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Today is a warm one, or seems to be again. It IS summer. Well, and I am brewing stock. That adds that unpleasant Iowa summer humidity to the mix. It isn't terrible, mind you, just sleep inducing. I have the ac going, and I just plucked the meat out. When that cools I will pull it from the bone and simply refrigerate it for another day. Stew, of some sort. I'll have stock!
While it does smell good, I can smell the pork feet more than the beef. Which doesn't surprise me, if I had hope the volume of the beef... even if lacking bones, might cover that more. Now it's not a pure pork smell, which can be a bit strong. It is simply the more pronounced of the odors. It works well to entice my hunger. It also reminds me of menudo, a Mexican tripe dish. Actually, that would be something good to make soon. More in the fall, at least for me. It does require hominy. I looked that up in my nutrition book. Hominy is very carb heavy. Oh well. I simply won't make much of it, and will skimp on that. I may even look for alternatives. And it goes so well with fresh onions. Another carb heavy... or more so than I thought. I might suspend, to a degree, onions from the list. There are a lot of reasons to eat onions, not so much hominy. Hmm... I ought to see which onions are easiest. I actually prefer sharper yellow onions to sweet onions, like vidalias. I'm a bitter pill? I've got bite, and give and take?
I have already refilled the stock pot. It has enough water, at the very slow simmer, to last the night. I have been skimming. Lots of skimming. The bones, all of them, were rather marrow rich. And hog hooves are what they are. Not a problem, just part of the process. I am probably pulling out some of the extra fat while doing that, too. I plan to simmer for at least twenty four hours, maybe double that. I found a bovine knee, split, in the freezer. I must have just missed it. I'll be thawing it tonight, then roasting and putting that in tomorrow. Yeah, two days for sure. I really want the knees in. Especially with so many more arriving.
Fun, fun, fun. Actually, you know what? It is fun! I've always wanted to play all growed up in the kitchen. I have a lot to learn. There are several ways some can learn. This is probably the only way I can learn. And play, eat, live, and goof. Good day, and night.
Saturday, August 6, 2016
A bit later than I had hoped.
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I simply lost track. I was doing something else in the kitchen when I saw the stock components in the fridge. I decided to put my foot down and just hit it. Which... actually went over smoother than I thought it might. I love to think I am in charge. My body loves to remind me that, while I might have the will, it is the way. Don't beat mules. Figure out what the problem is and fix it, or wait. Gosh, you would think we were married or something. Still, like I said, no issues. I heated the skillet, put just enough olive oil to help the pan, and cool it a touch, then a pat of butter, when it was hot enough. Then I simply browned the meats, bone, and hocks. It truly gives off a wonderful odor.
When I was finished browning, I decided not to just leave off with the cast iron frying pan. Something I did not do last time but will do this time is add vinegar, I had decided. Though, instead of just pouring the vinegar into the stock pot, and wasting the beautiful fond I had been smelling for the last ten minutes and change, I used the vinegar to deglaze the pan. I thought it was going to be horrible. If you have ever vinegared a hot pan, or something else hot, it's not always the best of things. This time, however, with the fond, oil, butter, and all... it was a little olfactory heaven. That was without salt or any spice or herb or vegetable. Oblations indeed. Ol' Big Nose might have even shown up for a whiff. All good, if He wants, He could always stop in for a bite. Then I poured the mixings into the stock pot.
It is all working it's way to a boil. From whence I will cut it to a simmer then check it every half hour until that is good, then every few hours until I go to bed. I'll refill the water and turn the heat down through the night. I am not sure if the meat will be ready to remove by the time I go to sleep. I'll just have to play that by ear. Though it is better to have meat underdone than boiled tasteless. You can always cook it longer in a stew or casserole. Or, do like I often do, eat it as it is... tough or not. Salt, pepper, hunger, gnosh. Easy. Now I'm HUNGRY for beef! I wonder if the steak or burger I pulled out is thawed. Might skip cooking! Or... just have an egg or two. Oh, by the way, those eggs are just as good with that semi-hard boil thing. Delicious hot or cold. And perfect for deviled egg making, which I really should do. Just... because. Oh... I've just gotta have some meat. Too much of an unexpected tease. Next time I will be more prepared! Or... that's the theory.
Oh, I love the smell. From it I know God loves me. I just hope I... can return some, enough, more than enough, of a portion. Not for a gift, merely... because it is right. Later.
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I simply lost track. I was doing something else in the kitchen when I saw the stock components in the fridge. I decided to put my foot down and just hit it. Which... actually went over smoother than I thought it might. I love to think I am in charge. My body loves to remind me that, while I might have the will, it is the way. Don't beat mules. Figure out what the problem is and fix it, or wait. Gosh, you would think we were married or something. Still, like I said, no issues. I heated the skillet, put just enough olive oil to help the pan, and cool it a touch, then a pat of butter, when it was hot enough. Then I simply browned the meats, bone, and hocks. It truly gives off a wonderful odor.
When I was finished browning, I decided not to just leave off with the cast iron frying pan. Something I did not do last time but will do this time is add vinegar, I had decided. Though, instead of just pouring the vinegar into the stock pot, and wasting the beautiful fond I had been smelling for the last ten minutes and change, I used the vinegar to deglaze the pan. I thought it was going to be horrible. If you have ever vinegared a hot pan, or something else hot, it's not always the best of things. This time, however, with the fond, oil, butter, and all... it was a little olfactory heaven. That was without salt or any spice or herb or vegetable. Oblations indeed. Ol' Big Nose might have even shown up for a whiff. All good, if He wants, He could always stop in for a bite. Then I poured the mixings into the stock pot.
It is all working it's way to a boil. From whence I will cut it to a simmer then check it every half hour until that is good, then every few hours until I go to bed. I'll refill the water and turn the heat down through the night. I am not sure if the meat will be ready to remove by the time I go to sleep. I'll just have to play that by ear. Though it is better to have meat underdone than boiled tasteless. You can always cook it longer in a stew or casserole. Or, do like I often do, eat it as it is... tough or not. Salt, pepper, hunger, gnosh. Easy. Now I'm HUNGRY for beef! I wonder if the steak or burger I pulled out is thawed. Might skip cooking! Or... just have an egg or two. Oh, by the way, those eggs are just as good with that semi-hard boil thing. Delicious hot or cold. And perfect for deviled egg making, which I really should do. Just... because. Oh... I've just gotta have some meat. Too much of an unexpected tease. Next time I will be more prepared! Or... that's the theory.
Oh, I love the smell. From it I know God loves me. I just hope I... can return some, enough, more than enough, of a portion. Not for a gift, merely... because it is right. Later.
Live and learn.
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Those eggs.
