Money works differently in Shanghai? SARCASM.
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In Shanghai( on break),I’m not on a meal plan and my parents give me allowance
Make every meal easy. Includes proteines, complex carbs and some fat. Those leafy green are good but not in the amount you get.
Too much of a good thing can be bad. In your case it is bad.
Your loving Mother (no sarcasm) would throw money at you like it was rice at your wedding if it meant you were going to eat a normal diet and IMPROVE YOUR BLOOD WORK!!! Yes, I am screaming.
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Trust me, my mom already wastes way too much money on me ( no sarcasm)
I am sure it is wasted because it is not used they way it should.
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Circular reasoning, deflection, penalty.
THE POINT IS: you claim you can’t alter your “mandatory” meal plan due to funds; but money spent on changing your “mandatory” meal plan to a HEALTHFUL meal plan is (supposedly, according to you) due to lack of funds. Now you post this bit of nonsense which means…nothing.
Money spent on a heathful diet to IMPROVE YOUR BLOOD WORK IS NOT WASTED!!!
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Money spent on “kickboxing” classes -WASTED!
As a parent, I would count my children’s health as the no.1 definition of “not wasteful spending”.
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Week 3: Day 3
Squat: 1x5-40, 1x4-50, 1x3-30, 1x2-65, 1x1-70
Bench Press: 1x5-30,1x4-35, 1x3-40, 1x2-45, 1x1-50
3x(4 pullups+8rows-40kg)
2x(15tricep pulldown-27.5lbs+10 hammer curls/arm-15lb DB)
- felt good- this deload is really frustrating as there’s the HUGE temptation to throw in conditioning, supersets pumped upper body- actually harder than expected- felt good and helped scratch the itch
NO.
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I know, I’m keeping my eye on the prize Saturday 
(I still haven’t figured out the emoji codes)
Kidneys, kidneys…where have I heard someone talk about kidneys before? Was it…oh! It was YOU, @anna_5588! You had kidney surgery, right?
Also, regarding money for food…how much of the allowance your parents send are you saving/investing?
An excellent question.
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yeah. but I asked my urologist and he said that the veggies were okay. I do have to avoid beef (and creatine supplements obviously)
10% in savings and my parents match my income into my roth IRA
Given that I’m pretty sure you burn well over a thousand calories just from your daily walks (if you still walk 20-30k steps a day), I’m still not sure why you think 1800 calories is enough for you.
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Veggies are different from spinach. It’s not a vegetable. Carrots, cucumbers, eggplants, green beans, cabbages, tomatoes, pumpkins and so on are vegetables. I eat plenty of them too.
If he said leaf greens are ok it doesn’t mean 1 KILO every day. Just look what they content not just oxalic acid ( =kidney stones in time) but they have extremely high level of nitrites (I’m not sure for the English word here). Also spinach has high level of vitamin K which is not normal to be taken in such quantity. Gabbage has estrogen inhibitors and really affects hormone sistem in time. Mushrooms have no energy value. They are entirely fibres -not digestible and just fill your gut with waste. This prevents you to absorb the real macronutrients from the food. A big part of this protein you take is just flushed out from your body with all of these cellulose.
It wouldn’t matter if you eat every day something different but day by day you eat the same in huge amount.
You avoid salt and nuts. So what about iodine in your diet ??
I’m shocked that a person who put so much effort to eat healthy in fact eat much poor than a random person.
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I think nitrates is the correct word, although nitrites are also a thing. My chemistry is too outdated to remember the difference.
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Which option applied,
- Doc, are vegetables okay?
- Doc, are leaf greens okay?
- Dog, is spinach okay?
- Hey, doc, I eat a kilo of spinach a day. Is that okay?
Even if you explicitly asked about spinach, I’m sure he/she has some biases as to what a normal consumption of spinach entails. I get through 200g a week, tops.
It reminds me of sitting with my sister in the doctors office after she totalled her bike (mountainbike) and had broken her collar-bone and then asked the doctor how quickly she could start cycling again to wit she had the reply “within a few days”. Can’t fault the doctor, all she knew was that there’d been a bike accident.
Me, being a good brother, pointed out to the good doctor that my sister wasn’t asking when she’d be able to bike to and from stuff but when she’d be able to go downhill again in rough terrain to wit the answer is obviously after the collar bone has healed fully to be able to absorb those shocks.
Or when I was asked by a doctor once if I was eating enough to wit I said that I eat volumes that freak other people out. It was “true” cause I’d have 2-5 cups of vegetables with every meal. So, my meals were voluminous and often garnered comments from coworkers, friends and family (lunch at work consisted of two boxes, 1.5 of them being all vegetables), and so I managed to deflect that line of questioning. If the doctor had asked me to describe my meals, then I would’ve been in an uncomfortable position.
I… I’m sorry that our tone devolves ever more into frustration. I understand that as a consequence you are very likely to be defensive in your responses. I certainly would’ve been if I was on the receiving end of everything posted in your log.
I don’t know if everyone here appreciates that your behaviour isn’t entirely within your own control at this point, and maybe their frustration stems in part from believing that you are just being obstinate. If anyone remotely identifies with this, consider that it’s possible to condition one’s own behaviour to such an extent that it genuinely is overriding all other behaviour and in a sense becomes an individuals new “natural”. The solution often lies in repeated displays of patience, or at least certainly not escalating frustration.
For what it’s worth, I do hope that your intelligence allows you to to mull these things over consciously or subconsciously “on the side”, and that eventually you’ll gradually be able to amend your behaviour as to align better with your health needs and strength goals.
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I just saw my typo. Please call your doctor “Dog”
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Anna: Yo dawg, is it okay if I eat a kilo of spinach a day?
Dawg: No, Anna. Not even Popeye eats that much spinach.
Anna: Not even if I also eat 2 kilo of mushrooms?
Dawg: Eating even 200 grams of mushrooms is kinda weird. I mean, those things don’t weigh anything.
Anna: But I soak them in butter, because of healthiness.
Dawg: Right, but when you burn 40,000 calories a day by doing jump squats up 14 flights of stairs, you need something more substantial.
Anna: You mean like 3 bananas?
Dawg: More like 4. Also, here’s a number to a good psychologist.
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