SciFlyBoy wrote:I have this weird thing I share with my Mom where my Bad Cholesterol, LDL I believe, is ridiculously low and that's my normal. So low that my doctor's usually get bug eyed when they see my blood tests. I try to get them to tell me what my personal highs and lows should be, but since it's lower than everyone else's they keep telling me there's nothing for me to worry about.
I've been keeping a 1200-1500 calorie diet lately and I've been maintaining a weight of 165 consistently for about 3 weeks now, dropped from low 170s about a month or so ago. That's not a lot of calories for having handfuls of belly fat and love handles and other handfuls of squishy stuff all over. I'm personally trying to eat my way (in a healthy manner) to 153, but I have a feeling that my diet alone can only take me so far. If I add high intensity cardio to my regular routine I should see some dramatic improvements.
Funnily enough, I appear to have the opposite. Mine is slightly elevated beyond the normal range, despite having eaten virtually nothing that could've possibly elevated it for months before the first blood test. A later visit to a cardiologist then remarked that might simply be my normal level, and that even a very restrictive diet might not move the needle all that much, and my PCP's desire to put me on statins wouldn't be wise.
As it turns out, the wisdom of daily caloric needs and nutrition is wildly incorrect, or misreported, when not adjusted for the average lifestyle of the people learning about it. There's the old chestnut about how housewives in the 20s in America ate about the same amount of calories as modern women, with far less processed food, and were 70 pounds lighter, or something close to that. 1,500 is plenty for a grown man who's not doing something strenuous.
The other day, no breakfast, no lunch, had a porkchop, fries, 2 hotdogs, and green beans for dinner, and that was more than enough for how little I did all day. Got an unfortunate body shape, so my ribs are narrower than my hips, and any fat on the midsection at all makes prominent love handles, so filling out the obliques or being so lean I have an 8 pack are the options there. But it's good to keep in mind that a pound of fat is about 3500 calories, and your weight fluctuates a lot depending on hydration, a reasonable deficit takes weeks to burn a single pound, and it's not even apparent because of those fluctuations.
TTTX wrote:indeed, i wouldn't be surprised if the "sea" people was horde similar to the Huns or Mongolians or vikings and wanted land or riches or food etc. for themselves which forced a lot of those their victimes to become new "sea" people in order not to starve or just survive as their society collapsed and basically creating a domino effect that caused close to every society (that we know of) to collapse.
Seems reasonable. Just imagine if the food trucks stopped coming for a month, polite society would turn cutthroat real fast, heh.
Ragabul wrote:Lol, I have a book called "Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India" on my bookshelf. (Never read it. Long story). How many faux internet authority points does it get me?
*Edit* Also go to be worth some points "Provenance Research in Book History" and "Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15VC4YxzysIt would, of course, depend on how old fashioned your cardigan is then, gotta rep the librarian cred. Having those unreadable tomes stacked on the desk would be the debate equivalent of slapping a dick on the table tho.
magnuskn wrote:Some days suck more than others. My mom broke both bones in her upper thighs the night before yesterday. One clean, one in such a way that they'll have to do surgery on her to implant a platinum plate. It seems that the surgery is a standard procedure and as such I am not that worried about it, but of course the entire thing still sucks.
Also, I'll be traveling to Paraguay in two weeks, so at least I'll be there to help her through that time.
That's awful, man. Thankfully, modern surgery is tremendously more effective than it was when I was young, so fingers crossed she's out and about relatively fast. And hey, good on you for going there for her. Bonding moment, a chance to repay her for raising you!
