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Yo don't want to eat much of any form of red meat in general. The evidence toward adverse health outcomes is pretty significant at this point. I would not make pork a significant source of calories unless obtaining better sources of calories was not possible or removing pork would result in malnutrition.

i agree with this, the notion that a few light sessions per week here and there are enough is far from what is needed to keep the body healthy and slim with all the sitting most of us do and hyperpalatable foods The differences will start becoming obvious after menopause and andropause the most. Before that we are protected by genetics and hormones a lot

the filter you used, does it detect mould presence? And does it filter all allergens specifically? Some filters are quite selective and some are shit although dyson should probably be pretty reliable so it's just about what it is filtering and what it is NOT filtering. It's hard to kinda give advice about asthma over a forum chat because of how multifactorial this thing is but speak to your doctor again and see if there are any other tests they could run You could experimentally try to take antihistamines for a few days and see if that helps. This way you may be able to tell is the breathlesness is trigger by allergic reaction specifically. Some people also react to pesticides, chemicals, pollution, sulphates etc. So if you happen to live ina polluted area, that could for sure be a contributor. Those might be harder to cut out but you could do a run down of the food you eat most of the time and see if there is anything there loaded with weird stuff that shouldn't be present in the food. Not sure how your diet quality is, but asthmatics do seem to benefit from more plant-based type of a diet for some reason. What's the pattern of the condition? Is it always bad or does it change? is there any chance the condition is driven by psychological factors such as anxieties, stress, holding tension in your body etc?

I'm just curious, what is the product/service you offer to the world at the moment? What do you ship out there? And how much time do you spend marketing it?

Don't worry, it will get resolved eventually Give him time to reply. You didn't lose anything, it will all be worth it

Oh I'm sooo far from overcoming all barriers My biggest obstacle which remains to this day is action planning and time management. Like what to focus on at a given day and prioritising tasks, not getting distracted and avoiding procrastination (such as the forum) . That remains the number one challenge. It's also sort of a fallout from being employed 9-5 where you are basically told what to do all the time and you do more of a reactive work rather than proactively seek it. Excellent! Seems you got it all planned out so my best advice here is: be patient, it's a slow process, one step at a time. The journey is as beautiful as is the destination. One day you'll proudly look back and tell the story over and over, every time someone asks you "how did you do it?"

I feel like the ultimate question here is "how do I drop my belly and get jacked?" The answer was already provided several times here. Start exercising regularly, eat a clean diet in slight surplus and don't jeopardise your sleep quality. Give it a year of consistent effort and you'll get there.

Hope this won't be a bubble bursting comment, but it may take you years, a decade, to get your life purpose to a stage where you will become fully financial independent. The market is huge, there is the most competitive there ever was, the marketing is much harder than it used to be. Yes, you can reach 7 billion people...but so can all your competitors. It is important this does not discourage you but you keep focusing on your craft while figuring out how to market yourself to your niche audience. DO you know who your niche audience is? It can't be everyone. And yes, maybe during this transition you will need a stable 9-5 (or part-time) job to keep the money to pay bills, food, rent etc. I've been on this journey for about 2 years since finishing school and going solo and trust me if I didn't have a stable 9-5 income I would never ever be able to pay all expenses. Going solo is the hardest decision of all because now, you no longer do what others tell you but you have to be the sales person, the marketer, the accountant, the HR person, the motivator, the CFO and the CEO at the same time. It takes time even if you are very good at what you do. Be okay with that, ebrace it. If the journey was easy, everybody would be an entrepreneur. But you chose to walk the thorny road. Maybe the job you find should be something easy where you'll have a lot of time to focus on your thing while doing some mild admin work. You actually want some lame dead-end job where people don't constantly bother you so that you can get paid and focus on your craft too. Ideally something that you can work from home. Some sort of ticketing support bs work where you learn a few tasks and do that over and over is ideal. Gives you plenty of times to work on your own thing. It's ok to have a temporary 9-5 job to keep you going. It's just means to an end. I know a guy who works for a telecoms company as their support guy, works from home, makes 1800 euros a month and plays video games 7 out of his 8 hours. He has ben doing this for 5 years. Imagine where he could have been if he started a business but instead he is obese and depressed and escaping the suffering into a virtual world. What I'm trying to say, there are jobs out there that pay for literally doing very little work. Find a job like this and leverage the tools and the money to build up your musical business. Good luck! you got this

