Yeah. Even if they did try to stop me, I don't think they can, constitutionally. There was a SCOTUS case in 2018 that struck down most of those restrictions.
Local news is calling it for Gaetz, with an easy win over the two no-names who ran against him. Next up for Matt is beating Phil Ehr with Trump at the top of the ticket!
No, but some of us can pretend to be. I was looking forward to seeing UWF play this year, after winning the DII championship, but COVID killed that. I didn't realize they were that good (for DII).
We had such a fun team last year. We almost won it a couple years ago too, in our 2nd year of football, losing to Texas A&M-Commerce and that fucker Luis Perez who has bounced around the secondary pro leagues (AAF and XFL). That UWF team was more of a grinding, run-happy team though, like watching a game in the 1960s.
Last year's team was way better. Austin Reed has a cannon with amazing accuracy, and it's crazy that he was a freshman last year. Losing Tate Lehtio as a safety valve hurts; shame he didn't even get looked at in the pros. He had all the tools to be like a Adam Thielen or Julian Edelman. Our defense only got better as the year went on, against some stacked competition. I still think our team can build again, and Pete Shinnick is the right man to lead it. He's the Emerald Coast's Ditka!
Love Gaetz. Has convictions, stands by them, doesnt take lobbyist money, wants to drain the swamp, would vote for him all the time if I could stand being in the mess that is Florida
Honestly I don't think the picture shows enough detail to tell whether you have a fat problem or not. All I can tell is you're white. I can't even tell what your age could be. So I'm just staying on topic here, not an insult:
If you do want to lose weight the best place to start is with:
Step 1: Almost totally eliminating sugar.
Start by knocking out processed sugars. Initially increase fruit intake to satiate sugar cravings. After a month or so of this reduce the natural sugar intake from fruit/honey/etc. until it is totally out of your diet in about a week (if you eat meat and eggs the vitamin and mineral content in those meals already exceed any benefit you'll get from fruit). You will have sugar cravings. You will start to recognize the scent of sugar much more than you used to and it will feel like a second hunger that can only be satiated by eating sugar. This effect will worsen over the course of a week or two, but then lessen into non-existence after another week or so. When you no longer feel the need to eat sugar wait another month before occasionally reintroducing fruit and maybe flavoring tea with a small amount of honey. Avoid processed sugar whenever possible forever. End of story. Sugar generally fucks everything up no matter how religiously you follow a diet with a cherry on top when sugar consists of greater than ~5% of your caloric intake.
P.S.: If you need sweets then eat food flavored with splenda, erythritol, monk fruit extract, or stevia leaf. You won't be able to tell it's not sugar.
Step 2: Gradually start changing your dietary intake over time (specifically meal timing and a reduction in carb consumption).
This way it's not a change in diet, but instead a permanent change in your eating habits. Start this by eating most of the same foods you normally do (after step 1), but separate meals such that all carbohydrate rich foods are eaten no sooner than a couple hours after lunch. The meal(s) prior to the carbs should consist almost totally of fat and protein with very few to no carbs (I'm talking no more than to 15g-20g carbs at first before you eventually eat your carb heavy meal later in the day).
P.S.: Ignore everything that says saturated fat is bad. It's lobbied and over-politicized BS pushed by guidelines developed from farmers and food processors that wanted to replace traditional fats with vegetable derived and processed fats since they are cheaper to make per calorie. Here's the logic: don't push all the savings off to consumers to increase gross margins. You can find multitudes of cardiologists that argue against world guidelines against saturated fats. These cardiologists say saturated fats are less prone to oxidation in your body when combined with low carbohydrate intake (one of a few primary contributors to chronic inflammation is oxidative stress, which in turn is one of the main driving factors in the congestion of your arteries) and therefore reduce cardiovascular risk.
