“You know you’re going to become a diabetic, don’t you?” Said my doctor as we went over my blood work.
I suppose I know this - I just thought that I could keep it at bay a bit longer.
I just had my blood work done, and although my numbers are pretty good, my glucose was 106 [...]
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Twenty years ago, when I was first diagnosed with hypertension as a twenty-something fatso, the numbers were 190/110. It runs in the family - my Dad has it, so it wasn’t all that much of a shock that I would get it, too.
I went to my Dad’s cardiologist at the time and he put me [...]
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Chocolate is supposed to be good for you - if you can avoid the high sugar found in most chocolate. For years, I’ve gnoshed on the Lindt 85% dark chocolate, and though I never was a big dark chocolate fan, this is really good dark chocolate and I always buy it.
If you just can’t stand [...]
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The conscripted members of the Low Carb Confidential Taste Panel (my wife and two daughters) cast a wary eye at some of the things I prepare. Long experience has told them that to accept my innocent-sounding invitation to ‘take a taste’ puts them in a bind, as what was offered might indeed be yummy - [...]
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A year ago, I had a half-baked idea to post my low carb recipes online so that I could retrieve them at work. I thought that this would be a good way to come up with menu ideas for the evening meal and allow me to stop for a particular ingredient on the way home.
I [...]
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I’m gonna take that inner child and kick his little ass
- Don Henley, ‘Get Over It’
I’m big on personal responsibility, and I have to admit that I am the weight I am now simply because a part of me doesn’t want to weigh less.
At the beginning of the year I had managed to put on [...]
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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” - Donald Rumsfeld
We live in a time where [...]
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Do you think of yourself as a crackpot, dear reader?
The survey that I put up 2 weeks ago shows that a lot of you have been on low carb for a while - and you’ve lost weight doing it. And part of the reason you visit the site is to hang out with other folks [...]
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As a kid, my family was not a beef stroganoff family. I don’t think my Mom ever made the stuff. I’d certainly heard the name, but had no idea what it was.
A while back I came across a recipe for beef stroganoff that used cabbage as ‘noodles’, which I thought interesting. I finally got around [...]
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“Listen to me, LISTEN to me! I’M NOT CRAZY!”
I woke from a dream just a few hours ago and, after contemplating for a while, a concept struck me that is so bizarre that it might just be possible. I was so excited about getting it down on paper (well, this white stuff on the monitor, anyway) that [...]
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