Something that I find really helps is weighing yourself first thing every morning and then recording it on one of the free apps available on your phone.
Something that I find really helps is weighing yourself first thing every morning and then recording it on one of the free apps available on your phone.
Why would you put your personal information on a phone and app that can be picked up by medical insurance companies which could deny you benefits based on your health records which are between you and your Dr, alone?
Put it out there and you can’t get it back.
Pen, paper and a thumb tack do the same job as an app have better security and don’t run out of batteries.
Before we let the Ralph Naders, MADD, safety inspectors, HOAs, social activists, “experts” and all the other neurotics control our lives, life expectancy was growing and getting better every year. People were fit, healthy and less stressed despite being smokers, drinkers, and risk takers. Now we’re witnessing a decrease in life expectancy, insane levels of stress, and obese people in almost every third household.
The activist socialists have taken everything good about life, and placed it away in a container beyond reach. Play sets at schools have no exercise benefit and no risks whatsoever, you cannot unwind with a cheap drink, or even enjoy a cheap cigarette. You pay so much in taxes, retirement for many is a dream. Everything you do, has an agency in charge of it, and there are penalties for violating the social credit system they love.
1960 – little to no asthma, no real fat kids, no allergies, hard knocks ruled, graduating high school meant something, a teacher graduated with a one year vocational degree and sank or swim, but somehow, everyone was much smarter. Work was something everyone did, and welfare was limited, and churches would pick up the slack. Healthier population, but doctors were private and taxes were about 30% of your earnings.
2022 Everyone’s sick, asthma autism, land whales everywhere, allergies galore, everyone gets a participation trophy, and high school is a joke, and teachers need five years in most provinces, and they are handheld with TAs, EAs, and multiple teachers in a classroom, and everyone is somehow stupider. Work is now something less than half the population does, and welfare, E.I. free money, perpetual victim classes and free money for everyone to not work, and churches and communities have been pushed out of helping build a better society, as the government takes over everything. Population is getting sicker everyday and yet we have “free healthcare for all, and taxes are now over 55% of your earnings.
Indiana jane,
Wow, did you NAIL it or what!
Best comment evah!
Oh, and I read it while smoking and drinking my expensive de-stressor products.
100% agree with stevie. This comment drills it right through the uprights.
Over taxing, over regulating, taking the fun out of everything, dumber people (especially teachers and their unfortunate students), “free” “”healthcare”” hahaha
Where are we going to be in 50 yrs?!
Most people would call this unsustainable. It is. We have to let it play out though, you know, for inclusion or something.
Indiana
BINGO BINGO BINGO….!!!
SPOT the Hell on….and here I am working at 70. Pah, 7 in 7 off – fly in/out and 3 solid squares a day, dbl bed & elevators in camp.. I’m like , what..? Me worry…?
Outside w15+km costant wind & -25/-30 temps – ya just gotta dress for it..right?
7-9k avg…and the odd time, over 10k steps daily at work…All worth it given the coin.
Only thing to watch…over eating in camp.
– too easy to do.
As for all those gens behind me, Far too many slack jawed pinheads relying on govt Largesse. If we went to war their only weapon would be an iPhone 12 swinging on 10′ cord.
While you’re about 70% right, there is such a thing as survivor bias. The number one cause of childhood deaths is accidents, and that statistic has been precipitously declining year over year.
We’re absolutely over-regulated, but the price you’re going to pay for getting rid of all that regulation is more dead kids. You have to be prepared to pay that.
I guess killing them with vaxxes is more than acceptable.
Something that I find really helpful is not eating like a pig and moving around occasionally.
I grew up on a farm and you’re giving pigs a bad name. Pigs are smart. (They know how to make bacon). They eat until they’ve had enough, and then move on, unlike some of the people that I know.
When you had to work for food, it meant something. When you or your parents lived in a hut and had to fo hungry, food meant something. Entertainment was a luxury.
Now we sit in front of the computer, on our phones and are entertained non stop. We don’t work for food, we work for all the entertaining non essentials.
It’s no wonder mental illness and wokeism is through the roof. There’s no point to living unless you have something to live for, and entertainment is a poor substitute for foor.
That being said, I enjoy food way too much, and it shows.
Wait! What!? The Woodstock attendees represent the “fitness middle class”? Dude’s not much of a Sociologist is he? I suggest the average age of the naked (and clothed) Woodstock attendees was about 20.75 years old. I’m sad (but normal) to admit I was a shitload fitter at age 20.75 … than I am today at 67 … a few years after Woodstock, when I played rugby and ran the Strawberry Canyon dirt trail straight uphill every day while at UC Berkeley. Get real.
However, everything else he says is spot on. And I believe you have to do more than move every day … you have to push yourself to the edge of comfort. Don’t hurt yourself … but don’t walk around the yard twice, and think your movement for the day is done.
I am a diabetic, and just got the Dexcom glucose monitor. As much as we intuitively know about the glycemic index, the Dexcom gives me REAL glucose reports in REAL time. I’ve been surprised how many things I can eat that don’t raise my glucose levels out of range. But the one constant I’ve learned? DO NOT OVEREAT! With almost any well-balanced evening meal … 1- serving is enough … 2nd’s however … and it doesn’t much matter what it is … other than a Cobb salad … and I’ll go over my target range. DON’T OVEREAT. Period.
