I DO fast for 4-5 days 4-6 times a year for the autophagy benefits.

My blood lipids made a marked improvement: triglycerides from 140 to 43, Hdl from 64 to 97 and LDL-c from 140 to 94. No statin can do what diet can……

My family has a history of high cholesterol and my (inattentive former) PCP was about to throw me on a statin willy nilly when my LDL was borderline high (HDH and tris were great). I leaned into fasting, stopped drinking on weekdays altogether, and tried to replace dinner carbs with green vegetables. Boom! Dropped back down to perfect levels. I am one of the few in my large extended family who remained thin and fit past 25, though, so I suspect that my lifestyle is healthier in virtually every way. My sister, often asked if she were my twin for much of my twenties, lives in Astoria and really leans into the sedentary, tiki-bar loving lifestyle, which is why I look 5 years younger despite being 3 years older.

Perhaps surprisingly, I defer to bobneptune entirely on this subject, although I prefer that my delts and glutes look like tumors themselves, so I think I’m going to keep eating grilled salmon and chicken breast until my wife no longer has interest in manually inspecting them for new growth. ; )

It’s a weird set of circumstances that those deals are actually good deals. This Knicks season was supposed to be a season of cheap Knicks tickets, but they’re playing too well and there are too many likable players for the prices to go down. “Too many likable players” is a good problem to have, of course, just noting that the ticket prices are a lot higher than a typical 8-17 basketball team as a result.

The myth that breakfast is that most important meal of the day — “kickstart your metabolism!” — is a lie.

Yeah, I had to try this to believe it. But sure enough it’s true. I now run 20+ miles a day several times a week before I eat a bite of food and I feel strong as hell and don’t bonk out like I used to. And my friend who is an Ironman and a personal trainer was diagnosed as pre-diabetic and stopped eating before workouts and he also performs even longer and stronger now. (Neither one of us has body fat to lose, but there is a weight loss element to this too, as the body burns what’s in the stomach first, then turns to what’s in reserve. So really, breakfast isn’t helping anyone, and Michael Phelps probably wasn’t benefiting as much as he thought he was from his diet:)

My weight dropped to 176 in early September, but has since risen over 180 again. I do enjoy the holidays, so I always gain a bit in November and December no matter what.

I’m going to return to it in January after the holidays and teaching are over.

On actual basketball matters, I love reading that Frank is starting to show some emotion via media reports. Hopefully the fire is lit under him and we see him toe to toe v Kyrie today.

Literally all he does is score, though. If you have two better scorers on the team, why do you want him as your 3rd best player making $18mm?

He’s about average in terms of efficiency
He’s well above average in terms of passing for a SG – 71st percentile in assist% per cleaning the glass
He’s well above average in terms of not throwing the ball away, 70+% pretty much every year of his career.

He’s really miscast as a 1st option though. Even as a 2nd option I think he’d be ok, and as a 3rd option when he can go back to his Atlanta shot profile (~24% of his shots from midrange instead of 34% this year) he would be really good.

Of Timmy’s restricted area shots in the last two years before this, 31pct and 46pct were unassisted respectively. This year it is 76pct. Pretty big delta. And he’s not getting there at a higher rate.

This is exactly it – he’s being asked to be the creator and finisher right now, and he’s just not quite there yet. CTG notes that he’s in the 95th percentile of unassisted rim FGAs, so he’s doing all the work.

Put KP back on the court and that gets a lot better. Put KP and a real PG on the floor and that gets lots and lots better.

Even as it is, without really any significant offensive talent around him, he’s 16th in the league in offensive RPM (all positions)

The 3rd best scorer on a good team (if not on a rookie deal) generally makes $15+MM. Timmy’s contract isn’t exactly an asset, but I don’t think it’s untradeable at all. To teams that are over the cap going forward and/or aren’t FA destinations he’s probably an actual asset.

in some cases we’re thousands of miles away from one another (in many ways)…

reading stuff like this though makes it seem as though we are all almost in the same room…

I was 5’10” once jowles…damn it if joint decompression and fucking gravity haven’t brought me down to about five foot eight and three quarters…

this universe has some crappy game rules…gravity and the whole life/death cycle thing being up there on the top of the list…

my one nutritional recommendation – resist everything but temptation…

that generally works for a lot other stuff too…

took the day off, it’s almost one now…gonna get out of bed and go eat some pancakes with lots of butter and strawberry jam on them…wash it all down with a couple of glasses of cold whole milk…

hmmmm, now that I think of it – chips and salsa with it sounds pretty good…

I’m not expecting good things, but, I hope we beat the celtics tonight…

draft position aside, I always hope the knicks perform well on a national tv broadcast…

Mostly. You can eat a little pasta (maybe 2 oz dry) and make a sauce with broccoli sauted with garlic an EV olive oil.

Broccoli is a backup. Substitute broccoli raab for broccoli and you have a dish like grandma used to make.