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The Hardest Work Is Working On Yourself (Original Post)
Jim G.
Sep 2021
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msongs
(67,405 posts)1. 15 pounds down and 15 to go. ditched the carbs nt
Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)2. I think ditching the carbs is a key to good health. Congratulations.
msongs
(67,405 posts)3. yeah ditched bread, pasta, rice, taters and sugar nt
Ocelot II
(115,693 posts)4. Ditched carbs at the beginning of the pandemic.
Lost 58 lbs. It works.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)5. which carbs?
Ocelot II
(115,693 posts)6. Pretty much all of them, to the extent possible.
No bread, potatoes, pasta, pastries, candy, desserts. A little rice once in awhile if it was in something else. It was basically Atkins - eggs, meats, fish, especially salmon, green vegetables.
sanatanadharma
(3,706 posts)7. Decades without meat, eating lots of carbs...
75 years aged, height-weight proportional, healthy, never heavy.
50 plus years of doing the hard work of working on the self.
Why?, when the self is the closest 'what-it-is' to us and starts out self-evident.
No one needs a second opinion to know the existent self. I know "I am".
Nearly all need better opinions about what constitutes the self.
What can be chipped away and what is left.