Many more steps mostly include the gradual elimination of carbs until intake is between 3-8% of your diet daily (~5% or less daily average). As carb levels begin to drop below 60g daily you need to start adding in foods that will help maintain your gut health (like asparagus, bone broth, apple cider vinegar, pickled foods in general, kimchi, full fat greek yogurt with no sugar added).
Anyways, that's an introduction. I did exactly this and worked in a few changes every few weeks since June of last summer and have subsequently lost 47 lbs in the 14 months since then. No change in calorie intake whatsoever. Exercise frequency and intensity did not change either. I have had no serious diseases or accidents to cause a sudden loss in weight. This outline, once understood, is actually pretty easy to follow with one exception: breaking sugar. The hardest part was easily the start with eliminating sugar.
For boat loads of more information on the subject go check out Thomas DeLauer's YouTube channel.
I'm currently cycling through keto right now, so anything beyond 30-35g of additional carbs (must be within 30 minutes after lifting) on top of a 25g/day typical load could break several days of progress. I typically add the additional carbs after workout with a blueberry greek yogurt smoothie with a scoop of coconut oil, almond butter, and protein powder. I follow that an hour later with a protein rich lean meat or fish. That said when I stop my current cycle with keto I will probably bump it to 45g - 60g after a workout.
I've pretty much turned to recognize most people literally eats shit that even bacteria won't touch because the food is more akin to plastic than snack (anything fried in or cooked with the following oils: vegetable, peanut, corn, sawflower, sunflower, or grapeseed... olive oil as well but only if it was used for cooking - it's fine to consume olive oil as a topping or garnish if it hasn't ever been heated to its smoke point). Wheat in any noteable quantity causes a "leaky gut" syndrome to a wide range of varying degrees (from unnoticeable reaction to the other end - see people with celiac disease - but all people develop chronic inflammation with constant wheat intake) so when not on keto I still avoid wheat derived cabs. Still maintain my stance on sugar previously stated. To expand on why I hate sugar it's to avoid the incredible insulin spike it causes so my body is more sensitive to insulin after meals and sugar is addictive (if somewhat mildly)... I like not having metabolic syndrome or tendencies towards vices.
I didn't do exactly this, but about two Thanksgivings ago, I was 243. Last month I was 164, and then I started lifting weights, and now I'm up to 171 again, but that's intentional.
He's new, I think he needs to prove himself more
And he has a huge forehead.
The best forehead in a long time frankly.
Huge forehead for big brain man
We have the best foreheads, don't we pedes?
It's yuuuge.
Why not a fivehead?
It's rare for congressmen to have success in presidential campaigns. I think the only guy elected straight from the House was James Garfield.
Well, to be fair, it's rare for billionaire real estate developer television stars to have success as well. I think we might be past that now.
Congrats on voting! Did they let you wear the hat?
Yeah. Even if they did try to stop me, I don't think they can, constitutionally. There was a SCOTUS case in 2018 that struck down most of those restrictions.
Crazy. And here I am following my local laws like an idiot.
Tardigrade don't follow no laws
Cool! Good to know.
Abraham Lincoln was first, then James Garfield. Both were assassinated.
I can't believe I remembered Garfield but forgot Lincoln...
Not such a good track record. Maybe we put Gaetz somewhere else?
people mention him plenty. I'd vote for Pompeo personally. Gaetz needs to few more years to ripen.
I haven't seen Pompeo's name came up in this convo before. What's the appeal?
He's great but he's not Hawley
Because he won't beat Trump. Maybe in 2032. Or 2036.
OMG HOW THE FUCK DID YOU NOT CATCH THE COOF!?!?!?
too late, I died
GOOD NEWS!!! NOW YOU'LL BE A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT!!
Illinois still has me listed as a registered Republican, but if they send ballots to my old address, my Trump fan family will get it.
Good work pede
Winner!
Gaetz is my favorite congressmen.
Jim Jordan has entered the chat
Local news is calling it for Gaetz, with an easy win over the two no-names who ran against him. Next up for Matt is beating Phil Ehr with Trump at the top of the ticket!
