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I've had to do that as I get older. I've also had to commit to regular exercise. I just gave myself a roughly two week break since we went on vacation but I'm getting back on the salad train. Ugh. It was so nice eating pasta, pizza, fried food and dessert for a bit. It still beats the alternative of a stroke or heart attack.
One good cheat food alternative is Quest Protein Tortilla Chips. The Nacho Cheese, Loaded Taco and Chili Lime are all good. I know a lady whose son actually prefers the Quest Nacho Cheese to Doritos. They are a lot more expensive of course and are high in salt as they are heavily seasoned.

My Father is a diabetic. When he eats Barilla Protein Plus pasta his sugar does not spike. Tastes like the regular to me. I have had guests over and made side pasta dishes and no one has ever asked if I was using something other than normal pasta and I do get compliments on the dishes.
 
One good cheat food alternative is Quest Protein Tortilla Chips. The Nacho Cheese, Loaded Taco and Chili Lime are all good. I know a lady whose son actually prefers the Quest Nacho Cheese to Doritos. They are a lot more expensive of course and are high in salt as they are heavily seasoned.

My Father is a diabetic. When he eats Barilla Protein Plus pasta his sugar does not spike. Tastes like the regular to me. I have had guests over and made side pasta dishes and no one has ever asked if I was using something other than normal pasta and I do get compliments on the dishes.
I looked that pasta up, it's still very high in carbs, fortunately your father is ok with it. This is gonna suck. So much of what my family eats is carbs. It's easy to make everyone a sandwich and a little bag of pretzels or chips for work/school, make some pasta at night for dinner, etc.
 
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We use either chick pea pasta or whole wheat pasta. Both have their pluses and minuses. There is also lentil pasta. Yes there are carbs, but they seem much better than traditional semolina pasta.
I eat high protein pasta that is at least part lentil(not sure the %).

I'm fine with it.
 
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I've had to do that as I get older. I've also had to commit to regular exercise. I just gave myself a roughly two week break since we went on vacation but I'm getting back on the salad train. Ugh. It was so nice eating pasta, pizza, fried food and dessert for a bit. It still beats the alternative of a stroke or heart attack.
Breads and such have been blocking me up so much lately that I'm actually craving salads and other veggie dishes.
 
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We use either chick pea pasta or whole wheat pasta. Both have their pluses and minuses. There is also lentil pasta. Yes there are carbs, but they seem much better than traditional semolina pasta.

We've been using whole wheat pasta for so long now that we honestly prefer it. My recipes that use pasta don't taste right to me unless they are made with the whole wheat stuff.
 
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If you have issues with over eating like I did, try the zone diet and stick to it. Really helps you understand what real portions should be and all of your meals will be well-balanced and nutritious. You'll feel hungry to start, but embrace the pain, it'll go away.
 
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If you have issues with over eating like I did, try the zone diet and stick to it. Really helps you understand what real portions should be and all of your meals will be well-balanced and nutritious. You'll feel hungry to start, but embrace the pain, it'll go away.
Eating some Barilla protein spaghetti tonight and the discussion here had me reading the nutritional breakdown.

And I noticed that 1 portion contributes 14% of your daily carbs. The box contains 7 servings. I def ate at least half the box. So 3.5 portions. About 50% of recommended daily carbs.

But in order to be healthy I'm going to wash it down with a big ole salad.
 
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Eating some Barilla protein spaghetti tonight and the discussion here had me reading the nutritional breakdown.

And I noticed that 1 portion contributes 14% of your daily carbs. The box contains 7 servings. I def ate at least half the box. So 3.5 portions. About 50% of recommended daily carbs.

But in order to be healthy I'm going to wash it down with a big ole salad.

Yeah it's really easy to get lost in portions and screw yourself over. Thats why I like the zone diet to help with that. Careful with the salad dressing too, some dressings are insanely bad for you

It sucks because Americans are not taught proper portioning at all so no one actually knows what amounts they should be eating. That's why like 75% of American adults are overweight and 43% are obese. And that was in 2018, it's definitely way higher now since the pandemic. It's insane.
 