Oh! And when I’m working hard on the house all day? My numbers plummet as I am burning up the sugars. So MOVE … to the edge of the comfort zone.
how much for one if I may ask. I can’t seem to get a price anywhere on line.
About 4 years ago I decided to restrict (not eliminate) carbs and sugar, confine my eating window to 6 hours per day (lunch and dinner only) and walk the dogs every day late morning in order to burn fat, since it was as far from my previous meal the night before as I could get. I lost 40 pounds in six months from the weight I had been for 25 years (190 down to 150). As I started to show results, people were afraid to ask me because they thought I had cancer! When they did ask and I told them what I was doing, they immediately argued with me (breakfast is the most important meal of the day, blah, blah, blah…). Four years later, I eat pretty much what I want and have kept the weight off. I still walk the dogs and try to avoid unnecessary carbs and sugar.
I’ve done the same Stevo. I keep my eating window to about 4 or 5 hours, restrict carbs, and eliminated sugar. My arthritis rarely plagues me (whereas before I was near crippled with it), I feel great and I lost an easy 50 lbs and kept it off for over 4 years. My health is great and my weight is naturally steady – I have energy and pep! People tell me all the time how unhealthy my lifestyle is, but I am in better health, move more and am slimmer than those telling me this. Makes me giggle to myself.
I’m on the same meal schedule. I tried low carb for a few years, but it was awkward to keep saying no to half the food when eating with others. I don’t eat a lot of carbs, especially highly processed foods.
At the time, the Canada Food Guide recommended 300 g of carbs per day. I tried to cut that to 100 g to lose the weight, but I certainly eat more than that today while maintaining. During that period, the Guide was updated and re-issued…. with all the same erroneous principles as before! I never felt hungry or deprived while losing the weight.
Great for you! And good advice too.
If you’re just starting out at changing your diet, one of the easiest changes you can make is to stop drinking your calories. Fruit juices, soft drinks, energy drinks, fancy flavoured teas & coffees – ditch them. Cold turkey. Drink water, perhaps a little milk (white only of course), and get your tea & coffee as close to black as you can handle. Anything else, don’t drink it. Yes, give up the booze as much as you can too.
All those sugary drinks add up in a hurry. Way, way too much sugar, in all of them.
As a person with a very fortunate metabolism, I won’t judge those who haven’t. However, it seems we have too much of everything but peace, love and understanding … and good sense.
I read the headline and now I literally want a cookie.
That’s a lie. I want 6 cookies.
L – Okay, take 1 cookie and cut it into 6 parts. You have to watch your girlish figure!
Whoa
This thread quickly got itself a Karen like vibe.
Eat what you want and die like a man.
Those free calendars we get are ideal for recording your morning weight. Even last years you are only a day out.
I’m 69 years, 5ft 11in, 186 lbs, good cholesterol, optimal blood pressure, all my blood work is very good. I am fortunate to have a fast metabolism. I don’t have an active natural appetite/ hunger response. Some times when I am working I forget to eat and will have a sugar crash. In the last 15 months have done a full interior reno on a mid 1970’s home. Took 8 weeks to remove bevel cedar siding and replace it with vertical vinyl board and batten. Removed a 60 foot V trunk walnut tree. Many dump trips. Averaged about 5 hours a day on all these ventures. Plus dealing with about 4 cords of firewood. The only health issue that puts me at risk is an abdominal aortic aneurysm which is being monitored. A couple times my weight got to high, once the result of medication side effect. I think I hit 220 lbs. Changed meds and weight went away. Dont’ eat much fruit as my body can’t handle some of the sugars. Life is good.
. “The only health issue that puts me at risk is an abdominal aortic aneurysm”
My God man! ” The only” problem is a ticking time bomb inside your body. Good luck finding a surgeon to fix that, most won’t go near the procedure due to the high fatality rate on the operating table. You’ll go fast though and it won’t hurt; you’ll just get light headed and cold for a minute or so. A relative died from the same thing 20 years ago.
Thanks to Bonnie Henry I now have what I call a Bonnie Belly. Before “covid” I had gotten my weight down to a fairly healthy 200lb. from 240 I am 5’11”. and kept it there for over 2 years. A big part of my program was swimming for over an hour 3 times a week. I cannot run due to bad knees. Bonnie shut down our pools and gyms then when she allowed them to reopen it was only to those with the jab. I am now “Allowed” to swim again but am struggling to lose the weight I gained when she would not let me do the exercise that worked for me.
I hope you defecated in the pool when they finally opened it to the rest of us.
Put down the cookie? No! More Cooky!
I’m so glad to see this Prager video; such simple advice that anyone can do. Thanks for sharing it. Big “food”, Big “medicine” & Big pharma have been colluding for decades to create and maintain a sick population. Give your body the proper fuel it needs, stop poisoning it. Put in the hard work of taking control of your health. It will amaze you as to how wonderful it is!
Sadly he’s espousing regular ole common sense, I look around at some of the young girls in my community and am appalled at how obese they are. I work out daily, had to give up the daily stair climber after 35 years-bad knees-I walk the dog daily, do yoga and basically keep moving and I loathe sugar, carbs and processed food. My family doctor sent me to a nutritionist for advice forty odd years ago, I’m under weight, she was so morbidly over weight I found her lecturing me on healthy eating habits appalling. Now that I mentioned it you’ll notice alot of the experts are female and obese?