he already answered it before u asked

hey kyo, to reassure you that the whole cholesterol thing is a myth, check out this link:

http://www.chelationtherapyonline.com/articles/p72.htm

it's definitely true, my father has a few heart artery blockages and it has nothing to do with cholesterol. he has been reading books ever since his bypass surgery and confirmed that cholesterol is not the cause of his heart condition; if anything, more towards lack of certain vitamins but I won't go into detail. You can read the rest from the link but it's pretty long, so it's up to you if you wanna read till the end

Why does your mother control your diet? Try reasoning with her that you're not feeling comfortable with your current physique and you have the knowledge and tools to make improvements. Or if really cannot smuggle food into your room la or keep a secret food stash at your gf's place. I'm assuming that your mom controls your basic 3 meals; bfast lunch dinner right? If that's the case I'm sure you can find a way to eat what you want in between meals outside the house. Anyway, good luck with your fitness goals. Cheers

This post has been edited by kege: Jun 4 2008, 09:39 AM

hmm? if u're working outside, then you can get the meals you want wat. your mom can't control you outside of the house right? she can only control you when you're at home, so go out when u want to eat food courts are bb's best friends when on the move.

haha. just go with eggs then. hardboil and bring to work or something. eat 2 or 3 every 3 hrs or so.

you can look for protein powders made solely from egg whites. but i don't know why you would want to do that. just eat whole eggs

fugu, view the link i posted for kyo above. and read the past posts. egg yolk definitely does not make you fat. rice does

edit: if you're lazy to read, basically the medical world has created this myth that cholesterol is bad for your health and falsely associated cholesterol with coronary heart disease, so the public will buy their billion dollar industrial drug, Lipitor. Go pharmacy and check. fact: our body produces 80% of the total cholesterol in our system. Also, the less cholesterol we eat, the more our body produces to compromise (since cholesterol is essential for our body to function) and the more we eat, the less our body produces. High cholesterol is a condition, not a disease. Heart disease is.

abt fat, read the posts posted by 4Rings. Athletes often opt for a high fat, high protein, zero or low carb diet esp precontest to lose as much fat as possible. There's even an e-book about it. Here's the link:

http://www.scivationbooks.com/chadiet.htm

read the article in the link in the past posts above for further info. my father had a bypass few years ago, he's been researching about it ever since.

I'm not a professional, but this is what I've learnt through online research and logical interpretation. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I hope I have provided some insight to some. Cheers

This post has been edited by kege: Jun 8 2008, 09:51 PM

fugu, as I mentioned earlier, the public + professional medicine have been brainwashed to believe certain myths. Some are debatable, but some are undoubtedly false. Why? Because medicine is a very huge industry; particularly the drug industry. To make $$, people must buy drugs. For people to buy drugs, people must believe that it works. To believe that it works, they create the myths (i.e. high cholesterol crap) and then prescribe cholesterol reducing medication (i.e. Lipitor). At least that's what I believe in.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your statement on whey has nothing to do with anything. We all know that whey has mainly whey and nothing else.

I agree with you when you say that every individual reacts differently (eg. grapefruit and allergies). But then again, I still believe (via thorough alternative research) that the main cause of coronary heart disease is not high cholesterol. Besides, as i mentioned earlier, cholesterol consumption has very little to do with the cholesterol level in your blood, as your body already produces 80% of it. I understand that you have googled a lot of cholesterol articles stating that it's hazardous to our health, but that sort of info, to me, is considered 'mainstream' and is what the drug industry is trying to persuade people to believe. It's better to believe hard researched evidence from independent parties, rather than from those who are trying to sell us their poison.

Thank you for your insight.

Yeah, I had that clarified with some research shortly after posting that. Plus, I was gaining fat around the waistline. Thanks for pointing that out I'd already forgot that I posted that.

And thank you for all your myth clarifying posts! This thread definitely needs more contributors like you. Really provided lots of useful info and insight. I didn't know about the vegetarian diet issue though.

Btw, your diet seems to have loads of cream and butter. Wondering if that has any negative health effects due to high saturated fat content etc?

Also, from what I know, carbs is the body's preferred source of energy, so to speak. By cutting carbs out of one's diet, does it affect energy levels during workout/daily activities? Like start to feel sluggish etc?

Thanks in advance!

This post has been edited by kege: Jun 9 2008, 11:52 PM

4Rings, why are u gonna stop posting?

eh.. dont flame him la. put it in a proper way.

i agree you should have a better pre workout meal.. have oatmeal + eggs or something like that. and try to wake up early enough so u can get bfast in your day. other than that, looks pretty good

look's really good. you have your meals balanced out really well ::

how can soda not contain sugar?? maybe they label it as something else

anyway why would u want to drink pepsi/any other soda water?

exercise

its all abt diet and cardio, not abdominal strengthening exercises. do sports and eat well, should see results quickly enough

milk with no carb = whey + casein

huh? if pasteurised/ homegenised milk is rubbish then you understand why they waste their money on them?

haha. i thought u said u weren't going to post here anymore? anyway glad u're still here sharing your knowledge with us

breakfast - wholemeal bread, 1 scoop whey, 2 raw eggs, 2 tbs peanut butter
lunch - rice/noodles, meat
preworkout/snack - 4 egg omellete + 2 slices wholemeal bread
post workout - 2 scoop whey + 1 scoop dex
dinner - same as lunch, maybe bigger portions
supper - 1 scoop whey, 2 raw eggs, 2 tbs peanut butter

eggs have nearly zero carbs. don't worry about getting fat eating eggs near bed time. u can google "egg nutritional value" and see for yourself. hope that helps