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Originally Posted by fromct
Jimbo and PL,
Your posts on food have occasionally been new and informative to me but everything I've read/heard also stresses the importance of exercise along with diet to be truly healthy. Jimbo, I've seen pictures of some of your projects so I get some idea of what you do to stay active. But I'd really like to know from both of you what you do to complete your healthy lifestyles.
Also, I'd like to know the before and after stats that demonstrate how your lifestyle changes improved your 'numbers'. Especially waist size!
Pete
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Thanks for the complement and thoughtful question, but I'm not sure I can be of much help.
Exercise is important but nowhere near as important as ones diet regimen, in my opinion. I think the importance can be divided up to be about 80% - 20% in favor of diet.
Sorry, I don't think I can be of much help concerning waist size because I have never had a large waist. I've always been at the low end for BMI. But I can tell you that it gets more difficult to maintain a good waist size as I get older. I am maintaining it but it seems there's no room for error anymore. In other words, as we get older we have to face the reality that we can no longer eat the way we did when we were teenagers.
I don't have a lot to offer in the way of numbers because I never had a blood test until I reached age 65. Everything was within acceptable limits on my first test and every other test since then. I'm 72. Although, after I started the vegan diet my cholesterol improved. Once my blood sugar went up to 100. After I got more serious about working-out with hand weights, it went down to 86 on the next blood test.
All my life my approach has been to maintain good health, rather than let things get out of control and then try to fix them. And it seems to have worked for me. I feel well and don't need to take any medications.
Hope this will be of some help.