Today marks the 9-month anniversary of the blood-draw that led to my diagnosis of celiac "disease".
It has been a wild ride, but has seemed to settle down during the last couple of weeks. I have learned alot, healed alot more, and also came to more insights.
Here's a few tidbits and insights:
1. I am (was?) not very much low carb. I didn't worry all that much about what I ate during this transition. I felt I had enough to worry about with potlucks, finding out what I could eat, and trying to not get contaminated, than to worry about other things. The result was that I gained back all the weight I lost. I hate the idea that I seem to be one of those people who cannot lose weight without constant starvation. Oh well, guess I'll have to own it.
2. I finally trained my family. This was hard, and required constant monitoring during holidays. I discovered that it is almost not worth it to even try to eat during the holidays, just fire-bomb the kitchen afterwards. Despite dozens of planning discussions, I still had to swoop down and rescue the butter knife, keep the cookies out of the kitchen, say no, no, a thousand times no to family members who insisted on bringing on all sorts of crap despite hearing constantly, "Just bring plain sour cream,", "Lets just have plain food," "Just bring plain sour cream," and seemingly-endless phone conversations where they read off the list of ingredients for the fake sour cream-like dips they bought "because they were cheap", instead of buying plain sour cream.
3. I chugged a carton of milk. I was milk-intolerant. How did this happen? I haven't been able to drink milk since I was a little kid.
4. Potlucks suck, but things are good if there is hot coffee and real cream. Coffee is my go-to food at potlucks, since I tend to get something contaminated at potlucks and restaurants, even when I am very careful. I quit being careful at restaurants, not worth the hassle dealing with the questions, the rolling eyes, and the contamination. I can usually drink the coffee, and I drink lots of it. I have found that if you are drinking coffee, especially with cream, people don't notice that you are not eating.
5. I need to find a new religion. I first knew I was in trouble when I was chatting (with coffee) with a new attender at a potluck. She was an up-and-coming healthywholegrains dietician wanna-be who insisted I try her quinoa salad. (I also got a lesson about the healthyquinoa, which I thought hilarious, especially after I told her I had been a vegetarian.) I caved and tried the salad. I got sick. Since then, I have not eaten any grain salads at the potlucks, but I have had to endure the animal-rights wing of my religion shame people for eating animal products. Since I can no longer eat wheat, corn, oats, soy, MSG, most wines and spirits, most beans, and most rice, I really suck as a vegan. That vegan ship has sailed, and then it sunk. I am no longer apologetic, despite the public spiritual shaming by my soon-to-be-former religious affiliates.
6. People hate gluten-free eaters more than they hate low-carbers. Sad, isn't it?
I'll have more to say later. Right now, I need to just go back to straight low-carb and hang out with supportive people.
Showing posts with label low carb diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low carb diet. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
For Shame
Today, another first! When I got onto a yahoo page, I saw that "low carb diets" were trending. Curious, I clicked on the link to see what Yahoo would give me.
Well, I'll have ta say, I guess they really ARE a bunch of yahoos! Wedged between two versions of the now-famous twin-doctor-brothers-eating-really-bad-diets (bro-science at its best?) story was a link to "Grain News".
Did you know that the newest low carb news is that diets are fads? Yep, read it on the internet. I wonder how much Grainnet has been paying for all this bread placement. A quick look at what yahoo thinks are the top links were decidedly hostile to low carb, including the famous WebMD article that has been making the rounds in the lowcarb-o-sphere recently.
If you haven't yet seen it, here is the laughable post on WebMD. It is so bad, it is even funny. Now don't go and close that link yet, because there will be a quiz later.
Careful readers might remember that WebMD was investigated for it's chummie ties to the pharma industry, especially with its treatment of depression in their posts, and the tie-ins with a major sponsor. (Read about it here!) Looks like WebMD is still at it.
I don't know about you, but when I went on to the WebMD link, Belviq ads were all over the place. On the right side, down on the left, with all sorts of helpful links to convince people to take the weight loss drug if for some reason that low carb fad diet thing isn't working.
Page 2 offered up a huge ad for Tradjenta, a drug that will help people reduce HbA1c if for some reason that low carb fad diet thing isn't working.
Now I am sure these are perfectly fine drugs, with wonderful clinical trials blah blah blah. One way to increase sales is to get some pseudo-scientific site spoon out lots of mis-information about some fad diet that will probably induce weight loss and/or reduction in HbA1c, enough mis-information so most folks won't even try the fad diet.
For shame!
OK, so here's the quiz.
1. What are the effects of a low carb diet?
a. weight loss
b. reduction in HbA1c
c. better mood
d. less allergies
e. all of the above
2. What are the negative side effects of a low carb diet?
a. bad breath
b. constipation
c. vegans won't eat lunch with you
d. your kidney's will explode
e. we do not know. The diet hasn't been adequately studied by Harvard.
3. What are the side effects of taking the drug Belviq?
a. bradycardia
b. painful erections lasting for more than 4 hours
c. depression or thoughts of suicide
d. valvular heart disease
e. all of the above
4. What are the side effects of Tradjenta?
a. pancreatitis
b. sore throat
c. weight GAIN
d. muscle or joint pain
e. all of the above
Well, I'll have ta say, I guess they really ARE a bunch of yahoos! Wedged between two versions of the now-famous twin-doctor-brothers-eating-really-bad-diets (bro-science at its best?) story was a link to "Grain News".
Did you know that the newest low carb news is that diets are fads? Yep, read it on the internet. I wonder how much Grainnet has been paying for all this bread placement. A quick look at what yahoo thinks are the top links were decidedly hostile to low carb, including the famous WebMD article that has been making the rounds in the lowcarb-o-sphere recently.
If you haven't yet seen it, here is the laughable post on WebMD. It is so bad, it is even funny. Now don't go and close that link yet, because there will be a quiz later.
Careful readers might remember that WebMD was investigated for it's chummie ties to the pharma industry, especially with its treatment of depression in their posts, and the tie-ins with a major sponsor. (Read about it here!) Looks like WebMD is still at it.
I don't know about you, but when I went on to the WebMD link, Belviq ads were all over the place. On the right side, down on the left, with all sorts of helpful links to convince people to take the weight loss drug if for some reason that low carb fad diet thing isn't working.
Page 2 offered up a huge ad for Tradjenta, a drug that will help people reduce HbA1c if for some reason that low carb fad diet thing isn't working.
Now I am sure these are perfectly fine drugs, with wonderful clinical trials blah blah blah. One way to increase sales is to get some pseudo-scientific site spoon out lots of mis-information about some fad diet that will probably induce weight loss and/or reduction in HbA1c, enough mis-information so most folks won't even try the fad diet.
For shame!
OK, so here's the quiz.
1. What are the effects of a low carb diet?
a. weight loss
b. reduction in HbA1c
c. better mood
d. less allergies
e. all of the above
2. What are the negative side effects of a low carb diet?
a. bad breath
b. constipation
c. vegans won't eat lunch with you
d. your kidney's will explode
e. we do not know. The diet hasn't been adequately studied by Harvard.
3. What are the side effects of taking the drug Belviq?
a. bradycardia
b. painful erections lasting for more than 4 hours
c. depression or thoughts of suicide
d. valvular heart disease
e. all of the above
4. What are the side effects of Tradjenta?
a. pancreatitis
b. sore throat
c. weight GAIN
d. muscle or joint pain
e. all of the above
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
OK, so I actually read it
A "friend" gave me a copy of Dr. Atkins' latest low carb book. It was last updated in 2002. This is the first time I actually read it.
While I was well-versed in the basics of the diet, I was pleasantly surprised at all the other content. It is certainly NOT what the RD's have been making it out to be. Surely, as diet professionals, they have had over a decade to get and read this book.
There were (gasp!) vegetables in there. And pleas to take yer vitamins, do moderate exercise, take yer fiber if you need it. Truly, it wasn't gluttony and sloth. He said, hey, take it easy on the artificial sweeteners and "bars".
I was mostly surprised at the fairly long chapter on stalls. He had many suggestions and reasons for stalls, suggestions that I thought had been discovered much more recently. Yep. Stuff like cheese and nuts and hormones.
I think that complaining about how stupid Atkins is by the RD's, is the best marker of professional stupidity around. If all you can say about Atkins is that while you are on it, you will die with your last bad breath, well then yer an effin' idiot. Rant over.
While I was well-versed in the basics of the diet, I was pleasantly surprised at all the other content. It is certainly NOT what the RD's have been making it out to be. Surely, as diet professionals, they have had over a decade to get and read this book.
There were (gasp!) vegetables in there. And pleas to take yer vitamins, do moderate exercise, take yer fiber if you need it. Truly, it wasn't gluttony and sloth. He said, hey, take it easy on the artificial sweeteners and "bars".
I was mostly surprised at the fairly long chapter on stalls. He had many suggestions and reasons for stalls, suggestions that I thought had been discovered much more recently. Yep. Stuff like cheese and nuts and hormones.
I think that complaining about how stupid Atkins is by the RD's, is the best marker of professional stupidity around. If all you can say about Atkins is that while you are on it, you will die with your last bad breath, well then yer an effin' idiot. Rant over.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
My Vegan Friends
Hey, my friends are nice people, mostly. They love animals, and the planet. Or, they are allergic to meat.
And then, there is Dr. MacDougall. Well, based on his interview with Jimmy ("what is your authority") Moore, he is certainly not in it for the spiritual reasons. He represents all that is wrong with our medical and nutrition professions. He has no authority.
When I first started listening, it sounded like an exchange at a typical holiday dinner around here, except after someone yells out,
"Atkins diet KILLS PEOPLE!!!! I saw a study!!!!!!" and then everything settles down and someone offers a piece of pie.
At the last dinner, I met a new vegan. We were talking about diet and I mentioned that I used to be vegan but now am pretty much the opposite. She had an interesting response, unlike our Dr. MacDougall (who has ALL this DATA showing that Atkins KILLS people!!!!!!).
