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Wise man. You'll be very happy with the purchase.

I actually have no idea to be honest. I don't even know how much the bike weighs.

Although my Storm 1 is lying in pieces at the moment, I just need to resemble after maintenance and having wheels rebuilt. It is the best bike that I have owned to date, I put 11000km on it within in a year with smiles all the way. edit: sp

Here. Ignore the one at the bottom, that was a ride I did before Sani.

Like anybody sticks to their budgets when buying bikes.

Christy Parkin, MSN, RN, CDE, responds: In the early morning hours, hormonal changes in your body will naturally cause blood glucose to rise. For people who don't have diabetes, the increase in blood glucose is offset by increased insulin production. For people with diabetes, this can be a problem. There are a couple of things going on that make your glucose rise in the morning. One of these is insulin resistance—a condition that means your body's muscle and fat cells are unable to use insulin effectively to lower blood glucose. However, insulin resistance also affects how your liver processes, stores, and releases sugar, particularly at night. The liver is supposed to release small amounts of glucose when you're not eating. But in type 2 diabetes, the liver dumps more glucose than is needed into the bloodstream, especially at night. So, while your hormones are causing a natural rise in blood glucose, your liver is releasing even more sugar into your system. And because your insulin resistance prevents your muscle and fat cells from using the sugar, your blood glucose level rises. http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/ask-experts/why-my-blood-glucose-so-high-morning

The reason for this is a normal alteration in hormones experienced by many people not just people with diabetes. It is called "Dawn Phenomenon." What Causes Dawn Phenomenon? The body prepares for waking up by secreting several different hormones. First, between 4:00 and 6:30 a.m. it secretes cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrin. You may recognize these as the hormones involved in the "fight or flight response." In this case, their job is more benign, to give you the energy to get up and moving. Besides giving you a burst of energy, these hormones raise blood sugar. You aren't going to be able to make any kind of energetic response if you don't have fuel, and after a long night's sleep, the fuel your body turns to to get you going is the glucose stored in the liver. So after these stress hormones are secreted, around 5:30 a.m., plasma glucose and, in a normal person, insulin start to rise. Though the normal person gets a rise in insulin to help cells use the morning glucose, people with diabetes don't, so instead of giving their cells a dose of morning energy, all they get is a rise in blood sugar. http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/17561156.php

You can never have too much bike, only too little.

Great bike and will last a lifetime. Do. It.

The easiest way to get enough and not too much calories is to listen to your body, your body knows what it needs. So if you are hungry, eat and if you feel you are full, STOP. All this goes hand in hand with eating the right types of food, wholesome food. It doesn't help you eat Coco-Pops at breakfast when you could be eating last nights leftovers of meat and veggies... A good way to consume enough calories is to eat good fats like olive oil and avos, even the fat on your meat (EDIT: and nuts but not peanuts, a peanut is a legume not a nut.) Good fats play a very important role in nutrient absorption as well as overall health. But vegetable oils are bad, ie oils high in Polyunsaturated fats (Poly fats cause inflammatory responses on your system) so opt for saturated fats and Monounsaturated fats specifically. So eat right and the rest will sort itself out.

I will have to dig deep!

To be honest I'm not sure yet but hopefully in about 14 hours. I mean 15 hours.

First upload your images to a site like Flickr, then each image you uploaded has its own url that you can either copy and paste into the "image" tool (it looks like a pic of a tree below the smiley face when replying) or once you uploaded the pic, simply copy and paste the image in the reply box and hit post.

Sigh, don't think I can continue with LCHF due to cost. I've had an itch to upgrade to a carbon frame on my road bike for quite some time and I set my teeth into a frame today. Although nothing has been finalised, it is something I never thought I'd own and is going to leave a crater in the pocket! Okay, I'm not really going to discontinue but I am rather excited. Back on topic, I was looking through our pantry this morning and was actually shocked by the amount of foods that contain wheat or soy. I myself also started avoiding mielies since the start of LCHF.

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I don't see why not, we do it every now and then. It is quite open alongside the road so you can see if anyone is approaching. EDIT: sp

It is very important to blend the fat shake as I learnt last week. I usually just stirred everything until melted but was hardly palatable. I blended it for the first time last week after 6 weeks of fat shakes and Bulletproof coffee (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/category/coffee-2/), blending it is the difference between rib-eye steak and bully beef!! W.r.t. the fat shake, avoid the flaxseed oil as it completely ruins the taste. And like htone said, incrementally increase your fat intake - especially in one sitting.

I picked up a set of Formula R1's not too long ago for a friend, the only contents of the box were the brake set as above. And those are R4k brakes. So were you ripped off, no. Were your expectations met, no. Did you ask enough questions before ordering, no.

He said it is a full sus, he must be running this setup and besides, roadies are resilient b@stards. http://www.cannondaleanswers.com/files/2012/05/headshokultra.jpg

Clearly someone saw "3M" and thought; "must be 3 million dosh." Would be very naive to think that someone would risk putting so much cash out in the open.

It's definitely a shaft-drive. Check below, they either run the drive shaft through the chain stay or the chain stay is the drive shaft. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VW8jqZ5ph-g/T0KlHuGgA4I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/gdXhQzjQxHs/s320/1899-Columbia-Model-59-Shaft-Drive-Bicycle-3.jpg

Eggs are equal in fat and protein weight wise. An XL Free Range egg is 6g fat, 7g protein but calorie wise it is 33% from protein and 67% fat. Roughly Honey, as good as it may seem is majority Fructose and due to high glycemic index spikes blood sugar. (You want to avoid spiking blood sugar.) EDIT: 300g of beef is about 45g of protein. But to alter what htone said, it should be 1.2-2g per kilo of goal weight, not current weight.

AM ketones, what AM ketones? Haha, trace amounts.

That is my current worry, 369km is a far way to go. Hopefully not alone either, should be able to tie up with other riders along the way. I just have no idea how to pace myself accordingly.

I was really proactive, first person to enter this years Desert Dash. This will by my first 24hr race so I am pretty keen.