Incrementalism

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1. After my old man had a heart attack from his toxic diet of pure garbage I completely eliminated butter and margarine from my diet. I got some of those plastic squeeze bottles and filled them with Olive Oil and Canola Oil and use those in their place. For Alfredo sauce instead of the store bought jar full of saturated fat I buy the powder and substitute skim milk and Olive Oil for the Cream and Butter the package calls for.

2. My congrats to you for an outstanding achievement. I work out six days a week too. I’d like to share this site with you for variations on your routine. By changing your routine every couple of months, you’ll shock your muscles which helps them to grow.
   The routines are on http://www.muscleandstrength.com Best of Luck

3. If the walks have become too easy give weighted walking a try. Just put some weights in a backpack and do your walk as normal. Start low, say10lbs, and work your way up — 15, 20, 25, 30 etc. It’s the same exercise you’re already doing but this way you get more bang for your buck (greater energy expenditure).

4. Congratulations!

   But where are the before n after pics?

   😉

5. Paleo Diet is the best diet, imho.

6. Congratulations on setting a fine personal example, Hunter. Many people find the “outdoor boot camp” a satisfying way to build PT into our desk bound, sedentary lives. The satisfaction of an 0600 PT is hard to beat with the glorious sunrise, fresh clean air tinged with morning dew, tons of camaraderie and a motivational DI. Cold rain and snow have their special rewards too, and keep it all real.

   Joe of the Mountain

7. Congratulations. And thanks for reporting on it for us.
   BTW: You really are a southerner, LOL!!
   “Because of the bitterly cold winter weather in Virginia…”

8. As of July, 2010, you were a butterball.

   If all this were really true, I guarantee you’d have posted pictures, to show off and show up your old enemies.

9. Glad to see you’re doing fine, Hunter Wallace.

   This is somewhat off-topic, but relevant in that it addresses the question of what kind of free speech should be allowed in pro-White circles.

   Daniel J Antinora has been permanently banned from Alt Right for suggesting that we’d be better off if psychopaths started murdering congress members instead of the rest of us.

   http://tomorrowinvinland.blogspot.com/2011/01/banned.html

   That certainly makes it difficult to take Richard Spencer’s rhetoric on free speech seriously. If a crazy individual wants to break the law and kill someone, choosing a political target is the least disgusting choice. Criminals taking out criminals.

10. Hunter – congrats on the weight loss and fitness regime. Even 30-60 minutes of brisk walking a day will keep most people in decent shape assuming your diet is also reasonable.

    Nightowl – if you are White, real butter is good for you. Remember than Whites from Northern European areas evolved lactose tolerance so they could eat butter, milk, cheese, etc.

    It is the fake fats that are bad: stuff like margarine, canola oil, vegetable oil, cottonseed oil, and so on (all types of hydrogenated fats). Most of those were invented in laboratories during the 19th-20th centuries, and large consumption of these have been correlated with a hugely increased incidence of various cancers, heart disease, etc. This is because they are so artificial and were just recently invented in labs, our bodies are not evolutionarily prepared to handle them. Avoid all modern-invented fake fats, oils, and lipids. Stick only to fats and oils that have withstood the test of time. For instance, olive oil is OK but margarine is not, though real beef tallow is preferred to both; pure lard is better for you than canola oil; real whole cream is better than skim/low-fat creams; real yogurt better than ‘light’ yogurt; all kinds of real animal fats are better than laboratory-invented fake fats; etc. In the modern USA though (and many other nations) livestock is treated and fed the wrong foods so even their fat is often tainted. It’s a lose-lose situation.

    The problem with the modern American food system is that it is totally controlled from top to bottom, and the most nutritious foods and fats are ‘appropriated’ as it were. Raw whole milk is illegal in many states, and only the rather inert whole milk stripped of most cream/fat and vitamins is available in stores. It’s another form of discrimination against Northern Europeans, since many Northern Euros need real whole fat milk, butter, cheese, etc in their diet to thrive — however, what they get in the modern USA is a stripped down version largely devoid of real nutrition to be substituted mostly with empty carbohydrates and mass-produced junk meat.

