Sunday, May 18, 2014

aboard the RC Freedom of the Seas and heading out on the Low Carb Cruise

... it's going to be a delightful week!  :-D

My husband, our daughter, and her family are on board too -- we're already having a lovely time!  Jan and Eddie, wish you could be here, but we'll introduce ourselves to Franziska and tell her you send your regards!

I've already had a nice chat with Jayson Calton who will be speaking about supplements this time.  Poor Jimmy isn't as svelte as he was last year, but he hasn't gained that much -- ignore the haters!!!  I mean, who HASN'T gained a little bit after losing weight, and some people have gained a HELL of a lot more!

 The group is as pleasant as i remember them, and we met another lovely couple last night at the pre-cruise dinner -- hope we'll meet MANY more as wonderful as we have already!

Until later,  ... bon voyage to the whole gang!!!  :-D

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  1. Sounds exciting! Looking forward to your update! :)

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    1. Hey there, Charlie Boy

      "you would too if it happened to you"

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 -

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    2. that's right, "charles". THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. i'm the empress here, and i have NO hesitancy to say "off with their heads."

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  3. Charles, seems like your diet is making you cranky and mean. When I don't agree with someone's take on things, I no longer frequent their blogs and forget about them. Yet you seem to appear everywhere with no constructive comments. So sad that you have nothing better to do than waste your time criticizing all and sundry, when you could start your own blog and inform the world of your amazing superpowers.

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  4. Have a nice trip, Tess!
    Charles, I have a suspicion that the people who are too preoccupied with the idea about finding the ideal diet or/and a lifestyle in order to live a very long time could be in a danger to get the opposite result, may be by trying too hard. BTW, I absolutely don't mean you. It is just a though I am having for a while. There are plenty of examples from different approaches. I think the best reason to have diet limitations is to manage existing issues, not to live forever, to imitate a caveman or to look like a photoshoped image of a movie star, so the priority should be given to what is more important at a current situation, not to prevent something in a future which we don't know anyway.

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  5. Great post Horf

    Grashow won't start his own blog because he knows no one would read it, other than his bloated blogger mistress Evie. The saddest moron on the internet by a very long way. Everywhere you go, Grashow is slagging someone off. As you say Horf "Yet you seem to appear everywhere with no constructive comments" That's Grashow in a nutshell.

    Kind regards Eddie

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    2. Charles, do you remember the heated discussions of the article in NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0? JM is not the only one who can't keep his weight loss, it looks like that the people who can are the exemption of the rule, and his example is how things usually are. Is it a reasonable explanation?

      Here is the citation from the article describing the experience of the correspondent who was the author of the article "I have always felt perplexed about my inability to keep weight off. I know the medical benefits of weight loss, and I don’t drink sugary sodas or eat fast food. I exercise regularly — a few years ago, I even completed a marathon. Yet during the 23 years since graduating from college, I’ve lost 10 or 20 pounds at a time, maintained it for a little while and then gained it all back and more, to the point where I am now easily 60 pounds overweight." I can guess that if he got not 60, but 200+ lbs overweight, it would stuck cards against his weight-loss maintenance even more.

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    3. Grashow please could you explain why Jimmy Moore is on your mind 24/7 ? You are obviously besotted with him ! I wish Jimmy all the best, his apparent weight gain is not something I lose sleep over. Clearly Jimmy’s weight is the main focus of your life. How do we know you are not morbidly obese ? You hide in the shadows as does Carbsane the bloated one with never a photograph published.

      Your credibility is zero, you contribute nothing to the debate, you clearly believe you're paranoid rants, against so many of the prominent low carbers and paleo people, makes you a player. In reality, you're a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of your own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable, and consistent series of arguments to malign an opponent, and to glorify yourself. In short, a total fuckwit. Get a life lad.

      BTW Give my regards to Evie next time you see her, tell me, are you and Evie related by any chance ?

      Eddie

      Sorry Tess I couldn't resist it.

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    4. Unfortunately, after a certain level of health changes took place, following a non-industrial diet which kept our ancestors generally free from Modern deceases is not enough for many people.

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    5. I just have read the article in NY Times (I was reading articles in the digest of international press translated into Russian language, and usually it is about politics, but for Russians the mentioning of the insulin in the connection with obesity is something new, and article could be chosen for its novelty) "Always Hungry? Here’s Why" by DAVID S. LUDWIG and MARK I. FRIEDMAN
      http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/always-hungry-heres-why.html?_r=0 about
      " Only one in six overweight and obese adults in a nationwide survey reports ever having maintained a 10 percent weight loss for at least a year. (Even this relatively modest accomplishment may be exaggerated, because people tend to overestimate their successes in self-reported surveys.) In studies by Dr. Rudolph L. Leibel of Columbia and colleagues, when lean and obese research subjects were underfed in order to make them lose 10 to 20 percent of their weight, their hunger increased and metabolism plummeted. Conversely, overfeeding sped up metabolism."
      People have trouble to keep their weight loss, it is much more difficult than loosing weight.

