Whew, wish I had time to dig through all the responses here; it's all very interesting, but I just wanted to throw a couple things out there. My wife is Asian and while she is snall, I see her weight fluctuates wildly be 10% or more over a matter of days! I although overweight; don't have much fluctuation at all. I notice if she eats too much "American" food she will gain a bunch of weight very quickly, but as soon as she goes back to her traditional vegies, but primarily fish & rice the weight comes off almost overnight. Now when I say she eats rice; it's a prodigious amount! If I was to eat that much rice I would swell up like a balloon! I conversely have cut the amount of starchy carbs I've been consuming and coupled with my riding have seen my weight steadily decline. Point being that the diets that work for both of us a almost polar opposite. I think this is partly cultural; over hundreds if not thousands of years our bodies adapt to the foods at hand. In my journey the things that seem to have made the biggest difference in order are: Sleep - lots of it. Water- ditto Diet- less starchy carbs, but also just generally, only eating until I am no longer hungry, not until I am FULL. Over time the less I've eaten, the less I can eat; to the point that it doesn't take much these days to fill me up.
Lastly, I feel like doctors sometimes get cause and effect backwards these days. You hear " obesity causes heart disease" for example. Hey, what is more likely is the heart health or the lack of it causes obesity! In fact I am increasingly of the belief that heart health is the root of a large number of today's health problems. From Obesity, to dementia, to many stress related disorders. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/56688aee-d371-4422-9e12-80286b82640e%40googlegroups.com.