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Yeah it's really easy to get lost in portions and screw yourself over. Thats why I like the zone diet to help with that. Careful with the salad dressing too, some dressings are insanely bad for you

It sucks because Americans are not taught proper portioning at all so no one actually knows what amounts they should be eating. That's why like 75% of American adults are overweight and 43% are obese. And that was in 2018, it's definitely way higher now since the pandemic. It's insane.
I don't like that stat, particularly because a percentage (and it's a small one but it's still probably significant enough to boost that to 75%) of that 75% are technically overweight on the BMI chart, but have lower body fat percentage than thin people that are not in the overweight category.

I have a friend that's about 6 foot 2 or close to 6 foot 3. In fact, he's been confused for Carey Price a lot, like he's been out in public and people think he's Carey Price. He's got the black hair, brown eyes, dimples and jawline like Carey Price and they're actually built very similarly. They're the same height and nearly the same weight. My buddy is probably 215 (which is thin for him) and he's considered overweight on that, but his body fat percentage is like 10% or under 10%. He don't look like he weighs that much because he's not even a big muscular guy. If you go and try to pick him up you can feel he's heavy and every bit of 200+. He's been 235 at some points (which is like Jaromir Jagr's typical weight and they're about the same height) and when he's that weight he has much more of chest to him and broader shoulders, but he still needs a belt with a size 34 pants and he could try to squeeze into a medium T=shirt, but it's real tight around his chest, but not around the abdomen. When he's at the weight he is now in the 210's he can even wear skinny jeans, but his thighs are a little too big for them when he's up to 235. And his thighs are pretty toned too.

Which on the topic of this, most NHL players would fall under the overweight range in that chart too. Some guys wouldn't, like Travis Zajac is probably nowhere near being a 25 (which I think is overweight on the BMI chart or at least it used to be) on the BMI lol. Same with Jacob Markstrom, who last I saw was like 180-something pounds at 6 foot 6. Robin Lehner at 230-something (I think he was 240 at one point in the NHL but no no more) is probably damn near the obese line, even at his height.
 
I don't like that stat, particularly because a percentage (and it's a small one but it's still probably significant enough to boost that to 75%) of that 75% are technically overweight on the BMI chart, but have lower body fat percentage than thin people that are not in the overweight category.

I have a friend that's about 6 foot 2 or close to 6 foot 3. In fact, he's been confused for Carey Price a lot, like he's been out in public and people think he's Carey Price. He's got the black hair, brown eyes, dimples and jawline like Carey Price and they're actually built very similarly. They're the same height and nearly the same weight. My buddy is probably 215 (which is thin for him) and he's considered overweight on that, but his body fat percentage is like 10% or under 10%. He don't look like he weighs that much because he's not even a big muscular guy. If you go and try to pick him up you can feel he's heavy and every bit of 200+. He's been 235 at some points (which is like Jaromir Jagr's typical weight and they're about the same height) and when he's that weight he has much more of chest to him and broader shoulders, but he still needs a belt with a size 34 pants and he could try to squeeze into a medium T=shirt, but it's real tight around his chest, but not around the abdomen. When he's at the weight he is now in the 210's he can even wear skinny jeans, but his thighs are a little too big for them when he's up to 235. And his thighs are pretty toned too.

Which on the topic of this, most NHL players would fall under the overweight range in that chart too. Some guys wouldn't, like Travis Zajac is probably nowhere near being a 25 (which I think is overweight on the BMI chart or at least it used to be) on the BMI lol. Same with Jacob Markstrom, who last I saw was like 180-something pounds at 6 foot 6. Robin Lehner at 230-something (I think he was 240 at one point in the NHL but no no more) is probably damn near the obese line, even at his height.