"Hey, everyone is different."
Cool.
And then, there is Dr. MacDougall. Well, based on his interview with Jimmy ("what is your authority") Moore, he is certainly not in it for the spiritual reasons. He represents all that is wrong with our medical and nutrition professions. He has no authority.
When I first started listening, it sounded like an exchange at a typical holiday dinner around here, except after someone yells out,
"Atkins diet KILLS PEOPLE!!!! I saw a study!!!!!!" and then everything settles down and someone offers a piece of pie.
At the last dinner, I met a new vegan. We were talking about diet and I mentioned that I used to be vegan but now am pretty much the opposite. She had an interesting response, unlike our Dr. MacDougall (who has ALL this DATA showing that Atkins KILLS people!!!!!!).
"Hey, everyone is different."
Cool.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A Trip down Memory Lane
I love to troll the free bin at the library. Lots of good, really old stuff to be discovered, or re-discovered. A certain person has been decluttering their library of all diet and recipe books, and several low carb favorites or classics have shown up.
A recent find is "The Steak Lovers' Diet" by Melvin Anchell, MD.
The foreword by Dr. William Campbell Douglass is worth a read. He is sort of an obscure alternative medicine author, and despite the foreword having been printed in 1998, it contains lots of information that has been popularized by paleo authors over just the past few years. You know, stuff like Weston Price and how we don't need all that Vitamin C and how vegetarians are wrong and there's just too many of them, and how the American Heart Association sucks.
I checked out another of Douglass' books, "Into the Light", and it is a fascinating read, if not a bit out of date. Some of the chapters read just like you might have found them in Jack Kruse's blog. All that quantum stuff, and light. Maybe that is where he got his stuff. It is too bad that the dominante alternative medicine folks didn't feature him more, perhaps because he wasn't a vegetarian by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, the Steak book. This diet is apparently a rehash of the Pennington diet. You know, THAT Pennington who has a research center full of obesity researchers that we all love to make fun of. The original Pennington diet was rather low carb compared to today's standards. Apparently, Pennington didn't think people needed to eat lots of carbs for their brain. His patients lost weight on the diet by starting a meal of all types of meat, cooked in all sorts of ways (except breaded and stuffed) and afterwards, they could have one serving of a "second course".
The second course could be: white potatoes, sweet potatoes, grapes, watermelon, rice, grapefruit, banana, pear, raspberries or blueberries.
That's pretty much it. Coffee, and a bit of lemon is OK, NO artificial sweeteners. Notice that there is NO bread.
The original tater tots over there at DuPont lost a bunch of weight on this. Of course, they were execs, so they were all men. But, I am sure that "their women" as some paleo-writers like to phrase it, followed the diet, as they were frying, broiling and braising all the big game the men dragged home from their long day at the chemical plant, and probably got a bit envious of both the weight loss and the yummy food.
It is interesting to take a look at the carbs. They are mostly foods that contain quite a bit of glucose and little fructose. These are pretty much the foods that Dr. Rosedale says NOT to eat, presumably because of the high glucose content. This diet would probably send the majority of the woo-fueled-jihaddists into a tailspin.
Dr. Anchell has an interesting section on the recommendations of the Drs. Wortman, and their financial involvement in a recalled weight loss drug that might have colored their approach to weight loss recommendations. Never heard about that before.
A recent find is "The Steak Lovers' Diet" by Melvin Anchell, MD.
The foreword by Dr. William Campbell Douglass is worth a read. He is sort of an obscure alternative medicine author, and despite the foreword having been printed in 1998, it contains lots of information that has been popularized by paleo authors over just the past few years. You know, stuff like Weston Price and how we don't need all that Vitamin C and how vegetarians are wrong and there's just too many of them, and how the American Heart Association sucks.
I checked out another of Douglass' books, "Into the Light", and it is a fascinating read, if not a bit out of date. Some of the chapters read just like you might have found them in Jack Kruse's blog. All that quantum stuff, and light. Maybe that is where he got his stuff. It is too bad that the dominante alternative medicine folks didn't feature him more, perhaps because he wasn't a vegetarian by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, the Steak book. This diet is apparently a rehash of the Pennington diet. You know, THAT Pennington who has a research center full of obesity researchers that we all love to make fun of. The original Pennington diet was rather low carb compared to today's standards. Apparently, Pennington didn't think people needed to eat lots of carbs for their brain. His patients lost weight on the diet by starting a meal of all types of meat, cooked in all sorts of ways (except breaded and stuffed) and afterwards, they could have one serving of a "second course".
The second course could be: white potatoes, sweet potatoes, grapes, watermelon, rice, grapefruit, banana, pear, raspberries or blueberries.
That's pretty much it. Coffee, and a bit of lemon is OK, NO artificial sweeteners. Notice that there is NO bread.
The original tater tots over there at DuPont lost a bunch of weight on this. Of course, they were execs, so they were all men. But, I am sure that "their women" as some paleo-writers like to phrase it, followed the diet, as they were frying, broiling and braising all the big game the men dragged home from their long day at the chemical plant, and probably got a bit envious of both the weight loss and the yummy food.
It is interesting to take a look at the carbs. They are mostly foods that contain quite a bit of glucose and little fructose. These are pretty much the foods that Dr. Rosedale says NOT to eat, presumably because of the high glucose content. This diet would probably send the majority of the woo-fueled-jihaddists into a tailspin.
Dr. Anchell has an interesting section on the recommendations of the Drs. Wortman, and their financial involvement in a recalled weight loss drug that might have colored their approach to weight loss recommendations. Never heard about that before.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Things aren't what they seem even more than ever
My diet is dwindling down to fewer and fewer food groups, and moving into dangerous territory. And I was thinking that it would really dwindle down to only kale, except the bagrada bug has also taken care of kale. And, it is a good thing that Dr. Kruse just discovered that we can get all the electrons we need from the ground, instead of trying to get them from all this adulterated food.
First it was the genetically modified salmon, but now milk? I was mostly on the primal side of paleo, but now will I have to go full-blown paleo?
I had planned another milk post even before this new plan came out this week. It seems like People In Charge want to change our milk again, this time by adding artificial chemicals that cause neurological disruption (OK, at least in me.) I don't think this is a good idea for thisadulateration information not to be included prominently on the label.
This week, I visited that local store that says everything is 99 cents but that they really sell for a dollar. I grabbed a container of whipping cream. How bad can budget cream be? Well, I was shocked that cream now contains milk. I was somewhat prepared for the variety of gums and thickeners that are added to cream, but this addition of milk to cream and still calling it cream really stumped me.
...Like the label on one bottle of a dairy-type item "Fat-free half and half". And I don't know, maybe it the weird math-geek in me, but I am thinking that if it has no fat, how can it be half and half? To me, half and half means 50/50, not 100/0 with additives. If someone wanted to sell something with 100/0, then they couldn't call it something that implies some sort of 50/50.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, aspartame. Years ago, I actually had something in common with our Dear Dr. Emily. I had a diet coke habit. I enjoyed a diet coke mid-morning, and mid-afternoon, until the coke machine at work turned out such bad-tasting water that I couldn't drink it anymore. Then I started bringing my own cans to work. This opened up an opportunity to experience a wide variety of diet Coke flavors.
After about a decade of this, I realized that aspartame consumed regularly wasn't doing me any good. I thought it was the caffeine, but then realized I didn't get those effects from drinking gobs of caffeine-laden real coffee. I got unnecessarily jittery, and less clear-headed than before, and a bit anxious. After awhile, after reading so much negative press about aspartame, I switched from Diet Coke to regular Coke, but had only one "serving" a day. I figured that sugar wasn't be best for me, but better than aspartame.
When I switched from aspartame to HFCS, I did gain weight. Since then, of course, I have given up all pre-packaged soft drinks. Every once in awhile I'll buy a bottle of sparkling mineral water and add in some home-made syrup. I especially like chocolate-mint soda, but I have to be careful with it because it does contain too much sugar.
Now that I am not eating any adulterated unlabeled food anymore, I guess it is time to go to the beach and dig my feet into the sand and suck up all the electrons. Mmmmmm! Tasty! I love being a groundaterian.
I'm going to clue you-all in as to why I think dieting makes people crazy. Here's what is totally STUPID about the state of diet recommendations and our ability to follow them. Practically every "diet" food being sold on the market has added aspartame. Recently I visited a chain grocery store right in Dr. Mary Dan Eades backyard. I was shocked that there was a whole aisle of yogurts and yogurt-like products, and I could not find ONE SINGLE FULL-FAT variety of yogurt! Everything was low fat, and most contained aspartame.
Am I the only one thinking it is really funny that the People In Charge remove that nasty butterfat from the cow and treat it as toxic waste, and then add a real toxic unnatural additive to what is left and call that milk? Not funny-ha-ha, funny-this-is-weird.
First it was the genetically modified salmon, but now milk? I was mostly on the primal side of paleo, but now will I have to go full-blown paleo?
I had planned another milk post even before this new plan came out this week. It seems like People In Charge want to change our milk again, this time by adding artificial chemicals that cause neurological disruption (OK, at least in me.) I don't think this is a good idea for this
This week, I visited that local store that says everything is 99 cents but that they really sell for a dollar. I grabbed a container of whipping cream. How bad can budget cream be? Well, I was shocked that cream now contains milk. I was somewhat prepared for the variety of gums and thickeners that are added to cream, but this addition of milk to cream and still calling it cream really stumped me.
...Like the label on one bottle of a dairy-type item "Fat-free half and half". And I don't know, maybe it the weird math-geek in me, but I am thinking that if it has no fat, how can it be half and half? To me, half and half means 50/50, not 100/0 with additives. If someone wanted to sell something with 100/0, then they couldn't call it something that implies some sort of 50/50.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, aspartame. Years ago, I actually had something in common with our Dear Dr. Emily. I had a diet coke habit. I enjoyed a diet coke mid-morning, and mid-afternoon, until the coke machine at work turned out such bad-tasting water that I couldn't drink it anymore. Then I started bringing my own cans to work. This opened up an opportunity to experience a wide variety of diet Coke flavors.