The first batch, I did everything, but the last thing, right. I warmed the eggs to at or possibly slightly above room temperature. I do that by putting them in warm water, which I do to check quality. Floaters are bad and are eliminated from the contest. If the water is slightly warm, which it is if I do... initially because I hated putting my hands in cold water in the winter the first time I learned to do that... I will leave them in that while I arrange all else. Then the pot gets that bit of water, and put on the stove to heat. I often will speed it up by cranking the heat. Then, when the water begins to boil, I'll put the eggs in, put on the lid, set the timer, and (usually) turn down the heat. Not that first time. The water was gone, in eleven minutes, and some of the eggs were slightly burned. Thankfully not too terribly so that any horrid odor was created.
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Those eggs.
The first batch, I did everything, but the last thing, right. I warmed the eggs to at or possibly slightly above room temperature. I do that by putting them in warm water, which I do to check quality. Floaters are bad and are eliminated from the contest. If the water is slightly warm, which it is if I do... initially because I hated putting my hands in cold water in the winter the first time I learned to do that... I will leave them in that while I arrange all else. Then the pot gets that bit of water, and put on the stove to heat. I often will speed it up by cranking the heat. Then, when the water begins to boil, I'll put the eggs in, put on the lid, set the timer, and (usually) turn down the heat. Not that first time. The water was gone, in eleven minutes, and some of the eggs were slightly burned. Thankfully not too terribly so that any horrid odor was created.
Eggs, and prep for stock.
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I'll be giving the timing and all a full trial today. A dozen eggs are in. That is all that will fit the pot I am using. And I don't want to jinx things by using a pot of the wrong thickness or material or with a looser or tighter lid or any other thing. It should all work, but, for now... same, same, same, save for numbers. As same as possible. That's insame! While that got started I filled the big stock pot with water. Even with tap, if I used that, filling such a large pot takes time. Using a reverse osmosis system faucet and... it... takes longer!
After a the eggs are done, shelled, some eaten, the rest put up, I'll brown the meat. I don't have enough bone otherwise to roast that out. I will simply brown the meat and put it all in. This won't make all that much, to be honest. Maybe a gallon, a gallon and an half, at most. I believe I will be fishing the meat out in fairly short order... a few hours? The bones will go back, what little there is. And I will be using pork trotters for the gel, mostly. That may or may not remain the case, and for all the stocks. I'll be experimenting over time. Oh... my bone broth should be ready.
After food and a short reprieve in which to digest all, I will consider the rest of the day... Stock, of course, will begin. But dishes? Laundry? Shopping? I don't know. Maybe, again, very little. Later.
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I'll be giving the timing and all a full trial today. A dozen eggs are in. That is all that will fit the pot I am using. And I don't want to jinx things by using a pot of the wrong thickness or material or with a looser or tighter lid or any other thing. It should all work, but, for now... same, same, same, save for numbers. As same as possible. That's insame! While that got started I filled the big stock pot with water. Even with tap, if I used that, filling such a large pot takes time. Using a reverse osmosis system faucet and... it... takes longer!
After a the eggs are done, shelled, some eaten, the rest put up, I'll brown the meat. I don't have enough bone otherwise to roast that out. I will simply brown the meat and put it all in. This won't make all that much, to be honest. Maybe a gallon, a gallon and an half, at most. I believe I will be fishing the meat out in fairly short order... a few hours? The bones will go back, what little there is. And I will be using pork trotters for the gel, mostly. That may or may not remain the case, and for all the stocks. I'll be experimenting over time. Oh... my bone broth should be ready.
After food and a short reprieve in which to digest all, I will consider the rest of the day... Stock, of course, will begin. But dishes? Laundry? Shopping? I don't know. Maybe, again, very little. Later.
Today as yesterday, for fasting blood sugar.
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Even eating low carb food, and less of it, my blood sugar is staying somewhat high. Today it was 221, as with yesterday, for fasting blood levels. As well, pretty much any time I have tested for... since the day after quitting fasting... my blood sugars have been in the 212 to 221 range. That is still better than the 336 starting high, and the 500~600 on medicine range. The potassium is in. I doubt if it has been put in a box though, so I'll have to go in Monday. Thankfully my schedule should allow for it. Then I'll need to figure out the dosage. Too little is hard on you, and can eventually lead to death. Too much is fatal like a hammer blow.
It is interesting how fragile we are. And, yet, the body is so finely tuned that a little twitch, or major mistake, can be survived. A massive overdose sometimes simply isn't absorbed, or the body finds a way to expel it... greenlights every means of processing and expelling while cutting absorption... probably thinking the ego is an idiot. Of course, if you abuse your body, and it is strong enough, it will revolt. You have no idea how powerful the will to live is for the flesh vessel in which you inhabit. No, little Johnny and Janey, that flesh suit is not who you are. It isn't even what you are. It's a living method of performing action according to your will. One day it may be a perfected tool for that purpose, but not even that, not today. I think that is the most difficult thing for most people to understand. They simply can't get past it.
You know, though, about the foods I am hoping to buy? Some of it is, mostly, only viable fresh... for my needs or at all. Mushrooms, while they can be purchased canned, I'm not sure the types I want are or if they would hold the properties I would want. Some of it, say spinach, can be reasonably purchased frozen. My worry, now, is... is frozen food all from China too now? Is there even a way to know? They do not put the nation of origin on anything, anymore, I don't believe. They definitely hide if it's from China, usually indicating a US distributor or something. Sometimes it indicates China or Indonesia or such, but more often not.
A friend used to tell a joke. He was suggesting that a man was a double widower. Asked how his first wife died, he... somewhat ruefully... suggested she died from bad wild mushrooms. Asked how his second wife passed, he said she died of rock. Rock? Yeah, she wouldn't eat the f'ing mushrooms! Well, I'm not going to eat the 'mushrooms'. And I wouldn't try the rock. Good to be king. I'll go full out off-grid if needs be. I will not eat sugar and bad-fat (yes, there is bad food) flooded foods the government is trying to force down throats. Nor will I go with "organic", which is just as bad and feeds fewer, so is genocidal. Nor will I eat the Chinese sewage they are trying to replace US poison food with. US food wasn't fast enough, plus sending food production over there kills jobs here. A double shot for globalists. China, and the companies that run her, are not responsive to consumer demands, either. US companies might have been beginning to come around.
Yeah, I can't even find reasonable seafood. Shipped, for sure from US, it averages $30 a pound. If I could find the same, but frozen, for cheaper, I would. So long as I could be certain it was US territorial. I keep looking. Have you ever had shrimp cakes? Imagine that, but without breading... at all. Yeah. Maybe mixed with duxelles? Oh yeah. Oh... right... enough... Brain spasm sent me on a wild post production. Later.
