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In reply to the discussion: 70 lbs. down. Now I can rant about obnoxious fitness fanatics. [View all]Silent3
(15,210 posts)...with 51 for HDL, 72 for triglycerides.
I just stumbled across my blood work numbers from my last physical in October and thought about this old thread, numbers from when I was "only" down by 50 lbs, when my doctor suggested I lose 15 lbs more (which I've already outdone).
He's not "my" nutritionist, or anyone's nutritionist, but this general practitioner thought I was doing pretty damn well, he congratulated me for making more progress than most of his other patients manage, and the numbers on my blood work back that up. Only one number out of 45, for chloride, at 108, one point above the preferred 98-107 mmol/L range, was amiss, with everything else good or great, and my doctor didn't think that one number was much of anything to worry about.
But what does he know? He's probably just a shill for Big Pharma, and can't be trusted.
And yes, I've been eating at <gasp!> Friday's about once per week, and plenty of other chain restaurants you'd likely look down your nose at, like Ruby Tuesday, Uno, Long Horn, even Burger King now and again, not to mention the cafeteria at work, a local restaurant called T-Bones, and other places that don't serve all-organic, meat-free, wheat-free, guaranteed non-GMO food.
Somehow I'm doing OK with all of that chemical-laden industrial frankenfood. I guess I'm just incredibly lucky, or don't know how much hugely better I could be doing if I avoided that kind of "poison". I must have a dozen tumors and other grave disabilities and ailments all lurking within me, waiting to tear me down while people like you, of course, live 150 years running marathons daily right up until the end.