Happy Easter, or Passover, or whatever spring festival you prefer!
It's gonna be a busy one for me, with my mother, sister and niece (and dog) coming to visit for a week, and my husband away on business. Lots of cooking, dining out, sightseeing, socializing ... hope i'm up for it! ;-) Hope i don't ruin my good dietary trend, too -- gonna try to stay low-carb, even if i can't be perfectly paleo. Wish me luck!
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
"if you really don't want to see it no more ... then don't watch"
Here i go, quoting again. ;-) Extra credit, if you can identify the movie.
Am i the only one who would rather not watch videos and listen to podcasts? In blogs and on facebook, the damned links are everywhere ... frequently without any description of what it's about. I have to say, i'm deeply grateful to the bloggers who offer transcripts of the talk, or at least list topics with timestamps so i can fast-forward to the good stuff.
I HATE sitting around listening to the slow pace of non-professional talkers and their "UH"s!!! Of course, some people are a delight to watch/listen to; Lustig or Naughton, i'll attend-to all day.
In the Vimeo recordings of the Ancestral Health Symposium lectures last year, people with interesting and important things to say spoiled their messages with horrendously bad delivery. (I hope they'll improve themselves before this year's presentations.) What a pleasure it was when a few of them could combine significant information with good style, though!
Rant over! ;-) Starting "irony alert":
Here's the film clip.
Am i the only one who would rather not watch videos and listen to podcasts? In blogs and on facebook, the damned links are everywhere ... frequently without any description of what it's about. I have to say, i'm deeply grateful to the bloggers who offer transcripts of the talk, or at least list topics with timestamps so i can fast-forward to the good stuff.
I HATE sitting around listening to the slow pace of non-professional talkers and their "UH"s!!! Of course, some people are a delight to watch/listen to; Lustig or Naughton, i'll attend-to all day.
In the Vimeo recordings of the Ancestral Health Symposium lectures last year, people with interesting and important things to say spoiled their messages with horrendously bad delivery. (I hope they'll improve themselves before this year's presentations.) What a pleasure it was when a few of them could combine significant information with good style, though!
Rant over! ;-) Starting "irony alert":
Here's the film clip.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
rolling in his grave
Poor Dr. Atkins! What has happened to his company since he died.... The man wasn't perfect, for heaven's sake -- but the good he did in spreading the low-carb word is being DESTROYED by the greedy idiots who have been directing the course of his legacy since he went to his reward.
Before i discovered the "metabolic advantage," i tried to manage my weight by means of "conventional wisdom" -- that is to say, i starved myself till i couldn't stand it any more, then lost ground when i started to eat like everyone around me. As with everyone else, every attempt at weight loss was less productive than the time before. I don't remember what inspired me to pick up his book, but it changed my life, and for the better.
I used to be constantly hungry on low-fat, even when my stomach was full; low-carb solved that. I realize now, from all i've read over the past few years, that i may have been replete with water-soluble vitamins, but woefully lacking in the rest -- not to mention minerals! I began supplementing a few things RA recommended (and my physician added Iodoral as well), and my health improved as my waistline contracted.
He died only a year or two after i started his diet plan -- before i learned that a lot of ingredients in his shakes and bars were things i didn't want in my body. I like to think that he would have authorized a reformulation of them, had he lived: who knows! But i'm reasonably certain he would NOT have gone down the popularization/inclusivism road which the company has followed, since. Really: the new Atkins "revolution" not only makes it look like all the others ("you CAN have cookies!") ... or maybe even worse.
What foils the usual low-carb dieter, if s/he gets past Induction in the first place, is playing with all the "toys" which give them the illusion of eating their cake and having it too -- and i'm using this expression advisedly. All the treats, snacks and faux meals are NOT going to fix the broken behaviors and metabolisms that most dieters of ALL SORTS bring to the table (pun intended).
The big difference between "paleo low-carbing" and Atkins-style LC is not just the latter's inclusion of chemical cheats (including all the soy), or that the treats keep alive the perceived "need" of cookies, candy, etc. Really -- this is the shortcoming of lots of other diets (**cough**WW**cough**) my friends have tried and ultimately failed with: they don't retrain the appetite and personal habits.
PaleoLC's advantage is the lack of ravenous appetite which is spurred by the semi-carb shortcuts. Eating natural food helps restore a natural appetite -- and i'm not talking about natural almonds ground up and mixed with natural honey and natural eggs and natural mineral salts to make a natural CAKE....
(GRRRRR!)
Before i discovered the "metabolic advantage," i tried to manage my weight by means of "conventional wisdom" -- that is to say, i starved myself till i couldn't stand it any more, then lost ground when i started to eat like everyone around me. As with everyone else, every attempt at weight loss was less productive than the time before. I don't remember what inspired me to pick up his book, but it changed my life, and for the better.
I used to be constantly hungry on low-fat, even when my stomach was full; low-carb solved that. I realize now, from all i've read over the past few years, that i may have been replete with water-soluble vitamins, but woefully lacking in the rest -- not to mention minerals! I began supplementing a few things RA recommended (and my physician added Iodoral as well), and my health improved as my waistline contracted.