After about a decade of this, I realized that aspartame consumed regularly wasn't doing me any good. I thought it was the caffeine, but then realized I didn't get those effects from drinking gobs of caffeine-laden real coffee. I got unnecessarily jittery, and less clear-headed than before, and a bit anxious. After awhile, after reading so much negative press about aspartame, I switched from Diet Coke to regular Coke, but had only one "serving" a day. I figured that sugar wasn't be best for me, but better than aspartame.
When I switched from aspartame to HFCS, I did gain weight. Since then, of course, I have given up all pre-packaged soft drinks. Every once in awhile I'll buy a bottle of sparkling mineral water and add in some home-made syrup. I especially like chocolate-mint soda, but I have to be careful with it because it does contain too much sugar.
Now that I am not eating any adulterated unlabeled food anymore, I guess it is time to go to the beach and dig my feet into the sand and suck up all the electrons. Mmmmmm! Tasty! I love being a groundaterian.
I'm going to clue you-all in as to why I think dieting makes people crazy. Here's what is totally STUPID about the state of diet recommendations and our ability to follow them. Practically every "diet" food being sold on the market has added aspartame. Recently I visited a chain grocery store right in Dr. Mary Dan Eades backyard. I was shocked that there was a whole aisle of yogurts and yogurt-like products, and I could not find ONE SINGLE FULL-FAT variety of yogurt! Everything was low fat, and most contained aspartame.
Am I the only one thinking it is really funny that the People In Charge remove that nasty butterfat from the cow and treat it as toxic waste, and then add a real toxic unnatural additive to what is left and call that milk? Not funny-ha-ha, funny-this-is-weird.
Friday, March 8, 2013
This Here Post is For My Friends
I have some really great friends who are locked in the stranglehold of current cardiology-thinking. They have been watching their food intake, especially things like sugar and junque food. They have tried to up their exercise in between injuries. Their cholesterol numbers have gone down for a time, then inched up, prompting their doctors to threaten statins if some body doesn't do something.
Here's a nice blogpost from the past by Peter. It shows lots of charts and graphs of data with a different light shined. They show the relationship between blood cholesterol levels and cardiac events. Not a very convincing relationship, is it?
If you aren't into charts and graphs, go to the bottom of the blog post and see the graph of cardiac events and HbA1c. Wow, not good. It shows that the relative risk of cardiac events go way up as the HbA1c is higher.
HbA1c is a measure of how much damage blood sugar has done. Blood sugar goes up when people eat lots of simple carbs. In normal people, when blood sugar goes up, insulin is released to clear all the sugar out. These people can keep their blood sugar levels lower by eating low-glycemic carbs.
As things progress, people may develop pre-diabetes or full-blown type 2 diabetes. At this stage, many can be helped by going on a low carb diet, but sometimes that still doesn't fix everything. It is surely better than feasting on chips, candy and soda on a regular basis.
I have another friend on metformin and a statin, but while the statin has lowered her cholesterol levels, she is tired and achey, and seems to be suffering from the side effects of the statin drug. She wants to stop the statin, but her doctor has insisted she continue. She asked me what she should do, and I gave her the name of another doctor.
I have another friend who is being badgered by her doctor because her total cholesterol is around 240. This is AFTER SHE WAS DOING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS!!!!! Unfortunately, I don't know of another doctor in her area, but I would suggest in the meantime that she quit beating herself up over the occasional barbeque dinner and focus more on keeping candy and sugary drinks out of the house.
Anyway, friends, thanks for reading.
Here's a nice blogpost from the past by Peter. It shows lots of charts and graphs of data with a different light shined. They show the relationship between blood cholesterol levels and cardiac events. Not a very convincing relationship, is it?
If you aren't into charts and graphs, go to the bottom of the blog post and see the graph of cardiac events and HbA1c. Wow, not good. It shows that the relative risk of cardiac events go way up as the HbA1c is higher.
HbA1c is a measure of how much damage blood sugar has done. Blood sugar goes up when people eat lots of simple carbs. In normal people, when blood sugar goes up, insulin is released to clear all the sugar out. These people can keep their blood sugar levels lower by eating low-glycemic carbs.
As things progress, people may develop pre-diabetes or full-blown type 2 diabetes. At this stage, many can be helped by going on a low carb diet, but sometimes that still doesn't fix everything. It is surely better than feasting on chips, candy and soda on a regular basis.
I have another friend on metformin and a statin, but while the statin has lowered her cholesterol levels, she is tired and achey, and seems to be suffering from the side effects of the statin drug. She wants to stop the statin, but her doctor has insisted she continue. She asked me what she should do, and I gave her the name of another doctor.
I have another friend who is being badgered by her doctor because her total cholesterol is around 240. This is AFTER SHE WAS DOING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS!!!!! Unfortunately, I don't know of another doctor in her area, but I would suggest in the meantime that she quit beating herself up over the occasional barbeque dinner and focus more on keeping candy and sugary drinks out of the house.
Anyway, friends, thanks for reading.
Friday, March 1, 2013
My Year on the Leptin Reset
It has been a year since I did my second version of Jack Kruse's leptin reset.
This week, I found and read through a little notebook with notes on the reset. At the time, I had planned several trips out of town, and so I wanted a compact format. This was also at the time when I started having lots of trouble with those [redacted]people, so I was reluctant to rely upon either them or any other computerized tracking system. After my trips, I abandoned the little notebook, so it was fun reading through it again.
I had started the leptin reset in the summer of 2011 when my lowish carb diet wasn't working well. In May, I started a couple of days of strict low carb, and then Drs. Eades free Metabosol came in the mail. I did the Metabosol throughout the first weeks in June, but after a few pizza meals, I was back to where I started, even up a couple of pounds, so I decided to abandon that plan and start the leptin reset in earnest in July.
By the beginning of that August, I had lost around 5 pounds on the leptin reset, was feeling much better and controlling carb cravings like never before. But, the success was short-lived, and I resumed my difficulty with carbs and gained all the weight and then some by fall.
In January 2012, I did the leptin reset again, this time for about 6 weeks before starting back in with the exercise. I lost more weight this time, and a total of around 15 pounds by the end of the "Paleo on 100 dollars a month challenge" in March. By this time, I had also started CT.
Throughout the summer, I added in a few more carbs, and quit monitoring my food and weight so regularly. The result was that I gained back the weight. By the beginning of 2013 I was exactly the same weight as I was the year before, but with some differences.
No chronic cardio, no regular strength training. I just live my regular active life, go on hikes here and there, and stretch if I feel un-stretchy.
Work like crazy to get wheat out of my diet. I realize now how delicate my improvements are, and how easy it is to get completely out of balance.
Eliminated the need for sleep medication. I started using progesterone, which has helped in so many ways. Even though it has contributed to my weight gain, it has made me much more accommodating to all types of stresses, like from heat and exercise. I also respond to carbohydrates differently, which can be alternatively a good thing and a dangerous thing. I think I am much more careful with carbohydrates while on progesterone because, while I can take a few more hits, when things go south, they go south much more rapidly.
Better body proportions. I weigh more but my clothing fits differently. People say I look better, younger and my skin is much better.
CT around once or twice a week. This usually involves going to the beach at least once a week and getting in the water for quite a long time, taking mostly cold showers and being in cold air some part of the day except for in the summer.
Moving back more towards a macrobiotic-but-grain-free diet consisting of more seafood, sea vegetables and seasonal food. I was never on strict epi-paleo. My carb and vegetable consumption is much higher. Not as high as what Dr. Wahls recommends, but much higher than what Jack recommends.
Lab-free. I haven't been sick, haven't been to the doctor for awhile, and I don't even know what my cholesterol levels are. I have my blood pressure measured when I give blood, and it is at high-school level (110/70).
I know how to get back on track. When the diet is hard to follow and I am craving carbs, I know I have moved from fat-burning territory back into carb-burning. The best way I have found to get back is to use Metabosol for a few days and also some CT.
Here are the conclusions I have made about the leptin reset:
1. The results are not permanent. I need to continue to be vigilant about diet. ANY higher-carb diet that I eat to satiety results in weight gain.
2. CT does not work for weight loss.
In the coming months, I'll be eating a basic whole foods low carb diet, with seasonal fruits and vegetables. I plan on a lifestyle of "deep seasonality". During the past months, while reading up on macrobiotics in prep for some blog posts, I really did see how much many similarities between where paleo is going and where macrobiotics already is.
During the past few weeks, I have also noticed that in the vegan, low carb, and Kruse-world communities, despite the advances in diet choices, lots of people are still mean and nasty. I found the Optimal Health Cave, but I immediately started having problems with some very difficult people on both sides of the current argument over the validity of some of Jack's EMF theories. So, I am trying to pull myself out of all that muck while I unfriend or "foe" certain people, and try my best not to be that way myself.
While I am not following the Leptin Reset to the letter anymore, I do think that while Dr. Kruse's understanding of physics and electronics seems atrocious, I think there is really something to the idea that EMF is polluting. I will continue my research and experimentation on this subject, but mostly off-line. I really agree with Jack, that there were some "askholes" on his site, and I am just not going to deal with their crap, so the best way to do that is to keep in touch with my IRL friends who know quite a bit about grounding and faraday cages. But, I was extremely disappointed in Jack's responses to many other participants, who had deep and real questions and concerns that I think need to be dealt with. Jack needs to understand that if his theories are so mind-blowing, groundbreaking, and life-changing, then why is he still a Jackhole? Slamming people on minor technicalities alternating with the posting of pithy motivational phrases lifted from others indicates he still has some balance work to do. It is true, people who insist that they have all the answers to the universe are held to a higher standard of behavior.