HGH does not only build muscle, it is anabolic, that's true but not just to muscle cells. HGH builds everything, it repairs cells of the gastrointestinal lining, bones, hair, nail, it stimulates skin cell replication. It's like a systemic handyman repairing everything. Even if you have an increase of it, it may not translate into more muscle, you need to be in excess of calories to gain muscle. A body in starvation is not going to waste resources to gain muscle (from the biology standpoint, carrying excess muscle is a useless trait anyway and during a period of famine your metabolism switches to low maintenance mode) then start focusing on muscle mass building and you may lose that belly fat as a side product. Wasting, in general is a yo yo weight loss strategy. You stop eating, you lose weight but you shock the body so once you start eating you gain it back. Not to mention the overload of stress hormones flooding the body during prolonged fast. Also, I guess, make sure you are not trying to shortcut a process that takes a decade (building a muscular body) by finding a "hack" such as extended fast because someone said it gives you more HGH. It does but HGH is a bottleneck anyway. You can only use so much of it in a day. You can't be both in a catabolic and anabolic state at the same time. The same way you can't be awake and asleep at the same time (well, maybe there are certain trans states which put one halfway in, but most people can't do that) yes but what quality of training? They can do yoga for 15 minutes, sure and then spend the whole day meditating and sitting because they have no energy for everything else. And don't forget that not everything you hear on youtube is true. Also, how are you going to extend effort in the gym and push hard to stimulate an anabolic state if you are running low on glycogen, low on sugar and depleting your fat stores too? Where will you get the energy? The only remaining way to obtain glucose is through gluconeogenesis of your own muscle tissues. So not only will you not be making gains but you'll be breaking down the existing lean mass. The exact opposite of what you want to do. I seriously doubt there are people out there who are making big gains while doing 40 days on water fast, or they are full of shit. The most realistic depiction of what extended water fast does to a human was the case of Tim Shieff, the ex-vegan ninja warrior competitor. He was a hallmark of health and radiance in his prime days before he turned himself into skeleton, wrecked his digestive system and went a little bit nuts into the head and started drinking his own piss. Yes, he was an extreme case but I am yet to see a healthy demonstration of a prolonged fast. Vegetable Police had an interesting story too. He went all in yet in the end most of his symptoms of IBD came back and he took forever to regain a decent body weight. You do. But you also needs sufficient amount of carbohydrates and fats. And those are all hard to get on extended fast. But I mean look. If you don't believe me just do it. Go to the gym during a second week of water fast, load some weights on benchpress and see how it goes. Also then observe your recovery time compared to the usual times. Chances are you'll have the worst workout of your life. There is time and place for extended fats. Absolutely. But it should not be the same time when you are trying to grow, stimulate cell replication, stimulate growth pathways and generally need to be in abundance. Fast in summer and bulk in winter or the other way around.

You gotta think about the karma you are creating in that process too and what that does to your soul if you treat women as walking vaginas.

Water fasting is a regenerative/catabolic state where you should be relaxing, meditating and retrospecting. Muscle building is an anabolic, highly energy-demanding process. Exactly the opposite of what you are trying to achieve with the fast What you'll get as a result is fatigue, brain fog, low-quality exercises, half-assed fast and feeling low & grumpy. Pick one and leave the other. Also, don't oscillate between them too often or you'll wreck your metabolism with all these shock waves.

Were you any happier than you are today back then? Chances are you were pretty miserable and hated your body.

That fat indian ugly girl is still a human being and you were being completely selfish and ignorant of that on your aproach if that's all you saw. Good on her. Start seeing the women you approach as your equals rather than tools or you'll die a virgin. She could probably smell your insecurity a miles away

See if living without Instagram, Facebook & Youtube (100% removal of apps and locking of accounts by another person) would help you feel better about yourself one month from now Burn all magazines related to fitness, beauty and that sort of crap. Hell I'd even consider not using any makeup during this period. The stress of constant comparing with yourself with your beauty standards isn't probably helping. Spend some more time in nature. Grab a backpack and go on a hike few times a week if you can. Helps you reflect better and takes your attention from withing more to the outside. Maybe pitch a tend by the lake sie and spend a few nights on a solo trip. Lots could be unravelled during that trip. Look at the stars, observe birds, fish, bugs and animals. Nature can help you spend some time reflecting on your strengths, on your positives and on what makes you special and unique. If you do all this and still feel like lipo is the best way forward, then do it.

@integral kynurenine pathway is one of those to be mindful of. Some people activate it more than other but there is some association with mental health disorders and chronic inflammation. Although I have no idea what impacts how much tryptophan gets shunned down this pathway.... genetics, microbiome, any ongoing health disorders and certain meds may (or may not) accelerate opening of this channel. But it would be a possible explanation why some people actualy feel worse upon taking TT

@Carl-Richard since we are back at this, let's throw in one more 12:00 - 12:45

Any amateur astrophotographers here? https://mashable.com/article/how-to-see-comet-c2017-k2-panstarrs

It is a personal preference and maybe you need to try different types of exercise patterns to find what you enjoy the most. I've gone through periods of heavy bodybuilding in my teens and early 20s then got introduce to kickboxing and muay thai and stuck with that till mid 20s when we moved to Spain and later to Greece during which time I started to do more HIIT and Crossfit, later on went back to kickboxing in late 20s and now since the panemic been sticking to 100% body weight, callisthenics, rope work and some cycling/jogging and lots of hiking especially since we moved away from London towards Welsh coast. What I'm trying to say is is, your journey will be evolving. So be open to whatever and get the most of the thing you do. Remember, with physical activity, the ultimate goal should be your long-term health quality rather than gains. Do one thing for a year, see how your body responds, see how you like it and what you dislike about it and then adjust. You don't need to have all the answers straight away, open yourself to the period of not knowing and dance with that feeling of "I don't know what to do". Embrace it, you'll find the answers eventually. On the dietary side, as @Jannes said 200g may seem like a lot but on its own even if those 200 grams is a dry weight, it is not enough. As a vegetarian, you need to include much more tofu, wholegrain sources, lentils etc. Tempeh is excellent source of protein as well. Get yourself a pressure cooker and start eating from deep plates with tablespoons I know it sounds barbaric but it is the easiest way to meet your caloric goals by eating plant-based mostly. Forks over knives like that documentary says.

