The Health Club

Discussion in 'The Chatterbox' started by wristwatchb, Sep 25, 2018.

  1. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    So this said, eating my morning oatmeal is probably not such a healthy choice. :(
     
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  2. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    I've had more than my fair share of those. Speaking of which, I'm about due for one ( actually about 3 years past due). :ashamed001:
     
  3. lightcs1776

    lightcs1776 Well-Known Member

    Nice to hear. I will be getting my first one early in the Spring. I can't say I am looking forward to it.

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  4. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    Best of luck on it.
     
  5. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    What do you guys do with your bread loafs....room temperature or the fridge?
     
  6. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    In my experience; I've always started the prep around noon, just so I get it done and over.
     
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  7. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    Fridge, but I store our eggs on the counter ... never had any issues.
     
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  8. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    I'd love to try that, because Eggland's Best is my favorite, and I don't see any "6-packs" of those anymore-only the 12's.
     
  9. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    You're talkinabout the large jug, right? I mean as opposed to the "Split-prep" where you do one at night, one the morning of the appointment? I've done better with the "one-and-done".
     
  10. Demidog

    Demidog Well-Known Member

    Great resources in the first post. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum in that I'm trying to gain weight. However just because I was underweight, doesn't mean that I was healthy.

    I've never particularly gorged on unhealthy foods but I also wasn't reaching for the right foods and I definitely wasn't eating enough. I stopped exercising for years so I never really felt hungry and my weight tanked. Now I'm trying to gain some lean weight and boy is it hard. I have to force myself to eat every meal - when I wake up, I'm still full from last night's dinner. Then I'm full for every subsequent meal throughout the day starting with my big breakfast.

    The good news with weight loss or gain is that it's as basic as can be. Caloric surplus = weight gain, deficit = weight loss. The problem is instituting a permanent lifestyle change and keeping focused on a long term goal (sometimes YEARS to see great results) but if we motivate one another, we'll all make it.
     
  11. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    Yup that big delicious jug of nastiness and a bottle of magnesium citrate I usually take it the day before and the procedure in the morning.
     
  12. Screwtape

    Screwtape A Shaving Butterfly

    Oatmeal is made with oats not wheat. Shouldn't see the same issues regarding gluten, etc.

    Speaking of which, I usually eat cereal for breakfast. Per the recommendations in this thread, I just switched from stuff like Raisin Bran and various sugared or flavoured cereals to Multigrain Cheerios. And I just bought myself a can of steel-cut oats to start making myself oatmeal instead. Even if oatmeal isn't perfect, it's bound to be a heck of a lot healthier than 95% of the breakfast cereals on the grocery shelves.

    BTW, I just weighed myself again tonight on my swiffy new electronic scale (super recommendation, Charlie @wristwatchb!) The new weight record is 165.8 lbs! Even with my backsliding this week by getting into the Halloween candy I bought to hand out tomorrow, my weight is still moving in the right direction!
     
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  13. brit

    brit in a box

    steel cut oats is oats, not wheat..
     
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  14. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    Great post! Thanks for joining us on the journey to better health!
     
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  15. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    John, this is great news. Like you, I figure that oatmeal and steel-cut oats are miles ahead of frosted min-wheats. :) I'm glad you like the scale, and congrats on the continued weight loss!
     
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  16. Screwtape

    Screwtape A Shaving Butterfly

    Frosted Mini-Wheats! That was it! I was trying to think of the name of the cereal I just quit eating and was drawing a complete blank. So it was not only loaded with sugar, it was made with adulterated wheat too...
     
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  17. PLAla

    PLAla Bit Shy of a Full Puck

    I also dispensed with Frosted Mini Wheats upon consideration from this thread. I've been eating Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex instead, both with very low sugar content. But now all this talk of wheat makes me want to look at the Wheat Chex and see what's really in it. But, at least the sugars are much lower than the mini wheats!
     
  18. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    My "gasty"(gastroenterologist)seems to prefer the split-prep. After a pre-colo discussion with him, he agreed to let me do the jug, but the drugstore "faked" the order on me, they had the split p. From there, everything went downhill on my most recent colo.....as I described right after I had it. This story isn't over-doing it again in March.
     
  19. blondblue

    blondblue Well-Known Member

    Those are among my favorites now-(Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex-the REGULAR kind).
     
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  20. Frijolero

    Frijolero Well-Known Member

    You too? I don't feel quite so bad now. :p
     
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