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Even eating low carb food, and less of it, my blood sugar is staying somewhat high. Today it was 221, as with yesterday, for fasting blood levels. As well, pretty much any time I have tested for... since the day after quitting fasting... my blood sugars have been in the 212 to 221 range. That is still better than the 336 starting high, and the 500~600 on medicine range. The potassium is in. I doubt if it has been put in a box though, so I'll have to go in Monday. Thankfully my schedule should allow for it. Then I'll need to figure out the dosage. Too little is hard on you, and can eventually lead to death. Too much is fatal like a hammer blow.
It is interesting how fragile we are. And, yet, the body is so finely tuned that a little twitch, or major mistake, can be survived. A massive overdose sometimes simply isn't absorbed, or the body finds a way to expel it... greenlights every means of processing and expelling while cutting absorption... probably thinking the ego is an idiot. Of course, if you abuse your body, and it is strong enough, it will revolt. You have no idea how powerful the will to live is for the flesh vessel in which you inhabit. No, little Johnny and Janey, that flesh suit is not who you are. It isn't even what you are. It's a living method of performing action according to your will. One day it may be a perfected tool for that purpose, but not even that, not today. I think that is the most difficult thing for most people to understand. They simply can't get past it.
You know, though, about the foods I am hoping to buy? Some of it is, mostly, only viable fresh... for my needs or at all. Mushrooms, while they can be purchased canned, I'm not sure the types I want are or if they would hold the properties I would want. Some of it, say spinach, can be reasonably purchased frozen. My worry, now, is... is frozen food all from China too now? Is there even a way to know? They do not put the nation of origin on anything, anymore, I don't believe. They definitely hide if it's from China, usually indicating a US distributor or something. Sometimes it indicates China or Indonesia or such, but more often not.
A friend used to tell a joke. He was suggesting that a man was a double widower. Asked how his first wife died, he... somewhat ruefully... suggested she died from bad wild mushrooms. Asked how his second wife passed, he said she died of rock. Rock? Yeah, she wouldn't eat the f'ing mushrooms! Well, I'm not going to eat the 'mushrooms'. And I wouldn't try the rock. Good to be king. I'll go full out off-grid if needs be. I will not eat sugar and bad-fat (yes, there is bad food) flooded foods the government is trying to force down throats. Nor will I go with "organic", which is just as bad and feeds fewer, so is genocidal. Nor will I eat the Chinese sewage they are trying to replace US poison food with. US food wasn't fast enough, plus sending food production over there kills jobs here. A double shot for globalists. China, and the companies that run her, are not responsive to consumer demands, either. US companies might have been beginning to come around.
Yeah, I can't even find reasonable seafood. Shipped, for sure from US, it averages $30 a pound. If I could find the same, but frozen, for cheaper, I would. So long as I could be certain it was US territorial. I keep looking. Have you ever had shrimp cakes? Imagine that, but without breading... at all. Yeah. Maybe mixed with duxelles? Oh yeah. Oh... right... enough... Brain spasm sent me on a wild post production. Later.
Friday, August 5, 2016
Nice, I suppose.
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Up until 17:51... might as well say 18:00. Going down fast, of course. Pushed the line, and hard. All good.
I cut an old alliance that had pretty much failed. One I had thought to be independent but proved to be merely a high-yellow beta for Putin. He seems to have allied and pulled in a lot of low betas toward that end. I realized he was what he was and let it go. You can't help some people. Still not sure if he simply sold out or was a mere fan boy for an international badman. Hard to tell with broken men, why they do one thing or another. More may end up going. It does make me question others. I have done so to their face, mind you. I do not sneak up, unless war has been declared and something is in my way. I don't choose peace, though neither do I choose war. I merely aim to go from here to there and only perturb those in my way with the intent of forcing an unlawful will.
Tired, for sure. Crashing, or the world is around me. Good night.
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Up until 17:51... might as well say 18:00. Going down fast, of course. Pushed the line, and hard. All good.
I cut an old alliance that had pretty much failed. One I had thought to be independent but proved to be merely a high-yellow beta for Putin. He seems to have allied and pulled in a lot of low betas toward that end. I realized he was what he was and let it go. You can't help some people. Still not sure if he simply sold out or was a mere fan boy for an international badman. Hard to tell with broken men, why they do one thing or another. More may end up going. It does make me question others. I have done so to their face, mind you. I do not sneak up, unless war has been declared and something is in my way. I don't choose peace, though neither do I choose war. I merely aim to go from here to there and only perturb those in my way with the intent of forcing an unlawful will.
Tired, for sure. Crashing, or the world is around me. Good night.
I am doing bits.
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Some dishes, if not all that many. Taking care to clean a couple of trash bins. Fiddling more than really working. While I was out I looked at the accurate thermometer, 76~78. That is as cool as I have seen it since it warmed up this spring. It went through several episodes while warming up, then hit the 90's and never seemed to look back. Being early August, I am a bit surprised. Just that I am tinkering, in the near dark and cool... is good. Though perhaps I have gotten used to it these last three days as things cooled. Perhaps I will have trouble when the heat comes back? Or maybe I'll do even better! There is a chance at that.
I have been considering some things regarding food. One is that while I love cashews, pecans, and such, many of them sold as treats are probably fried. And the oil used is of a questionable sort either way. Some sorts are good, and I have learned quantity control, so I will continue with as is... such as pistachios in the shell... and I hope to find good sunflower seeds since they are a b5 source, a very good one. Some I will end as I have been buying them, cashews, pecans, and most others. I will begin trying to figure out how to put them into other dishes, thus being able to buy them raw, even in crumbles so as to be cheaper (or do they charge you for their careless handling?). I could easily see adding an half a cup to meatzza, a salad, or even into a pate? Maybe. Minus salt, oils, not needing to be whole for appearance, and... yeah. A good way to get those into my diet.
Oh, and while the broth bones are scheduled, with the meat and lesser bones thawed I will have to go ahead with that. Probably when I wake tonight. I am hoping to push on through until 15:00, 16:00, perhaps a bit later. Not sure that is possible. Once I get to, say 21:00~22:00, I am hoping to put the skids on and keep the day schedule for a while again. If it weren't for all else... though true I have been a bit tired in the morning even now... the goal of getting out walking is becoming possible. Even if it heats back up, mornings are usually good. Yes, that was part of my goal, yes I have been actively working toward it, no I don't feel the need to tell you every goal targeted. Just fifteen minutes to start things. And, since I'm not fasting for now, and some of the complaints that sidelined that remain from time to time, I will just walk when I can. Oh... but maybe the doc can get a prescription for b5 from a US source. Maybe. I'll check with him, then pharmacy... or vice versa actually. If they don't have it, no need getting a script. And I may see if he will monitor my potassium. All other care is of no interest and will be refused.
