I'd chime in about keto with a disclaimer. It is a diet that is best subscribed to those who aren't loosing weight by cutting calories and portion sizing w/ exercise. But people really underestimate the toll on the liver and kidneys in entering and staying in ketosis for long periods of time. Generally speaking, our bodies weren't designed for this diet. However, if you aren't carrying predispositions like a fatty liver or any kidney issues, it can be an effective tool which can be transitioned to a calorie controlled lifestyle modification once a target weight is reached to give reprieve to the organ stress that is induced.
Keto often causes diarrhea, which can cause electrolyte imbalance and dehydration. This requires attentive monitoring when on Keto, stay hydrated.
If you have predispositions like Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes you can have enter ketoacidosis by a buildup of ketones in the blood. Consultation w/ a primary care physician would be preferred before making a serious venture into a new dietary lifestyle to ensure proper planning.
@cots your partisanship over health concerns presented in this thread is a low I didn't expect, but that's my fault for retaining some semblance of innate respect for those who are anonymous.
I see a problem in attaching a political agenda in something that majority of people teased a company over a commercial. If you stepped away from far-right conspiracy sites long enough to realize the average person doesn't see politics in this but a commercial that was comical, for a variety of reasons, you would improve your own mental state. That amount of vitrol is not doing anything for you. If only billapong was here to explain that to you.
If you think anyone is targeting you because you want people to be healthy. Well you are oblivious, but we know that's not the case, its because you are pushing a false narrative to appease your partisan worldview and try to assert this false narrative as reality.
Finally, congrats for
@cots to loosing 70lbs. That is an accomplishment and you deserve to be applauded. I'll leave this thread with a positive.
Before we introduced lots of carbs into our diets we humans were all on a keto based diet. The modern diet, especially grains, are recent things. Keto was the defacto way our bodies developed. It's wise to drink lots of water no matter your diet, but once the "keto flu" is over I didn't have any amount of excessive diarrhea. I am a Type II diabetic and shocked my endocrinologist when I showed up after 3 months and was reduced from 6 meds to 1 med. My heart problems also mainly went away (being obese causes all sorts of negative shit to happen to your body). I'm not in complete remission from Diabetes, but I'm no longer under threat of losing my eye sight or developing Diabetic neuropathy. So keto + exercise worked wonders. It's just too bad I can't afford it any longer. I'm on a very low carb high exercise diet now and it works, but Keto + moderate exercise was much better.
I admit I let myself go.
@monkeyman4412 got all pissy because I said I understand the type of person who has a high metabolism
because I was one of those people. I was thin up until 30. No matter what I ate or how much I could not gain weight. I could eat three triple stack burgers from Wendy's or two Large Domino's Pizzas every night for a week and not gain a single pound. Even working out all those years I could barely gain any muscle mass (I'm not skin and bones, but it sucks to spend months lifting to barely look like you put any effort into it). So I completely understand how genetics work into things. Now that my metabolism has gone to shit I have to work much harder than some other people my age to keep the weight off. The damned diabetic med (insulin) also doesn't help as it slows it down to a crawl. Being obese is in no, way shape or form healthy and it's totally curable. Some people just have to work harder than others. Diet + Exercise is the solution regardless of any other problems. There's no excuse to not try to stay healthy. Want some bipartisan stuff? Trump is a fat lard ass and needs to cut some pounds. Keto would do him well.
I admit the
site I sourced to does have some rather hilarious far-right stuff on it, but it's a site that allows almost anyone to post news on it (and use aliases when doing so). There's a lot of accurate and valuable stories posted to it and there's also a lot of complete and utter bullshit posted to it (that makes for lots of ROFL). See, unlike Liberals who will shun you from reading sites they label "far right" or whatever, I read all of the sites. I rather not belong to a group that would forbid you from learning what the other side thinks. I mean, if it's all bullshit then why would it hurt to read it? I refuse to fall into the Liberal "Fox news hate" crap. I'll read whatever sites I want to read and I am knowledgeable enough to pick out the shit (like fat acceptance on CNN) and know that the article I linked to on Zero Hedge about the commercial was accurate. Every single news site I visit, which includes local, state, national and international all do contain bullshit at times. I just rather hear both sides of the issue and make up my own mind. I don't need a bunch of brainwashed peers telling me what to think, how to think or what I can or cannot think.
I do spend hours every day discussing topics with others on Liberal sites and Conservative sites. I've posted hundreds of thousands of messages on various forums so I know the political climate. You doubt the Liberals want socialism? Go spend a few weeks posting anything that highlights the negative aspects of Socialism on ArsTechnica or ABC News. Anyway, back to the story I linked to - It's the entitled
SJW, Liberal fat acceptance and feminist idiots who were outraged by the advertisement. This directly relates to how the Liberal media goes about misinforming people about how easy it is to lose weight and how they try to convince them they can't and it's hopeless. I mean, look at Juice WRLD who just died. The media tried to prop him up as some evangelical of the emo rap scene that was some loving soul and could do no wrong. I guess the possession of illegal firearms, 70 pounds of drugs, bottles of liquid codeine and the
other stuff the FBI found on his private jet just like fell out of the sky and ended up in it's cargo hold. Surely, his legal issues were all misunderstandings or "the man" was after him because of his skin color. Give me a break. The kid was a stereotypical drug dealing criminal. He's a clear example of how the media is trying to justify drug use as being okay. The toxicology reports haven't been made public yet, but I wouldn't be surprised that the seizure he died from was caused by excessive amounts of narcotics in his blood stream.
Being obese is not okay! You can and should keep a healthy weight! Deadly drugs will kill you!
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Relevant for 'trending on twitter', yes. (See Baby Yoda (three times the engangement compared to any current political topic).)
Story of social political importance - no.
It was and still is being talked about in our nation. I thought using something that was trending and being posted and discussed about on almost every single national news network would help highlight the type of people that are trying to justify that being overweight is okay. The outrage was pretty simple - the SWJ, Liberals and feminists accused the company of the implication that the husband was fat-shaming the wife, even though she was clearly not overweight, or that he’s controlling and manipulative because he got her a piece of exercise equipment. This is utter bullshit. People shouldn't be outraged that someone wants to better themselves. They should be outraged at fat lard asses going around telling others it's okay to chose to die young because they are too stupid or lazy to do anything about themselves and have to justify feeling shitty by dragging other people down with them.
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