^^ How about my "hometown" Nagano? Although I confess I don't know members from there, and also have no idea who's its Team 8 representant.
^ I used to like 1st-gen Eito Kondo Moeri, who was Nagano's daihyou... but she grad almost exactly a year ago (08 Oct 2016). Takahashi Sayaka is the new Nagano representative... and like many of the replacement 2nd-gen Eitos... I barely know anything about her (they don't have the rich history of making the concept work like the 1st-gens... so they inherited a legacy they know little about). Interesting fact: there's exactly 1 member in J48G from Nagano -- and that's the Nagano Eito rep. If you include Nogi and Keyaki, there is one more, Kakizaki Memi from Hiragana Keyaki -- that's it.
Another confession: I'm in my early 20s but I still buy children snacks. My parents have warned me about diabetes actually....
^ Luckily, my taste for sweets died early... but the craving for sugar still remains. At least since my gut condition, my taste for sweets is even more curbed, save a few exceptions: Dark chocolate. Esp finer darks ~65-80% cacao. Would shave them over a salad if society wouldn't brand me a monster Cold Stone's Coffee and Banana full-fat ice creams, one scoop. Made with actual coffee and bananas, so they're not as sweet as supermarket box brands. Under coffee: Fraps, until my gut condition in 2013, used to get Venti Java Chips, sometimes 2/day. Hot mochas from a good coffee shop... now? Zero One particular brand of protein bar: NuGo's Dark Mint Chocolate... and only one per sitting, per week, if that. It's the only mintchoco I can have, just about A local cold confection here called Guri-Guri, in strawberry. Super-sweet, so I get one scoop (1/4 cup). Reminds me of childhood None of these satisfy the amount I want to have of them... but in my case, the consequence of petulant rebellion... is harsh and ever-present. It took me getting pancreatitis to finally change my eating habits -- in my adult life, getting off sweets meant just the taste -- eating carbs instead satisfying my body's out-of-control desire for glucose and fat (which in the end, is also glucose)... until my serum lipids were so high, my pancreas had no choice but to digest itself. Just the pain alone, will make you reevaluate the purpose of your life -- it is 6 days of excruciating, exquisite, constant, hallucinating pain. It can hit at any time you're higher than 1000 mg/dl serum triglycerides... which are only found with a blood draw and lab processing. I'm on lipid-lowering meds for life, that rob my muscles of fuel (triglycerides) so I can't even run 1/4-mile without feeling like I'm having a heart attack. So... come your 30s definitely (perhaps your genes are better stock than mine) but earlier the better... try not to use up all the cycles your GI tract has for life, before you're 40. It will be miserable, in a profound way, if you can't enjoy a single finger of fine single-malt Scotch, or your wife's birthday cake, because you had to drink colas everyday just to cave to your body's ancient fuel finder hard-wiring, in your 20s...
^ LOL better get your blood glucose checked then! j/k Here's a confession: I have a wife, the most awesome partner this wretch could have hoped for. We will *never* have children, that's a definite... But whenever I look at Chiho, Piyo, or even Yumi (who technically could've been born to us)... I want to have a girl niece or daughter to dote on, who I can cheer on when they get fouled at basketball during a championship game (Yumi), when they have boy trouble (Chiho), or when I want to laugh and remember when their hands were too small to hold a kernel of popcorn (Piyo). We (my wife & I) laaaaugh and shrug when we talk about this; she gets it too. But parents? At our age? Nah. Our ships sailed for that, a long time ago
The last time I had blood test was in 2015. The result was good. But I dunno about now though I don't have something wrong with my health. Children snacks that I usually buy are actually biscuits or wafers that I often eat with instant coffee with creamer.
^ I would just keep an eye on it, and have blood drawn for at least lipid level and liver function assays (amylase/lipase) every year, or as often as you can afford. If a trend upward for bad markers is found... then at least you found it in plenty of time for minimal treatment. It's the gnarled old bastards around my age ... that deny they're getting older and eat like they're 20... then find out at age 50 they need 75cm of their bowel removed... or their toes begin to gangrene from diabetes... THEN decide oh, time to get checkups. Far too late.
11gatsu no Anklet is another single centerred by Mayuyu which means it doesn't make me want to play it multiple times. Meanwhile, whenever there's single with Sasshi as center, it's very catchy. I heard some people don't like Love Trip but I like this single, I think in Love Trip, AKB48 becomes Paramore. Then, when Sasshi grads? There'll be catchiest single of 48 ever.
^^^^^^ 1000 mg/dl serum triglycerides ... "this is heavy"! Good luck in your journey to a healthier life! Btw, I got my test recently and I'm 93 mg/dL. I'm not so addicted in sweets though ... My problem actually is bacon, hamburgers ... and ramen.