Recently, dealing with some of these people was like dealing with some of the Paleo/lc debates. I am not into debate, I am into inquiry, discussion and exploration, and finding things that work. Sooner or later, any fine discussion gets taken over by the high school debate teams, full of those pimply-faced nerds who couldn't even get on the "C" basketball team, which muck it up for every true seeker. I think nothing is ever settled by debate, only things torn down.
That means I'll be reconnecting with that neighborhood nerdy kid who became an astrophysicist, that radio guy who builds faraday cages as a hobby, and others who effing love science.
This week, I found and read through a little notebook with notes on the reset. At the time, I had planned several trips out of town, and so I wanted a compact format. This was also at the time when I started having lots of trouble with those [redacted]people, so I was reluctant to rely upon either them or any other computerized tracking system. After my trips, I abandoned the little notebook, so it was fun reading through it again.
I had started the leptin reset in the summer of 2011 when my lowish carb diet wasn't working well. In May, I started a couple of days of strict low carb, and then Drs. Eades free Metabosol came in the mail. I did the Metabosol throughout the first weeks in June, but after a few pizza meals, I was back to where I started, even up a couple of pounds, so I decided to abandon that plan and start the leptin reset in earnest in July.
By the beginning of that August, I had lost around 5 pounds on the leptin reset, was feeling much better and controlling carb cravings like never before. But, the success was short-lived, and I resumed my difficulty with carbs and gained all the weight and then some by fall.
In January 2012, I did the leptin reset again, this time for about 6 weeks before starting back in with the exercise. I lost more weight this time, and a total of around 15 pounds by the end of the "Paleo on 100 dollars a month challenge" in March. By this time, I had also started CT.
Throughout the summer, I added in a few more carbs, and quit monitoring my food and weight so regularly. The result was that I gained back the weight. By the beginning of 2013 I was exactly the same weight as I was the year before, but with some differences.
No chronic cardio, no regular strength training. I just live my regular active life, go on hikes here and there, and stretch if I feel un-stretchy.
Work like crazy to get wheat out of my diet. I realize now how delicate my improvements are, and how easy it is to get completely out of balance.
Eliminated the need for sleep medication. I started using progesterone, which has helped in so many ways. Even though it has contributed to my weight gain, it has made me much more accommodating to all types of stresses, like from heat and exercise. I also respond to carbohydrates differently, which can be alternatively a good thing and a dangerous thing. I think I am much more careful with carbohydrates while on progesterone because, while I can take a few more hits, when things go south, they go south much more rapidly.
Better body proportions. I weigh more but my clothing fits differently. People say I look better, younger and my skin is much better.
CT around once or twice a week. This usually involves going to the beach at least once a week and getting in the water for quite a long time, taking mostly cold showers and being in cold air some part of the day except for in the summer.
Moving back more towards a macrobiotic-but-grain-free diet consisting of more seafood, sea vegetables and seasonal food. I was never on strict epi-paleo. My carb and vegetable consumption is much higher. Not as high as what Dr. Wahls recommends, but much higher than what Jack recommends.
Lab-free. I haven't been sick, haven't been to the doctor for awhile, and I don't even know what my cholesterol levels are. I have my blood pressure measured when I give blood, and it is at high-school level (110/70).
I know how to get back on track. When the diet is hard to follow and I am craving carbs, I know I have moved from fat-burning territory back into carb-burning. The best way I have found to get back is to use Metabosol for a few days and also some CT.
Here are the conclusions I have made about the leptin reset:
1. The results are not permanent. I need to continue to be vigilant about diet. ANY higher-carb diet that I eat to satiety results in weight gain.
2. CT does not work for weight loss.
In the coming months, I'll be eating a basic whole foods low carb diet, with seasonal fruits and vegetables. I plan on a lifestyle of "deep seasonality". During the past months, while reading up on macrobiotics in prep for some blog posts, I really did see how much many similarities between where paleo is going and where macrobiotics already is.
During the past few weeks, I have also noticed that in the vegan, low carb, and Kruse-world communities, despite the advances in diet choices, lots of people are still mean and nasty. I found the Optimal Health Cave, but I immediately started having problems with some very difficult people on both sides of the current argument over the validity of some of Jack's EMF theories. So, I am trying to pull myself out of all that muck while I unfriend or "foe" certain people, and try my best not to be that way myself.
While I am not following the Leptin Reset to the letter anymore, I do think that while Dr. Kruse's understanding of physics and electronics seems atrocious, I think there is really something to the idea that EMF is polluting. I will continue my research and experimentation on this subject, but mostly off-line. I really agree with Jack, that there were some "askholes" on his site, and I am just not going to deal with their crap, so the best way to do that is to keep in touch with my IRL friends who know quite a bit about grounding and faraday cages. But, I was extremely disappointed in Jack's responses to many other participants, who had deep and real questions and concerns that I think need to be dealt with. Jack needs to understand that if his theories are so mind-blowing, groundbreaking, and life-changing, then why is he still a Jackhole? Slamming people on minor technicalities alternating with the posting of pithy motivational phrases lifted from others indicates he still has some balance work to do. It is true, people who insist that they have all the answers to the universe are held to a higher standard of behavior.
Recently, dealing with some of these people was like dealing with some of the Paleo/lc debates. I am not into debate, I am into inquiry, discussion and exploration, and finding things that work. Sooner or later, any fine discussion gets taken over by the high school debate teams, full of those pimply-faced nerds who couldn't even get on the "C" basketball team, which muck it up for every true seeker. I think nothing is ever settled by debate, only things torn down.
That means I'll be reconnecting with that neighborhood nerdy kid who became an astrophysicist, that radio guy who builds faraday cages as a hobby, and others who effing love science.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Oh, the Irony
OK, I am old, now who is this guy? Besides, I think I am going to be busy that day, can't go to a concert. I am not sure of the day, but I am sure I am busy.
Morrissey is coming to town. Now I am generally suspicious of stars that go by first names only, but really, he is insisting that only vegetarian fare be served at the concert site. And to appease him, the Staples center is trying to get nearby eateries to comply with hisdemands wishes? And, how much "clean" radius does a music star need before he'll perform?
I need to warn Morrissey that he is going into some serious carnitas territory here. Vegetarian fare near the Staples center would probably be a bean and cheese burrito, but then one really couldn't be sure..... Could a meat-eating, murderous carnivore have to go to the Valley or El Monte to get some serious carnitas?
Oh yeah, where was I? Oh, right, so he has cancelled some concerts already, due to illness. It seems he is having some severe stomach issues.
And I am thinking, "Hey, I used to have some serious stomach issues." And many times, a vegetarian diet made things better. Eventually I developed a long list of foods I could not tolerate. Meat fat, tomatoes, soy milk, nuts, peppers, eggplant, sour cream, butter, vegan cold cuts, milk, beets, alcohol on and on. And this is how the logic went down.
A + B => bad
A + C => bad
A + D => bad
Therefore, B and C and D are bad.
This flurry of logic is an embarrassment for someone as statistically gifted as I am. And yes, I was developing GERD before getting off the "healthy" vegetarian diet and onto a fat-swilling artery-clogging low carb diet. And here is what I found out:
GERD has nothing to do with what time of the day I eat, but everything to do with eating wheat. I can eat every food listed above (ok, except raw beets) without a problem as long as I haven't eaten any wheat. For years I avoided all those foods when I really should been avoiding that one food. The main reason I did not realize it is that wheat damage has a very long half-life for me. Even when I was eating wheat about a couple of times a week, I still didn't notice the problem, because at least until the end, it was always at a constant, low level.
This Morrissey guy, he has severe stomach problems, and Barrett's esophagus, and he wants to insist that everyone eat like he does? He could get cancer from this, and while I don't really know what he is eating, I am wondering if he is putting 2 and 2 together like I did. And, now I am getting this uneasy feeling in my stomach again, as I realize that he is demanding that others take the same dangerous path he has taken.
Morrissey is coming to town. Now I am generally suspicious of stars that go by first names only, but really, he is insisting that only vegetarian fare be served at the concert site. And to appease him, the Staples center is trying to get nearby eateries to comply with his
I need to warn Morrissey that he is going into some serious carnitas territory here. Vegetarian fare near the Staples center would probably be a bean and cheese burrito, but then one really couldn't be sure..... Could a meat-eating, murderous carnivore have to go to the Valley or El Monte to get some serious carnitas?
Oh yeah, where was I? Oh, right, so he has cancelled some concerts already, due to illness. It seems he is having some severe stomach issues.
And I am thinking, "Hey, I used to have some serious stomach issues." And many times, a vegetarian diet made things better. Eventually I developed a long list of foods I could not tolerate. Meat fat, tomatoes, soy milk, nuts, peppers, eggplant, sour cream, butter, vegan cold cuts, milk, beets, alcohol on and on. And this is how the logic went down.
A + B => bad
A + C => bad
A + D => bad
Therefore, B and C and D are bad.
This flurry of logic is an embarrassment for someone as statistically gifted as I am. And yes, I was developing GERD before getting off the "healthy" vegetarian diet and onto a fat-swilling artery-clogging low carb diet. And here is what I found out:
GERD has nothing to do with what time of the day I eat, but everything to do with eating wheat. I can eat every food listed above (ok, except raw beets) without a problem as long as I haven't eaten any wheat. For years I avoided all those foods when I really should been avoiding that one food. The main reason I did not realize it is that wheat damage has a very long half-life for me. Even when I was eating wheat about a couple of times a week, I still didn't notice the problem, because at least until the end, it was always at a constant, low level.
This Morrissey guy, he has severe stomach problems, and Barrett's esophagus, and he wants to insist that everyone eat like he does? He could get cancer from this, and while I don't really know what he is eating, I am wondering if he is putting 2 and 2 together like I did. And, now I am getting this uneasy feeling in my stomach again, as I realize that he is demanding that others take the same dangerous path he has taken.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Don't Feed the Hand that Bites You
I'll admit, I was away so long, I didn't even know what was happening.