BMI is comedy……had a doctor years ago tell me "you are borderline obese"

ya, at 6'0" 210 …ok there doc
 
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I don't like that stat, particularly because a percentage (and it's a small one but it's still probably significant enough to boost that to 75%) of that 75% are technically overweight on the BMI chart, but have lower body fat percentage than thin people that are not in the overweight category.

I have a friend that's about 6 foot 2 or close to 6 foot 3. In fact, he's been confused for Carey Price a lot, like he's been out in public and people think he's Carey Price. He's got the black hair, brown eyes, dimples and jawline like Carey Price and they're actually built very similarly. They're the same height and nearly the same weight. My buddy is probably 215 (which is thin for him) and he's considered overweight on that, but his body fat percentage is like 10% or under 10%. He don't look like he weighs that much because he's not even a big muscular guy. If you go and try to pick him up you can feel he's heavy and every bit of 200+. He's been 235 at some points (which is like Jaromir Jagr's typical weight and they're about the same height) and when he's that weight he has much more of chest to him and broader shoulders, but he still needs a belt with a size 34 pants and he could try to squeeze into a medium T=shirt, but it's real tight around his chest, but not around the abdomen. When he's at the weight he is now in the 210's he can even wear skinny jeans, but his thighs are a little too big for them when he's up to 235. And his thighs are pretty toned too.

Which on the topic of this, most NHL players would fall under the overweight range in that chart too. Some guys wouldn't, like Travis Zajac is probably nowhere near being a 25 (which I think is overweight on the BMI chart or at least it used to be) on the BMI lol. Same with Jacob Markstrom, who last I saw was like 180-something pounds at 6 foot 6. Robin Lehner at 230-something (I think he was 240 at one point in the NHL but no no more) is probably damn near the obese line, even at his height.

I agree with you, I just went back and looked at the report and saw it was done via BMI, which is complete crap. Needs to be done via body fat percentage in my opinion.

I was classified as obese while playing football back in the day. I was definitely slightly overweight by body fat %, but not obese by any means, just had a shit ton of muscle.

While I'd like to see stats by body fat %, I still think it is alarming how many people are overweight in this country. Go to any Walmart in america and I'd say easily 50% of the people are overweight by both standards.
 
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I agree with you, I just went back and looked at the report and saw it was done via BMI, which is complete crap. Needs to be done via body fat percentage in my opinion.

I was classified as obese while playing football back in the day. I was definitely slightly overweight by body fat %, but not obese by any means, just had a shit ton of muscle.

While I'd like to see stats by body fat %, I still think it is alarming how many people are overweight in this country. Go to any Walmart in america and I'd say easily 50% of the people are overweight by both standards.


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Funny story time. I first started working in the food & beverage service industry at the Arizona Steakhouse at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1987. Whenever we ran out of a menu item it was 86'ed. I asked our lead server if items would be 87'ed in the New Year of 1988. She laughed and told me no it would still be 86'ed and that it was an old military code.

86 (term) - Wikipedia

Explanations even stretch as far as the electrical industry, where devices had numbers—a 27 was an undervoltage relay, 43 was a selector switch, and an 86 was a trip and lockout device, so an 86 operation means the affected piece of equipment was out of service.

https://www.stlmag.com/dining/Ask-Georg ... Come-From/

 
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BMI is comedy……had a doctor years ago tell me "you are borderline obese"

ya, at 6'0" 210 …ok there doc
Hate to be a dick, but I'm 6'0" and if I weighed 210 I'd be concerned.

175ish is a pretty healthy weight for me. When I hit around 185 my friends started talking shit.

For context, most mma fighters our height walk around at about 185-200. Daniel Cormier is an outlier but he's also certainly obese. The 200 is mostly because muscle weighs more than fat.

We all have different bone structure, but I'd trust the trained medical professional.
 
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Looking to put liner protection in my SUV for front/rear seats and cargo area. The obvious is WeatherTech. I've also read about Husky. Anyone have plus or negative of either?
 
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