for me:

diet – I follow a ketogenic diet (modified version of the diet laid out in the 4 Hour Body) 6 days per week and eat whatever (literally) I want one day per week (my “cheat day”). Ketogenic diet doesn’t leave me hungry and consists of high fat (about 60% of calories), moderate protein (about 30% calories), and remainder of calories from alcohol and veggies high in fiber. Make sure your fats are from “clean” sources – grass fed beef, eggs, Kerrigold butter, coconut oil, olive oil, bacon without sulfates, avocados, almonds, etc. I enjoy craft beer, so the most difficult adjustment with this diet has been cutting back on my IPA consumption to one day per week — luckily most spirits and wine have no/low carb content. I love that I can regularly eat steaks topped with butter while cutting inches from my waistline.

Gym – I spend 10-15 minutes once every 4 days doing weight resistance training, alternating between workout A and workout B. Each workout consists of one set of two different exercises. That’s it. In and out of the gym in 10-15min (I almost feel “lazy” for working out so little/quickly). Easy to follow, not very time consuming, and results have exceeded expectations (I initially very skeptical of the workout routine and diet).

[skerzz]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Free will. A lot of people are driven to make money, as I’m sure moneymaker is. Eating well and exercising is so much easier as that only involves oneself.

Today, for exercise, I’m chiseling off the bathroom tiles of a condo I bought. Exercise and money making all together.[/quote]

I think you may be confusing activity for exercise. Exercise is performed to achieve a specific fitness/health goals. It’s best to do both — be physically active and exercise.

[skerzz]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=XBoxBoy]It’s probably worth noting that there is very little if any evidence that working out leads to weight loss.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories
[/quote]The thing is …. cardio and weight-bearing exercise turns fat into muscle. The more muscle you have in your body, the higher your metabolism.

Second to running 5-6x per week, I still think Body Pump 3-4x per week is a great way to build muscle and overall fitness. Especially if you have knee issues from running in your younger days. The classes are only one hour:

http://www.lesmills.com/us/workouts/fitness-classes/bodypump/?_ga=1.215949970.422054149.1443998245

edit: I wear knee supports under my clothes for this class.[/quote]

Fat cannot be directly converted into muscle (it’s science). Accordingly, cardio and weight training will not convert fat into muscle. However, weight training will stimulate muscle growth.

[Coronita]

Hey I just timed myself on the normal 5k route I run. Before my average mile was 8:06 each mile back at the end of last year.

I am currently at 7:35.

I would love to run a 7:05.

[Coronita]

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[Coronita]

Speaking of getting rid of fat. Besides liposuction, there’s something else called coolsculpting.

Basically, they freeze a portion of where your fat is. The freeze kills the fat cells and supposedly leaves your skin and other tissue intact. When your fat cells die, your body flushes it out… Scientists discovered this from observing why kids cheeks get puckered after eating a really cold popsicle. Seriously.

From a science perspective, the concept is pretty interesting.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=spdrun]

This is all the more reason that a Republican needs to get elected President this year. The ACA needs to be summarily scrapped . . . yesterday.

You mean “Sanders needs to be elected President.” So the ACA can be scrapped, replace with national insurance, and a few insurance CEOs can be burnt at the stake on CNN.[/quote]

Well, spd, I would prefer that the six big carriers who left the state on 12/31/13 came back to CA’s individual market and created “competition” among themselves. (UHS IS back for 2016 in the Region 1 state marketplace only, I believe, and is considering leaving again at the end of the year.)

I’m standing by ready to submit to a physical exam by a provider of a major carrier’s choosing to be “vetted” into a plan which fits MY needs. That doesn’t include paying for autistic child services (that’s what Medi-Cal is for), maternity services (who paid for mine when I used these services?), and a whole slew of other “unnecessary services” which got thrown in wholesale into the ACA-compliant plans which I will never use (I’m too old or being required to pay for mental health/rehab services or services for males or minor children). And I don’t want to be “age-ranked” anymore. I want to go back to being priced according to MY risk. The bulk of my “brethren” aren’t representative of the way I’ve lived MY life. I only cost my (ACA marketplace) carrier ~$1000 in 2014 and only ~$400 in 2015). Yet, they made $10-$11K in profit each year off my premium share plus my subsidy.

I don’t feel sorry for my brethren who use a lot of health services today solely due to the choices they made throughout life.

As before the ACA, all carriers doing biz in the state would have to participate in the “state pool.” People who cannot pass entry physical exams to have their application with a carrier be accepted would be placed with a carrier’s policy from the “pool” at just a slightly higher premium than a healthy person. This would occur on a rotating basis as applications flood into it.

I would not mind at all if $20-$40 month was tacked onto my monthly premium to help fund the “pool policies” so they can be sold at more reasonable prices to those who desperately need them.

NO ONE “deserves” comprehensive care with tiny copays and little or no deductibles on the gubment’s dime unless they are on Medi-Cal and thus gave up their choices of providers AND choices on whether a condition they have will be treated …. or not.

Medicaid/Medi-Cal expansion needs to be done away with, period. The “system” is not designed for the extra ~9 million people in CA it now has. It couldn’t even adequately serve the ~3 million it was “covering” prior to the ACA.

The “individual mandate” needs to be done away with as well. Millions of taxpayers are paying the fine in lieu of coverage, anyway, cuz it is much, much cheaper to do so than paying monthly premiums. The IRS needs to get out of the health-premium-calculation-business and the Federal and state exchanges need to be completely dismantled …. yesterday. No one really wants an in-your-face gubment stealthily trolling thru their financials and even making “adjustments” to them whenever they feel like it and that is exactly what is happening now.

The above scenario would also benefit the carriers because they would not have to offer “comprehensive plans” anymore and could offer HDHP’s instead. As it stands, the carriers participating on state exchanges (which are not Medicaid/Medi-Cal contractors) HATE the fact that they are required to offer Platinum Plans, ESPecially to marketplace consumers who are paying for them with the help of a monthly subsidy. Many of the so-called “comprehensive plans” offered on the state marketplaces which are Silver 70, Silver 73, Bronze or Catastrophic levels (the most affordable plans) don’t cover much, anyway, without substantial OOP expense for the working-class individual they attract (who can’t afford ANY OOP expense so don’t end up using health services, even when they should). These plans are no better than the pre-ACA HDHP’s and are actually much worse because their networks are so thin.

If Sanders becomes president, it won’t be the end of the world. I can see single-payor working, but there should always be the option of buying different levels of supplements for it. Not everyone who is already covered with their plan of choice (which will ostensibly “go away” with single-payor) wants to wait 4-6 months to get in to see a certain practitioner (or their regular doctor) or wait months/weeks to get a certain kind of scan to find out what is wrong with them! I fear long waiting times to get into the see the most experienced, competent providers under a single-payor system. But it is better than what we have now and gets the gubment out of our lives and finances.

People who are willing and able to pay for it should always have more choices and access to medical care than the huddled masses.

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