All diets work in the short term. Low-fat calorie counting, Atkins, Weight Watchers, The Cabbage Soup diet, they all work.. until they don’t. For a while it’s all roses and you lose some weight.. but then the diet stops working or you start straying and you stop losing and stall until finally you gain it back (and if you’re unlucky…
December 2017, Month 10 on Keto (low carb, high fat) Down 55.5 lbs (lost 0.2 lbs this month). The holidays are hard. Even though I only lost 0.2 lbs this month I’m going to take it as a win. This month I had three-ish incidents of “cheating”. 1. On 12/10 we went out to dinner with some friends and although…
Hunger is related to your hormones.. and those hormones are not necessarily related to your body’s caloric needs. Hunger vs. calories needed For years I believed that hunger was my body’s signal that it needed more calories. So I ate the calories reasoning “I’m hungry therefore I must need the calories”. Now this wasn’t always the case.. I mean I…
A quick an easy low calorie shrimp dish. This one is big on taste and low on effort.
A simple quick start guide for following a ketogenic Diet (AKA Keto Diet). This is the bare minimum you need to get started. This is all anecdotal, my opinion and based on what has worked for me. I’m a software engineer, not a nutritionist. You’re free to disagree with me and it’s highly possible that what works for me may…
November, Month 9 on Keto (low carb, high fat) Down 55.3 lbs (lost 2.4 lbs this month). Finally I’ve started reversing the tide… just in time for the holidays 😀 Regardless I will keep trucking along. This month I had three-ish incidents of “cheating”. 1. On 11/10 I attended the PPF-Burgundy feast. I willfully and with conscious decision disregarded my…
If you’re at all like me and you’re supplementing your electrolytes** then you know that potassium citrate powder tastes metallic and foul. After a bit of experimentation I’ve figured out how to hide the taste. Back Story For the last month or two I’ve made a conscious effort to get all my electrolytes (magnesium, potassium and sodium). Previously I figured…
Lately I’ve been toying around with making Keto Chai Latte. I have a true love for coffee.. but I can only have so much in a day before I get the jitters. It’s one of the drawbacks of getting older I think. Regardless occasionally, especially when it’s cold out, I want to drink something hot. Sometimes an (almost) Keto Hot Buttered…
It’s Thanksgiving and I stumbled on this video on FaceBook by Chef Jet Tila about how to carve turkey. A few years ago I was working in a kitchen and someone asked me how they could help. I pointed him at a shallow baking tray with a baked chicken on it and asked him to part it out. Then I…
When I was a kid we’d have hot buttered rum at Christmas time. Well okay, to be clear, the kids would have hot buttered water.. the parents would have hot buttered rum. The “buttered” mix was kept in the freezer in an old ice-cream tub. My mom mixed up a batch according to Grandma’s recipe and then stored it in…