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    6. Eddie, "make yourself at home" as we say on our side of the pond. ;-)

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  6. Some would define a celebrities job as being in shape. Even if what you are a celebrity for is losing weight. So that's his JOB. That said I really look up to him and am thankful he had made a big impact in the media. Any exposure of our lifestyle is welcome.

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    1. Grashow have you received permission from Evie for posting that item ?

      I never realised the UK working class had it so good in Victorian times.

      “Mid-Victorian working class men and women consumed between 50% and 100% more calories than we do”

      “with consumption of fruits and vegetables amounting to eight to 10 portions per day”

      As for “Does this sound low carb to you Eddie?” Low carb to me is 50 grams of carbs or less per day. Based on whole fresh foods from non starchy vegetables, adequate protein and calorie deficit made up with healthy fats. What’s your idea of a low carb diet ?

      Eddie

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    2. Even an American knows that's complete bullshit.

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    3. I remember reading that just 100 years ago most people who died in London died as the result of a malnutrition and under-eating or of a dirty water drinking. I can't give the link, it was a while ago in the article about a food over-consumption being the new problem for humanity.

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    4. Hi Galina

      You are not too far off the mark. Most working class people in the UK lived in abject poverty. Too much food of any kind was never a problem.

      Eddie

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    5. Oh, you guys. Don't you know that every healthy population that ever existed was on the Mediterranean Diet (TM)? The Japanese (pre-, post- and during WWII), the Kitavans, the Victorians, the Edwardians, the pescaterians, Outback aboriginies, Otze, Ozzy, and Odysseus. The Continental Army ousted the beer-swilling Huns because they were eating whole grains and vegetables and a little game. The Inuit got 30% of their calories from whole grains and veggies from the stomach contents of caribou. The Masai captured women from villages and ate hummus and salad when they visited their inlaws, which was often. And people didn't die from drinking dirty water (because dirty water is natural), they died because they didn't drink eight glasses a day.

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    6. LORI WINS THE INTERNET TODAY! :-D

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  8. Tess, tell Jimmy I say hello! Awesome you are on the cruise. Enjoy! Looking forward to hearing more about it.

    Karen P

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    1. i will! :-) i had really good intentions of reporting last year, but i got distracted....

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    2. Karen, i DID during a break, and he says hi back. :-) he tells me you have a totally brilliant daughter....

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    2. Charles, I think you should go next time. You like to be around LCarbers so much that it may be worth the expense.

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    3. Galina, ... NO-O--O-O-O-O-O! ;-) we'll have MUCH more fun without the trolls!

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    4. "Charles, I think you should go next time. You like to be around LCarbers so much that it may be worth the expense."

      Low carbers have given Grashow a reason to live ! Jeez, how sad is that !

      I reckon it is down to his very low cholesterol numbers and statin use. High morbidity rates, high depression rates, high violence rates and suicide through the roof. I won't bang on about his testosterone injections.

      Has anyone ever noticed, he never stops asking questions, but never answers a question.

      Eddie

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    5. Sorry, Tess, I was sure Charles wouldn't go anyway. I hope Christopher/Eat-less-move-more also is not on the same ship with you and stayed at home content with a virtual reality.

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    6. no problem AT ALL, Galina! :-) i was speaking lightly to you alone! i would expect certain of the attendees to make him wish he weren't alive! :-D

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    7. Tess, how does your doter's family take the whole crowd of LCarbers?

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    8. L is "one of us" even though her husband is just a tolerant bystander. :-) i'm proud of the grandkids -- they now realize that animal foods are more nutritious than grains, even if they still love their mac & cheese.

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    9. I believe even more now than before how important it is to be not militant in the diet approach , especially with family members and friends. It helps them to be tolerant bystanders and sends the right message about which foods are healthy. My husband it absolutely CICO guy.

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  10. And a voice says 'Many Thanks Tess' and I repeat your first paragraph, because there have been many comments in between ....LOL

    "My husband, our daughter, and her family are on board too -- we're already having a lovely time! Jan and Eddie, wish you could be here, but we'll introduce ourselves to Franziska and tell her you send your regards! "

    Have a wonderful low carb cruise and please give our warmest wishes to Franziska.

    Thinking of you all as you sail away for a super week.

    Take Care

    All the VERY best Jan

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    1. thank you, Jan! we are having a lovely time. we had the first set of LC talks today, and they were very interesting. we had a couple of young people who work with those with health issues and are making good progress. i enjoyed Dr. Eric Westman's talk immensely. Dana Carpender (in my opinion, the greatest living cookbook writer) gave a very interesting presentation about how to deal with all the environment (especially the sour, nasty people around us who want to derail our successes) which stands between people and their goals -- kinda like CS and her minions, and those others who hate us for achieving what they can't!

      the great thing is, we have a wonderful community of people who want to support each other, not stand in each others' way. it's DELIGHTFUL! :-)

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