Exercising without a gym

[Xtrocious]

Ello, that "Nonya" thing on teh you know what worked ok! Serious. Wah! DAMN SUUURRRDUP!! I'm making 3kgs tomorrow!

 

Hey MO, what's this nonya thingie?

 

Sounds interesting and sedap...hahah

 

PM me leh

[Chickenbackside]

Mark Sisson, author of the Primal Blueprint, being interviewed on CBS news:

 

http://cbs2.com/video/[email protected]

[Chickenbackside]

Great video on bottled water:

 

[Mazdaowner]

DOWAN! [laugh]

Hey MO, what's this nonya thingie?

 

Sounds interesting and sedap...hahah

 

PM me leh

 

[Xtrocious]

DOWAN! [laugh]

 

Wah lao eh...

[Nolicense]

DOWAN! [laugh]

 

Eh MO, is this something shiok to eat? share lah.. pic also good. best if got recipe.. orgas if can eat also.. hehe

[Mazdaowner]

After writing all that, come my house eat faster lah. [laugh]

Wah lao eh...

 

[Mazdaowner]

Yeah it is something to makan, but the trouble in cooking it, just doesn't justify

putting it up here at all. It took me 4hrs to cook, excluding the 2 day marinate time.

And guess what ok, all 4kgs of hard work, finished in one night!! To even start in writing out the recipe

I'll have a hail storm of questions about this and that. Let it be as that, because I'm not going back to cooking this item

again.

 

Sorry brother.

 

Eh MO, is this something shiok to eat? share lah.. pic also good. best if got recipe.. orgas if can eat also.. hehe

 

[Chickenbackside]

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/leptin/

 

A Primal Primer: Leptin

 

 

Just about every physiological process occurring under the hood can be attributed to one hormone or another. Hormones are like software programs, directing our bodily processes, modulating our reactions to foods, and guiding energy metabolism and balance. We don

[Topgun]

People, I've slipped a bit and hasn't been as disciplined as I would've like to be, or wanted to be. (MO, come whack me )

 

I weighed myself this morning and it's 65.1kg with clothes on. Well, maybe not slipped that much...anyway I don't weigh myself evry day or even every week. And definitely I don't count my calories. I was 63? the last time I weighed a month ago?

 

Since my m'sian holidays over 2 weeks ago, when I'd gave in to the temptation of some Ipoh goodies, I've more or less gone back to the low carb/paleo eating before the trip. But recently with celebrating my mother's birthday, Father's Day, I consciously took cakes celebrating those occasions and also I've been taking more fruits (hence, sugars and fibre) last 2 weeks as well.

 

Ok, just thought I provide an update and also bump this thread up again

Edited June 22, 2010 by Topgun

[Hamburger]

Confession: I had 1 of e mother of all sinful food down my tummy.....................

 

high in carbo

high in fats

proly also high in sugar

 

Its DURIAN.......xo durian to b exact......darn, is e bitterness tats so sinful

[Chickenbackside]

Don't worry about it guys.

 

Just get back on track and the benefits will come back. It's a matter of time if you just eat right.

 

I know it's difficult in our modern day context to avoid eating birthday cake and all that. But 1 piece of cake won't kill you unless you let yourself slide down the slippery slope after that piece of cake.

 

That being said, the people whom I celebrate birthdays with know I don't eat sugar or flour in any form, so they don't mind, and sometimes even prepare a plate of roast pork for me, haha. It simply boils down to the fact that these are people whom I love and treasure and spend time with and they have no qualms about me not eating their cake.

 

I don't celebrate birthdays with people who might be offended with me not wanting to eat cake cos I don't spend enough time with them or know them well enough. So, to put it bluntly, I don't give 2 hoots.

 

I guess it's my personal situation...

[Chickenbackside]

http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/2010/06/18/fo...eaking-the-law/

 

Food companies that put trans fats in food may be breaking the law

 

Posted on 18 June 2010

 

 

Common sense dictates that fats found naturally in the diet that we

[Chickenbackside]

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010...contribute.html

 

 

Low Micronutrient Intake may Contribute to Obesity

 

 

 

Lower Micronutrient Status in the Obese

 

Investigators have noted repeatedly that obese people have a lower blood concentration of a number of nutrients, including vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K, several B vitamins, zinc and iron (1). Although there is evidence that some of these may influence fat mass in animals, the evidence for a cause-and-effect relationship in humans is generally slim. There is quite a bit of indirect evidence that vitamin D status influences the risk of obesity (2), although a large, well-controlled study found that high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation does not cause fat loss in overweight and obese volunteers over the course of a year (3). It may still have a preventive effect, or require a longer timescale, but that remains to be determined.