I used to go to [redacted]people from time to time, and it seemed like many friends weren't there anymore. Then I caught a blogpost by a low-carb friend explaining the reason she wasn't there as much anymore.
It seems like last November, our favorite CW dietitian, Becky Hand, wrote a very damning article about a low carb diet. You can read more about her lies here .
You will note that unlike other blog posts, this post has no comments. That is because the comments were taken down after tons of people complained about her post. In the comments section, members expressed their outrage. All the comments were erased and the blog post was edited. Now you will see low carb myths, where before, she called them low carb lies. It looks like the list of lies has also been edited since the last time I checked.
Some of my friends started some threads about this in the main message board. Many were erased. This is what remains.
I wonder if there will ever be a time when registered dietitians can be considered criminally liable for refusing to offer diet advice that can really help diabetics and people with metabolic syndrome. There is plenty of data, they can't continue to deny that, and lie about their diet advice.
So, I am doing a bit of decluttering and taking my page down.
I used to go to [redacted]people from time to time, and it seemed like many friends weren't there anymore. Then I caught a blogpost by a low-carb friend explaining the reason she wasn't there as much anymore.
It seems like last November, our favorite CW dietitian, Becky Hand, wrote a very damning article about a low carb diet. You can read more about her lies here .
You will note that unlike other blog posts, this post has no comments. That is because the comments were taken down after tons of people complained about her post. In the comments section, members expressed their outrage. All the comments were erased and the blog post was edited. Now you will see low carb myths, where before, she called them low carb lies. It looks like the list of lies has also been edited since the last time I checked.
Some of my friends started some threads about this in the main message board. Many were erased. This is what remains.
I wonder if there will ever be a time when registered dietitians can be considered criminally liable for refusing to offer diet advice that can really help diabetics and people with metabolic syndrome. There is plenty of data, they can't continue to deny that, and lie about their diet advice.
So, I am doing a bit of decluttering and taking my page down.
Friday, February 8, 2013
My Answer to Woo - Part 2
Woo says that no one is making the low carb faddists declare their reasons for going low carb. I disagree.
Way back a long time ago, when the paleo pool was a bit clearer and not as much of a cesspool, people were free to eat what they wanted, as long as it was meat and veggies and they were both old. Then some of the over-exercizers got tired of the lower carb thing, and in order to maintain their over-exercise-routines, began adding carbs. Sisson came up with the nifty carb graph. People seemed happy with all this for a time.
Even before AHS11, the carb wars intensified.
It used to be that low-er carb was the paleo standard, and that if people wanted taters, they had to give themselves permission to do some neolithic cheating. Either from their exercise or diet guru, or by reading the tea leaves of their n=1.
Gradually, this situation changed into a plan where people were free to consume as much glucose-producing carbage as they wanted, as long as they could "cover it with exercise".
Gradually, some paleo luminaries changed this situation into a plan where carbs were again considered an essential nutrient, and people were required to consume a bit of glucose-producing carbage in order to counteract a carb deficiency. Their brownshirt followers went all over the paleosphere enforcing this new rule.
Eventually, people like me were required to show a note from the doctor in order to continue eating a low-carb diet without constant ridicule.
Eventually, this turned into a carbbist-inspired krystalnacht event within the paleo cesspool, even worse than usual. Folks casually mentioning to each other on a forum or two that they can't wait until the low carb people leave for good.
Problem with paleo popularity leveling off? Blame it on those fat low carb people.
Problem with people thinking that paleo thing is just a fad? Blame it on those red-faced low carb people.
Problem with eating disorders? Blame it on the Low Carb scene.
Nope. It's not the Jews, it's not the feminists, it is the LOW CARB people, its JIMMY!!!!!
Now, we are being told that we have eating disorders. Eliminating. Entire. Food. Groups. EEFG, set to appear in your next DSM. What's next, a letter on our sleeve? Or, maybe another comment like this:
"From my nutrition training, it was well-known that those with eating disorders would hide behind the likes of vegetarianism or veganism in order to legitimise their food avoidance... it is an easy way to eliminate a boat-load of energy in one "legitimate" hit. "I don't eat meat".
There has been much talk behind the scenes about similar things occuring within the paleo community, especially with its increasing popularity and (unfortunately) links to the LC community (you just want to Hulk-smash those links, don't ya?)."
So, Paleo Guy, you are that much into hulk-smashing? Tell me Paleo Guy, who says stuff like that? No need for people like me to be afraid of a potato, when we have some hulk-smashing tater tots on board.
Way back a long time ago, when the paleo pool was a bit clearer and not as much of a cesspool, people were free to eat what they wanted, as long as it was meat and veggies and they were both old. Then some of the over-exercizers got tired of the lower carb thing, and in order to maintain their over-exercise-routines, began adding carbs. Sisson came up with the nifty carb graph. People seemed happy with all this for a time.
Even before AHS11, the carb wars intensified.
It used to be that low-er carb was the paleo standard, and that if people wanted taters, they had to give themselves permission to do some neolithic cheating. Either from their exercise or diet guru, or by reading the tea leaves of their n=1.
Gradually, this situation changed into a plan where people were free to consume as much glucose-producing carbage as they wanted, as long as they could "cover it with exercise".
Gradually, some paleo luminaries changed this situation into a plan where carbs were again considered an essential nutrient, and people were required to consume a bit of glucose-producing carbage in order to counteract a carb deficiency. Their brownshirt followers went all over the paleosphere enforcing this new rule.
Eventually, people like me were required to show a note from the doctor in order to continue eating a low-carb diet without constant ridicule.
Eventually, this turned into a carbbist-inspired krystalnacht event within the paleo cesspool, even worse than usual. Folks casually mentioning to each other on a forum or two that they can't wait until the low carb people leave for good.
Problem with paleo popularity leveling off? Blame it on those fat low carb people.
Problem with people thinking that paleo thing is just a fad? Blame it on those red-faced low carb people.
Problem with eating disorders? Blame it on the Low Carb scene.
Nope. It's not the Jews, it's not the feminists, it is the LOW CARB people, its JIMMY!!!!!
Now, we are being told that we have eating disorders. Eliminating. Entire. Food. Groups. EEFG, set to appear in your next DSM. What's next, a letter on our sleeve? Or, maybe another comment like this:
"From my nutrition training, it was well-known that those with eating disorders would hide behind the likes of vegetarianism or veganism in order to legitimise their food avoidance... it is an easy way to eliminate a boat-load of energy in one "legitimate" hit. "I don't eat meat".
There has been much talk behind the scenes about similar things occuring within the paleo community, especially with its increasing popularity and (unfortunately) links to the LC community (you just want to Hulk-smash those links, don't ya?)."
So, Paleo Guy, you are that much into hulk-smashing? Tell me Paleo Guy, who says stuff like that? No need for people like me to be afraid of a potato, when we have some hulk-smashing tater tots on board.
Rewarding Food Friday!!!!!
Announcing: Several Extremely Disrespectful Low-Carb Zealots are staging a virtual internet progressive dinner. How rewarding is that?
Check out Tess's decluttering series.
Then head on over to the pizza party at Woo's place.
Who wouldn't want to follow up all that goodness with this?
I am getting in some afternoon reading before an evening trip to the theater. I don't have lots of time to cook, so I sliced off a chunk of turduken. For the uninitiated, it contains pork sausage stuffed in chicken and duck, and stuffed in a turkey breast.
It was a bit dry so I served it over a bed of wilted......BACON!!!!
So, what is it? A Paula-inspired bacon-wrapped turduken? A turporky baconducken? A nutritional nightmare? At least it doesn't contain horsemeat, or even DOG meat. Oh well, you decide.
Check out Tess's decluttering series.
Then head on over to the pizza party at Woo's place.
Who wouldn't want to follow up all that goodness with this?
I am getting in some afternoon reading before an evening trip to the theater. I don't have lots of time to cook, so I sliced off a chunk of turduken. For the uninitiated, it contains pork sausage stuffed in chicken and duck, and stuffed in a turkey breast.
It was a bit dry so I served it over a bed of wilted......BACON!!!!
So, what is it? A Paula-inspired bacon-wrapped turduken? A turporky baconducken? A nutritional nightmare? At least it doesn't contain horsemeat, or even DOG meat. Oh well, you decide.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Super Bowl food madness
I don't know about you, but I am finishing all my outdoor chores early so I can watch all those great commercials.
It seems like every year, Super Bowl displays at the store get grander and grander. One store I visited had an entire pool of avocado, fresh hot peppers and white onions at the entryway. One had to search hard for the chips. That is the way it should be.
After a month of checking, I finally found the turduken on sale. It was featured around the fall and winter holidays for an astounding price. This weekend it was marked twenty dollars down, to the amazingly low price of nine ninety-nine!
So, I bought one one of these LOU-siana specialties for the big game. That is less per pound than even the cheapest meats. It is thawing in the fridge right now, and I'll put it in the oven when the game starts.
It seems like every year, Super Bowl displays at the store get grander and grander. One store I visited had an entire pool of avocado, fresh hot peppers and white onions at the entryway. One had to search hard for the chips. That is the way it should be.
After a month of checking, I finally found the turduken on sale. It was featured around the fall and winter holidays for an astounding price. This weekend it was marked twenty dollars down, to the amazingly low price of nine ninety-nine!
So, I bought one one of these LOU-siana specialties for the big game. That is less per pound than even the cheapest meats. It is thawing in the fridge right now, and I'll put it in the oven when the game starts.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Extremely Disrespectful Zealot - Is it really n=1?
Dr. Guyenet has really become unglued on his blog site lately, and the purpose of this post is to clear some things up and set the record straight.
Dr. G said on one of his posts that there are many examples of folks gaining weight on a low carb diet. Now, I know plenty of people who have lost lots of weight on a low carb diet, and plenty of people who gradually gained a few pounds of that weight when they went into maintenance mode. My theory, if you will, is that that so-called maintenance mode the low carb diet authors promote is unworkable for many. That maintenance mode includes, surprise, more carbs!
