The Sickness Super Highway (and Exit)

Words I like:

"Amazingly, we've become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe."

-Joel Salatain

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Rant From Me:

Right now, there are "trainers" telling clients (who are real people, not  wallets) that they can eat whatever they like- so long as it "fits their macros."

I will always have a job because of these guys & gals.

Here's why. The client needing to lose 50+ lbs does not have a macro-counting problem. Nobody, and I mean nobody, reaches 40% bodyfat because they have a calorie or macro-counting deficiency.

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The lean surgeon/jogging enthusiast who's healthy in every other possible way except for his heart attack and blood work that looks just like someone with obesity isn't doing well with the "as long as it fits my macros" either.

No. Despite the Capital-A-Absurdity of this country's conditioned ignorance and worse, positive attitude towards metabolic sickness (enjoy saying that three times fast), the autoban from health to sickness is paved with industrial foods.

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Rather than consuming natural foods that Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting for them, your children's schools have cartoon characters looking happy AF on the wrapper of the candy bars and drinks in the vending machine. The cafeteria is stocked with Sodexo.

And a bonus! Recess is disappearing!

The sugar, chemicals, and polyunsaturated fats of industrial foods begin deranging our metabolisms from an early age. They're normalized, barely mentioned, and hey, Carly over there just needs to get out more and stop scrolling TikTok. Last decade it was video games, before that? AIM, before that? Television.

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It's always us. We're not doing enough to exercise the caloric demons that take grip and make us call a priest whose robes now resemble a "coach" uniform. If that won't work, then it's probably just your genetics, kid.

There are so many well-traveled dietarily-gaslight roads that lead to nowhere, and we take them. There will be lots of pit stops, some novice notions of progress, and avoidable pain, medications, and lost friends on the road. But, there are also exits.

All along, if someone would have just talked tome sense into us to stop consuming what was making us sick.

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Instead:

Eat Meat, Veggies, Nuts, Seeds, Some Starch, Little Fruit, No Sugar, No Seed Oils.

Not forever.

Just 90% of the time.

I doubt anyone goes to 36.5 birthday parties each year.

And have fun feeling great again.

-J

P.S. I am angry at the state of this country's inability to advocate for the only thing that makes a country at all, its people. I'm not asking the USDA to ban the bad stuff- I love Reese's Cups and a Moscow Mule at my leisure just as much as the next guy. Just start telling your citizens something honest. Or at least, stop lying to them. Food is food. Weird stuff made in a factory that doesn't immediately kill someone - is still weird stuff.

And stop letting industrial food companies market to kids.

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Jeff's Diet

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Breakfast

2 orders Bacon & Gruyere Egg Bites (Starbucks)

Subtotal: 600 Cals | 38g P | 18g C | 44g F | 0g Fiber

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Lunch

8 oz pre-cooked chicken breast (Trader Joe's), two single-serve guacamole, 7 sweet mini peppers

Subtotal: 520 Cals | 61g P | 18g C | 24g F | 9g Fiber

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Dinner

6 oz ground beef 85/15, 2 eggs, 1 cup onions and peppers (cooked in ~1 tsp olive oil)

Subtotal: 590 Cals | 46g P | 18g C | 38g F | 4g Fiber

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Evening Add-ons

3 tbsp psyllium husk + 1 serving Thridzzzy Sleep Collagen

Subtotal: 115 Cals | 17g P | 12g C | 0g F | 12g Fiber

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Daily Total

1,825 Cals | 162g P | 66g C | 106g F | 25g Fiber

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Notes:

My Eating Rx:

Meat, Veggies, Nuts, Seeds, Some Starch, Little Fruit, Avoid sugar, Avoid Seed oils.

My Numbers:

High Fat

Moderate Protein

Low Carb

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