    It is interesting to note how dietary preferences have changed for the worse in modern times due to population pressures. This is the result of the triumph of quantity over quality at present, i.e. the 9 million generally high quality Whites of Sweden vs. the 1.2 billion rather low quality Asiatics in China. In the past people would kill for regular access to animal fats/lipids/oils, as they provide the best and heartiest nutrition. The fattiest parts of livestock along with organ meats, lard/tallow/etc, milk, cheese, butter, cream, bone marrow, fish fats, the fat of bird livestock like chicken, ducks, geese, etc etc…this is the stuff of real nutrition, and in the past everything was cooked in healthy fats. You can see vestiges of this in some traditional cultures like Eskimos which subsist entirely on seal fat and fish and have a low incidence of heart disease. But now it has become switched and when people eat meat it is so often low fat flesh portions, like a steak without much fat marbling or skinless/boneless chicken, that type of junk — in the past most considered that the waste meat and fed it to their dogs and other pets.

    A great book on this is NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION by Weston Price – http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html – I recommend that everyone concerned about modern nutrition read that book. It shows how the health of geographically isolated pre-modern people rapidly degenerated once they adopted modern ‘factory’ diets. For instance, read the chapter about the isolated pre-modern White Swiss vs. the modern White Swiss: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/price3.html

11. Good for you, Hunter. Keep at it in 2011–the fit lifestyle AND the broad/populist tone of OD. Some people don’t understand it, but what you’re doing is 100x more subversive than the “vanguardist” Literati with their cocktail parties and Book-of-the-Month clubs.

    Cook for yourself if you don’t already. It will cut your grocery/meal bills down 60%, and it’s almost impossible NOT to lose weight when you’re overseeing the ingredients.

    Congrats and best wishes from vibrant CA!

12. HW has a great routine, to be sustained for life. I work out for 1.5 hours before breakfast or going to work; a 40″ bicycle ride before dinner; another light 20″ workout before sleep. Am 64, feel 24. Exercise, plus a “reasonable” diet, is the reason. Let the libs pig out and drop dead.

13. I was already halfway done on June 13 when I confronted Jeffrey Imm in DC. That was exactly 32.6 pounds ago. I have records that stretch back a year.

    As for posting pictures, I really don’t care what people on the internet think. I might post some from Spring Break in Florida in March.

    The people who know me best from the internet – like my roommates from Virginia – know how often I go to the gym because they were going with me at the time. I also have people from the internet like Jack Ryan who call me all the time when I am there.

    I’m there six days a week, usually between 6 and 8 PM, no matter what the weather. My flawless track record goes back to August 22 when I moved back to Alabama.

14. I learned primarily from working out at the gym that incrementalism works.

    When I run on the treadmill, I always think about getting through the next 5 minutes, not the entire 30 minute session. When I am going through a large set, I think about the next few reps, not the entire set.

    Similarly, when I was losing weight, I always focused on losing 5 pounds a month or improving a specific muscle group, not losing all of it at one time. I always changed up my routine in small ways – something small, like dropping the nightly iced coffee – to improve at the margins.

    I won that battle.

15. Good job Hunter, absolutely right.

    I’ve underwent a similar transformation dropping 50+ pounds. Now I look like Brad Pitt. I sat around and day dreamed for years thinking about what it would be like to have six pack abs all the while knowing how to do it. That got me nowhere. The problem is the all or nothing attitude. Some people tend to give up if they don’t see immediate progress.

    The progress came when I decided to change my philosophy to something more realistic like “i’m just going to do something even if it’s as trivial as a 1 minute jog”

    It’s the little successes here and there that really matter and once you start stacking one on top of the other the momentum just drags you forward like you’re on auto-pilot.

16. I add my congratulations–it takes determination and self-discipline to lose weight and get and stay in good shape, as you’ve discovered. It all becomes easier once you’ve accepted the ghastly truth, that this is a permanent lifestyle, not a finite project, and once you’ve become intuitive about daily caloric intake. It’s good to use a coach at the gym for a while; the company is motivating, and his or her in-depth knowledge and guidance can be very useful, as well as interesting; the human body is amazing – a good friend, deserving of respectful treatment.
    I’d like to say, too, that in addition to appreciating your writing and the effort you’ve put into finding a fit between your vision and your talents, I’ve been impressed by the restraint you’ve exhibited in dealing with critics who reveal more that’s undesirable in their own character than about you in what they allow themselves to put in print.

