I don’t see @Slammer 's experiment --from a scientific perspective- going anywhere – at least, from a health-focus perspective. focusing on the weight of the solids, instead of the quality of them, is futile. 470 g of sweet potatoes are not the same than 470 g of a T-bone steak, 470 g of processed meat (Mash&bangers, f.ex), or 470g of chickpeas…
it looks to me more of a self inflicted sadistic exercise…or a conversation theme 
p.s. over-hydration also conveys problems.
Its not 470g of sweet potato, more like 10g, its not 470g of t bone, it is 50 g.
You wont eat 470g of sugar, but a quarter of a teaspoon is enough for any cup of tea (I use honey instead of sugar by the way)
Because at the end of the day a calorie is a calorie regardless of how you get it into your body.
You.. are a omnivore, that means you are capable of turning almost anything into fuel.
So, what I watch out for is keeping the weight of calorie intake below the expenditure of calories.
And that is the tricky bit.
How tall are you Slammer because 174 kg makes you an ideal candidate for GLP-1 receptor agonists (e.g. Ozempic). Sometimes its worth swallowing your pride and taking a pharmaceutical option when will power alone doesn’t work.
As mushy peas are usually prepared using baking soda most of the vitamins get destroyed (the protein, fibre, iron natually remain). Non-mushy peas are much healthier.
How so? Or rather, how does one define overhydration? I drink a ton of water, multiple litres per day, I just need it. My wife has a reminder on her phone to drink water as she doesn’t seem to feel the need for it. I usually bring her the glass when it rings
I’ve known people who have overhydrated to the point it caused them electrolyte imbalances, but this was often in combination with other issues (eg urinary tract infection, diabetes), not just being someone who likes/needs a lot of water.
I believe he said GLP-1 was out of the question due to kidney side effects
The general rule of thumb is to drink when you’re thirsty and keep an eye on your wee. If your wee is a light yellow then you’re probably getting enough liquid.
I actively drink probably less than 2 litres a day (unless I’m going for long runs in warm weather) but also eat salads and fruit, which are high in liquid. Never had any issues with UTIs or dehydration.
I think the point being missed here is the importance of maintaining muscle mass with age. It is probably more critical than cardio health, which walking is sufficient in 80s and 90s.
I’ve lost around 11kg over the last 9 months (see GLP-1 thread) and used an Garmin S2 scale to make recording my weight seemless with other sport data (Garmin-Connect). Interestingly, muscle mass loss tracks my weight loss almost exactly, assuming the scales are close to accurate. I mainly do tempo / threshold cardio activity. but my 5sec bike power output has dropped under 1kW, so am now trying to up resistance activity.
Basically, simultaenous weight loss and muscle gain is the fitness unicorn…would love to hear from anyone who has successfully managed this.
I average 5-6 km per day with our dogs which is around 7,000 steps plus/minus and daily swim a km or more in the Rhine in Summer, first time this year was last Thursday.
My BMI today is 28.6.
When I was in hospital yesterday they commented I am very fit for my age.
So I will keep doing what I do, no change planned.
Water is necessary for human cells to function properly. However, consuming more water than necessary might lead to overhydration, aka water intoxication, ( dilutional hyponatremia). It occurs when a person consumes more water than their kidneys can ordinarily excrete. If the balance between water (fluid) and electrolytes is not kept, dehydration and overhydration can cause morbidity and mortality through different mechanisms. Overhydration is associated with cardiopulmonary problems, hyponatremia, brain edoema and gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Cases of ‘water intoxication’ were also a problem some years ago, when the young generation was subdued by these ads of ‘funcional foods’ (now banned in EU), stating things like "the water that helps you lose weight’. The cases of overhydration in healthy, young people spiked on the 2000 - 2010s.
For people our age, more relevant is that one of the telltales of undiagnosed (or untreated) diabetes is polydipsia, an unquenchable thirst that can lead to overhydration.
(Polydipsia is also a TAE of some medications).
I am 193 and would love to take the chemical option, however my doc thinks that it could further damage the liver.
Do you mean to say it’s already taken a beating? Unfortunately GLP-1 is holistic risk management. Are the risks of being overweight greater than the side effects.
Taking 14 mg of semaglutide every day for diabetes since 5 years. The weight loss was a nice secondary effect, no other detectable side effects, liver and kidneys are OK, checked every 6 months. Lost like 30 kg in 5 years.
But I suppose the side effects are individual.
If the damage is caught early and the underlying cause is removed, a liver can often repair itself and regain full function. However, if the injury is severe and causes irreversible scarring, the damage cannot be undone
Probably useless knowledge if you fall into the worst case.
Came across the videos of Dr Alex Wibberley, an A&E doctor in the UK, a while back and have been finding his advice on healthy living/eating/exercise interesting. Especially as my mum, her dad and her brother all developed Type 2 diabetes in later life (without being particularly overweight). My mum died of cancer and her dad with diabetes-related gangrene. Her brother, at 81, was recently diagnosed with kidney failure.
https://www.youtube.com/@DrAlexWibberley/videos
BTW he says in the blurb for the channel that there are also fake AI-generated videos of him out there.
Here’s a Reddit discussion about him including a link to a BBC report showing him in action in A&E. There do seem to be people posting who think all his videos are AI-generated. (See also other Reddit discussions.) Who knows. What do you think @Phil_MCR? The ones I’ve seen on that channel seem genuine to me. But I did wonder where he could find the time to create videos if he’s still working as a doctor.
Thanks for this link…I just watched the blood-pressure video (“120/80 is Too Low”), which may explain why @marton fainted on the kitchen floor–in fact, he uses that very example. It doesn’t look like AI to me.
I found those recently.
He says he now only works one day a week in a hospital and devotes the rest of the time to his Youtube channel, and his family.
Many medical doctors have said that his knowledge is sound, good advice and based on current scientific thinking. He gives references too.
I have a feeling, he feeds all the data into AI and uses an avatar in the videos.
I was going to say the same thing having listened to that.
For older people, a bad fall is quite likely to kill them - though it may take up to year as loss of mobility in the short term leads to loss of muscle mass and speeds other organ degradation.
My mum’s currently in hospital but she keeled over in the waiting area with a blood pressure of 51/50 !
That’s probably why he looks exactly the same in every video–you’d expect he would be smoother shaven, hair longer, etc. as they span a number of weeks.
It would be honest though if he just said he did that.
I like the no-nonsense advice though and I’d rather have that then some of the the grating, real people videos, especially when they are giving dubious advice to sell a product.
I haven’t used a gym in twenty years - apart from at hotels etc when travelling.
You weigh 174Kgs - How many press-ups can you do? There re many variations which are harder and work slightly different muscles.
How about squats (normal, pistol or Bulgarian)?