He died only a year or two after i started his diet plan -- before i learned that a lot of ingredients in his shakes and bars were things i didn't want in my body. I like to think that he would have authorized a reformulation of them, had he lived: who knows! But i'm reasonably certain he would NOT have gone down the popularization/inclusivism road which the company has followed, since. Really: the new Atkins "revolution" not only makes it look like all the others ("you CAN have cookies!") ... or maybe even worse.
What foils the usual low-carb dieter, if s/he gets past Induction in the first place, is playing with all the "toys" which give them the illusion of eating their cake and having it too -- and i'm using this expression advisedly. All the treats, snacks and faux meals are NOT going to fix the broken behaviors and metabolisms that most dieters of ALL SORTS bring to the table (pun intended).
The big difference between "paleo low-carbing" and Atkins-style LC is not just the latter's inclusion of chemical cheats (including all the soy), or that the treats keep alive the perceived "need" of cookies, candy, etc. Really -- this is the shortcoming of lots of other diets (**cough**WW**cough**) my friends have tried and ultimately failed with: they don't retrain the appetite and personal habits.
PaleoLC's advantage is the lack of ravenous appetite which is spurred by the semi-carb shortcuts. Eating natural food helps restore a natural appetite -- and i'm not talking about natural almonds ground up and mixed with natural honey and natural eggs and natural mineral salts to make a natural CAKE....
(GRRRRR!)
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
welcome to my world -- i mean "bloglist"
Thanks to Kateryna, i've decided to add another writer to my bloglist. I've only just begun to read his articles, but my first impression of Peter Attia is very good indeed.
His blog is called "the war on insulin," which to my mind is slightly different from a "war on carbohydrates." Interestingly enough, Dr. Donaldson stated in his 1960s memoir that a number of doctors, even then, believed "insulin itself may promote hardening of the arteries".... I've only felt passing interest in the subject of insulin, because i have no inkling that i have a problem with it, outside of its combination with carbs inducing weight gain in this aging body.
I know that insulin performs a variety of very important tasks throughout the human body. I'm also aware that my "sufficient" intake of protein induces a release of it. What i'm fuzzy about is, how and why it "escorts" other hormones in various cells, especially in the brain.
It's time for me to learn this stuff, and i think Dr. Attia's site is a good place to start. Thanks, Kateryna!
His blog is called "the war on insulin," which to my mind is slightly different from a "war on carbohydrates." Interestingly enough, Dr. Donaldson stated in his 1960s memoir that a number of doctors, even then, believed "insulin itself may promote hardening of the arteries".... I've only felt passing interest in the subject of insulin, because i have no inkling that i have a problem with it, outside of its combination with carbs inducing weight gain in this aging body.
I know that insulin performs a variety of very important tasks throughout the human body. I'm also aware that my "sufficient" intake of protein induces a release of it. What i'm fuzzy about is, how and why it "escorts" other hormones in various cells, especially in the brain.
It's time for me to learn this stuff, and i think Dr. Attia's site is a good place to start. Thanks, Kateryna!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
good morning!
*Sigh of content*
Oh brother, do i feel better on my "Strong Medicine"! When i allow myself the treat of rice, wine, cheese, potatoes, etc., my senses may enjoy the indulgence but my body starts to rebel, and communicates its displeasure in various unpleasant ways. It's just like a small child pushing boundaries: has fun for a little while, but ultimately relieved when discipline is reasserted!
I got to bed and to sleep with excellent timing last night, and to my delight and surprise, i felt like taking the prescribed morning walk shortly after awakening to the alarm. Spense and i had a good "constitutional," then i had a patty of the delicious ground pastured pork that's grown in the area (he enjoyed licking the plate when i was done) with a cup of coffee. I could use a second cup, but will settle for water -- without lime, because we're fresh out of it. Perfect: but i'll stop blowing my own horn, now. ;-)
For some reason, it's pure joy getting up early and being outside in the morning, in the springtime! I remember feeling the same way as a kid; i have a specific picture of being outside early in the morning, climbing up a neighbor's jungle-gym and just enjoying being alone, taking in the balmy summer morning. This vision reminds me -- i need to plant some four-o'clocks!
My tomato and bell-pepper seedlings are doing splendidly; i thinned them today. They're both from saved seed, and i hope the pepper does as well as the tomato did last year -- the latter was a volunteer (my thanks to the bird or squirrel who "planted" it for me) from the PREVIOUS year's planting.... At frost, i brought in all the green fruits, even the smallest, to ripen on the window-sill -- and the greenest stayed there all winter, till i was ready to plant! Obviously "meant to be"!
Today i'll put the rest of my bedding plants in their summer homes: red and white begonias in their front-porch pots (north), and impatiens in the ground by the garage. Last year's plantings (sunchokes and garlic) are growing nicely, and the rhubarb is hearty -- planted THAT two years ago, and with any luck i'll get to harvest some this year. Still need to buy more plants, for the urn on the west porch and that southern window-box....