17. Wow, good job.

    A book you might find interesting, and would help with eating better, could be the following:

    http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Grow-Slim-Richard-Mackarness/dp/0006338089

    I’ve read Eat Fat and Grow Slim, and currently following the advice of not eating any sugars or starches, and so far have lost about 3 lbs in 10 days, without exercise. Sugar is highly addictive, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the first 5 days. Fortunately the craving abates, and I haven’t touched sugar since then. After only 2 days my energy levels peaked, my mood improved and I’m back to being the cheerful fellow I was meant to be.

18. I agree with MOB’s sentiment’s

    Accepting the fact that it is a permanent life style is one of the most important aspects, maybe the most important.

19. Hunter – well done. One of the very key things you’ve done is note that those who try to “start big” doom themselves. I haven’t been exercizing regularly since mid-October – due to “lifestyle” changes. I’ve been too busy to do anything other than work, and move. I’ve had very very very long days. And time to do very little other than work, make dinner, crash, and repeat the next day.

    Things are finally settling down again. I started exercizing again yesterday. Got on a stationary bike. I got through approx 15 minutes. I remember when I began my stationary bike regime, early last year – I thought I was gonna die after 2 minutes. (I pedalled for 10, though) I was going for 30 minutes, in 2 weeks, with very little effort, by just doing it – and by NOT “over-doing it” the first time out. I anticipate doing the same, this time. If I listen to my body, so to speak, and pay attention to whne I am pushing myself, to do a wee bit more, vs. pushing “it” and utterly exhausting myself – I succeed. I know I’ll literally be back up to speed in a month.

    The other posters on this thread have noted the preponderance of junk calories, and Frankenfats, in American “food”. I cannot stress this enough – PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the time and effort to get real food from local producers. And try to obtain meat from real butchers. Get to know your local farmers! Once you start eating real food – you’ll notice the difference immediately. First time out. If you have Amsih or Mennonite farmers in your locale – consider their proximity a blessing from whatever God you pray to! I cannot eat “commercial” eggs anymore. They make me sick, almost immediately. Nauseous. Real eggs, that ones the Federal Posioners have termed “unsanitary, and unhealthy” are unbelievably delicious, and I’ve never wanted to heave once. I now have tons of sources of natural, non-effed up chickens, who do range freely, and who produce real eggs. I have real honey. I have squash, and beets. Real beets. I love beets. If you’ve only had commerial beets – you’ve never had real beets. And potatoes. They are delicious….eating real food is like experiencing the Platonic ideal of food.

    Get to know your locl farmers!!!! Get to know their customers. The day may come when you may need to defend them from the Federal Thugs. (And there are plenty of lega lways to do this. I am NOT advocating any sort of violence!). I live in the land of small farmers. The Federal Posioner Agencies are alredy screwing with them. We are forming groups to rush out and show up when the Federal Poisioners show – armed with all sorts of paper “regulations” designed to shut local farmers down. We can block the Thugs by challenging them, with thier phoony crap. You’ll find that if oyu get ot know the other customers, of your local farmers, that no matter what their political affilaitons – they will be fanatical about defendingthier bleoved food source.s Believe me. The Feds are effing with the Earthy Crunchy Liberal Foody crowd, now – and there are no more vicious, selfish. “by any means necessary” fanatics on the face of the Earth, than Earthy Crunchy Foodies.

    You never know what kinds of interesting developments will occur, if the White Nation gets the Earthy Crunchies to align on whole food issues. If you want to see a cruel, remorseless, inhuman murderous psychotic light suddenly gleam from the eyes of an apparently “peaceful, serene” Yuppie Hippy – just bring up the name “Monsanto (Sephardic Jews! Hi Jack Ryan!)” to the Foody. OMG. This is also an excellent opp to Name Die Jude, and educate the Foody about, “….what the Bolshies did to the peasant farmers in Russia. Holomodor, ‘n ll. You know – Bolshies – Jews. Ya know how Jews always attack the food supply, dontcha, Foody? Look it up…”

    You can cut right through ALL the PC BS, with the Earthy Crunchy crowd, when ya explain that it’s the Jew, behind the attacks on the food supply. Believe me. The Knaaaazees haven’t been brought up once, to me, whenever I’ve done this. I can see the lights going on, in the eyes of the Foodies.