Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
... 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!