Yeah... we'll see. I might be onto something. I knew there might be problems. And, yet, really, I am doing well. Given the givens and shooting for the moon on top of it. I'll be back to it before too long. Or dead. *grins*
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Some dishes, if not all that many. Taking care to clean a couple of trash bins. Fiddling more than really working. While I was out I looked at the accurate thermometer, 76~78. That is as cool as I have seen it since it warmed up this spring. It went through several episodes while warming up, then hit the 90's and never seemed to look back. Being early August, I am a bit surprised. Just that I am tinkering, in the near dark and cool... is good. Though perhaps I have gotten used to it these last three days as things cooled. Perhaps I will have trouble when the heat comes back? Or maybe I'll do even better! There is a chance at that.
I have been considering some things regarding food. One is that while I love cashews, pecans, and such, many of them sold as treats are probably fried. And the oil used is of a questionable sort either way. Some sorts are good, and I have learned quantity control, so I will continue with as is... such as pistachios in the shell... and I hope to find good sunflower seeds since they are a b5 source, a very good one. Some I will end as I have been buying them, cashews, pecans, and most others. I will begin trying to figure out how to put them into other dishes, thus being able to buy them raw, even in crumbles so as to be cheaper (or do they charge you for their careless handling?). I could easily see adding an half a cup to meatzza, a salad, or even into a pate? Maybe. Minus salt, oils, not needing to be whole for appearance, and... yeah. A good way to get those into my diet.
Oh, and while the broth bones are scheduled, with the meat and lesser bones thawed I will have to go ahead with that. Probably when I wake tonight. I am hoping to push on through until 15:00, 16:00, perhaps a bit later. Not sure that is possible. Once I get to, say 21:00~22:00, I am hoping to put the skids on and keep the day schedule for a while again. If it weren't for all else... though true I have been a bit tired in the morning even now... the goal of getting out walking is becoming possible. Even if it heats back up, mornings are usually good. Yes, that was part of my goal, yes I have been actively working toward it, no I don't feel the need to tell you every goal targeted. Just fifteen minutes to start things. And, since I'm not fasting for now, and some of the complaints that sidelined that remain from time to time, I will just walk when I can. Oh... but maybe the doc can get a prescription for b5 from a US source. Maybe. I'll check with him, then pharmacy... or vice versa actually. If they don't have it, no need getting a script. And I may see if he will monitor my potassium. All other care is of no interest and will be refused.
Yeah... we'll see. I might be onto something. I knew there might be problems. And, yet, really, I am doing well. Given the givens and shooting for the moon on top of it. I'll be back to it before too long. Or dead. *grins*
Done, done, and...
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I'm having a rough one. I am not feeling bad, I simply have no energy. None, zip, zap. It's not so bad that I feel the need to sleep. Though it feels a bit like I am sleeping on my chair. I just got up off my seat to check, you are welcome. It is, again, partly cloudy. Now I am loving the cool during the day... comparative cool. It's just a bit of a downer.
I saw the clock tick over past 8:00, and was thinking of making some calls. I thought, in just a bit. And, then I noticed it was after 9:00, so I should call any time. Finally, just as it was about to click over the 10:00 mark I... realized to call and sought the phone. Even then I almost forgot to call. The phone in my hand, at some point, reminded me.
The doctor is in, and set up. Next week. Same with the beef bits. They don't butcher beef on Friday, and don't have knees on hand. Next week, however, they are good to go. I ordered 8, split in two, four parts (or two whole) per pack. Then I asked about marrow bones. They keep those on stock, about six pounds per pack. Shorter, two inch chunks. I'll look them over when I pick up the rest. And, finally, I ordered lamb. Dressed out, it will be roughly $250. It's not a lot, maybe #65. I may end up ordering a second one. They are just coming due this month, so I might be in good stead for getting another one and having it just ready at the beginning of next month.
As to shopping? I just don't know. I want to do some dishes. And if that goes well, take a shower. If those go well, perhaps a trip to town. Or not. Tomorrow or Next week some time. Hmm... my doctor appointment is the day before the items will be ready to pick up. I might stop in and look over... nah... I'll wait and do all that on the same day. I did ask about chickens. They only offer, for now, boneless skinless chicken breast... the one thing I don't eat. They are considering expanding. Will see then. Just a few, perhaps a dozen or two, whole, per year... if I like where they are raised. I don't need organic, or free-range, or... just correctly fed, raised, and reasonably tended. Small production type, if that even exists anymore?
Gas is back. I must assume ketosis is functioning. It is a good thing, if a bit unnerving. I have been, for the most part, gas free for most of my life. This way of eating is really switching things up on me. And yet it isn't a horrible thing. At least it isn't the winds of angry gods or such. And I can muffle, delay just a bit, and such... for social and polite notions... or just to be able to blame it on the least suspecting. Yeah... it was the kid... or grams... or the dog! Never mind. It does probably mean that, even if not fasting, I haven't destroyed my bio-experiment. And, if I probably still need more fats, I must be doing something sort of right.
I do have my list for the grocery store ready. More things than I thought cover both potassium and b5. Mushrooms, some of them, are really good. While I can't use a mirepoix for my stocks, I might see if mushrooms can be used for flavor. I would pull those out, hopefully, in time to use them in something else as well. Perhaps making a mushroom duxelle or something else. Who knows. Well, actually, she has a nice plan.
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I'm having a rough one. I am not feeling bad, I simply have no energy. None, zip, zap. It's not so bad that I feel the need to sleep. Though it feels a bit like I am sleeping on my chair. I just got up off my seat to check, you are welcome. It is, again, partly cloudy. Now I am loving the cool during the day... comparative cool. It's just a bit of a downer.
I saw the clock tick over past 8:00, and was thinking of making some calls. I thought, in just a bit. And, then I noticed it was after 9:00, so I should call any time. Finally, just as it was about to click over the 10:00 mark I... realized to call and sought the phone. Even then I almost forgot to call. The phone in my hand, at some point, reminded me.
The doctor is in, and set up. Next week. Same with the beef bits. They don't butcher beef on Friday, and don't have knees on hand. Next week, however, they are good to go. I ordered 8, split in two, four parts (or two whole) per pack. Then I asked about marrow bones. They keep those on stock, about six pounds per pack. Shorter, two inch chunks. I'll look them over when I pick up the rest. And, finally, I ordered lamb. Dressed out, it will be roughly $250. It's not a lot, maybe #65. I may end up ordering a second one. They are just coming due this month, so I might be in good stead for getting another one and having it just ready at the beginning of next month.
