Breakfeast

[Strike For The South]

The whole eggs and cholesterol thing is a bit of a wedge issue, the amount off good cholesterol in eggs offsets the bad but it can set you off if you are predisposed to all of biuldup. I don't have such a problem (yet) so I don't worry about it

Are you a veggitarian?

Irish breakfast: 3 eggs, 2 beef sausages, hash browns, baked tomato, mushrooms, 4 slices of bacon, black pudding, white pudding, baked beans in tomato sauce, 2 slices of toast.

[Togakure]

... Are you a veggitarian?

That brought a hearty burst of laughter--no way. I love meat.

From high school until last June or so, I'd been the pretty much unchanging 30 waist, 30 inseam, 155-160 pound, 5'9" average joe. Since June, I've put on twenty pounds of fat weight and increased to a 33-34 waist. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Really, it's been freaking me out. There have been bad habitual changes in my diet, given my circumstances, which caused this--soda and processed foods being the primary culprits. I am now reversing this disgraceful situation, but it's slow and aggravating. I need to get my physcial activity up, now that I have cut out the diet disaster items.

Re: cholesterol, similar story. I never had a problem, then, under tremendous stress from work, my relationship, family affairs, and three burglaries, I went for a check up and my doctor informed me that my cholesterol levels had gone from very good to borderline bad. He was concerned because of the magnitiude of change in such a short period. I hadn't changed my diet that much that I could tell, so I could only assume it was a metabolism issue due to all the stress.

I haven't had it checked in a long while so I'm not sure where it is now. I just try to minimize intake. I eat eggs regularly, but forgo shellfish, etc..

@ Swordsmaster: by the time I finished cooking all that it would be time for lunch!

[Strike For The South]

That brought a hearty burst of laughter--no way. I love meat.

From high school until last June or so, I'd been the pretty much unchanging 30 waist, 30 inseam, 155-160 pound, 5'9" average joe. Since June, I've put on twenty pounds of fat weight and increased to a 33-34 waist. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Really, it's been freaking me out. There have been bad habitual changes in my diet, given my circumstances, which caused this--soda and processed foods being the primary culprits. I am now reversing this disgraceful situation, but it's slow and aggravating. I need to get my physcial activity up, now that I have cut out the diet disaster items.

I hear you, I've always had a good appetite to go along with and active lifestyle and powerlifitng but once that stopped and school/work took primacy I found myself guzziling sodas and hot pockets (something I was never doing even on days where I would shove ~5000 calories down my throat) Soda is a huge part of the obessity epidemic

Re: cholesterol, similar story. I never had a problem, then, under tremendous stress from work, my relationship, family affairs, and three burglaries, I went for a check up and my doctor informed me that my cholesterol levels had gone from very good to borderline bad. He was concerned because of the magnitiude of change in such a short period. I hadn't changed my diet that much that I could tell, so I could only assume it was a metabolism issue due to all the stress.

Yea, stress will raise it, sounds like you had more than your fair share!