So brave 😂 People, get over it and go vote!
name checks out
Hell yeah! Go Blue Wahoos!
And your D-II DEFENDING CHAMPION WEST FLORIDA ARGONAUTS
Hey, I'm moving to Pensacola by the end of the year, Can't wait to get back to Florida!!
WHAT UP FELLOW FL-1
WAT UP. I HAVEN'T BEEN DOWNTOWN SINCE THE MASK ORDER FROM GROVER, HOW ABOUT YOU?
I haven't been anywhere since 2018 since olive in Vegas but kept my FL residency. FVAP woo.
lauraloomer
Thank you!
Awesome job, Patriot!
Great job. Thank you!
What minor league affiliate is that?
Twins AA, though it was the Reds not long ago.
Thanks. Have a real soft spot for minor league teams. Wish one was in my town!
Thank you! This Navy Brat has a natural appreciation of Matt's qualities!
Me too.. Go blue wahoos
Best minor league ballpark in all of baseball!
It is nice. Great location, right on Pensacola Bay.
Me too fellow district 1 pede! Let me know if other members here have meetups. I live in east Pensacola heights.
None that I know of, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. There may be a breakfast burrito gang I'm just unaware of.
Me also!
Too soon to tell if he’s our guy, but I like what I see so far.
UWF grad?
I'd be down with this. Wife and I are in east Pensacola heights
No, CO now. But if I was in the area, totally would with the requirement that the alcoholic beverages be Bushwackers.
Damn, just realized the Bushwacker Festival would have just happened a few weeks ago too.
PCC
We can't all be perfect. :D
No, but some of us can pretend to be. I was looking forward to seeing UWF play this year, after winning the DII championship, but COVID killed that. I didn't realize they were that good (for DII).
We had such a fun team last year. We almost won it a couple years ago too, in our 2nd year of football, losing to Texas A&M-Commerce and that fucker Luis Perez who has bounced around the secondary pro leagues (AAF and XFL). That UWF team was more of a grinding, run-happy team though, like watching a game in the 1960s.
Last year's team was way better. Austin Reed has a cannon with amazing accuracy, and it's crazy that he was a freshman last year. Losing Tate Lehtio as a safety valve hurts; shame he didn't even get looked at in the pros. He had all the tools to be like a Adam Thielen or Julian Edelman. Our defense only got better as the year went on, against some stacked competition. I still think our team can build again, and Pete Shinnick is the right man to lead it. He's the Emerald Coast's Ditka!
hell yeah. MAGA TRUMP 2020
I think he would be a great president one day!
Love Gaetz. Has convictions, stands by them, doesnt take lobbyist money, wants to drain the swamp, would vote for him all the time if I could stand being in the mess that is Florida
It's better than being in the mess that is the Soviet Socialist Republic of Illinois, which is what I left.
Good call there!
lol I weigh 171 lbs. The angle does make my arm look flabby though.
Honestly I don't think the picture shows enough detail to tell whether you have a fat problem or not. All I can tell is you're white. I can't even tell what your age could be. So I'm just staying on topic here, not an insult:
If you do want to lose weight the best place to start is with:
Step 1: Almost totally eliminating sugar.
Start by knocking out processed sugars. Initially increase fruit intake to satiate sugar cravings. After a month or so of this reduce the natural sugar intake from fruit/honey/etc. until it is totally out of your diet in about a week (if you eat meat and eggs the vitamin and mineral content in those meals already exceed any benefit you'll get from fruit). You will have sugar cravings. You will start to recognize the scent of sugar much more than you used to and it will feel like a second hunger that can only be satiated by eating sugar. This effect will worsen over the course of a week or two, but then lessen into non-existence after another week or so. When you no longer feel the need to eat sugar wait another month before occasionally reintroducing fruit and maybe flavoring tea with a small amount of honey. Avoid processed sugar whenever possible forever. End of story. Sugar generally fucks everything up no matter how religiously you follow a diet with a cherry on top when sugar consists of greater than ~5% of your caloric intake.
