Eating Practice – 08/19/12 to 08/25/12
In this installment, the diet gets sidetracked by a mental disorder caused by obsessive surfing. Overstimulated, our hapless hero swears off the iPhone and buys a Kindle – and gets deeply engrossed in...
View ArticleEating Practice – 08/26/12 to 09/01/12 – I Found The Button!
Summer is over – and so is the seeming impossible ‘eat what you want and don’t get fat’ phenomena that our hero has been experiencing. He *IS* getting fat. It’s time to buckle down and get back in the...
View ArticleI Lose 9 Pounds in a Week. Eating Practice:09/02 – 09/08/12
Know what these are? I didn’t until Saturday Summer is over – and so is the seeming impossible ‘eat what you want and don’t get fat’ phenomena that our hero has been experiencing. He *IS* getting fat....
View ArticleAtkins Induction: How Does It Feel at Day 30?
On September 2, 2012, I was 207.6. This morning, October 10, 2012, I am 193.0 – 14.6 lbs down in 39 days. Today, if I haven’t messed up in my counting, I have been on a strict ketogenic-type low carb...
View ArticleEating Practice: Post Hurricane Sandy, Election, and Nor’easter Edition
Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 198.4 New Jersey can’t catch a break. Now the weather forecast says we might have a Nor’easter – New England slang for a freakin’ big snowstorm – early next week. Maybe...
View ArticleEating Practice 11-11-12 to 11-17-12
Sunday, November 11, 2012 – 198.0 Blood glucose: 104 Boy, did I stink today. I have notice in the past that the beginning of ketosis can bring on an awesome funkiness. Is this a response to almost 200...
View ArticleNew Years Resolution to Lose Weight in 2013? Your LowCarbConfidential.com...
This is the time of the year where the traffic to my site skyrockets as folks decide that they want to make a change for the better in the new year and have decided to try a low carb diet to lose some...
View ArticleSimple Low Carb: Keeping at It
Did you ever have the joy of cleaning a basement or garage that has been accumulating junk for a decade or two? The experience starts with a burst of energy from visualizing the endpoint: you,...
View ArticleSimple Low Carb: Progress Report from the World’s Worst Successful Low Carb...
Looking back on the past 2 weeks I think the sole purpose of this post is to demonstrate just how *awful* you can be at low carb dieting and still lose weight. Part of me looks at my performance...
View ArticleWant to Stop Eating Food? Here’s Someone Working on That
I was very interested to read about Soylent – an experiment by an individual in replacing eating with a simple drink consisting of all the necessary macronutrients and micronutrients sourced as...
View ArticleI’d Go for the Cake
I’ve been way busy with work – and my commitment to losing weight has suffered for it. I have long work-days filled with an extraordinary amount of details to remember – and often need to improv on...
View ArticleLosing Weight Without Self-Hatred
About 9 weeks ago, I consciously decided to ‘make peace with myself’ as my wife calls it. I ate what I wanted – including candy and whatnot. Nothing odd here – it’s just that I didn’t beat myself up...
View ArticleFood Paranoia
You know how you sometimes know things but really don’t know them? I had come across this article in the New York Daily News about veggie burgers. Veggie burgers are looked upon by many as superior...
View ArticleMy Core Foods
I have a habit of noodling through an idea, then failing to follow through on it. Luckily, this blog helps me record these ideas when I come to revisit them from another angle. One of these ideas is...
View ArticleA Year of Losing Weight – or Maybe Eight Years
Last Thanksgiving, after a year where I had ballooned up to about 238 pounds rather quickly, I recommitted to low carb yet again. Today, one year later, I am down to 205. That works out to 33 pounds in...
View ArticleThank You, Anthony Bourdain: It’s About the Food
I am an idiot. I only have a slight edge over some other idiots in that I am open to discovering that I am an idiot, so that I might actually learn something new, or discover, sometimes to my horror,...
View ArticleHunger, Cravings, Obession, and Food as a Utility – A Repost from 2008
[Did you ever get a rush of motivation out of nowhere to, say, clean every drawer in the house? Every one? Full of energy, you go from room to room, drawer to drawer, pulling out the various effluvia...
View ArticleFat, Dumb, and Happy: Lost 7 pounds in 36 Hours
[I thought I might try a bit of an experiment. What if I just post what I write? It's the editing that kills me - most of my stuff ends up on the cutting room floor, unpublished. Instead, I'm going to...
View ArticleThe April Fool
Day 1 – Tuesday, March 1, 2014 – 225.4 OK – maybe the last month was a ‘test’ – a baseline to see where my problem points were. It was also a month that saw a decade’s worth of work end for me as it...
View ArticleThe April Fool: Day 1
Day 1: Tuesday, March 1, 2014 – 225.4 On day one of my ‘real’ diet I had my usual breakfast of coffee and cream – that’s not changing anytime soon. I did read an article that said that drinking dairy...
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