Health Topic- Need to lose weight????

Glad to hear your new way of eating seems to be working for you.

Funny you mention the fiber. Yes, doctors and others drum it into our heads that we need high fiber etc. When I was very sick with diverticulitis my doctor(s) were all pushing more fiber on me and it was just making things so much worse. My research which lead to the probiotics also indicated that high fiber was not the the way to healthy guts. So many things they tell us just isn't so, or at least doesn't work for all of us.

I wish you all the best kawaboy

Anything new to say on this subject, Kawboy?

biltonjim wrote: Anything new to say on this subject, Kawboy?

I managed to drop 15 lbs in the first 4 weeks which is respectable for a man of 62 years. I found it to be a very interesting journey. When I dropped the food groups containing Lectins, the weight came off. Put the Lectins back in the diet - boom, weight starts coming back on. Bread is my Nemesis. I can't go near bread of any kind even though according to this Dr. Steven Gundry, white bread which is yeast raised or sour dough based bread is ok since the yeast kills the Lectins found in the flour. I'm still planning on sticking it out but it does get a little difficult when on vacation only because there's new things to try out in the food catagory.
I still have (according to my cardiologist) 85 lbs to go. Right now I'm in Halifax Nova Scotia and won't be home till the end of August. I'm trying to stick to the plan but if I choose to, I will slip a little. Once back at the house, it's back to a regiment.
I still believe that this "diet" has some foundation to the whys of unexplained weight gain.

For those interested the book is " The Plant Paradox" by Dr. Steven Gundry. Available on Amazon for $24.00. I've now read it twice and will have another read yet again. There is a lot of dumbfounding info in his work

Thanks very much for your reply, Kawboy. I think a few of us on this forum, including me, bought the book, after you first brought it to our attention. In my case, the book has gone onto my book rack, with dozens of others, awaiting me finding the time to get stuck into it. Having skimmed through it, I know I'll find it interesting. I have long appreciated the link between diet and health, though I recall that not so many years ago, orthodox medical practitioners placed little emphasis on what we eat and its effect on physical well being.
i hope you achieve your aims, Kawboy, and wish you good health.
By the way, if you don't mind, I have a question relating to nuclear electricity generation, specifically regarding the steam production. Are the steam conditions so called Super Critical, as they are in many conventionally fired boilers in power plants? The incredible pressures and temperatures that super critcal boilers operate at fascinates me !

Glad to hear Kawboy about your intermediate success! I have about 50 pounds to go, and actually haven't started yet. In many ways it's an out of body experience for me - never had such weight until neglected myself a couple years ago.

Biltonjim, your question to kawboy about steam reminded me of old times and the subject of turbines. I think it goes along the lines of the steam being super heated and becoming dry. Not just for turbines, but other applications. The fuel had to be heated for example. I think the main difference in nuclear and conventional is basically the source of energy creating to create steam, then it's similar - heat, water, steam, superheated steam. Me - right now I couldn't even quote what the basic thermodynamics formula is! hahaha Thank you for this chance to remember and go back to the past
I am sure boilers for nuclear energy heat exchange are somewhat constructed differently, to say it lightly