I get a lot of people emailing me asking for quick tricks for dieting. On the plus side they seem to understand that the 100 days of starvation I performed wasn’t healthy, but they still want fast weight loss. The rapidity of my weight loss was part of the problem. It makes the body panic and want to store fat, which is one reason why I’d regained 20 lbs in just a few weeks during recovery. If I had to [...]
Disclosure: I’ve been on low carb diets. For the most part I did well on them, going into what’s called “ketosis” fairly easily, and dropping weight. The problem I have with Atkins and other low carb diets is that without careful planning, they can get boring. In my case I ended up eating mainly meat, cheese, and green vegetables. As I’ve said before, any diet that narrowly restricts the foods you eat is going to be tough to sustain and [...]
“English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary” Our language is a bastard. In fact, of 80,000 English words, roughly 28% originate from Latin, 28% from French, and 25% from Germanic languages, so more than 3/4ths of English kinda… isn’t. What’s worse is we use this language to tell each other things that aren’t so. Oh, I don’t mean lying, though that’s certainly a bad thing. I mean [...]
“…do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone “Are you married?” and hearing “My wife left me this morning,” or saying, uh, “Do you have children?” and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda, we’ll all terrified of embarrassment.” ~ John Cleese as Archie Leach History is full of examples of [...]
During the starvation I wrote about the KFC Double Down – a reviled yet popular sandwich that uses fried chicken in place of bread. You read that right. Its 540 calories – more than 1/4 the recommended daily food intake for a woman, and almost 1/4 for a man – come locked and loaded with 5 milligrams of cholesterol. That’s twice the cholesterol of a Big Mac, and 1/2 the recommended daily intake. Of course there’s ‘good’ cholesterol and ‘bad’ [...]
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us’”. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky 187.2 lbs It’s official. I’m in the final 2 weeks of this phase of the project. Some of the email coming in is telling me “dude – people already know starvation is bad. Thanks Captain Obvious.” When it comes to, say, internment camp or desert island starvation, yes. Yes they do. But with people actively [...]
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” ~ John F. Kennedy 186.1 lbs. With a little more than 2 weeks left of the starvation phase of this project, the long road to bringing my BMR (basal metabolic rate, for new readers) back up to normal stretches before me like a… long road. I’ve been down this road once before; going from fat teen to muscular army boy, with a stopover at getting my butt in the gym.In [...]
“T. Rex doesn’t want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can’t just… suppress 65 million years of gut instinct.” ~ Dr. Alan Grant 187.4 lbs. Yup, I’m back on the obese topic. Previously I wrote about how obese men experience a testosterone drop, which could lead to less sex drive. Ads put out by PETA claim “Studies show vegetarians have better sex” – well, like a lot of PETA’s claims the facts say “kinda, but not really”. Of course, [...]
“Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaaal!” ~ Football announcers worldwide. And a few animal rights activists too. 188.4 lbs As my weight drops, the readership numbers (modestly) rise, and the days of starvation left tick down, it’s easy for me to forget there are other things going on in the world. Unlike me, most of you aren’t sitting around with hunger pains so you’re aware there’s the the World Cup football competition going on in South Africa as I write this. No wait – this [...]
“To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.” ~Mary Pettibone Poole 190.2 lbs. I’m getting quite a mix of messages from readers these days. Some are expressing concern over the dizzy spells, while another applauds the fact that I’m almost done. A far smaller group expresses jealousy at my weight loss (maybe they just read the article headlines – I dunno). But several from each camp still want to “lose weight”, and say this site [...]
“All in all it was just a brick in the wall All in all it was all just bricks in the wall” ~ Pink Floyd 191 lbs. It really frosts my miniwheats when “experts” deluge us in advice that they present as factual when really it’s the product of “reasoning”, not research. The food pyramid is a good example of this: eating a lot of saturated fats can cause problems, they noticed. These problems can lead to heart disease. So, [...]
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her” ~ David Brinkley 195.2 lbs. On May 11th, 2010, Michelle Obama unveiled the White House task force report on solving childhood obesity. The goal defined in the 120-page document is to roll back the rate of childhood obesity in the United States to 5% by 2030, the same as it was in the late 1970s. I see this as [...]
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