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this sounds reasonable from my perspective.
although never overweight, i did lose about 15% - from 180 to 155 - after switching to low carb/healthy fat diet in 2018.
i had been doing 100 pushups a day - responding to a thread challenge here on icmag in maybe 2015? - and then after starting to lose visceral fat, my left shoulder was clicking. i find now in 2021 that has stopped and i can do pushups again without problem.
also, i had sciatica for about 6 weeks in my left hip/leg - and that has also resolved to a nothing burger.
zero sugar, low carb, healthy fat (less than keto levels), whole food, omnivore - i think this is the reason for my current good health. plus exercise.
Thanks BT.
Yes, and that shoulder in particular, suffered an ignorance injury, maybe 15 years ago or so; likely tore a rotator cuff, maybe quite well; I was squatting under the canopy in my truck, and was loading up a moose, having just flown in from my friend's in the bush, and rather than turning sideways, to move this 125-135 lb. piece of neck, brisket and back, all joined as one piece from a 90-degree off-set 'sheer strength position' (upper back, upper brisket, and lower neck, from a larger young bull), I tried to move it by jerking it sideways, straight in-line with the shoulder, from the squatting position, and it went poorly..
Ignorance in haste and excitement, but it would've taken additional shifting in there for this nerve to get involved. Still, as you say, quite possible.
I've eaten whole grains, low carb, no refined sugars, no white flours, white noodles, etc., etc for about 11 years now.
The thing that got away from me briefly this last later spring and summer, with C-19 and isolation, was we went on a modest tamale binge, often eating ONE tamale in red sauce or green sauce for breakfast, then ONE for lunch, and ONE for dinner (yes, we DIG tamales, my younger son and I).
With carbs, even if they're clean, non-refined, complex carbs, is that too much is still too much. A little bit is good, too much provides the same outcomes. So it was a matter of moderations, changing metabolism, and that may have been influenced by other factors.
I'd done pretty good at keeping the weight off back 11 years ago; lost 70 lbs. in 70 days; I was younger and healthier then.
This time was about 43 lbs in 70 days.
As we get older, bringing our metabolism back on line, takes more out of us. Especially when done rapidly, which can come with side-effects that aren't desirable, such as the gall stones accelerating in formation.
I had a sense back then, the first time when I was first dx'ed, that this was a trick of self-discipline that my body would likely only tolerate so many times; heart and other organs pay sometimes when doing these things.
Each of our metabolisms change or morph differently as we age; some faster and some slower. What we thought we knw about our capacities isn't always on the mark further down the road.
When I was first dx'ed as Type II, I could get up at night and eat 8-10 servings of watermelon, and not kick the glucose to the moon. I thought it had something to do with enzymes or something in the melon. Nope. My then-Doc told me he had patients who couldn't eat watermelon, that it wasn't the melon, it was me.
Turns out that to some extent, all through life, just as Socrates and Jung advised, we're still getting to know ourselves, even if we've been paying relatively close attention.
I can still eat a bit of watermelon, and a good crisp ripe red seedless melon is manna in my view. But I'm WAY past the tolerating 8-10 servings with no effect. That guy left the neighborhood.
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Hot Tuna
Covering Barry McGuire's 'Eve of Destruction'
From the 'Pair a Dice Found' Lp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUSda7cajq0