Well last night I blew my diet. Hit it amidships with 3 torpedoes and sent it to the bottom. Turkey, grabey, mashed spuds, stuffing, baby carrots with butter… then two pieces of pumpkin pie with whipped cream…and this morn… I’m most surely dying. I can tell that in the next 24 hours, I am going to take a dump of biblical proportions. I’m up four pounds.
And the hell of it all is…I didn’t enjoy it, really. I was just gorging. Why be dishonest about it? It was gluttony!
My “diet” really isn’t a diet; it’s just common sense. I asked the Innernet “how many calories does a man my age get in a day?” Approx. 2000, It said. “How much of that is protein?” I asked. 100g, It said. Then I got a calorie counter and app for my cell phone and started logging my eats. If I stuck to the 100g of protein and made up the rest in green feed… the weight started coming off. My diet strongly resembles the Canada Food Guide I suppose. There are very little fats and the only sugars are from carefully rationed fruits.
And sometimes I started craving protein so I just said to hell with it and added an extra small serving or two, being careful not to overdo it. But after last night… gawd, I feel awful!!!
I wonder about these carnivore diets…? There’s fad diets that come out and it’s always the same: half the quack doctors come out against it, and half will endorse it. After the Covid fiasco I don’t have any faith in them to take them seriously. My diet theory is simple: the human animal in the wild is a trash can omnivore. He will eat anything he comes across. In hunter/gatherer cultures meat can be hard to come by so he ate a lot of plant matter and that made up the bulk of his diet. That’s the way God designed him and if it’s good enough for them… it’s good enough for me.
I’ll be alright in a day or two. I must be getting old because that feast was a real punch to my system…🤢
Fasting, lifting, stretching and get yourself a slamball to raise the heart rate if you don't wanna run in crocks!
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Well that's the next thing Chutes. I put on miles with The Niget...but they're easy walking miles with no cardio. I need to get my heart rate up and sweat... and I don't think I want to run anymore and I know the Nogdawg wouldn't like it...
DeleteI feel your pain, as Pres. Clinton used to say. If you lay a full buffet line out in front of me, I'll pig out until I'm stuffed and actually feel bad. And I don't enjoy it either. I'm like the jealous dog that gobbles his food so the other dogs don't get it - I reflex eat as much as I have in front on me. As a kid we used to get the belt if we didn't finish our plate, maybe that's where it comes from.
ReplyDeleteNot any Canadian holiday down here, but last night ordered some food and I felt duty bound to finish it cause it wasn't cheap. Ended up feeling bad all night and couldn't hardly sleep. What I really need is a small plate, maybe half-sized, to help control portions.
Yep. It's just empty headed mindless gobbling. Siddown in front of the TV... and shovel it in! It's a dispicable, undisciplined habit that I got into... and it is an absolute bear to break. This morning I took what was left of the pumpkin pie and threw it out! It was one from the store so it's all goyslop anyways... but lord... throwing out food bothers me. I wonder if they sell smaller portions at the store? My diet has absolutely no room for crap like that and if I were to eat it today it would show up on the scale today...
DeleteI also tried the carnivore. Didn't work for me, but then I didn't go 100% either. Supposedly you can't go halfway and expect results, you gotta jump in full bore to get any benefit.
ReplyDeleteLift weights, even light ones, avoid sugar that means soda pop, get 6 hours of sleep at a minimum. The lean versus fat meat argument is stupid.
ReplyDeleteGlen, here’s a crazy former Canadian comedian you and Stubfarts
ReplyDeleteMight enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZOh3rNhdk
Ben Bankas. Eddie
Weight loss or gain always, ALWAYS, is calories consummed verus calories burned. If you eat only potato chips but only 1000 calories a day you will lose weight. You will be very unhealthy but you will lose weight.
ReplyDeleteYup. There’s nothing magical about it.
DeleteMy wife is smart like yours. She gets credit- US Army spouse.
ReplyDeleteDid two tours Iraq- total 32 months (COL). On return felt like I was playing with the casino's money. Then my mitral heart valve blew but Dr Leyland fixed it AND put in a pig valve backup 8 hours before my warranty expired. So getting comped free drinks and food at the casino. Put on 100 lbs over 3 years. Doc Cutshall said 'Pre-diabetic' and put me on a $100/week shot. After 4 weeks I lost $400. So was going to put me on $150/wk shot when wife said "You maintained your weight and exercise when the Army paid you." So $50 each Mon, Wed, Fri I fasted and counted calories other days- $150/wk from her 'stash.' (I know, it's OUR money and HER money. I get an allowance of my military retirement and Social Security.) I have lost 64 lbs since March 1st. She is the smart one, all right. Whatever works.
Good for you, Doc!!! Keep it up!!!👍
DeleteThose of us engaged in a carnivore "lifestyle" need to be careful that we do not come across as the inverse of a vegan. Watching the carnivore "influencers" can give you the impression (justifiably so) that they think this is the right diet for everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that it doesn't work for everyone. Not everyone can stand the sameness of the diet from day to day. In order to be successful long term on a carnivore diet requires total dedication to only Beef, Butter, Bacon and Eggs for at least a year. After that, you can actually start to reintroduce some additional foods like cheese, nuts, avocado, broccoli etc.
It is also true that fat alone will not make you fat. This is because bile is necessary to process fat into usable energy and your body can only produce a limited amount of bile. Once that bile is consumed by the fat that you have ingested, most of the rest of the dietary fat simply leaves your body via your morning poop. If your fat intake is combined with a bunch of sugar (carbohydrates), then of course the additional glycol created by the fat will add to your body fat.
Anyway; long story short, carnivore worked for me for the last few years, and now I am to the point that I have been able to add some vegetable fats and cheese and nuts to my diet. Glad to be here.
Phil K
Yup.
DeleteMy mother in law (may God rot that cunned stunt) - was always a land whale. Apparently she went carnivore and does intermittent fasting and she’s dumped a pile of weight…
You need to do stuff like this from time to time to train your body. Next time, you'll take smaller portions, and pass on the sweets. It's a process.
ReplyDeleteAll those fad diets are simply methods of keeping track of what you eat. Why not simply keep track. Hell, I lost 90 lbs doing what you are doing, mostly limiting high glycemic carbs, and doing some common sense food choices and portion control. I'm up 15 due to lifting weights. The extra tonnage is in my shoulders and legs.
You need to do cardio though. My doctor said an old fart like me needs to redline my heart for at least 15 minutes a day. That's not all that tough. Ride a bike, hike some hills. Watch some network news and scream at the TV.
If you get all gut-bound, shove the 'baby's head' out as far as you can. Tie a noose around it with one of your wife's shoe laces. Tie the other end to your foot and move into the standing position. See? Effortless extraction! (Unless its a breached birth.)
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