"And isn't it a LOOOOVELY morning?" ;-)
Oh brother, do i feel better on my "Strong Medicine"! When i allow myself the treat of rice, wine, cheese, potatoes, etc., my senses may enjoy the indulgence but my body starts to rebel, and communicates its displeasure in various unpleasant ways. It's just like a small child pushing boundaries: has fun for a little while, but ultimately relieved when discipline is reasserted!
I got to bed and to sleep with excellent timing last night, and to my delight and surprise, i felt like taking the prescribed morning walk shortly after awakening to the alarm. Spense and i had a good "constitutional," then i had a patty of the delicious ground pastured pork that's grown in the area (he enjoyed licking the plate when i was done) with a cup of coffee. I could use a second cup, but will settle for water -- without lime, because we're fresh out of it. Perfect: but i'll stop blowing my own horn, now. ;-)
For some reason, it's pure joy getting up early and being outside in the morning, in the springtime! I remember feeling the same way as a kid; i have a specific picture of being outside early in the morning, climbing up a neighbor's jungle-gym and just enjoying being alone, taking in the balmy summer morning. This vision reminds me -- i need to plant some four-o'clocks!
My tomato and bell-pepper seedlings are doing splendidly; i thinned them today. They're both from saved seed, and i hope the pepper does as well as the tomato did last year -- the latter was a volunteer (my thanks to the bird or squirrel who "planted" it for me) from the PREVIOUS year's planting.... At frost, i brought in all the green fruits, even the smallest, to ripen on the window-sill -- and the greenest stayed there all winter, till i was ready to plant! Obviously "meant to be"!
Today i'll put the rest of my bedding plants in their summer homes: red and white begonias in their front-porch pots (north), and impatiens in the ground by the garage. Last year's plantings (sunchokes and garlic) are growing nicely, and the rhubarb is hearty -- planted THAT two years ago, and with any luck i'll get to harvest some this year. Still need to buy more plants, for the urn on the west porch and that southern window-box....
"And isn't it a LOOOOVELY morning?" ;-)
Monday, April 2, 2012
first day of the rest of my paleo life
I love coffee,
I love tea,
I love the java....
lol -- couldn't resist. After yesterday, i figured it was appropriate.
Whew, yesterday.... Even Nature was playing April Fool jokes; ninety degrees this early in the year is just weird. Today will be that hot again, and then we'll get some more seasonable weather.
Last week's orgy of eating out is over. Having started being "good" again (i swear, i really wasn't that bad), last night i re-read various sections of "Strong Medicine" again, as a reminder and an inspiration. I've also re-watched a few of the videos from last summer's Ancestral Health Symposium. Dr. Lustig's presentation (as well as some others) was so technically descriptive, it amazes me that anyone can argue with the insulin hypothesis! So who should one believe, theoreticians or practicing physicians who actually improve the health of live human patients...?
Anyhow! Off i go, yet again, with absolutely no cheating this week. Next week i'll have houseguests, so "perfection" will be out the window, but i'll still keep the carbs as low as i can, even though i'll be in restaurants again. *Sigh* Wish to heaven that the professionals cooked like i do....
I love tea,
I love the java....
lol -- couldn't resist. After yesterday, i figured it was appropriate.
Whew, yesterday.... Even Nature was playing April Fool jokes; ninety degrees this early in the year is just weird. Today will be that hot again, and then we'll get some more seasonable weather.
Last week's orgy of eating out is over. Having started being "good" again (i swear, i really wasn't that bad), last night i re-read various sections of "Strong Medicine" again, as a reminder and an inspiration. I've also re-watched a few of the videos from last summer's Ancestral Health Symposium. Dr. Lustig's presentation (as well as some others) was so technically descriptive, it amazes me that anyone can argue with the insulin hypothesis! So who should one believe, theoreticians or practicing physicians who actually improve the health of live human patients...?
Anyhow! Off i go, yet again, with absolutely no cheating this week. Next week i'll have houseguests, so "perfection" will be out the window, but i'll still keep the carbs as low as i can, even though i'll be in restaurants again. *Sigh* Wish to heaven that the professionals cooked like i do....
Sunday, April 1, 2012
negative day
i hate my husband
i hate my kids
i hate this dog
i hate music
i hate wine
i hate chocolate
i hate prime rib
i hate barbecue
i hate bacon
i hate asparagus
i hate artichokes
i hate cheese
i hate cream
i hate macadamia nuts
i hate Mexican food
i hate French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, German and Spanish food, too
i hate living history
i hate the Chatillon de Menil house
i hate the Missouri Botanical Garden
i hate St. Louis
i hate Salt Lake City
i hate New Orleans
i hate movies
....
April Fools!!! :-)
i hate my kids
i hate this dog
i hate music
i hate wine
i hate chocolate
i hate prime rib
i hate barbecue
i hate bacon
i hate asparagus
i hate artichokes
i hate cheese
i hate cream
i hate macadamia nuts
i hate Mexican food
i hate French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, German and Spanish food, too
i hate living history
i hate the Chatillon de Menil house
i hate the Missouri Botanical Garden
i hate St. Louis
i hate Salt Lake City
i hate New Orleans
i hate movies
....
April Fools!!! :-)
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