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[bigrich4]

hello all, i'm a real newb here. I forgot how I found this site but I was reading through and it looks cool. I have worked out on and off for alittle while but now starting again off my longest break yet ( maybe 1- 1 and a half years of lazieness). I have a little 1 year old son and a very busy girlfriend so all my working out is at home and I dont have a bench, just dumbells, curling bar and my own body. I'm not aiming to be the hulk or anything, I just want to look and feel good. I have diabeties too so some diets are hard to follow since i cant eat lots of rice, pasta, bread or potatoes etc... anyways atm my stats are.
age 30
height 6 foot
weight 205 lbs
bf% ??/ to high no clue
diet pretty poor atm and this is where i need the help
yrs training 7 yrs on and off
goals to look and feel like a new man

[T-MOS]

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[backat1]

Hey bud, welcome to the forums!

I'd suggest you take a look over at the nutrition forums for some help at your diet. Also, fitday.com has a very easy and free way to track your progress online. I paid for the desktop version too a few yrs ago, and I still use it. If for some reason you won't find yourself in a gym for a long time, you may want to look into P90X, which is a very intense, in-home workout that has worked for a lot of friends of mine -- it actually got them back in the gym with all the progress they made.

I found it interesting that you thought being a diabetic would be a problem with most of the carbs, since even as a diabetic, you are most likely eating carbs that are recommended most often on this site. Low GI carbs like brown rice, lentils, beans, sweet potatoes, etc. are absorbing slower and stabilizing your blood sugar more which is preferable, especially if you are on insulin, are they not?

Granted, I am NOT a doctor, and not at all trying to give you any sort of medical advice -- just interested in the topic, but I have an aunt whose blood sugar I was monitoring for a while, and I read a lot about how high glycemic indices caused spikes in insulin in healthy, non diabetics (causing fat storage to go full force, hence why we try to avoid these) and that these sorts of high concentrations of blood sugar are what diabetics should avoid. Type two in fact, I thought, was supposed to dramatically calm down after healthy exercise and steady blood sugar over a long period of time.

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