 

 

 

Hot off the Presses

 

A new study in the journal Obesity, by Y. Li and colleagues, showed that compared to a placebo, a low-dose multivitamin caused obese volunteers to lose 7 lb (3.2 kg) of fat mass in 6 months, mostly from the abdominal region (4). The supplement also reduced LDL by 27%, increased HDL by a whopping 40% and increased resting energy expenditure. Here's what the supplement contained:

 

Vitamin A(containing natural mixed b-carotene) 5000 IU

Vitamin D 400 IU

Vitamin E 30 IU

Thiamin 1.5 mg

Riboflavin 1.7 mg

Vitamin B6 2 mg

Vitamin C 60 mg

Vitamin B12 6 mcg

Vitamin K1 25 mcg

Biotin 30 mcg

Folic acid 400 mcg

Nicotinamide 20 mg

Pantothenic acid 10 mg

Calcium 162 mg

Phosphorus 125 mg

Chlorine 36.3 mg

Magnesium 100 mg

Iron 18 mg

Copper 2 mg

Zinc 15 mg

Manganese 2.5 mg

Iodine 150 mcg

Chromium 25 mcg

Molybdenum 25 mcg

Selenium 25 mcg

Nickel 5 mcg

Stannum 10 mcg

Silicon 10 mcg

Vanadium 10 mcg

 

Although the result needs to be repeated, if we take it at face value, it has some important implications:

 

* The nutrient density of a diet may influence obesity risk, as I speculated in my recent audio interview and related posts (5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

 

* Many nutrients act together to create health, and multiple insufficiencies may contribute to disease. This may be why single nutrient supplementation trials usually don't find much.

 

* Another possibility is that obesity can result from a number of different nutrient insufficiencies, and the cause is different in different people. This study may have seen a large effect because it corrected many different insufficiencies.

 

* This result, once again, kills the simplistic notion that body fat is determined exclusively by voluntary food consumption and exercise behaviors (sometimes called the "calories in, calories out" idea, or "gluttony and sloth"). In this case, a multivitamin was able to increase resting energy expenditure and cause fat loss without any voluntary changes in food intake or exercise, suggesting metabolic effects and a possible downward shift of the body fat "setpoint" due to improved nutrient status.

 

 

 

Practical Implications

 

Does this mean we should all take multivitamins to stay or become thin? No. There is no multivitamin that can match the completeness and balance of a nutrient-dense, whole food, omnivorous diet. Beef liver, leafy greens and sunlight are nature's vitamin pills. Avoiding refined foods instantly doubles the micronutrient content of the typical diet. Properly preparing whole grains by soaking and fermentation is equivalent to taking a multi-mineral along with conventionally prepared grains, as absorption of key minerals is increased by 50-300% (10). Or you can eat root vegetables instead of grains, and enjoy their naturally high mineral availability. Or both.

[Topgun]

Don't worry about it guys.

 

Just get back on track and the benefits will come back. It's a matter of time if you just eat right.

 

I know it's difficult in our modern day context to avoid eating birthday cake and all that. But 1 piece of cake won't kill you unless you let yourself slide down the slippery slope after that piece of cake.

 

That being said, the people whom I celebrate birthdays with know I don't eat sugar or flour in any form, so they don't mind, and sometimes even prepare a plate of roast pork for me, haha. It simply boils down to the fact that these are people whom I love and treasure and spend time with and they have no qualms about me not eating their cake.

 

I don't celebrate birthdays with people who might be offended with me not wanting to eat cake cos I don't spend enough time with them or know them well enough. So, to put it bluntly, I don't give 2 hoots.

 

I guess it's my personal situation...

 

ya, it's a darn slippery slope...

 

it's so easy to give in, so difficult to go back to 'zero' carb but really can feel the effect almost immediately, the weight, the waist?? ...my stomach felt bloated, full of gas today, but maybe is just coincidental, something I ate...

 

[Hamburger]

6 mths ago,b4 i started on tis paleo thingy, mi blood sugar level was still a slightly high despite on full medication

 

4 mths ago, aft into on tis paleo diet , my sugar blood reading was at acceptable level on full meducation.

 

2 mths later, i decide to halve my medication n sugar level rose abit for 2 wks but now has stabilised back to acceptable level. mayb mi body needed time to adapt to it...

 

hopefully, i will b off e medication in another few mths time. Frankly all tis trials were done under no supervision from health practitioner [sweatdrop]r, but i do check mi sugar level regularly to make sure all is on track .

[Topgun]

6 mths ago,b4 i started on tis paleo thingy, mi blood sugar level was still a slightly high despite on full medication

 

4 mths ago, aft into on tis paleo diet , my sugar blood reading was at acceptable level on full meducation.

 

2 mths later, i decide to halve my medication n sugar level rose abit for 2 wks but now has stabilised back to acceptable level. mayb mi body needed time to adapt to it...

 

hopefully, i will b off e medication in another few mths time. Frankly all tis trials were done under no supervision from health practitioner [sweatdrop]r, but i do check mi sugar level regularly to make sure all is on track .

 

Bro hanbaobao,

 

Hope you don't mind me asking, but are you monitoring your BP and cholesterol levels?

 

[Ithunk]

ok jus to share....these is the picture of my home gym

 

 

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Added straight bar $30 (can do a multitude of exercises with it, so its quite a steal)

Added 2 X 10kg $50 (this is expensive, i could do well with cast iron plates which are cheaper)

Added floor mats = 19.99 approx 20 (quite a bargain, no more dusty cardboard boxes)

Total home gym cost to date 335 + 80 + 20 = 435 (cheaper than most gym memberships or all, less than cali, truefitness and fitness first, but not cheaper than clubfitt (310 annually). Cost is escalating, so wait until i can clean and press 110kg first, then see wat is needed

Total weights 110kg (added 2 X 10kg for clean and press and deadlift and legs)

1 ez bar 1 straight bar and 2 adjustable dumbells and 1 skipping rope (important for warmup and getting blood flowing)

no membership fees or contract, unlimited life time membership and of course weights last for life and no travelling time needed to gyms, only once a week.