In September of 2003, I was working with a very good friend who just happened to be the owner of the company I then worked for, and I had noticed that he had lost some weight - he kept pulling up t...
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More Seemingly Pointless Food Journaling: 11-28-08 to 12-01-08
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11-28-08I wasn’t hungry this morning - I had a stomach ache and this effectively reduced my hunger until mid-afternoon, when I had two teaspoonfuls of crushed ginger to settle my stomach. Ginger is an incredibly effective stomach-settling agent, and I have a jar of Trader Joes crushed ginger that gets used mostly for this purpose. I swallo...
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Does Irvingia Really Deliver Rapid Weight Loss? Part 3
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This inquiry has gotten complicated.It started with a Life Extension Magazine article - and a personal desire to get over a low carb stall.And now I feel like an investigative reporter.I am NOT an investigative reporter - just someone curious about irvingia as a way to facilitate weight loss. This has brought me into a world of ‘weight los...
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Does Irvingia Really Deliver Rapid Weight Loss? Part 2
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I found a study on irvingia - The effect of Irvingia gabonensis seeds on body weight and blood lipids of obese subjects in Cameroon - published in 2005. You can read it yourself here. I’ve excerpted parts below - if you are really interested, go read the source, as my interpretation could be off. Here’s the gist of their study...
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Does Irvingia Really Deliver Rapid Weight Loss?
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The short answer to this questions is: I dunno, but I’m thinking about finding out on myself.On this Turkey Day, I spent some time reading my Life Extension Magazine from the Life Extension Foundation. Two years ago, I became a member for 6 months, and they’ve kept sending the magazine, though I’ve received threats in the mail...
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Food Journal 11-23-08 - 11-24-08
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11-23-08I first ate around noon - yes, I do eat late compared to when I wake up, which is usually between 4 and 5 am. I’m somewhat reticent to say what I ate, but here goes: pork rinds with French Pate. Yeah - I bet I might be the only person in North America that had that this morning…I followed that up with a pickle spear chaser a...
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Food Journal 11-21-08 - 11-22-08
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11-21-08The morning did not start with an Atkins bar - in fact, none were had this day. It was a crazy day of meetings and much mental work, which left me drained. In between meetings I ate my lunch - the chicken bacon with Brussels sprouts, and stayed an hour late to finish up some work.Coming home, I had a generous share of the sausage and mea...
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Share Your Recipes for a Low Carb Thanksgiving
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I’m drawing a blank right now. Our Thanksgiving will no doubt have the obligatory turkey - and for the carbers there will probably be mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, bread and gravy.But what can I make for lil’ ol me?Right now I got one: the tarragon mashed cauliflower one poster inspired me to conjure up.So - since I got...
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A Birthday Miracle
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Today’s eats were an Atkins bar around 10am - of course I had my coffee with cream at 5am, however - does that count as breakfast?Lunch was the last of the frozen london broil with Brussels sprouts. It was just OK - maybe I’ve had enough of this for a while. Prefect timing - there was zero waste on this one. I’ll roll this reci...
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Food Journal: 11-18-08 - 11-19-08
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11-18-08Had my Atkins bar at about 11 am. Had chicken, bacon, and cauliflower mashers at about 1pm. Had brazil nuts about 3pm. Came home and had some wine and grazed on bean dip, stir-fried pork, and pork rinds. Also had a little of the Lindt chocolate. No cheats.The morning weigh-in was 205.8 - I’m only 5.8 lbs. from my November weight go...
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How to Write a Diet Book
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I always have an eye out for new diets, not that I’m shopping around for something new - I’m just interested in what’s out there. It’s become apparent that most follow a formula that’s pretty simple:Decide whether the diet prohibits certain foods or not. Prohibiting certain foods usually means that portion control i...
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Something New…Again
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Time to try some new habits. I find sometimes a behavior change is a good shake-up for oneself - and it can seriously unnerve people around you when you change a behavior because it requires them to think of you in new ways - and it’s almost always impolite to force other people to think - but it can be fun.So anyways - the behavior change...
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Looking for the Reset Button
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Right now, I’d say I’m limping along on living low carb. I suppose that, as stated previously, a bad day on low carb for me, with the goal of ketosis in mind, isn’t a bad day on low carb in general. So perhaps I’m failing in my short-term goals (20 grams per day of carbs) while succeeding in my long term goal (a general l...
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Why Are You Reading This?
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“Know thyself” - Socrates“Only the shallow know themselves” - Oscar Wilde’s response to SocratesI think I keep this blog going because I like to write, and because low carb living is kind of a lonely gig. Blogging gives me an outlet for my overactive mind, and allows me to spill my thoughts on low carbing without an...
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Food Journal: 11-11-08 - 11-14-08
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My ‘No Time to Go on a Diet’ experiment left me with a few new strategies. One of them was food journaling - I think it provides something helpful long-term. I’ll post these daily snapshots periodically for as long as I continue. I’d like to think I can do this through the holidays, but I’m not committing to it.Day ...
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Day 30: No Time to Go On a Diet - Epilogue
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“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.” Napolean Hill, Motivational WriterThere was the morning Atkins bar, maybe 40 oz of water, at noon was a plate of the lasagna, which I am quite fond of and must make again. A handful of macadamia nuts got eaten in the late afternoon. A bad case of the hungrie...
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Day 29: Life Without Foundation
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The morning was 2 squares of the lasagna experiment from yesterday. Quite good. I forced down the 50oz. of water that I am supposed to drink every day.Lunch was extended over an afternoon of cleaning the house with the wife. In between the chores, I tried to make the cheese ‘crackers’ from day 8. One batch was too gooey and all stuck...
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Day 28: Dried Cherries
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Saturdays are the worst. This Saturday was no different. It started OK - I inventoried the fridge and had the ingredients for a spinach casserole of sorts - roughly based on an old kitchen experiment. Here’s what I did:20 oz bag frozen spinach4 oz shredded cheddar cheese5 pats butter1/4 cup parm cheese1/3 - 1/2 lb deli ham, chopped into bi...
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Day 27: The Skinny on Feeding Myself
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If I could pinpoint my biggest challenge in doing low carb for the long, long haul, it is keeping a larder of low carb food available to ensure that food boredom doesn’t set in. Part of my success, I think, has been that I can eat the same thing 3 days in a row, if not more, and this makes it possible to eat low carb, enjoy it, and not be ...
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