As to shopping? I just don't know. I want to do some dishes. And if that goes well, take a shower. If those go well, perhaps a trip to town. Or not. Tomorrow or Next week some time. Hmm... my doctor appointment is the day before the items will be ready to pick up. I might stop in and look over... nah... I'll wait and do all that on the same day. I did ask about chickens. They only offer, for now, boneless skinless chicken breast... the one thing I don't eat. They are considering expanding. Will see then. Just a few, perhaps a dozen or two, whole, per year... if I like where they are raised. I don't need organic, or free-range, or... just correctly fed, raised, and reasonably tended. Small production type, if that even exists anymore?
Gas is back. I must assume ketosis is functioning. It is a good thing, if a bit unnerving. I have been, for the most part, gas free for most of my life. This way of eating is really switching things up on me. And yet it isn't a horrible thing. At least it isn't the winds of angry gods or such. And I can muffle, delay just a bit, and such... for social and polite notions... or just to be able to blame it on the least suspecting. Yeah... it was the kid... or grams... or the dog! Never mind. It does probably mean that, even if not fasting, I haven't destroyed my bio-experiment. And, if I probably still need more fats, I must be doing something sort of right.
I do have my list for the grocery store ready. More things than I thought cover both potassium and b5. Mushrooms, some of them, are really good. While I can't use a mirepoix for my stocks, I might see if mushrooms can be used for flavor. I would pull those out, hopefully, in time to use them in something else as well. Perhaps making a mushroom duxelle or something else. Who knows. Well, actually, she has a nice plan.
A new way to do eggs.
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Oh, my. I have been looking for how to do eggs just >< so for quite some time. The timing, water depth, when to put them in... I have found it. I steamed three eggs, not wanting to have to toss many if it went wrong. I followed the instructions... basically. Maybe not every last syllable, no. I didn't turn the heat down to, though it was on a medium-high. Is that what it was supposed to be turned down to? Anyway. For me, I went eleven minutes and some change. I warmed the eggs a bit, while testing them. (I now always put the eggs in water deep enough for them to sink. If they don't sink I consider them bad and toss them.) The water was boiling when I put them in. The pot has a have lid, so it keeps heat and even steam in fairly well.
When finished, I did crack the eggs while quick cooling them. And they did peel quite nicely. I usually don't have a problem with that, though from time to time one to several eggs just act up. In this case, peeling was the normal breeze I find it to be. If it works, I'll keep using it, along with the rest of the method. Nice.
As to the eggs? Perfect. The yokes were done just a bit more, to my liking. And yet, even at eleven minutes, they were much superior to how my eggs often end out. No green ring, no stench of sulfur, soft and yellow to golden but firm. Yeah, these will make perfect deviled eggs, more so now that I am making my own mayonnaise... and pickles. The pickles were a little rich in vinegar, but diced very small, and used sparingly, they would add a nice group of tastes and textures to deviled eggs. Perhaps with a jalapeno ring to top each.
Hmm... actually? I will probably boil a dozen or two eggs just to have on hand. Especially with eggs being a good source of fat, I think vitamin b5 add, and great for cool meals in the hot weather. Sometime, perhaps, I will make a platter of deviled eggs. Or half platter. Reminds me of childhood picnics... when the world was perfect, or could be made to be... we were so sure. Then again, I have the greater certainty that, while this world won't ever make the grade, it will lead to one that will, if we choose that path. Does it hurt? Probably not holy. Not exactly true, but something to keep in mind. All I'm saying about that Orthodox notion. Eastern, Greek, one of them... or a mix... or all? I'm Catholic, just try to not be a completely foolish one. Mostly.
Now to keep going and make some calls. If stock bones are right available, it would be good to get those. Running low on stock, and still, sometimes, can tell I need electrolytes. Still recovering from a serious depletion, I do believe. Then on to another store or three. Best take the ice chest, and maybe cool it down and add ice as well. Then remember to buy more ice. Gah! Good day.
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Oh, my. I have been looking for how to do eggs just >< so for quite some time. The timing, water depth, when to put them in... I have found it. I steamed three eggs, not wanting to have to toss many if it went wrong. I followed the instructions... basically. Maybe not every last syllable, no. I didn't turn the heat down to, though it was on a medium-high. Is that what it was supposed to be turned down to? Anyway. For me, I went eleven minutes and some change. I warmed the eggs a bit, while testing them. (I now always put the eggs in water deep enough for them to sink. If they don't sink I consider them bad and toss them.) The water was boiling when I put them in. The pot has a have lid, so it keeps heat and even steam in fairly well.
When finished, I did crack the eggs while quick cooling them. And they did peel quite nicely. I usually don't have a problem with that, though from time to time one to several eggs just act up. In this case, peeling was the normal breeze I find it to be. If it works, I'll keep using it, along with the rest of the method. Nice.
As to the eggs? Perfect. The yokes were done just a bit more, to my liking. And yet, even at eleven minutes, they were much superior to how my eggs often end out. No green ring, no stench of sulfur, soft and yellow to golden but firm. Yeah, these will make perfect deviled eggs, more so now that I am making my own mayonnaise... and pickles. The pickles were a little rich in vinegar, but diced very small, and used sparingly, they would add a nice group of tastes and textures to deviled eggs. Perhaps with a jalapeno ring to top each.
Hmm... actually? I will probably boil a dozen or two eggs just to have on hand. Especially with eggs being a good source of fat, I think vitamin b5 add, and great for cool meals in the hot weather. Sometime, perhaps, I will make a platter of deviled eggs. Or half platter. Reminds me of childhood picnics... when the world was perfect, or could be made to be... we were so sure. Then again, I have the greater certainty that, while this world won't ever make the grade, it will lead to one that will, if we choose that path. Does it hurt? Probably not holy. Not exactly true, but something to keep in mind. All I'm saying about that Orthodox notion. Eastern, Greek, one of them... or a mix... or all? I'm Catholic, just try to not be a completely foolish one. Mostly.
Now to keep going and make some calls. If stock bones are right available, it would be good to get those. Running low on stock, and still, sometimes, can tell I need electrolytes. Still recovering from a serious depletion, I do believe. Then on to another store or three. Best take the ice chest, and maybe cool it down and add ice as well. Then remember to buy more ice. Gah! Good day.
Often curious.
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Always looking for something to do, an experiment. With as little energy as I have, and poor health, I often have to mix and match. I mean, feeding my curiosity and belly at the same time is a better trick then feeding one and depriving the other. Sometimes that is fine. Especially now that I am able to miss a meal without too much trouble, and knowingly. Well, once I get potassium and b5 going I think. Still having trouble with b5. Might simply have to focus on that in my fasting diet.