For the record, I NEVER GAINED WEIGHT ON A LOW CARB DIET. I ONLY GAIN WEIGHT WHEN I ADD IN MORE CARBS. (OK, now for the inside voice.) I seem to lose the low carb magic after about three days of eating a typical carb-laden whole foods diet, and it is especially worse if that diet includes wheat or corn. If I go back on a low carb diet, I can usually lose the added weight quickly, but this seems to be harder in the winter and summer. It works better in spring and fall. For me, at least, I seem to leave my ability to burn fat very quickly.
I am annoyed at Dr. G's current attempt to discredit and belittle anyone who has data points that do not correspond with his theories. Despite his insistence that he removes "extremely disrespectful" posts from his blog, I have only seen him do this with people who disagree with him. Not with all the other "extremely disrespectful" posters that populate the paleo cesspool.
This issue came up for me well before the famous G-T dust-up at AHS11. There were some particularly "disrespectful zealots" that IMHO were so bad that I called out by name here on my blog. One gained the title through her continual bashing of anyone interested in Jack Kruse and an award for the most creative use of moderatorship, and the other gained the title through his constant and creepy support of Dr. G on various websites. You can read about it here and here and here. Note that both the zealots came by, and instead of offering an apology, continued with more denial and lies. Go read the comments for yourself lol. It was during the comments section of Dr. G's blog where I first read Woo. I have continued to read her blog because despite the wackiness and mis-placed passion, she continues to supply good information in an entertaining fashion.
And just a shout-out to the other zealots. Carbsane has never gone after me, anywhere, as far as I can tell, so, like Woo, she gets a free hall pass. But, Jack! Quit hatin' on Jimmy and his struggles with weight.
Dr. G said on one of his posts that there are many examples of folks gaining weight on a low carb diet. Now, I know plenty of people who have lost lots of weight on a low carb diet, and plenty of people who gradually gained a few pounds of that weight when they went into maintenance mode. My theory, if you will, is that that so-called maintenance mode the low carb diet authors promote is unworkable for many. That maintenance mode includes, surprise, more carbs!
For the record, I NEVER GAINED WEIGHT ON A LOW CARB DIET. I ONLY GAIN WEIGHT WHEN I ADD IN MORE CARBS. (OK, now for the inside voice.) I seem to lose the low carb magic after about three days of eating a typical carb-laden whole foods diet, and it is especially worse if that diet includes wheat or corn. If I go back on a low carb diet, I can usually lose the added weight quickly, but this seems to be harder in the winter and summer. It works better in spring and fall. For me, at least, I seem to leave my ability to burn fat very quickly.
I am annoyed at Dr. G's current attempt to discredit and belittle anyone who has data points that do not correspond with his theories. Despite his insistence that he removes "extremely disrespectful" posts from his blog, I have only seen him do this with people who disagree with him. Not with all the other "extremely disrespectful" posters that populate the paleo cesspool.
This issue came up for me well before the famous G-T dust-up at AHS11. There were some particularly "disrespectful zealots" that IMHO were so bad that I called out by name here on my blog. One gained the title through her continual bashing of anyone interested in Jack Kruse and an award for the most creative use of moderatorship, and the other gained the title through his constant and creepy support of Dr. G on various websites. You can read about it here and here and here. Note that both the zealots came by, and instead of offering an apology, continued with more denial and lies. Go read the comments for yourself lol. It was during the comments section of Dr. G's blog where I first read Woo. I have continued to read her blog because despite the wackiness and mis-placed passion, she continues to supply good information in an entertaining fashion.
And just a shout-out to the other zealots. Carbsane has never gone after me, anywhere, as far as I can tell, so, like Woo, she gets a free hall pass. But, Jack! Quit hatin' on Jimmy and his struggles with weight.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
One week on MY Diabetes Prevention Program
Even though I had 6 months to do it, after only one week, I reached the halfway point for the weight loss goal outlined in the Diabetes Prevention Program. I went through chapters 2 and 3 of the program, and everywhere it said to identify all the foods with lots of fat. I did that.
Then I did the opposite of what they suggested and ate more of it. This week I enjoyed soup made with ham bits and the all the fat around the edges and around the bone. I actually cooked bacon and greens in the bacon fat, and then added additional butter to cook my breakfast eggs. I ate it all and then licked the plate and didn't leave any for my cat. I actually ate half a stick of butter with my dinner.
Here's a great quote from the handbook. "Eating too much fat is what makes us fat." So I am sure that what is happening is the over three percent of the body weight I lost was just me gaining lots of fat like the experts say, and then correcting that gain through loss of even more water weight than usual.
Stay tuned.
Then I did the opposite of what they suggested and ate more of it. This week I enjoyed soup made with ham bits and the all the fat around the edges and around the bone. I actually cooked bacon and greens in the bacon fat, and then added additional butter to cook my breakfast eggs. I ate it all and then licked the plate and didn't leave any for my cat. I actually ate half a stick of butter with my dinner.
Here's a great quote from the handbook. "Eating too much fat is what makes us fat." So I am sure that what is happening is the over three percent of the body weight I lost was just me gaining lots of fat like the experts say, and then correcting that gain through loss of even more water weight than usual.
Stay tuned.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
In case I forget
Five years ago today I was at my highest weight, and after finally finding myself sick enough of it and having enough time, I started on a weight loss plan.
First, I got up for Denise Austin's TV show. I know, people really make fun of her, but for several years I had been in school and working seven days a week in front of a computer and wasn't even doing basic exercising. The last straw was when I found it was even difficult to turn over in bed. How did it get so bad when I wasn't looking?
I started walking and following a low fat diet like they recommend. This was very difficult, and it took me quite a bit of time to lose even 10 pounds and keep it off for more than a few weeks. I struggled for two more years, stopping when I became unmotivated and then restarting, usually at a higher weight than before.
Twenty eight months ago I started a lower carb diet, and then lost the rest of my weight. I haven't maintained all of the loss, but I did lose and keep off over 18% of my body weight. (I also lost my long-term vegetarian lifestyle. How eat-crow-ish that was.)
This week I have been pouring over the Diabetes Prevention Program and other studies, and have seen first-hand in the data how difficult it is for people to lose weight and keep it off. It is easy to get discouraged.
But, then I look back at some of my older records of weight, and realize that I am already in the tails of the distribution of weight loss outcomes. For that, I am pleased.
Oh and P.S. Coca-Cola. Some calories are more equal than others. Just sayin'
First, I got up for Denise Austin's TV show. I know, people really make fun of her, but for several years I had been in school and working seven days a week in front of a computer and wasn't even doing basic exercising. The last straw was when I found it was even difficult to turn over in bed. How did it get so bad when I wasn't looking?
I started walking and following a low fat diet like they recommend. This was very difficult, and it took me quite a bit of time to lose even 10 pounds and keep it off for more than a few weeks. I struggled for two more years, stopping when I became unmotivated and then restarting, usually at a higher weight than before.
Twenty eight months ago I started a lower carb diet, and then lost the rest of my weight. I haven't maintained all of the loss, but I did lose and keep off over 18% of my body weight. (I also lost my long-term vegetarian lifestyle. How eat-crow-ish that was.)
This week I have been pouring over the Diabetes Prevention Program and other studies, and have seen first-hand in the data how difficult it is for people to lose weight and keep it off. It is easy to get discouraged.
But, then I look back at some of my older records of weight, and realize that I am already in the tails of the distribution of weight loss outcomes. For that, I am pleased.
Oh and P.S. Coca-Cola. Some calories are more equal than others. Just sayin'
Friday, January 11, 2013
MY OWN diabetes prevention program
This little story caught my attention, and I am surprised that it didn't reach the radar of others, like Eades, who follow the news feeds pretty well.
Now it is this type of article that brings out the libertarian in many a low-carber. Seems that the diabetes prevention program, based on a clinical study program of the same name, "proves" that their preferred lifestyle modification is superior to doing nothing. Is it superior to a low carb plan? Hmmm, I guess with these people in charge, we will never know. The really sucky thing is that now, as a taxpayer, I'll be forced to fund this make-work-program-for-registered-dietitians as it gets implemented throughout the entire Obama-care-o-sphere.
Seems like these researcher folks have proved that intensive one-on-one "coaching" and united-front eating recommendations have helped people. But I think I can do better on low carb.
Here's the 5th arm of the study. (n=1)
I followed a lowish carb diet (no more than 150 grams on most days, even though I tried to shovel it in). After a couple of months, I went lower carb. By 6 months in, I had lost 17 percent of my body weight. After one year, I had maintained most of that weight loss, and was in at 15 percent overall. During the second year, I quit exercising regularly. During the third year, I started progesterone and went off regular use of my appetite-destroying sleep medication and was on a good LC diet only about half the time. My weight did go higher, but the overall weight lost was still above 7 percent. That 7 percent was the aim of the study. The folks in the lifestyle intervention arm did lose 7 percent of their initial weight, but gained much of it back, even though they were attempting to follow the diet program and still exercising 100 minutes a week. The metformin group lost 4 percent, but gained it all back by 2.8 years.
Here's a little table showing the percent weight lost with the treatments across time.
treatment group 6 months 12 months 28 months 33.6 months
lifestyle intervention 7 % 7 % 4 %
metformin only 4 % 0 %
control 0 % 0 %
ME! 17 % 15 % 7 %
So here's what I am going to do. I am going to exercise my "restart" as outlined in the diabetes prevention program. Let's see how well I do by 33.6 months. Even though I have not been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, at the start of my lower carb diet, by fasting bg was 101 and my HbA1c was 5.8. I think those numbers are high enough to take action. Both numbers were better after a year, but I haven't gone to the doctor or taken any type of test since, except for blood pressure at the blood donation center. My blood pressure has continued to go down, as well as my waistline, despite the weight gain.
