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Eric Krantz wrote: If you have the Jack Lalanne juicer and are serious about juicing you may want to step it up and try a masticating juicer. The Jack models are high-rpm centrifugal and oxygenate the juice, requiring you to drink it almost immediately. I've had several models over the years, and my Green Star is by far the best. Quiet, low RPM, twin gear. A bit expensive but I found it on Craigslist for about half the retail price. Juice from the Green Star will store a few days in the fridge, so you don't have to make it every day. Looks like the Omega masticating juicer is pretty good too and at a lower price.

Yeah, I've heard of those juicers. I've got a step up from the Lalanne one, a Breville? or something like that, but still the same kind of rig I think. Thanks for the beta!

Eric Krantz wrote: Olive oil is a cold oil with a low smoke temperature. Not good for frying, more so for salads, hummus, etc.... Try coconut oil or frying.

It's just a pan spray. Couple squirts and good to go. I'd rather use that than butter.

Nick Stayner wrote: Wow... I have used olive oil for frying/sauteeing needs for almost a decade! Never heard that it wasn't good for frying before now. Any evidence to support that?

Nah...you can still fry/saute with it. Just keep it below the smoking point and you won't cancel out all its healthy benefits. However if you want high heat it's better to use an oil with a high smoke point.

Dead thread back to life...

Down 20lbs so far, looking to get even further since 20 was so easy. Key to changing my diet was having alternatives around, have food in the fridge, have snacks that are healthy laying around, and when you go to the store just head straight back to the produce area. Seriously, 90% of everything on the shelves at the store is trash. Quiona, chicken, and Spinach are my go to bases. Peanut butter is my go to snack. Eggs are great, if you have veggies that are going bad i.e. limp, just dice them up and throw them in a pan with some beaten eggs, let it all simmer and it is delish!

Thanks to all the links and personal recipes that got this started, now it is a habit and easy to eat healthy meals and I have even started making my own dishes because a idea sounds good.

Now I need a diet that will improve my footwork...

Jake Jones wrote:Good job J. "I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast." -Shooter McGavin

Pretty sure that won't fit my diet... Just sayin

Eric Krantz wrote:Three meals a day is the cause of the "morbidly obese" phenomenon in U.S. You don't even need 2, sometimes 1 large meal and some snacks (I'm not talking about you freaks who burn 14,000 calories on the fire line -obviously if you have an energy intensive job you have to eat more). Think cave-man style. You think cave man had 3 full meals a day? It was "starve-starve-starve-starve-gorge-gorge-starve-starve-starve". That's how your body evolved. Starving with a few gorgings in between. Ask yourself why you eat 3 meals a day, and it comes down to "cuz ma and pa and grandmy taught me to".

I don't mean to be a dick but this is horrible advice. Ask any nutritionist and they will tell you to eat MORE than three smaller healthy meals per day. One huge meal per day will put your body into starvation mode. Starvation mode means store as much fat as possible and reduce muscle mass.

I lost 15 lbs this summer without dieting. But lots of hiking/climbing will do that. I find climbing suppresses my appetite, an effect of adrenaline on my GI system, I suppose.

Winter's here, so my goal is to keep ten of those pounds off, so I guess I probably need to monitor my intake again. Drats!

Vaughne wrote: I don't mean to be a dick but this is horrible advice. Ask any nutritionist and they will tell you to eat MORE than three smaller healthy meals per day. One huge meal per day will put your body into starvation mode. Starvation mode means store as much fat as possible and reduce muscle mass.

I don't know if there is as much consensus on this issue as you think there is. Or at least, people are realizing there might be merits to a less regimented eating style.

Mike McKinnon wrote: Exactly. What he is referring too is the warrior diet. warriordiet.com/ It is on the premise that as cavemen we ate usually at night. We hunted all day, grazed on nuts, berries while hunting but barely subsisting and then made a kill. And gorged on meat that night. Beleive it or not it does have some huge proponents and has some scientific backing. The world is very rarely as black and white as you wish it to be young padawan.

It doesn't surprise me that there are people who believe in this "warrior diet." But they are a minority and I remain skeptical. I still put my faith into what I learned from my PhD health and nutrition professor.

I bet I climb harder than any caveman ever did.

I'd still be interested to hear more about the concept if anyone else wants to chime in.

Referring back to an older post in this thread, but coconut oil has a pretty low smoke point and is as high in saturated fat as most animal fats - you might as well use butter or lard if you are going to use coconut oil.

Regular olive oil has a higher smoke point than extra virgin and is good for sauteeing, though I wouldn't use it for frying. Veggie oil, safflower oil, canola oil, etc. are good for higher temp frying. Frying isn't awful as long as you get the heat right - oil that is hot enough doesn't really get absorbed by whatever you are frying. Most people just fry at much too low a temperature, and that leads to horribly greasy oil soaked fat bombs. If you don't have a dedicated fryer, a candy thermometer is very useful for figuring out temperatures.

I don't fry much at all, but every now and then it is a nice treat.

I too weighed about 207 and I felt like I could climb and feel much better if I could get down to the 180 range at least. I started using myfitnesspal.com and track my calories. Now, I'm assuming my metabolism may be faster than average, but I've lost 10 pounds in about 3 weeks with my calorie intake set to loose 1 lb per week (1600 calories for me). I try to eat every 2-3 hours and drink tons of water. I eat a small breakfast, snack, light lunch, snack, dinner, snack. Also switched to diet soda and limit it to maybe a glass a day or so. Will it work for everyone I don't know; it's my first time dieting. But it's nice because I can eat some fast food if I want here and there.

Lately I have been trying to eat better foods (i.e oats with maple syrup for breakfast , or carrot sticks as a snack) Only time will tell if my weight loss will increase.

When you eat lots of junk food and way beyond your portion it's hard to get used to staying within a confinement. I never thought I could live a life where I count calories, but the website makes it so easy especially paired with the phone app.

My biggest vice with trying to be healthier was probably the constant eating of the same foods all the time. For me, I just couldn't eat the same thing everyday. So food tracking-wise you can throw in a piece of cake if you want it, just east less for dinner. Makes all the difference.

A diet isn't going to do any good if you can't follow it.