The Swamp

zone diet is mine

paleo zone....but that gets unsustainable

I meself went on a long overdue diet beginning of the year, goal of losing 40 lbs by end Summer 2016, shooting for 1 lb per week. Has been pretty easy so far and I have lost about 12 lbs in the last 10 weeks. What I did/do:

1) cut out processed sugar almost completely & replaced with fruit for any sweet tooth craving. This has been easier than I thought and after a couple weeks I discovered I really don't want to eat sugary pastries or candy bars or ice cream anymore. Use maple syrup, agave nectar, maybe honey sometimes for sweetener in drinks and cereal.
2) Cut out red meat and any kind of fatty meat. Bye bye ham and bacon. Still eat chicken and fish (baked) almost every day. Other daily protein sources are chicken eggs (boiled) and nuts/seeds. If I want a snack I will eat a handful of raw pecans or almonds.
3) Cut out all dairy. No butter no cheese no milk no nothing. Bye bye pizza.....
4) Cut out any kind of salty food, junk food, and bread. Travel a lot for work and can be hard to get away from crap food when eating out - often will order grilled chicken caeser salad or turkey sandwich and not eat the bread....
5) Got a new blender (Blendtec) and make fruit/greens/hemp protein smoothies several times a week
6) Weekdays I don't have much free time but I can do 30 minutes at the gym 15-20 minutes of cardio the rest weights typical bodyweight moves, etc

The above is not much different than what I was doing before, just mostly cutting out the evil diet inputs, has not felt like work or deprivation...probably the hardest thing to do is begin...

The sugar is one of those things that goes way beyond just weight loss- no longer tired, no cancer, no bowel issues, depression, etc etc

Lowest and strongest I've been was at 8% body fat and 165 lbs....at the time I was drinking about a gallon of whole milk a week....which in and of itself can probably lead to growth of cancer, as it leads to growth of anything and everything....back when I was a young 25. Now going on 30 and feeling it

This year the big one for me was cutting out milk all together....I've tried it either yesterday or the day before and it actually tastes kind of nasty. I was like is this really the shit I was drinking? I used to LOVE this stuff....what happened?

have a good night guys

Sounds like we are all beautiful, rich men. Isn't FF lucky

I did use word"mofu" for indicating point of interest, but it is trade mark of gatorinla. so in future I will use word "price action point of interest" papof.
presently eur/usd chart show some strong papof.
chart is self explanatory,

uj papof.
see these weekly point back in past too, 105.15 is tested once in present move i.e 29/12/13 point was establish, tested on 12/10/14. so it is test case if tread is down than this point will be tested and breached, if tread is ot changed than this point will not be tested.

oil
from 36.14 to 37.70 we can call it cheating, escape/run away
42.50 tested
50.60 is all ready tested.
so high probability to test 36 area.

are we trading sugar now?
short hint... politics are going bonkers in gee ol' germany, we'll see how the impact will be/could be if any.

No its not indi,its just simple fib + previous S/R

1.1240, 1.1216, 1.1160 and 1.1110 areas are also PAPOF!!!!

shouldnt it be "papoi"?

Motivation is everything....

lots of interest ; a new hh close on weekly. above 1268. i hoped it would be more decisive and above 1272. you can cut it up many ways, on different tf..next month close is a 1/4 close. if above 1268, it's worth taking notice. because since 1.399x we never retraced to 1.22xx. since 1.399x we have a db..if i am wrong about the test of 1.17.. in a attempt to reach 1.22 and 1.2470 this is a good place to be wrong.
to be quite honest i need 1.1380 closed above on month or even better 1.1752. rock has 1.3xx as a possible. i dont think if goes there because ez depression. but 1.17 and even 1.2 could happen before central banks react. in a kneejerk of a few days. china wants a kneejerk. they see it's possible.. the yuan has got stronger verse usd,(probably because china selling usd) for 2.5 months. at the same time the euro has grown stronger versus the yuan via usd. china is gaining the advantage europe had for exports. china is desperate. dragis rhetoric has blown up in his face proven in price. china has stated it will not allow ez to continue dropping euro verse yuan.

why has china switched.?.. my theory is world energy reset. china knows it's an uphill battle to fight the usd because china has higher energy cost. are they selling usd and buying euros? i dont know.. i just think china realizes they and eu buy oil from the same markets. both import the same oil to make products. china's cost comparable to europe is =, or as = as it can get (with shipping cost). comparable to competing against usa and north america. china and europe cost are higher. both need to pay for 2 boat rides to put a product on the shelf in the u.s. an export from the u.s. to them, has one boat ride. brent and wti have a gap most often. wti is cheaper than brent.. canadian even cheaper than wti.

anyway if china is set on eliminating some of the ez advantage. we are witness to it in the charts. it can't all be blamed on some thinking the fed will not raise. that is flawed, charts pointed this way before fed raised. timeline the bounce verse eu rise in norm zone. eu started up before.. after raise eu continued up..last week closed a hh close..as did other weeks.. the place those closes closed have meaning.. a measurement of progress above key levels..

pa will straighten us all out.. i may be wrong. if so, i will just say, i was wrong. probably soon with 1/4 less than 2 weeks away. no excuses, no blame on manipulation or trying to connect dots in hind sight. wrong is wrong, i already know why i would be wrong. that would be timing too early. timing too early is still wrong, no excuse. in trading, you eat what you kill. you starve when you place too much energy on a missed meal.

Is St Patricks day a thing across the water? Pretty big here.in the states

this is the advantage when you are at right place, worth to read gatorinla posts. thank you for your in depth knowledgeable posts, and yes also for this clean thread.

It is in Ireland but not like the freak circus in the US where they pour green dye into rivers and everybody dresses up like lepricunts (pun intended)

In Ireland they get shit faced and that's about it; as for the rest of Europe...nobody cares...lol

It's a pretty big marketing event for pubs in London (and the rest of England I assume). Guinness and Jameson's are sold at a knock down price. Everyone who visits a pub on Paddy's Day ends up shitfaced because that what we believe the Irish do on a daily basis. 🍀

oh wow , then one should note down every weekly and monthly ny & london closes ...

now put on a 5.. and you may see some 40 pip scalps