Posted on November 14, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
I purchased some wild caught cod and wanted to make my own sauce, which I typically make from mayo, parm cheese, and butter – but I had already made the Ricotta Cranberry Cream concoction and didn’t feel like pulling out another bowl.
I had bought Bertolli Alfredo sauce for my kids – it was sitting on the counter. I took a look at the label, and the carbs were pretty low. So I used that. Read more »
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
I actually don’t know if this is technically a ‘pie’, a ‘tart’, or some other culinary species that I am aware of: I just know that I took a stab at the below concoction, it came out good enough that my daughter has had it for breakfast (willingly) two days in a row, and I am making it again – certainly for Thanksgiving.
It also came out of the oven looking pretty good – not normally an aspect of my cooking, but I’ll take it. I would have liked to take a picture of this one, but I didn’t – maybe next time. Read more »
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Posted on November 8, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
I love when I find articles that confirm my personal biases. No deep thinking or cognitive dissonance required, no need to try and refute the conclusions. Life is good.
Anyway, a pair of articles came to my attention this week. The first, from Science News Daily, cites research on worms that concludes that excess sugar can shorten lifespan by 20%. Here’s my fave line from the article: Read more »
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Posted on November 6, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
A brief update. For the first time in ages, I’ve been in ketosis for almost three weeks. I don’t think I’ve had such a long, unbroken run since I lost my weight originally – 6 years ago.
Maybe – just maybe - this time might be the one that I peel off the extra pounds and get to my goal weight?
We’ll have to see. Read more »
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Posted on November 3, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
Somewhat off topic: many, many years ago I stumbled across this site – a labor of love by a writer from the midwest. He’s a fellow with a number of curious interests, and one of them is collecting old cookbooks.
The result is the ‘Gallery of Regrettable Food‘ – a fond (and maybe not-so-fond) look back at some of the awful things Americans were encouraged to feed their families in the middle part of the last century.
It was a time of great contradictions, where Julia Child enlightened Americans to the complexities of French cooking – and yet, there were recipe books on how to cook with Dr. Pepper.
I encourage you to check out his site. Note that there are many more ’subjects’ that he covers on the site – check out the entire Institute for Official Cheer, which covers the same time period – and proves that there was something deeply wrong and disturbing lurking in the human psyche in the middle of the last century.
Of course, we’ve moved on to other deeply wrong and disturbing things, but that’s another off-topic post for another day.
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
My Perception of Your Standard Low-Calorie Diet
I’ve been lax in journaling – I promised I would do so some time back.
Apparently I lied.
Anywho, I have been quite adherent to an Atkins induction-style diet, and have been in ketosis for about 8 days straight. When I started this, about 10 days ago, I had puffed up to 218.6 due to a ‘what-the-hell’ attitude, which I find I sometimes have to indulge to an extreme to exorcise it.
I believe: if you give in to ‘what-the-hell’, don’t do it half-hearted – go for it!
You will probably feel like crap the next day – a great way to steel one’s resolve and get back to your diet.
Last night I got on the scale and was 207.8 – nearly 11 lbs. down. Yesterday I was able to actually fit into a pair of pants that 2 weeks ago were cutting off circulation to my lower extremities – a nice indicator of progress.
So what have I been doing? Read more »
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Posted on October 26, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
“Junior, drink your bisphenol A – it’s good for you.”
For those of us under 50 who need an excuse for being fat, here’s a good one: it’s not me, but the chemicals that I was exposed to before birth that made me fat.
I’ll let you read the Newsweek article yourself – I don’t feel inclined to do a book report at present, but to summarize: there is an epidemic of obese 6-month-olds, and since these babies don’t have the ability to go on a White Castle run or hit the cookie aisle hard, we can’t exactly blame them for being fat. Read more »
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Posted on October 23, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
This is NOT a picture of the recipe below, but it looks pretty good.
This recipe is a variation on the ‘chili’ recipes that I’ve been making the past few weeks – I just varied it to be more ‘Italian’. Read more »
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
On April 13th of this year I started experimenting with nicotine, in the form of Commit lozenges, as a means to help stave off food cravings. As of today, 6 months later, I would say this:
- The 4mg lozenges, taken on average 4 times per day, do reduce food cravings
- I have lost no weight since starting this
The conclusions drawn from this can be many – especially because nicotine has moral implications. Read more »
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Posted on October 14, 2009 by lowcarbconfidential
Image of mouse who, since he wears no clothes, probably doesn’t worry about his weight.
Interesting (though pretty heavy on the science) article that basically shows that zero fat diets are not healthy for us.
Here’s a redacted and bolded version – see the full article for all the detail and the lack of selective emphasis reflecting my personal confirmation bias. Seriously, studies like this need to be taken with a grain of salt because we are not mice genetically altered to not produce new fatty acids. It’s a clever trick that points to the body handling new fat from dietary sources and old fat from fat stores – but sometimes we get too clever and come to conclusions that might be more confounding than ‘conclusive’. Read more »
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