The thing I am considering today is steam-boiled eggs. Or, thereabouts. I saw this some time back. I just never got around to attempting the trick, then the notion was lost. Now, I prefer my eggs more done. I am at a higher elevation. And things never completely work here versus someone else doing the same thing 'there'. It just doesn't. So it may take a bit of experimenting. I will probably go with ten minutes, or more? Yeah, maybe even eleven.
I have always been curious about uncooked centers, or still liquid centers, a common French, perhaps European, thing. The problem is, I believe, that is for very fresh farm eggs, not for what most obtain these days. I don't care if the chickens are fed grass-fed beef, have their claws and beaks done once a week by the best beak and claw queer on the planet, or are allowed international travel to ease their egg-laying processes, or anything else some hipster gets printed on the carton. Unless you pull the egg from under a reasonably tended chicken you just aren't getting the quality I would more likely trust so as to soft boil that egg. *whistle - 15 yard penalty for telling the truth!*
Anyway... Oh... another problem with runny yokes, that runny, is I have nothing to sop it with. I am curious about cauliflower "bread", and some other things. I just haven't gotten that far. And, I don't think those will work all that well. Yoke might go well on meats, say a chop, or sausage, or even burger patty, if not so well with bacon. It just doesn't absorb, if possibly it can be used as a scoop... weakly. I keep wondering what keto veggies would work for this sort of thing, regarding several foods (like gravy too). I'm just not quite seeing it. Anyway... on to tinkering in the kitchen. Yeah... It's not flavors, or textures, I am missing. It is food mechanics... dipping items, sauce soaking items, and such. But I do love some new things, like meatzza! Wow.
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Always looking for something to do, an experiment. With as little energy as I have, and poor health, I often have to mix and match. I mean, feeding my curiosity and belly at the same time is a better trick then feeding one and depriving the other. Sometimes that is fine. Especially now that I am able to miss a meal without too much trouble, and knowingly. Well, once I get potassium and b5 going I think. Still having trouble with b5. Might simply have to focus on that in my fasting diet.
The thing I am considering today is steam-boiled eggs. Or, thereabouts. I saw this some time back. I just never got around to attempting the trick, then the notion was lost. Now, I prefer my eggs more done. I am at a higher elevation. And things never completely work here versus someone else doing the same thing 'there'. It just doesn't. So it may take a bit of experimenting. I will probably go with ten minutes, or more? Yeah, maybe even eleven.
I have always been curious about uncooked centers, or still liquid centers, a common French, perhaps European, thing. The problem is, I believe, that is for very fresh farm eggs, not for what most obtain these days. I don't care if the chickens are fed grass-fed beef, have their claws and beaks done once a week by the best beak and claw queer on the planet, or are allowed international travel to ease their egg-laying processes, or anything else some hipster gets printed on the carton. Unless you pull the egg from under a reasonably tended chicken you just aren't getting the quality I would more likely trust so as to soft boil that egg. *whistle - 15 yard penalty for telling the truth!*
Anyway... Oh... another problem with runny yokes, that runny, is I have nothing to sop it with. I am curious about cauliflower "bread", and some other things. I just haven't gotten that far. And, I don't think those will work all that well. Yoke might go well on meats, say a chop, or sausage, or even burger patty, if not so well with bacon. It just doesn't absorb, if possibly it can be used as a scoop... weakly. I keep wondering what keto veggies would work for this sort of thing, regarding several foods (like gravy too). I'm just not quite seeing it. Anyway... on to tinkering in the kitchen. Yeah... It's not flavors, or textures, I am missing. It is food mechanics... dipping items, sauce soaking items, and such. But I do love some new things, like meatzza! Wow.
I made it, awake, to 14:00.
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Then I went all snot-nosed and wobbly. Getting to bed was as good as it got. Or, at least I think I made it to bed. That is where I woke up. When exactly, is a good question. I can drift in that morass of the mind between many things for some time. I suspect, however, that sleep came quickly. For it wasn't just the mind that was giving out. The body simply... fell. As rough as heat is, when it disappears quickly... and with two days of overcast sort of conditions... cloudy? inversion? something (sort of) different than those? and the temps really do dip. Perhaps, even if the temps were similar enough, it was just a lack of the sun? Yeah, I can feel that, even in my hidey-hole. No matter. I wasn't terribly upset. I just realized I wouldn't get my projects completed and had to go on to bed. I hope to finish those today.
No dreams remembered last night. No flashes of blood and death, or romance, or the parring that happens between couples, good or bad. Nothing ugly crawling in the back of the mind, no flashes of death, or passions. Just sleep, to the best of my recall. And, good. I need a break from that when it's hitting hard and heavy. Especially when, on at least the darker side, that seems to be on the way, sooner than later, and in large numbers. Easy to brush it off when you just hear about it, not so easy when you get a front row seat. People are being murdered in the most brutal manners. I don't care if you don't like American tourists, or European peasants, or... whoever. Watching someone get tortured to death will give you a whole new perspective and love of life and hate for murder and those things which support and push it. People are NOT being killed, they are being murdered. Remember that when you read the papers or watch the news. They are lying by calling those killings... or they are suggesting islam has a right to take life. Perhaps they have surrendered to islam already. Same with politicians. If they say a terrorist killed someone, they are suggesting that muslims have a religious right to take life. Killing is allowed by states and religion, has been for all of time. Murder is when someone has no sanction. So, again... if you call it, yourself, a killing... then you are agreeing that muslims have that right as religious expression. If you don't believe so, you must call it murder.
Anyway. This night was quiet. No remembered dreams, no flashes, no remnant feelings or sensations, just sleep. Bacon and eggs, I believe. I really need to get to the store though. And I need to do bone broth, beef. Large stock bones, and marrow bones, are all that remains in need. I have some oxtail, but the bones are smallish in that. Cream is very much in need as well. And foods heavy in B5 and potassium are on the list. I haven't found a source of B5. Someone suggested that one supplement source was not Chinese, but didn't say were it was from who anything else. No, thank you... Jane or Karla or whoever... no, I don't think I will believe you at all. The Chinese and their distributors are terrible. Though US unions are about as bad. Liars and despoilers who deserve what they will and have gotten, I suspect.
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Then I went all snot-nosed and wobbly. Getting to bed was as good as it got. Or, at least I think I made it to bed. That is where I woke up. When exactly, is a good question. I can drift in that morass of the mind between many things for some time. I suspect, however, that sleep came quickly. For it wasn't just the mind that was giving out. The body simply... fell. As rough as heat is, when it disappears quickly... and with two days of overcast sort of conditions... cloudy? inversion? something (sort of) different than those? and the temps really do dip. Perhaps, even if the temps were similar enough, it was just a lack of the sun? Yeah, I can feel that, even in my hidey-hole. No matter. I wasn't terribly upset. I just realized I wouldn't get my projects completed and had to go on to bed. I hope to finish those today.