P.S.: If you need sweets then eat food flavored with splenda, erythritol, monk fruit extract, or stevia leaf. You won't be able to tell it's not sugar.
Step 2: Gradually start changing your dietary intake over time (specifically meal timing and a reduction in carb consumption).
This way it's not a change in diet, but instead a permanent change in your eating habits. Start this by eating most of the same foods you normally do (after step 1), but separate meals such that all carbohydrate rich foods are eaten no sooner than a couple hours after lunch. The meal(s) prior to the carbs should consist almost totally of fat and protein with very few to no carbs (I'm talking no more than to 15g-20g carbs at first before you eventually eat your carb heavy meal later in the day).
P.S.: Ignore everything that says saturated fat is bad. It's lobbied and over-politicized BS pushed by guidelines developed from farmers and food processors that wanted to replace traditional fats with vegetable derived and processed fats since they are cheaper to make per calorie. Here's the logic: don't push all the savings off to consumers to increase gross margins. You can find multitudes of cardiologists that argue against world guidelines against saturated fats. These cardiologists say saturated fats are less prone to oxidation in your body when combined with low carbohydrate intake (one of a few primary contributors to chronic inflammation is oxidative stress, which in turn is one of the main driving factors in the congestion of your arteries) and therefore reduce cardiovascular risk.
Many more steps mostly include the gradual elimination of carbs until intake is between 3-8% of your diet daily (~5% or less daily average). As carb levels begin to drop below 60g daily you need to start adding in foods that will help maintain your gut health (like asparagus, bone broth, apple cider vinegar, pickled foods in general, kimchi, full fat greek yogurt with no sugar added).
Anyways, that's an introduction. I did exactly this and worked in a few changes every few weeks since June of last summer and have subsequently lost 47 lbs in the 14 months since then. No change in calorie intake whatsoever. Exercise frequency and intensity did not change either. I have had no serious diseases or accidents to cause a sudden loss in weight. This outline, once understood, is actually pretty easy to follow with one exception: breaking sugar. The hardest part was easily the start with eliminating sugar.
For boat loads of more information on the subject go check out Thomas DeLauer's YouTube channel.
Just lift and carb load immediately after lifting
I'm currently cycling through keto right now, so anything beyond 30-35g of additional carbs (must be within 30 minutes after lifting) on top of a 25g/day typical load could break several days of progress. I typically add the additional carbs after workout with a blueberry greek yogurt smoothie with a scoop of coconut oil, almond butter, and protein powder. I follow that an hour later with a protein rich lean meat or fish. That said when I stop my current cycle with keto I will probably bump it to 45g - 60g after a workout.
I've pretty much turned to recognize most people literally eats shit that even bacteria won't touch because the food is more akin to plastic than snack (anything fried in or cooked with the following oils: vegetable, peanut, corn, sawflower, sunflower, or grapeseed... olive oil as well but only if it was used for cooking - it's fine to consume olive oil as a topping or garnish if it hasn't ever been heated to its smoke point). Wheat in any noteable quantity causes a "leaky gut" syndrome to a wide range of varying degrees (from unnoticeable reaction to the other end - see people with celiac disease - but all people develop chronic inflammation with constant wheat intake) so when not on keto I still avoid wheat derived cabs. Still maintain my stance on sugar previously stated. To expand on why I hate sugar it's to avoid the incredible insulin spike it causes so my body is more sensitive to insulin after meals and sugar is addictive (if somewhat mildly)... I like not having metabolic syndrome or tendencies towards vices.
Amen brother, I’m gluten free and avoid veg oils too
I didn't do exactly this, but about two Thanksgivings ago, I was 243. Last month I was 164, and then I started lifting weights, and now I'm up to 171 again, but that's intentional.
Awesome job man!
Brutal but true. Coming from a place of love