I am only showing out to the 2.8 years, because at that time, the study was stopped and the control and metformin groups were offered the lifestyle modification, and I haven't gotten out that far either. What I found really interesting is that when they compared the weight loss 10 years out between groups, they broke it out by age. (Go to this study and check out table 2.) The group similar to mine (C and G) had weight losses of diddly-squat over the entire time span. I bet I'll do better. I think Dr. Gardner's study showed that the low carb diet did better for women in my age group than the other types of diets.
Stay tuned!
Now it is this type of article that brings out the libertarian in many a low-carber. Seems that the diabetes prevention program, based on a clinical study program of the same name, "proves" that their preferred lifestyle modification is superior to doing nothing. Is it superior to a low carb plan? Hmmm, I guess with these people in charge, we will never know. The really sucky thing is that now, as a taxpayer, I'll be forced to fund this make-work-program-for-registered-dietitians as it gets implemented throughout the entire Obama-care-o-sphere.
Seems like these researcher folks have proved that intensive one-on-one "coaching" and united-front eating recommendations have helped people. But I think I can do better on low carb.
Here's the 5th arm of the study. (n=1)
I followed a lowish carb diet (no more than 150 grams on most days, even though I tried to shovel it in). After a couple of months, I went lower carb. By 6 months in, I had lost 17 percent of my body weight. After one year, I had maintained most of that weight loss, and was in at 15 percent overall. During the second year, I quit exercising regularly. During the third year, I started progesterone and went off regular use of my appetite-destroying sleep medication and was on a good LC diet only about half the time. My weight did go higher, but the overall weight lost was still above 7 percent. That 7 percent was the aim of the study. The folks in the lifestyle intervention arm did lose 7 percent of their initial weight, but gained much of it back, even though they were attempting to follow the diet program and still exercising 100 minutes a week. The metformin group lost 4 percent, but gained it all back by 2.8 years.
Here's a little table showing the percent weight lost with the treatments across time.
treatment group 6 months 12 months 28 months 33.6 months
lifestyle intervention 7 % 7 % 4 %
metformin only 4 % 0 %
control 0 % 0 %
ME! 17 % 15 % 7 %
So here's what I am going to do. I am going to exercise my "restart" as outlined in the diabetes prevention program. Let's see how well I do by 33.6 months. Even though I have not been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, at the start of my lower carb diet, by fasting bg was 101 and my HbA1c was 5.8. I think those numbers are high enough to take action. Both numbers were better after a year, but I haven't gone to the doctor or taken any type of test since, except for blood pressure at the blood donation center. My blood pressure has continued to go down, as well as my waistline, despite the weight gain.
I am only showing out to the 2.8 years, because at that time, the study was stopped and the control and metformin groups were offered the lifestyle modification, and I haven't gotten out that far either. What I found really interesting is that when they compared the weight loss 10 years out between groups, they broke it out by age. (Go to this study and check out table 2.) The group similar to mine (C and G) had weight losses of diddly-squat over the entire time span. I bet I'll do better. I think Dr. Gardner's study showed that the low carb diet did better for women in my age group than the other types of diets.
Stay tuned!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2012 Year in Review
And, Oh! What a year it has been. And now, I have cycled right back to where we were, both sidereally and weightwise.
I started out with a bang in January, with the leptin reset and Robb Wolf's recommendations. This success led me to being fired by my rheumetologist. Yay! I didn't keep good records, but the 5-week experience plus the later month-long "Paleo on 100 dollars a month" challenge left me 15 pounds lighter.
Then I started CT in earnest. Yay!
But, then summer crept forward, the garden carbs called me, I started a half-assed compliance program. My mindless following of my guru was stalled when he was made to walk the gangplank. He then circled his wagons, with a paywall all around, and I lost both the new community and my enthusiasm. Walked away from all the paleo crap, too. When I got into dietary trouble, I'd just fire up the cold tub and fix it. OK, that worked for awhile.
Eventually, this C-student attitude got me into gaining all the weight back. (But wait! It wasn't "and then some.") I kept getting serious for a week or so, then eating a bunch of wheat or bbq sweet corn, and gain a few pounds.
By fall, as a result of my big mouth and my insistence on speaking truth to power, I was walking the gangplank as well, right off that [redacted] site and into the cold, deep blue sea.
So, lets recap. I was on a half-assed diet for most of the year, I didn't do any more aerobics than my active lifestyle already affords. If someone handed me a piece of cake, I ate it. If someone didn't, I didn't eat it. I didn't eat on little plates. I didn't chew my food thirty times. I didn't starve myself. I didn't log in every day and spin a stupid wheel. I didn't eat potatoes. I didn't not eat potatoes. I didn't troll neo-nazi sites to see what they were eating. I didn't track my food, I just salted it, buttered it, just ate it. And, when I was full, I quit eating. I didn't do testing. I didn't sign up for personal coaching. I didn't count my satfat grams. I didn't even count my carbs, except for grins. I didn't pay for a webinar. I didn't go to a Paleo convention or make any paleo brownies. I did no crossfit. I did not give up or butter my coffee. I did not sous vide or confit anything. No monthly hormone panels, no 23andme, no suitcases full of supplements, no dopamine-enhancing drugs to swallow every morning. I did not buy a single bag of ice.
This fall, after spending a year fixing things hormonally, and reading more of Dr. Kruse and Dr. B G, I started on progesterone. I feel wonderful on it, and just gained a few pounds, each pound being incredibly worth it. I started having a more normal response to carbs, a resiliency to physical activity (and a hot climate!) I haven't enjoyed since menopause, but learned that I must be very careful with carbs in order to keep out of a hormonal imbalance. I got more skin tags and aches and pains. There is more water weight in the mix, and I haven't sorted it all out yet. But there is also the fact that I completely stopped my sleep medication (yea, that one that caused me to quit eating and lose all that weight and appetite). Before progesterone, I found that I couldn't go for more than 2-3 days without the sleep medication, or I would lose sleep, gain weight and get a bit cranky. This time, with the progesterone, I was able to go through a couple of weeks, with moderate crankiness only after a few days of high-GI carbs like cake and cookies.
And what happened with my weight? Nothing. (This has never happened before. I either gained or was miserable trying to lose or tread water.) My belly fat is less, people still ask me if I lost weight, my skin is so much better, and I have fallen in love with CT.
My plan for 2013 is to continue with my fixed hormonal system and CT, continue to eat meat and veggies with few grains, increase my aerobic exercise and see what happens. I will probably throw in another "100 dollar challenge, we'll see if the dollar amount goes up though.
Happy New Year!!
I started out with a bang in January, with the leptin reset and Robb Wolf's recommendations. This success led me to being fired by my rheumetologist. Yay! I didn't keep good records, but the 5-week experience plus the later month-long "Paleo on 100 dollars a month" challenge left me 15 pounds lighter.
Then I started CT in earnest. Yay!
But, then summer crept forward, the garden carbs called me, I started a half-assed compliance program. My mindless following of my guru was stalled when he was made to walk the gangplank. He then circled his wagons, with a paywall all around, and I lost both the new community and my enthusiasm. Walked away from all the paleo crap, too. When I got into dietary trouble, I'd just fire up the cold tub and fix it. OK, that worked for awhile.
Eventually, this C-student attitude got me into gaining all the weight back. (But wait! It wasn't "and then some.") I kept getting serious for a week or so, then eating a bunch of wheat or bbq sweet corn, and gain a few pounds.
By fall, as a result of my big mouth and my insistence on speaking truth to power, I was walking the gangplank as well, right off that [redacted] site and into the cold, deep blue sea.
So, lets recap. I was on a half-assed diet for most of the year, I didn't do any more aerobics than my active lifestyle already affords. If someone handed me a piece of cake, I ate it. If someone didn't, I didn't eat it. I didn't eat on little plates. I didn't chew my food thirty times. I didn't starve myself. I didn't log in every day and spin a stupid wheel. I didn't eat potatoes. I didn't not eat potatoes. I didn't troll neo-nazi sites to see what they were eating. I didn't track my food, I just salted it, buttered it, just ate it. And, when I was full, I quit eating. I didn't do testing. I didn't sign up for personal coaching. I didn't count my satfat grams. I didn't even count my carbs, except for grins. I didn't pay for a webinar. I didn't go to a Paleo convention or make any paleo brownies. I did no crossfit. I did not give up or butter my coffee. I did not sous vide or confit anything. No monthly hormone panels, no 23andme, no suitcases full of supplements, no dopamine-enhancing drugs to swallow every morning. I did not buy a single bag of ice.
This fall, after spending a year fixing things hormonally, and reading more of Dr. Kruse and Dr. B G, I started on progesterone. I feel wonderful on it, and just gained a few pounds, each pound being incredibly worth it. I started having a more normal response to carbs, a resiliency to physical activity (and a hot climate!) I haven't enjoyed since menopause, but learned that I must be very careful with carbs in order to keep out of a hormonal imbalance. I got more skin tags and aches and pains. There is more water weight in the mix, and I haven't sorted it all out yet. But there is also the fact that I completely stopped my sleep medication (yea, that one that caused me to quit eating and lose all that weight and appetite). Before progesterone, I found that I couldn't go for more than 2-3 days without the sleep medication, or I would lose sleep, gain weight and get a bit cranky. This time, with the progesterone, I was able to go through a couple of weeks, with moderate crankiness only after a few days of high-GI carbs like cake and cookies.
And what happened with my weight? Nothing. (This has never happened before. I either gained or was miserable trying to lose or tread water.) My belly fat is less, people still ask me if I lost weight, my skin is so much better, and I have fallen in love with CT.
My plan for 2013 is to continue with my fixed hormonal system and CT, continue to eat meat and veggies with few grains, increase my aerobic exercise and see what happens. I will probably throw in another "100 dollar challenge, we'll see if the dollar amount goes up though.
Happy New Year!!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
I'm such a loser
The first time this happened, I thought it was an outlier, and like every good researcher, I threw it out.
(Nawwwww! Just kidding. Regular readers know I don't throwup out any data points because they don't agree with preconceived notions.)
I was on the phone with sis the other day, talking about Thanksgiving.
