Low Carb Keeps Me Healthy
I get a lot of flak about my diet. I eat low-carb most of the time. Not super-strict, like Atkins — though I’ve done the Atkins Diet and liked it pretty well — but more a “careful carb choice” approach. I eat far less bread and fewer grain products than most people I know. I […]
Life’s Transitions
Everybody makes a big deal about turning forty, as if somehow that number was the embodiment of bad karma or something. I don’t know. Forty is just a number. I’m turning forty this year, and I don’t feel any different. Quite frankly, I am looking forward to a new decade. I spent the last one […]
Looking Forward to the Weekend
Yeah, and it’s only Monday. What can I say? It’s just that I finally start making headway on getting the house in order on weekends, only to have to stop and go to my job on Monday — the job that keeps that roof over my head. By the time the weekend rolls around again, […]
Depressed
This is turning out to be a pretty unpleasant week. I didn’t sleep well Sunday night or Monday night … partly because it’s so very hot, and partly because the offspring keep coming in to tell me they’re having nightmares. Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor, and I know he’s going to make […]
Cholecystokinin Is Your Friend
Cholecystokinin (/KOH luh SIS tuh KYE nin/) is an important hormone that tells your brain that your tummy is full and that it’s time to send out the signal to stop eating now. It’s the reason you’ve had people tell you that it takes twenty minutes for your body to realise that you are full […]
Still Maintaining…
I don’t weigh in officially until Tuesday evening; unofficially, I weigh in on Sunday mornings. My home scale is not utterly reliable, so I weigh in officially once a month when I visit my chiropractor. But I weigh in once a week on my home scale so I can keep track. By looking at the […]
Phasing Back Into Food
Well, I made my decision this morning. I’m going to phase out of the cleanse/fast starting this afternoon. I’m kind of disappointed, but it’s becoming stressful to stay on the fast, and that will negate much of the good that I have achieved. There’s no point in continuing if I’m going to be miserable for […]
Working Hard Today
I ought to burn a lot of fat today. We’ve been outside raking leaves and bagging them all morning. It’s hard work! We have a lot of leaves, and we’ve already filled six construction bags with leaves, even though we’ve only done about a third of the back yard. I’m surprised that I am doing […]