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.
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