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re: Post gifs encapsulating this season so far…

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/18/26 at 8:04 pm to Clockwatcher68

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re: Post gifs encapsulating this season so far…

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/18/26 at 7:30 pm to Clockwatcher68

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re: Most candid jay johnson quotes of the season

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/18/26 at 6:46 am to Ponchy Tiger

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It’s not throwing anyone under the bus when he says he made mistakes in roster construction and it will never happen again. That is being brutally honest and taking 100% of the blame on himself.

Sounded like he was paraphrasing Skip to me.

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"It's not your fault, it's my fault. I never should have recruited you."

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 11:18 pm to pgaddxn

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Do they help with A1C control and work amazingly for people with Type2 diabetes? Absolutely they do.

But they are not the only way. I went from 10.7 A1C to ranging between 4.9-5.7 with no medicine and have maintained for several years.

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You will start to eat again

That is the most important part. If they eat the same way that got them into the situation to need GLP-1 then they will still have problems. Too little protein will lead to muscle mass loss. That is a fact. There has to be meaningful change in diet/exercise to go with the GLP-1.

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 9:40 pm to Riverside

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Someone with a BMI of over 30 going down to a BMI of 20 is going to lose some muscle obviously but they are also losing lots of subcutaneous and visceral fat. The gains outweigh any losses in muscle. The medicine is a godsend for morbidity obese people and that’s not really even debatable.

Short term, but muscle mass is critical for long term health. It helps prevent many things from metabolic disease and all of the associated conditions to Alzheimer's. The problem is those who don't only use the shot as a jumpstart never rebuild their muscle mass and as they age, they will lose even more muscle mass, so they end up in a bad metabolic state. If they don't do the things necessary to build/maintain muscle mass when they are younger and it is easier to do so, the chance they will do it later in life when it takes much more effort in minimal.

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 9:26 pm to tarzana

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Unfortunately not always healthy things. The human liver and kidneys are not designed to catabolise a preponderance of amino acids and fatty acids, even though weight loss is generally a good dietary end game.

Dr Nathan Pritikin, the shining star of 1970's nutritional planning, would be horrified at modern keto diets. He was adamant on a daily dietary regimen of 10% calories from protein, 15% from fats (no trans fat) and 75% complex carbohydrates, natural sourced as in grains, fruits and vegetables (no refined sugars).

I listen to the doctors and was eating the low fat "complex carbohydrate" diet etc. that they recommended while regularly exercising and ended up in the emergency room with a blood sugar over 600 along the way I gained weight, high blood pressure, sky high triglicerides etc. (I made a post years ago about it).

Long story short, I went keto/carnivore and lost all of the weight, gained muscle mass and my blood pressure and blood work are the best they have ever been. All with zero medicine, hell I don't even take Tylenol, cold medicine etc.

Best thing I have ever done, wish I would have switched years ago.

Of course, everyone should follow-up major changes with bloodwork etc. but my kidneys and liver are doing great. The HFCS will do way more damage than fat and protein.

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Dr Nathan Pritikin, the shining star of 1970's nutritional planning

Never heard of him but I wouldn't really put much weight behind the science of the time since most of the nutritional info and dogma of that era is arse backwards due to Ancel Keys and his rigged The Seven Countries Study. But hey do what you want, it is your body and you are the one that will live and die in it.

ETA the 10% protein is laughably low, you will not maintain much less add muscle with that low of protein intake.

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 7:47 pm to Challenger2006

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But for all the people shitting on it, is it not objectively better than being obese?

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't but it does not address the root cause of the problem directly. People that refuse to learn and change their diet and exercise will just gain the weight back as soon as they stop taking it. Also, as I posted above for most that take it, they lose muscle mass, so their body composition doesn't necessarily improve as much as people think. The lean muscle loss can leave you in a worse metabolic state in the long run.

Shortcuts usually have drawbacks and there are some already known and I'm sure more to come. Eating crap food and taking a shot to lose weight is not a sustainable model to get healthy, there has to be changes in addition to the shot. Most people don't see the shot as a temp solution to get the ball rolling; it will end up being a long-term crutch with consequences. But who cares the pharma industry will make $$$.

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re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 5:44 pm to tigerbait2010

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Woild have never guessed reading this thread lmao

The Rant is going to Rant no matter the sport. :lol:

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 4:31 pm to jpainter6174

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And it sucks your brain out too, everyone I know that’s been on it for a long time seems extraordinarily dumber some how.

I think it is related to most people on it don't focus on their nutritional intake but just rely on the less hunger to lose weight. Several people I know on it seem to have "brain fog" that can be cleared up by making sure they get sufficient high quality protein.

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 4:27 pm to VoodooGlowSkull

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Google says 70lbs through diet alone. That's alot seemingly too quickly for diet alone.

Keto/carnivore can do amazing things when paired with exercise/working out.

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re: Is Chris Blair ok?

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 4:26 pm to TDsngumbo

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That damn GLP-1 look is 10x worse than the fat look. I don't understand why people are addicted to it.

The problem is they lose tons of muscle in addition to fat unless they work very hard to prevent it.

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re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/16/26 at 3:38 pm to khill715

5 of the 8 semifinalists are SEC

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re: Did any of you get blocked out of the Baseball game last night on ESPN+

Posted by SpartanSoul on 4/15/26 at 3:43 pm to 4LSU2

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Each and every tine I get out and go to YouTube to see a stream and get bogged down in commercials

Depends on your Tv setup and skill level but if you are using a flavor of Android, I suggest you investigate apps like SmartTube and TizenTube(runs on Android) and it will do away with any ads YT inserts and during normal YT videos allow you to skip the creator embedded ads/endorsements in the video.

https://troypoint.com/smarttube/

https://troypoint.com/tizentube/

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