No dreams remembered last night. No flashes of blood and death, or romance, or the parring that happens between couples, good or bad. Nothing ugly crawling in the back of the mind, no flashes of death, or passions. Just sleep, to the best of my recall. And, good. I need a break from that when it's hitting hard and heavy. Especially when, on at least the darker side, that seems to be on the way, sooner than later, and in large numbers. Easy to brush it off when you just hear about it, not so easy when you get a front row seat. People are being murdered in the most brutal manners. I don't care if you don't like American tourists, or European peasants, or... whoever. Watching someone get tortured to death will give you a whole new perspective and love of life and hate for murder and those things which support and push it. People are NOT being killed, they are being murdered. Remember that when you read the papers or watch the news. They are lying by calling those killings... or they are suggesting islam has a right to take life. Perhaps they have surrendered to islam already. Same with politicians. If they say a terrorist killed someone, they are suggesting that muslims have a religious right to take life. Killing is allowed by states and religion, has been for all of time. Murder is when someone has no sanction. So, again... if you call it, yourself, a killing... then you are agreeing that muslims have that right as religious expression. If you don't believe so, you must call it murder.
Anyway. This night was quiet. No remembered dreams, no flashes, no remnant feelings or sensations, just sleep. Bacon and eggs, I believe. I really need to get to the store though. And I need to do bone broth, beef. Large stock bones, and marrow bones, are all that remains in need. I have some oxtail, but the bones are smallish in that. Cream is very much in need as well. And foods heavy in B5 and potassium are on the list. I haven't found a source of B5. Someone suggested that one supplement source was not Chinese, but didn't say were it was from who anything else. No, thank you... Jane or Karla or whoever... no, I don't think I will believe you at all. The Chinese and their distributors are terrible. Though US unions are about as bad. Liars and despoilers who deserve what they will and have gotten, I suspect.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
No nap.
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If I can't sleep there really isn't a way to make it happen. I did decide to make an omelet again. I did a bit more digging, to no good, about how to do an omelet without spatula nor anything else. It seems even the Hollywood pros don't do it the old way, or can't. Then again, as I suggested, she may have practiced herself half crazy. I did get closer. I think it is possible. I also think, unless you make them, and probably several of them each time, several days a week, you will lose the skill quickly. Though I could be wrong.
Part of my problem, obviously to me now, was that I used too much cheese. I wondered, so cut the amount by half. As well, I only used cheddar... a drier cheese. She used Swiss, a middling cheese, but certainly drier than pepper jack. I believe I had too much cheese this time. Next time, a tablespoon size of the frozen cheddar. It comes to room temp very quickly, and without moisture, so that isn't a part of the problem (probably). I may put the cheese out a good hour ahead next time, and only that one tablespoon. Hey, I'd like to test this out. Besides, it's fun. I did end up with something edible. And actually fairly attractive. However, for me, it was underdone. No, it was done, according to the snooty foodie type. On some things, fish... eggs... pork... and a few other things, I really want it done. I won't negotiate. So I had to put it back in and do my best. I just don't get it, I can't really get it to brown. I may try a different pan and some techniques I have worked up. Bleh.
I haven't placed a single call. I was deciding whether to sleep or not earlier, then cooking when sleep didn't pan out. See what I did there? Then it was into the noon hour. You know they don't work the noon hour. No, and I wouldn't expect that. I like giving them until 13:30, maybe even 14:00. The world has changed. Only banks used to get away with that. Which is the second most reason they get robbed. The first being that is where the robbers believe the money is. Now all you need is a computer, a connection, and some skill. That is where the real money is at. Yeah... in a bit... stock bones, marrow bones, and a call to the doc's office.
It seems as if it's another cool day. Truth is, at least as I have it from the history reports, August, here, is about overcast half the days. Not much... or any really... precip. Just more cloudy days. It doesn't seem cooler, but then that might be because summer has pretty much worn everyone out, so we duck into cool and shaded as often as possible without thinking about it too much. Now, Iowa was hot balls to the walls until sometime in September, sometimes October. But storms would go through all the time. While that cooled the world for a bit, the heat came back so fast that it just added to troubles by pushing humidity up. There is Hawaii. But it looks like they are going to disarm all the upright citizens, and let the poor take their dues. Of course, I think everything there is going down in hell and fire, regardless of sin. I just would not live there. Of course, at some point, someone will probably be selling beach front property out there on the cheap. Would it still be considered a state if it was barbecued? *grins*
Later.
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If I can't sleep there really isn't a way to make it happen. I did decide to make an omelet again. I did a bit more digging, to no good, about how to do an omelet without spatula nor anything else. It seems even the Hollywood pros don't do it the old way, or can't. Then again, as I suggested, she may have practiced herself half crazy. I did get closer. I think it is possible. I also think, unless you make them, and probably several of them each time, several days a week, you will lose the skill quickly. Though I could be wrong.
Part of my problem, obviously to me now, was that I used too much cheese. I wondered, so cut the amount by half. As well, I only used cheddar... a drier cheese. She used Swiss, a middling cheese, but certainly drier than pepper jack. I believe I had too much cheese this time. Next time, a tablespoon size of the frozen cheddar. It comes to room temp very quickly, and without moisture, so that isn't a part of the problem (probably). I may put the cheese out a good hour ahead next time, and only that one tablespoon. Hey, I'd like to test this out. Besides, it's fun. I did end up with something edible. And actually fairly attractive. However, for me, it was underdone. No, it was done, according to the snooty foodie type. On some things, fish... eggs... pork... and a few other things, I really want it done. I won't negotiate. So I had to put it back in and do my best. I just don't get it, I can't really get it to brown. I may try a different pan and some techniques I have worked up. Bleh.
I haven't placed a single call. I was deciding whether to sleep or not earlier, then cooking when sleep didn't pan out. See what I did there? Then it was into the noon hour. You know they don't work the noon hour. No, and I wouldn't expect that. I like giving them until 13:30, maybe even 14:00. The world has changed. Only banks used to get away with that. Which is the second most reason they get robbed. The first being that is where the robbers believe the money is. Now all you need is a computer, a connection, and some skill. That is where the real money is at. Yeah... in a bit... stock bones, marrow bones, and a call to the doc's office.
It seems as if it's another cool day. Truth is, at least as I have it from the history reports, August, here, is about overcast half the days. Not much... or any really... precip. Just more cloudy days. It doesn't seem cooler, but then that might be because summer has pretty much worn everyone out, so we duck into cool and shaded as often as possible without thinking about it too much. Now, Iowa was hot balls to the walls until sometime in September, sometimes October. But storms would go through all the time. While that cooled the world for a bit, the heat came back so fast that it just added to troubles by pushing humidity up. There is Hawaii. But it looks like they are going to disarm all the upright citizens, and let the poor take their dues. Of course, I think everything there is going down in hell and fire, regardless of sin. I just would not live there. Of course, at some point, someone will probably be selling beach front property out there on the cheap. Would it still be considered a state if it was barbecued? *grins*
Later.