@Jannes You know what, I actually trained since I was 15 and until my 30s I could not do more than 6-7. And then I stopped going to the gym completely and just started doing callisthenics because I have an awesome playground next to where I live and my strength on pullups went up exponentially. I've heard other people report that with pullups you gotta do them like 3 times a week because compared to things like bench-press it is hard to go heavy since the most limiting factor is grip strength rather than back strength. @Ampresus yeah that's a fair point Anyways, soz @Superfluo, we've derailed the topic. Back to you ->

ofcourse I don't have exact data on this but I recall the last time I had this research question and went to look into the literature, some of the vitamins actually increase in bioavailability as well as certain phytonutrients and the loss of vitamins was like 10% max after hours of boiling. SO no, I'm not worried about nutrient loss bit. And with a pressure cooker, you can load so much stuff in there that you'll easily compensate for any loss not to mention that the cheapest ingredients like legumes are the most nutrient loaded. Replacing saturated fats for plant-derived PUFAs has been associated with improved disease outcomes pretty much across the board now. It's mostly just vegetable oils and plant sterols, there is no margarine or any trans fats. its in my signature

It's not that suited for cooking veggies as a side portion, in the standard - carb-meat-veg type of cooking. Personally, I hate that type of cooking because it is too protein-focused, inefficient, expensive and usually minimises the fibre content of the meal. A pressure cooker is better if you like the 1-pot type of meals where you can't tell one ingredient from another. Like curries, burrito fillings, pasta dishes, tofu dishes, tacos & quesadillas fillings, soups, veggie stews even baby food. Also I generally find pressure cookers more suitable for vegetarian and vegan cooking but meat can definitely be used in it easily. True, some ingredients like tomatoes or onions get turned into a soup but the fibre is still there, the nutrients are still there so this is more functional rather than aesthetic cooking. It sucks on Instagram but your microbiota loves it. Get all the indian spices and herbs you can and do some alchemy with your food. I love experimenting with new flavours. I've recently started adding plant-based butter and that's incredible. Nutritional yeats, tahini, miso, tomato puree, pesto and herbs also help. If unsure, there are lots of pressure cooker cookbooks. I also made a few recipe videos on my YouTube. The videos are a noob quality but there are 2 recipes in the most recent video and also in some of the other vlog ones.

@Jannes I agree to an extent. For a beginner or a mediocre practitioner, callisthenics will accelerate muscle growth but once you become too strong that the curve of effect starts bending unless you can load plates on a belt to increase your weight, you won't get the same effects anymore because now doing 20 pullups in one row is not longer a challenge and you can easily do 40 dips in one turn, it's like working with light weights, it's no longer the same. At least this is the effect I've noticed on myself after having practised it for about 14 months now. I went from 8 cap pullups to 21 and the effects is no longer the same to achieve a same type of pump I'd get from 8 before, but I still enjoy it very much. I think callisthenics is one of the most natural and healthy ways to train for health, longevity and strong core but it has its limits for hypertrophy where that is desired. It's all about the individual goals, of course. If you want a Chris Bumstead type of physique, weights need to be included.

Great tips by @Max_V above already. Indeed, more pulling exercises will lead to more hypertrophy than focusing on pushup variations only. In fact, I'd say pull exercises (in calisthenics) have a higher impact on strength than push exercises, especially pull-ups. Gymnastic rings, he suggested, are a beast! They are hard but they make you exponentially stronger once you start using them. But where muscularity is a goal, you would definitely benefit from some weight training. While callisthenics is great for core and functional strength, it is not as effective at "making you bigger" if that's the main goal. But it seems like your main concern is energy rather than training which may come down to multiple factors: From my experience in the clinic, fatigue usually comes down to a few things: insufficient protein intake insufficient carbohydrate intake (or eating too many high GL carbs) sleep deprivation stimulant overuse iron deficiency general unhappiness with life (lack of purpose etc) - this can make a person physically weaker compared to someone with a strong sense of vision if none of that - it is more physiological and needs further investigation (e.g. thyroid, CFS etc)

Sounds like a bit of fat undigestion. Do you still have your gall bladder? There are some faecal tests your doctor could do for the presence of certain substances in the stool that would show potential fat malabsorbtion or deficiency of certain digestive enzymes. @undeather would be better suited to explain how fat malabsorption is being tested and investigated and what can be done.

I've seen the same in my diet, if I eat the same thing over and over, at some point, I just can't stomach that thing anymore. Although I've never seen it cause acne although I'm sure acne could probably be caused by psychological reasons as well although I think with this one, unlike other issues, the cause is usually more biological. That's a long say of saying "I have no idea, Max "