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Starting points
As I prepare to optimize my diet with Precision Nutrition & my exercise program with Turbulence Training, it seemed useful to review how I got to where I am now. Here’s where things began for me:...
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More than 5 percent
Red currants, walnuts, & cinnamon on my morning oatmeal (steel-cut oats) Maybe you’ve heard that oft-cited statistic that, of all people who go on a weight loss program, 95% regain all that...
View ArticleBaseline: cardio & strength
History. When I made my permanent dietary changes two years ago, I also began exercising pretty consistently. I started with dancing, because I enjoy it. I would simply stick the earbuds of my iPod in...
View ArticleVisual progress
Had a visual check-in last night with a friend who comes over to my house weekly: she felt that I’d lost some fat around my face, my abdomen, & my thighs just above my knees. The “thighs” was a...
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Adequate protein — & a protein-sparing crash diet
Two additional things I’ve learned from Lyle McDonald & his Body Recomposition website so far, that are having a pretty immediate effect on my nutritional planning: First, he’s convinced me that...
View ArticleRapid weight loss & the gall bladder
I decided a few days ago to follow Lyle McDonald’s version of a Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF) (as detailed in The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook). This diet is designed to “spare protein” — that is,...
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Down from Everest
Note: My Start Walking posts can easily be found by clicking on the label Start Walking 2008. I dunnit. As of last night — with, as my grand finalé, a half-marathon row (actually three meters more than...
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Weight loss chart 18 Feb – 12 Aug 2008
Here it is all in one pretty little chart: my weight loss since February 18 this year (41 pounds scale weight to date). The color swatches mark off the diet regimes I was following during each period....
View ArticleOn the fat loss track again
Been awhile since I’ve posted on the Teverys (health) blog (or, now that I’ve imported all my blogs to my new website, the Terveys category). This one’s a quickie, just to say that I’m back on the fat...
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Get thee behind me, pumpkin scone!
I’m a sucker for Starbucks’ pumpkin scones. And so every workday of last winter through early spring, when I’d go down to the Starbucks in the Social Sciences Building for my coffee, if pumpkin...
View ArticleInsulin response: It ain't just the carbs
Someone on my insulin resistance forum asked about insulin response to saturated fats. But it ain’t just the carbs, ain’t just the saturated fat which elicit the secretion of insulin in our bodies. A...
View ArticleA little experiment in interval training
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been in the midst of moving hell, which has caused my regular exercise to suffer somewhat. Though not as badly as I’d feared — it’s amazing how much walking one does...
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