@Humbucker You're normal, actually better than normal -- if you eat bacon, burgers and ramen, and still manage 93 mg/dl? You have no chance of developing hyperlipidemia (my condition, which I suspect is actually a type of genetic hypertriglyceridemia). The normal diagnostic level is 150 mg/dl -- so you're 40% away from even needing to modify your diet. If you draw blood at the doctor's every few years, though (which is wise)... just gauge how close it is, or if it goes over, 150 -- which your physician should inform you of anyway. Just to give you an idea of how broken my body is with controlling serum triglyceride... 150 is the norm, right? At the time of my first attack... my ST was... Spoiler ...1865+ mg/dl -- or almost 2g per deciliter of blood. It was so full of triglycerides... that when one of the draw vials was shaken gently and allowed to settle... almost half of it was this yellowish-white 'head' -- pure fat. I mentioned 1000mg (1g)/dl is when pancreatitis hits? For 80% of the population, that's true. But my pancreas struggled on mightily, to keep from digesting itself (which is the definition of pancreatitis). At almost 2g, it finally gave up, & was in hospital w/ 9-10/10 pain and fed only ice chips for 6 days, until it healed. It happened again 15 months later, because my doctor did not give me dietary recommendations the first time, so ate only what didn't hurt me -- which still included good oils. Your pancreas only cares about total fat intake, alcohol, and saturated fat -- no matter how healthy it is. So now my diet is severely restricted -- no (wheat) noodles/pasta, no alcohol, no chili or fatty stews, minimal sugar, minimal carbs, minimal fat... and a lipid-lowering med. For life. Oddly, my cholesterol was *perfect*, despite being in hospital with a potentially-fatal lipidemia. Near 2g/dl, is the definition of familial chylomicronemia, a congenital condition that causes out-of-control lipidemia. I may have it, due to my family's cane worker background (very common in family with hard grift in their recent histories). My blood looked just like the vial at center: http://fcs.raredr.com/ Unfortunately... need to visit Europe to be diagnosed, which won't happen anytime soon... even for us, a Eurozone trip is simply cost-prohibitive with our other goals.
^ Yeah, we tend to care about our health when we no longer have it. But in your case, you were "blessed" by this rare sydrome, which seems to be hard to be diagnosed until the secondary symptoms came up. I wonder if routine annual tests would have detected it (from the levels of triglycerides) or if the physicians would have diagnosed it FCS properly (due to its rarity). Anyway, it would be of no use even getting an early diagnosis if we're not willing to change our habits to deal with the new condition. (We always have to choose wisely among the doors that are still open instead of crying for those that have already closed, or those that will never open to us.) And in this point, you are doing right in taking care of your eating habits and health. I hope you can keep your treatment with the specialist doctors or any alternative solutions available to you. On a lighter note, hope your "other goals" for saving money isn't SSK.
Speaking of which I literally ate Bacon, sausage, egg and insta noodle for breakfast plus a peanut butter toast this morning.....while watching Niigata Furendo
^ LOL yeah not everyone will have problems like mine dealing with blood TG -- the normal thing for the body to do when there's too much dietary fat or sugar, is to store it around the organs as deep, then superficial layers of fat. My body just keeps it in the blood for immediate fuel, like my ancestors, so they could continue to work in mud up to their waists from before dawn to sundown. When you're forced to be that physically active... it's an advantage. But my Army days are long over, so my body gets sick. It's like making a racecar pootle in traffic all day -- it will clog up and break down. I had no health insurance for about 15 years (which is another long story I won't bore you with), so no routine checkups. But my diet was much like @marioworldakb 's -- except I was in my 40s, thinking I was still 25 and could never be sick... Lastly, dietary lipids are not just TG... but cholesterol too. My body happens to process LDL really well... but lots of people get atherosclerosis, gallstones, diabetes, DVT, stroke, hypertension, and heart attack from a flippant diet, esp if they're also sedentary. Cautionary tale... yeah some old dude on a forum wagging his finger, wutever. But I definitely was that young guy once, stuffing my face and laughing at my uncles in their 40s with health problems back in the '90s... and now here I am.
lol just turned 25 XD Yeah...my uncle always scolds me for eating unhealthy food and unhealthily. Thinking back in my undergrad years I used to able eat at least 3 rounds in a buffet/hotpot with my plates full of meats (and always no veggies to make my trip wurth) and dessert/bubble tea after, chug down a 8 piece KFC bucket, finish a medium donair pizza and all that fun stuff...but now I can't even finish a plate of Yang Chow fried rice/Pad Thai and I usually just pack half of it for lunch and dinner the next day lol I'm too old for this too And topic related confession, my diet this month is mostly insta noodles for breakfast and homemade udon chicken for dinner now (no lunch, or I try my best to grab myself a free one in the campus. They give out free hamburgers and hot dogs at random events you know XD) because I spent a bit too much on Hinachan and STU goodies this month XD Frick all that food mentioning makes me hungry now
All this food talk ... I've challenged myself making omuraisu lately. But I confess have failed miserably all the times I tried to make the omelette like this guy: if the video does not show watch the video here (Perhaps I should have posted it in the post dump instead of here.)
Am I the only one here who cares a lot about healthy eating habits? You know, no junk food, a balance meal with vegetables and different nutritions, not a lot of deep fried food or oil etc. Japanese has the 一汁三菜 (1 soup 3 dishes) diet, simple, healthy and delicious.
Nope -- my diet is pretty damned scrubbed clean of junk food... but I had to have a life-threatening condition in order to convert to it. And @Humbucker -- no, your confession was challenging yourself to making omurice and failing, etc. etc. You are a GO at this station... proceed!
Idols & seiyuus are anomalous to me. If some of them sing horribly but still sound cute, it's still a pleasure to listen to them singing. But for me, the best singer is Jónsi of Sigur Rós, for me he's the best singer in the history of mankind.
