1. Apprentice ~ one who is bound to serve another and who is learning by practical experience under a calling.<br />A life lived that matters, is not of circumstance, but of choice.<br />Crises and events happen to all of us, and many of them are unexpected. While the event itself has significant import, learning how to cope with it, live with it, learn from it, and grow from it, is far more important. Learn how to live with what comes; manage it as best as possible with your God given resources both within and without. Humbly carry on, and press on in faith, purpose, and sense of destiny regardless.<br />To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... <br />If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.<br />When life has turned you upside down in order for you to live right side up, you can truly say, quot;
By the grace of God, I have learned how to cope.quot;
<br />Change is a process; it's not an event. Remember when you learned to walk...there was no single moment when you got it. You staggered and struggled, until finally, one day you took a few steps...you fell down, but you didn't give up. You tried again and again, and before too long you were off running…adapted from quot;
Switch: How to Change when Change is Hard, by Dan & Chip Heath.<br />http://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard/dp/0385528752<br />As Norman Vincent Peale stated, “To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself.quot;
<br />Rahman Mokhtar • Success: to SurviveSuccess: to OvercomeFailure + learning’s, reverently emanates, Success; Success + learning’s, reverently emanates, Emancipation; Emancipation + learning’s, reverently emanates, Humility;key words: quot;
reverently emanatesquot;
, an assurance that failure is a good thing (and deal with it as a condition of the mind, failure is certainly not fatal!).Failure is part of a natural path to Humility, if taken with learning’s.<br />Carl Old Sr • Restricting calories is only half the answer...the other half has to do with optimal Nutrition, or as Dr. Michael Amen put's it CRON for Calorie Restriction with Optimal nutrition (see Change Your Brain Change Your Body). Optimal Nutrition doesn't come in cellophane or cardboard boxes. A reduction in carbohydrates and an increase in fat worked wonders for me. It took a reasonable understanding of how insulin, the storage hormone, works in the body to make us fat, overweight, obese, and morbidly so. As a rule of thumb (ROT)...multiply body weight x 10 for the average number of calories required to maintain inactive present weight. Reduce intake 500 calories a day x 7 = 3500 = 1 Pound weight loss per week. I did it for 65 weeks. Think CRON. See my reading list.<br />Carl Old Sr • Shawn...try to add more fat, i.e., avocado, walnuts, olive oil, etc., reduce your carbs to no more than 150 grams total a day (less if you can)...try it. Fat burns very well for energy and promotes a much better lipid profile (contrary to popular belief). You also get a bigger bang for your buck 9 calories/gram vs. 4 calories/gram. Check out my nutrition reading list...most important aspect of my LinkedIn profile that I have to share. I'm 73 years old at 6'-3quot;
and 175 pounds. I look absolutely awesome (outer and inner...the inner being most important) . Long distance cycling, 150 miles a week, is my primary activity...supported by swimming 2x/wk., resistance weights 2x/wk., and gardening. I ride in a group once a week with riders 1/2 my age. Working out is not how I control my weight or how I lost it. IT'S ALL ABOUT CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT AND THE MECHANICS THEREOF (proper balance of macronutrients for your metabolic type). Experiment. Learn about how insulin keeps us from burning fat and how it makes us fat. ATTACK THE FAT BY CONTROLING GLUCOSE AND INSULIN RESPONSES.<br />Carl Old Sr • A personal question... what's your A1C? The high sugar spikes damage the endothelium, (blood vessel lining), rip and tear it. More so as we age. Those areas get plaquered up as cholesterol patches those areas. High sugar (carbs) wear down your beta function...wear out the pancreas sooner than need be. The daily alcohol is definitely accelerating the metabolic aging process. Also, people that drink daily have smaller brains...Dr. Amen, et al. Insulin in response to glucose metabolism inhibits the burning of fat...therefore insulin is what makes most people fat. Look around...people are fat because of insulin secretion...because of uninformed and/or ignorant or I just don't care choices. ATTACK THE INSULIN RESPONSE ATTACK THE FAT PROBLEM IN AMERICA.<br />Carl Old Sr • There’s no one perfect dress size for all, only the one that fits is perfect. People do not need alcohol for any health purpose whatsoever. To give advice to raise HDL using alcohol is ludicrous...much better to raise it using quality fat and have all the other wonderful benefits working as a result. I agree on the Government Issue...we should get together and file a class action lawsuit against the feds for promoting and endorsing the old food pyramid...grain is fed to cattle to fatten them up...hello out there, Chromium Picolinate 200mcg at every meal or 3x a day for me. My world is high fat, low carb (not so low at 150 grams a day)...LDL 50, HDL 63, TG 41, CRP <0.10 LDL-Particle size predominately large...I think that’s quot;
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. You can check my reading list for the sources I reference...I'm happy with my professors. Thanks.<br />Carl Old Sr • See Jonny Bowden's (PhD, CNS) quot;
Living Low Carbquot;
...an excellent guide. He covers 38 reviews (in the last half of his presentation) on mostly low carb diets and rates them. My advice is not to follow anyone diet program. Instead, I recommend discovering what works for you...EXPERIMENT. The blood doesn't lie...so get a baseline lipid profile; know the numbers and what you can do to improve them. Don't be loosey goosey about it...GO FOR THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BE. Always ask yourself, quot;
How can I get it betterquot;
. This is one time that it's all about you. This can be very difficult if you've got a mate involved, and most do. You must realize that both may not be able to do things the same way, i.e., nutritionally, eat and drink. Go with Michael Pollan's et al, eat food, not too much, mostly plants...see Food Rules. Go organic. And be sure to find the wonderful in today.<br />Every problem or difficulty you face contains the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit.<br />I see trees of green, red roses too<br />I see them bloom for me and for you<br />And I think to myself what a wonderful world<br />I see skies of blue and clouds of white<br />Bright blessed days, the dark sacred nights<br />And I think to myself what a wonderful world<br />The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky<br />Are also on the faces of the people going by<br />I see friends shaking hands sayin’, “How do you do”<br />They’re really saying I love you<br />I hear babies cry, I watch them grow<br />They’ll learn much more and I’ll never know<br />And I think to myself what a wonderful world<br />Yes, I think to myself what a wonderful world, oh yeah…<br />Best by Louis Armstrong<br />