Posted on April 3, 2008 by megamas
I’m always amazed and impressed at the number of people out there in cyberspace whose search engine queries are about what one experiences when starting Atkins or some other carbohydrate-restrictive diet. It usually results in a high number of daily page reads of a post LCC wrote last August. I tend to forget about those strange feelings [...]
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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 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 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 12, 2008 by megamas
Episode 2: When The Inmates Run The Asylum, Madness Will Be A Virtue
Today, the head of the medical department where I work sent out a company-wide email announcing the latest efforts in the corporate-sponsored “wellness” initiative. Classes in nutrition will be given to employees who wish to participate, and prizes will be awarded to those who [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by megamas
Suddenly, it seemed like the universe was conspiring to keep me from losing weight on low carb (or any diet).
I just finished the last chapter of Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories, and I can only hope there’s a silver lining in the Epilogue, because this chapter on Hunger and Satiety plunked down a couple new possible [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by megamas
Here are the basic details of my first week without drinking during this grand experiment in my 10th week of induction:
Monday, March 3, 2008
5:30am - moderate ketostick; 223.0 lbs, 31.0%BF (body fat), 48.5%BW (body water)
So! Something happened during or after the party on Saturday to make me lose, and, as expected, it didn’t last. I regained 2.4 of the [...]
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