Monday, May 23
Sorry I never post anymore over here. It's just that low carb is just how I eat now. Atkins works, I feel great, and don't see any reason to change that. We had the inlaws over for dinner and had: a Caesar salad (with truffle oil instead of anchovies, for my vegetarian brother-in-law); Camarao de Coco, a yummylicious shrimp and coconut milk dish from Mozambique; cauliflower rice, butter-wrinkled beans; a spinach soufflé; and the picture-perfect key lime cheesecake I made last night. You, know, "diet food". Why on earth would I go back to the other stuff?One new thing I've been doing is eating 3 or 4 tablespoons of coconut oil every day. I use it in cooking in place of other fats, I've developed a (vegan!) frozen dessert (can't call it ice cream) which will knock your socks off, really. I also make little candies that I pop when I need some quick energy or appetite suppression. Works great, and my skin has never been softer. Do a google for coconut oil and you'll find a bazillion sites—most of whom sell the stuff—all trumpeting the health benefits of coconut oil. Sales pitches aside, I think they may be onto something. I know I've never had this much energy. I don't think I had Candida but it seems to work wonders for people who do.
So there you go. Something new.
binki 12:05 AM
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Sunday, March 27
So LCF approved my Buzzbombs recipe. It requires some specialty ingredients, but once you have those on hand I can show you many wonders. I can tell you for sure I'm buying a 50-pound sack of polydextrose next time.binki 4:16 PM |
Sunday, March 13
Criminy, it's been a while since I posted here, hasn't it? I'm still doing Atkins, still loving it, no intention of ever eating high-carb foods again. I've been baking a lot with polydextrose, which I love. The only downside to the whole lifestyle is that a couple very useful and irreplaceable products are only available from one online retailer, and I'd really like to stop giving them my money, since they're being real douchebags on the bulletin board they took over. Today they censored a link I posted to Amazon, to the book Sugar Blues. What the fuck? Censoring links to books? I think the thermostat in that office is set dangerously high. In any case, I'll be much happier when I can buy my Carbquik and MiniCarb chocolate chips from someone other than the Fascist Bullyboys to whom I had a link on this page until very recently.binki 10:19 PM |
Wednesday, January 5
I have started the new year by reinducting. I'm being extra strict, not even Splenda. Down five or so pounds already, and I feel much better than I had during the last couple weeks of the year when I was gorging (on legal foods, but just too much of them.) My banta experiment didn't work out too well; I was doing it the fun way, i.e. "I've just had ten ounces of steak so now I have to eat two slices of cheesecake to get the fat ratio over 80%." Seems this isn't really how it's supposed to work. Apparently there's a concept called "limiting protein" that comes into play. Dunno. In any case, I'm inducting cleanly and actually having trouble hitting 20 grams a day. I've only gone over 10 grams once this week, and that's including the 2 cups of salad and cup of cooked other veggies every day, so go figure. The first time I did Atkins I had trouble keeping it under 20. But then again I wasn't limiting cheese or cream at all, and I am now. I was also eating lots of goodies. This time is easier, I think. Just drawing a line in the sand and not having any sweeteners at all helps a lot with the cravings.
binki 2:47 PM
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Friday, November 19
Totally digging the Banta thing, other than the intrinsic evilness of the site d|etandb0dy.com. They've taken ownership of the Banta diet, despite it having been invented in the 19th century, and have sent nastygrams to all the LC support sites. One site completely annihilated every discussion thread that mentioned it, vaporizing discussions, recipes, everything. The other site, usually a bastion of censorship, took a more sane approach and just reminded everyone not to copy stuff directly from d&b.com. Much nicer than the scorched earth of the first site.In any case, I've grabbed a squizillion recipes over the last year, low-carb and Banta, and I'm making them into a cookbook. It's hungry work, but it'll be nice to have everything in one place finally. The laptop in the kitchen is just not viable.
I like this diet a lot. I was originally just going to do it for November so I could make weight in December, but it'll be a drag to slow down the delicious fat intake. On the other hand, it's really, really weird to eat this much fat. It's awesome and wonderful and luxurious, of course, but it's tough to believe it's good for you after a lifetime of anti-fat programming. I'm also a little worried that B is going to blow up since he's eating the desserts I make without being on a ketogenic diet. Most of the food I make has some kind of meat in it, so he's safe from that, but the desserts are ovo-lacto spectacular...really, the hardest part about this diet is not eating peanut butter pie for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
binki 10:20 AM
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Sunday, November 7
If there is a bandwagon, I'll jump on it. I need to drop a couple of pounds before the competition on 12/4 so I've decided to try carb cycling. It's one of the latest big fads on the LC boards. Last week was neatly bookended by two parties so I called that a carb-up week, and now this week—or fortnight—will be a carb-down cycle. To complicate things, and so we'll never know for sure what works, I'm also upping my fats à la Banta diet, which was in last week, and I'm also eating more cinnamon, because that is the dieting trend this week. I've posted about cinnamon in the past, but for some reason the trend is really hot on the LC boards right now. Fine with me; I'd gotten out of the habit and winter is a great time to get back in. I've also decided to quit all artificial sweeteners for a while, to see if the Splenda is what's been keeping me hungry, so it's a nice treat to have a little cinnamon taste in my coffee. I put it right in the portafilter with the espresso and pull it into the shot. It's doggone yummity.Speaking of yummity, and Banta, and cinnamon, here is a special treat. It was posted by someone named Built who's a kickass Canadian body builder. To my distress, she seems to have disappeared from the boards lately, and when I posted an inquiry as to her whereabouts my post was deleted. And this isn't on the board with the heavy-handed censorship problems, either, so it's very weird. In any case, here's a nice high-fat low-carb snack that takes seconds to make and will make you smile:
Built's Yummy Thing
1 T natty peanut butter
2T heavy cream
a drop of vanilla
a pinch of Splenda (though I think it's just as good without it)
Stir vigorously in a small bowl until the mixture thickens, then lick it off the spoon. Yummmm. You can add cinnamon for an extra treat—with health benefits to boot. (Why does the combination of cinnamon and peanut butter taste so familiar? Was there something I loved during my childhood with that taste?)
binki 5:40 PM
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Monday, October 11
O frabjous day. The USDA Database has been revised, and the carb count for 100 grams of coffee, brewed, espresso, restaurant-prepared has been revised from 1.5 grams to... ZERO. That's at least three new grams a day I just gained. W00t, I say, w000t! I shall celebrate with a nice shot of black gold.binki 3:49 PM |
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