Posted on March 30, 2008 by megamas
Alright, now that I’ve got your attention…
Seen anything resembling the above post title in any magazine ads or infomercials lately? Any two-page spreads in your newspaper’s Sunday coupon section with bikini-clad babes and skinny dudes holding the waistband of their old fat pants out two feet from their abdomen with giant blurbs claiming that you (yes, YOU, tubbo!) can lose [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by megamas
I had this thought yesterday as I was sitting in a department meeting watching the secretary chew her gum like a cow strung out on crystal meth.
We’ve been rolling this concept around in the blog that it isn’t just food that stimulates weight gain from the secretion of insulin as a result of sugar in the [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by megamas
Well, I said I was going to do it and I finally did it. I composed a letter and sent it to a couple key people at Wegmans, a large supermarket chain headquartered in New York State. Regardless of where you live, you’ve probably seen Wegmans’ name in print at some time in the past decade since they’ve [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by megamas
Here are the basic details of my third week without drinking during this grand experiment in my 12th week of induction:
Monday, March 17, 2008
weight in morning: 220.2 lbs (no change from previous day), 32.0%BF (body fat), 48.0%BW (body water)
Meat for the past two nights has consisted of corned beef round (what do you expect [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2008 by lowcarbconfidential
Last weekend I spent some time hanging round in a different part of town, so to speak. If you’ve spent any time reviewing the info on the web about low carb, you’ve probably come across groups other than Atkins folks who follow a substantially similar dietary lifestyle, but approach it from a different angle. A [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2008 by megamas
Let’s (actually, let me) talk about food for a few minutes. What I’ll be saying is, of course, my own opinion, and not to be taken as a call for anybody to change what they’re doing or how they feel about it. It’s just something to think about.
I’ve read with interest many low carb recipes, [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by megamas
I suppose I should be proud to say this amazingly simple product, TV Allowance, was developed at a university in my locality. Researchers came up with a large-calculator-sized device that lets families program “budgets” into their home televisions and computers, decreasing the available screen time from 10% to 50% over a period of several months. They then [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by megamas
Here are the basic details of my second week without drinking during this grand experiment in my 11th week of induction:
Monday, March 10, 2008
5:30am - no color on ketostick; 218.6 lbs (0.2 lb loss), 34.5%BF (body fat), 47.0%BW (body water)
Very odd; second day in a row with no color on the stick. Had less than 13 net grams of carbs yesterday, so [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by lowcarbconfidential
You know - after some spirited discourse on the metabolic processes in regards to fat and alcohol - along with sundry interwoven threads regarding social alienation, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, smoking cessation, and the political and ideologocal struggle against trans fat - I’m ready to kick back and have me a big ‘ol bowl of [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by lowcarbconfidential
I got this question from a reader and thought it so important that I’m posting the response here rather than bury it in an old post.
Your question:
what concerns me is so many people write in saying they’re doing induction again (and again and again) because even though they love low carb and lost weight, they [...]
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