"I lost a pound over the weekend, " I crowed.
"I gained your pound and then some. Guess I'll have to exercise more this week," she lamented. "It was all the stuffing....."
And, this is from the skinny one, the one they tried to bulk up all those years. The one exercising alot and eating a low fat diet because her doc wants her to lower her cholesterol. At around 220 total, she is teetering on the edge of severe heart disease or stroke. Or so he sez.
This happened at the last holiday we shared. I lost a couple of pounds. She gained four.
Oh, I ate the stuffing alright. And a sliver of pie. And some potatoes. Then I got busy with the dishes and pouring more wine and forgot to have seconds.
"I'm stuffed!" the guests declared as they pushed themselves from the table. And I thought to myself,
"Hey, I am not stuffed."
And the next day we went back to a regular fatty breakfast, turkey salad over a bed of greens for lunch, seafood for dinner.
Now here is what else I learned. Corn chips give me zits and make me achy, especially my big toes. And it isn't about the salt, because the next day I can eat a dozen green olives and have no problem with my joints. Pumpkin pie made from my own real home-grown pumpkins is better than when it is made with pumpkin pie filling from a can. And if you bury a turkey carcass in the garden, the gophers stay away.
(Nawwwww! Just kidding. Regular readers know I don't throw
I was on the phone with sis the other day, talking about Thanksgiving.
"I lost a pound over the weekend, " I crowed.
"I gained your pound and then some. Guess I'll have to exercise more this week," she lamented. "It was all the stuffing....."
And, this is from the skinny one, the one they tried to bulk up all those years. The one exercising alot and eating a low fat diet because her doc wants her to lower her cholesterol. At around 220 total, she is teetering on the edge of severe heart disease or stroke. Or so he sez.
This happened at the last holiday we shared. I lost a couple of pounds. She gained four.
Oh, I ate the stuffing alright. And a sliver of pie. And some potatoes. Then I got busy with the dishes and pouring more wine and forgot to have seconds.
"I'm stuffed!" the guests declared as they pushed themselves from the table. And I thought to myself,
"Hey, I am not stuffed."
And the next day we went back to a regular fatty breakfast, turkey salad over a bed of greens for lunch, seafood for dinner.
Now here is what else I learned. Corn chips give me zits and make me achy, especially my big toes. And it isn't about the salt, because the next day I can eat a dozen green olives and have no problem with my joints. Pumpkin pie made from my own real home-grown pumpkins is better than when it is made with pumpkin pie filling from a can. And if you bury a turkey carcass in the garden, the gophers stay away.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Here's a Benefit - Eat Less Clean Moore
One of the nice things about being kicked off [redacted]people is that now I have time for my real life. Instead of handing out goodies, I am handing out excess produce to casual friends in grocery store parking lots. Yum. A whole trunkful of eggplant and thyme seedlings has much more fiber than any of the virtual goodies.
I am also free from searching for un-banned peanut butter. Yippie! We do have some peanut butter left from the last trek to Costco. But, I need to get back there now that, like some other independent countries, I have run out of butter. I did get some non-organic Challenge butter on sale, but it is insipid. I don't know what they feed those Costco cows, but their butter actually tastes like food instead of a stick of fat. Costco is always out of peanut butter, and that is fine with me.
Anyway..........I think it is due to the re-introduction of progesterone in my beauty/wellnessregime regimen. (Been reading too many lipstick magazines????) Since I have been using it for almost two weeks now, I have had fantastic sleep, have been completing all my daily action items, have reduced my appetite and changed my body composition.
Here's the weird thing. Am I normal? I few weeks ago, I discovered something really unusual. I was out for the day and had a piece of fruit and some other carby stuff, and found that I was no longer hungry. Hey, this was just like the experts say happens. You eat, and then you aren't hungry anymore so then you don't eat any more.
Yesterday I cheated by having a pastry bite. I like to call it arugala because it sounds so healthy, but we all know that those concoctions of wheat and fat, filled with a homeopathic amount of fruit and topped with chunky sugar does not contain any real arugala. Yep, I ate it, and then had a burst of energy, so ran around for ten minutes or so, decluttering and clearing out a bunch of projects. Lunch time came and went, and oh, did I forget to eat again? Off to the store, and the distribution of the turnip-truck of veggies, and another free baby coffee. Still not hungry. I ate a handful of nuts around 4 pm. Then, someone mentioned,
"What's for dinner?" Dinner? Oh yea, the reason I went shopping. OK, I think I got some chicken. Guess somebody should go into the kitchen and start making some. OK, that would probably be me. Maybe by the time it is done I'll be hungry.
It took me a long time to peel and chop all the tomatilloes, yellow tomatoes and long fresh cayenne peppers. I also had the last zucchini of the season, and a fresh red onion. I ate a bowl of chicken with the vegetables, and then a few extra pieces of chicken, but I was really too full for much else. I don't think I even got 60 grams of protein for the day.
Oh, weight? Hmmm, I think I am losing, hey, don't care. I haven't been weighing myself because I am too busy getting up before dawn, organizing the yarn closet and then making a 4-alarm breakfast for anyone who is also up that that hour.
Oh, now on to Moore. It's really about More magazine. I got an old copy from friends, and read all about the right and wrong ways to do a detox. Here's a sampling of More's clean detox, developed by a venerated RD, Keri Glassman. Day one is a bunch of tofu, green tea, lemon, pear, kale, salmon, walnuts, lime, edamame, spinach salad with other veggies, olive oil, broccoli, turkey, raspberries. If this sounds a bit like Perricone, that is what I thought too. Notice the abundance of healthywholegrains. Except for all the nasty soy, it looks pretty much like paleo/low carb, except for the third day, which introduces dairy and turns it into a primal-type/low carb thing.
Here's what Leslie Bonci, RD, says, "There's something to be said for limiting choices. You're giving your body a chance to rest, and that's a good thing." Of course, unless you are "resting" with a good paleo or LC diet and you are eliminating entire food groups, and then the coaches[redacted] seez its dangerous for you.
Thank goodness it is only for three days. 'Cause after that, the diet that makes you feel better and "more energetic" will kill you due to the loss of B vitamins in enriched healthywholegrainfoodgroups that you have eliminated entirely from your diet. But no worry, the article says. "This 1,000-calorie-a-day regimen is loaded with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, lean proteins, omega-3 fatty acids and fluids -"
I am impressed just with the fact that they call it a regimen and not a regime. That is a pet peeve of mine. A diet regime would be the ADA or the academy or whatever they call themselves these days.
I am also free from searching for un-banned peanut butter. Yippie! We do have some peanut butter left from the last trek to Costco. But, I need to get back there now that, like some other independent countries, I have run out of butter. I did get some non-organic Challenge butter on sale, but it is insipid. I don't know what they feed those Costco cows, but their butter actually tastes like food instead of a stick of fat. Costco is always out of peanut butter, and that is fine with me.
Anyway..........I think it is due to the re-introduction of progesterone in my beauty/wellness
Here's the weird thing. Am I normal? I few weeks ago, I discovered something really unusual. I was out for the day and had a piece of fruit and some other carby stuff, and found that I was no longer hungry. Hey, this was just like the experts say happens. You eat, and then you aren't hungry anymore so then you don't eat any more.
Yesterday I cheated by having a pastry bite. I like to call it arugala because it sounds so healthy, but we all know that those concoctions of wheat and fat, filled with a homeopathic amount of fruit and topped with chunky sugar does not contain any real arugala. Yep, I ate it, and then had a burst of energy, so ran around for ten minutes or so, decluttering and clearing out a bunch of projects. Lunch time came and went, and oh, did I forget to eat again? Off to the store, and the distribution of the turnip-truck of veggies, and another free baby coffee. Still not hungry. I ate a handful of nuts around 4 pm. Then, someone mentioned,
"What's for dinner?" Dinner? Oh yea, the reason I went shopping. OK, I think I got some chicken. Guess somebody should go into the kitchen and start making some. OK, that would probably be me. Maybe by the time it is done I'll be hungry.
It took me a long time to peel and chop all the tomatilloes, yellow tomatoes and long fresh cayenne peppers. I also had the last zucchini of the season, and a fresh red onion. I ate a bowl of chicken with the vegetables, and then a few extra pieces of chicken, but I was really too full for much else. I don't think I even got 60 grams of protein for the day.
Oh, weight? Hmmm, I think I am losing, hey, don't care. I haven't been weighing myself because I am too busy getting up before dawn, organizing the yarn closet and then making a 4-alarm breakfast for anyone who is also up that that hour.
Oh, now on to Moore. It's really about More magazine. I got an old copy from friends, and read all about the right and wrong ways to do a detox. Here's a sampling of More's clean detox, developed by a venerated RD, Keri Glassman. Day one is a bunch of tofu, green tea, lemon, pear, kale, salmon, walnuts, lime, edamame, spinach salad with other veggies, olive oil, broccoli, turkey, raspberries. If this sounds a bit like Perricone, that is what I thought too. Notice the abundance of healthywholegrains. Except for all the nasty soy, it looks pretty much like paleo/low carb, except for the third day, which introduces dairy and turns it into a primal-type/low carb thing.
Here's what Leslie Bonci, RD, says, "There's something to be said for limiting choices. You're giving your body a chance to rest, and that's a good thing." Of course, unless you are "resting" with a good paleo or LC diet and you are eliminating entire food groups, and then the coaches[redacted] seez its dangerous for you.
Thank goodness it is only for three days. 'Cause after that, the diet that makes you feel better and "more energetic" will kill you due to the loss of B vitamins in enriched healthywholegrainfoodgroups that you have eliminated entirely from your diet. But no worry, the article says. "This 1,000-calorie-a-day regimen is loaded with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, lean proteins, omega-3 fatty acids and fluids -"
I am impressed just with the fact that they call it a regimen and not a regime. That is a pet peeve of mine. A diet regime would be the ADA or the academy or whatever they call themselves these days.
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