For about a year I’ve been between 180 and 185. Lately, I’ve jumped up to 195. This is a bigger problem than just weight gain - I got rid of all my ‘fat clothes’, which I recommend as it’s an extra motivator to keep the weight off.
And right now my clothes are beginning to get [...]
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THE EXPERIMENT: I had gotten a recommendation that canned pumpkin mixed with a little Splenda made a healthy dessert. I tried it, but there was just something missing. Thought that maybe a little sour cream mixed with the pumpkin might improve the taste, so I mixed them 50-50 and added Splenda to taste.
THE VERDICT: Very [...]
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Old news - but a very interesting article. It describes our body fat as the body’s biggest endocrine organ, churning out hormones and chemicals that help it sustain itself while killing us.
Ever see the movie ‘Alien’?
Here’s the link: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/05/63425
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No More Diets
Let’s start off by ditching the word ‘diet’. They don’t work, for the majority of people and if they do, the results are temporary. It is said that over 90% of people who lose weight gain it back within a few years. I know. I lost weight twice before. Each time was [...]
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Remember 2003?
It was the height of ‘The Low Carb Craze’ and I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. Any idiot could see this was dumb – a nation of fat honkers gulping down plates of bacon thinking that this was going to make them lose weight!?
I had [...]
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THE EXPERIMENT: I had heard that fresh spinach, ricotta cheese and parmigana cheese make a nice mixture. So I took a nice fresh bunch of spinach and with a big butcher knife I sliced the entire bunch into strips maybe 1/4″ wide. I threw away 2″ of stems. I cut across the bunch, but [...]
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THE EXPERIMENT: I read somewhere that turnips can be a decent substitute for fries. So, having a nice large turnip available just waiting to be experimented on, I proceeded to:
Peel the turnip
Cut into fry-shaped sticks
Put in a bowl and mix with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
I then put the sticks on a baking sheet in [...]
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No one would accuse me of being able to cook, but living the low carb lifestyle has required me to venture into the kitchen and attempt to whip up meals that are low carb and taste good too.
As I’ve mentioned before, I believe that one of my reasons for success in living low carb has [...]
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When I wrote ‘Houston - we have a problem‘, I had weighed myself and was maybe 197 - I say maybe because my scale varies and I weigh myself a few times and don’t get hung up on the exact number. Today, I weighed myself on the same scale and I was 184 - more [...]
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There’s an aspect to losing weight - or achieving *anything* for that matter - that has to do with mindset. We all have the potential for greatness, but so many of us fall short of our potential.
Why is that?
I think it starts with personal responsibility. Yep - you’d like to lose the weight but you [...]
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