My Last Post on Nicotine Lozenges as a Weight Loss Device

Posted on January 25, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

On Christmas Day, 2011, I ran out of nicotine lozenges. That was it. It’s over. A very expensive and annoying addiction to nicotine lozenges, started nearly 3 years ago when I got this hare-brained idea that: if people who stop smoking gain weight because they don’t have nicotine, can people lose weight if they take [...]

Filed under: Food, health, Hunger, Nicotine, Personal Journal, Research, Self-Experimentation, Stupid Research, weight loss | Tagged: , , | 3 Comments »

Thank You, Anthony Bourdain: It’s About the Food

Posted on January 7, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

I am an idiot. I only have a slight edge over some other idiots in that I am open to discovering that I am an idiot, so that I might actually learn something new, or discover, sometimes to my horror, how something I thought I knew was so blindingly wrong. For the past month, I [...]

Filed under: cooking, dessert, diet, Fake Foods, Food, Food Additives, Food Monotony, general health, Goals, health, Hunger, Kitchen Experiments, low carb, Organic, Personal Journal, recipe, Research, Reviews, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Are Vitamins and Supplements Worth it?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

One of the paradoxes in a consumer society like ours, is that to lose weight, to remove something, we are typically instructed to do so by consuming something else. It’s just how we’re taught: got a problem? Buy something to fix it. A lot of folks think that they can fix their crappy diet by popping [...]

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My Last Post on Irvingia

Posted on December 30, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

If you have the misfortune of reading this blog with any regularity, you will have noticed that I am a somewhat ‘restless’ individual, and try numerous self-experiments surrounding nutrition, health, and weight loss. Quite possibly, one of the most pointless experiments I chronicled on this site brings me a good portion of my traffic: Irvingia. [...]

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A Year of Losing Weight – or Maybe Eight Years

Posted on December 3, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Last Thanksgiving, after a year where I had ballooned up to about 238 pounds rather quickly, I recommitted to low carb yet again. Today, one year later, I am down to 205. That works out to 33 pounds in 1 year, or 0.63 pounds a week, an absolutely horrible number – if you’re in a [...]

Filed under: Atkins, Change, diet, drink, Exercise, Food Monotony, general health, Goals, health, Hunger, Induction, low carb, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, thyroid, Uncategorized, weight loss | 12 Comments »

Does Cinnamon Reduce Blood Glucose Levels? I Try it Out

Posted on November 14, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have a family history of diabetes that I have been able to hold at bay – I think – through my low carb diet. My siblings both got rather severe cases in their early 40s, while I have been able to keep the number relatively low in comparison. [...]

Filed under: general health, health, Personal Journal, Research, Self-Experimentation, Supplements | 4 Comments »

My Core Foods

Posted on November 6, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

I have a habit of noodling through an idea, then failing to follow through on it. Luckily, this blog helps me record these ideas when I come to revisit them from another angle. One of these ideas is the notion of food monotony I wrote about in January of 2010. I’ve come to disagree with [...]

Filed under: cooking, dessert, diet, Food, Food Additives, Food Monotony, general health, health, Hunger, Kitchen Experiments, low carb, Organic, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | 3 Comments »

Charts of Weight Gain in 2010 and Weight Loss in 2011

Posted on October 23, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

  I use a program called WeightBot on my iPhone to track my weight. Being lazy and/or stupid, I didn’t know that I could produce these nifty yearly charts – it always showed the data month-by-month. They make a nice comparison between 2010 and 2011 – don’t they? Obviously, 2011 isn’t over yet, and Weightbot [...]

Filed under: diet, Goals, health, iPhone, Mindset, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | 3 Comments »

The Feeder and the Fed: Losing Weight and Cheating Without Cheating

Posted on September 18, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

I have been losing weight as of late – and am wondering why. In particular, I’m wondering this because of my thinking about writing a book on the topic of weight loss. One thing I’d like to avoid is creating another me-too book that is more of the same. Diet books have been done to [...]

Filed under: Change, dessert, diet, Fake Foods, Food, general health, Goals, Hunger, low carb, Mindset, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | 8 Comments »

Another 10 Lbs. Down: Should I Write an eBook?

Posted on August 19, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

On January 3 of this year, I decided to track my personal weight loss on this blog in 10 lb increments. In February I lost my first 10 and went from 232 to 222. It’s August and today I’m 210. Why so long for that 2nd 10 lbs.? Life can really do a job on [...]

Filed under: 10 Pounds Lost, Books, diet, Exercise, Food, Goals, health, Hunger, low carb, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | 26 Comments »

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