Several things.
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While tinkering, I noticed something over at Aces. Yep. Which reminds me...
Bone broth! No, don't even think I am thinking what you thought I was thinking. If for no other reason? One word (mostly)? Hairballs. So cute you could almost eat them. Yeah, I'll get some broth shortly.
Then, I think, a nap. Just a bit. I have enjoyed the evening, morning, whatever. It has been cooler. I think being partly cloudy and a bit cooler yesterday helped. It doesn't always help. Some days, after a cooler day, it's just as bad without missing a beat. Weather patterns, wind direction, this, that, and the other thing... too many variables and weather forecasters have as much of a chance as I do at guessing such results. I wish I was as well paid to be as half-assed. Hey... watch it. I'm paid for being mostly dead, which just looks like being half-assed. And change.
There seems to be a bit of... something... in the air. I am not seeing clouds though, and this looks like it will burn off before long... perhaps. Still, it might keep it a bit cooler a bit longer. Every degree, some days, helps.
Well, on to a nap. I hope. Later.
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While tinkering, I noticed something over at Aces. Yep. Which reminds me...
Then, I think, a nap. Just a bit. I have enjoyed the evening, morning, whatever. It has been cooler. I think being partly cloudy and a bit cooler yesterday helped. It doesn't always help. Some days, after a cooler day, it's just as bad without missing a beat. Weather patterns, wind direction, this, that, and the other thing... too many variables and weather forecasters have as much of a chance as I do at guessing such results. I wish I was as well paid to be as half-assed. Hey... watch it. I'm paid for being mostly dead, which just looks like being half-assed. And change.
There seems to be a bit of... something... in the air. I am not seeing clouds though, and this looks like it will burn off before long... perhaps. Still, it might keep it a bit cooler a bit longer. Every degree, some days, helps.
Well, on to a nap. I hope. Later.
Another meatzza.
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With it being rather cool this evening, being up at the right time to wake and get going, missing supper earlier, and all else in play, it seemed like dinner could be eaten early, with a lesser meal or two later. Yes, adjusting, adapting, working with the system(s) in play to my best advantage. It's more than training, it was natural. The world did not want this. They wanted someone who would work on their schedule, regardless of conditions, as they believed it should be done. I have never fit in and won't. Then again, I never suggested I was worldly or ever aimed to be.
This time I am slicing the green olives. I wish I had mushrooms, but what I have will do. Three cheeses, skipping asiago. The type I purchased simply isn't... all that good. I will seek a brand I like. Sometimes paying a little more, or even a little less, is the thing. Sometimes it's not a price thing at all. The freshest, then how it was made, and to a degree what was used. But that doesn't always equate either. I simply won't like something because it is traditional, expensive, or because I am supposed to like it. I had a tenderloin steak thawed. Instead of cooking it some other way, I sliced coins and put those on top for the final run. I will only eat a quarter, perhaps a third, of the "pie". But that leaves meals for later. I meant to try marscapone in the base, but keep forgetting it. I hope that stuff lasts a while. Hmm, may have to see what else I could use it for. Well... Later.
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With it being rather cool this evening, being up at the right time to wake and get going, missing supper earlier, and all else in play, it seemed like dinner could be eaten early, with a lesser meal or two later. Yes, adjusting, adapting, working with the system(s) in play to my best advantage. It's more than training, it was natural. The world did not want this. They wanted someone who would work on their schedule, regardless of conditions, as they believed it should be done. I have never fit in and won't. Then again, I never suggested I was worldly or ever aimed to be.
This time I am slicing the green olives. I wish I had mushrooms, but what I have will do. Three cheeses, skipping asiago. The type I purchased simply isn't... all that good. I will seek a brand I like. Sometimes paying a little more, or even a little less, is the thing. Sometimes it's not a price thing at all. The freshest, then how it was made, and to a degree what was used. But that doesn't always equate either. I simply won't like something because it is traditional, expensive, or because I am supposed to like it. I had a tenderloin steak thawed. Instead of cooking it some other way, I sliced coins and put those on top for the final run. I will only eat a quarter, perhaps a third, of the "pie". But that leaves meals for later. I meant to try marscapone in the base, but keep forgetting it. I hope that stuff lasts a while. Hmm, may have to see what else I could use it for. Well... Later.
Heat stress.
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No, not causing an issue. It merely exists at this time. I bring it up, because that is why I slept a bit longer. If I push in the heat, giving myself extra water, extra sleep, and more cooling if possible, means I can deal with it fairly well. This year has been one of the best years in dealing with the heat all around. There have been nights when ac has not been needed, quite a few actually, at least earlier in the summer. As I first get used to the heat I do well. Though, over time, even my new-found resistance and fasting aren't enough to completely defend. Even so, I might wonder if I do better, given all the givens, than most. Especially this year? Oh, there are old-timers from these parts who live without. They, perhaps, have lived here longer than even I have been alive. And, should their health remain, they are stalwarts against the various seasons and conditions.
Oh, I think I was once quite superior in handling the environment, even living out in it. Hot, cold, wet, muddy, stinky, dark, mean... those, as I have said, were far more considered allies than enemies. For I could handle them easier than my enemies. More, my enemies were deadlier. The enemy of my worst enemy was my friend seems never truer than then. To add another common notion, then upend it... such was the opposite of a fair weather friend. Excluding it's better nature whole. But that was then. Although, if health returns, it may be true again.
I have been off my reading. Of course, I don't mind. Those heart and other issues really... gave me pause. Some suggest the notion of the idea of another walking on your grave. That isn't my issue, as that tickles for me. It is more as if I was walking on ice... thick, plate, ice. Even my gluteuses were holding on maximus. I've been there before. And, every time, I stop, drop, and begin seeing if this is it. It, I realize, isn't and won't be, if I tend the things. So far I've always been able to figure it out, or coast through. And, yes, eating more regularly has helped. It simply corrected. It's not complete... I can feel that. But it is enough that I am not on that edge. You know, keto does do something. I actually forgot dinner yesterday. You just aren't hungry on it. I suspect, if you can forget to eat, you probably can slip by, happily, without it. My blood sugar is 225 this morning, but... I've had a few ounces of pecans and a cream tea... so... I'll take it in two hours, see more what is what, without eating. Grazing is more of an issue that I need to watch, so have been while off fasting. Moo! Geez.
I am hoping to get some things done today. I did get extra sleep, like nine hours and change. But it wasn't solid sleep, either. Some nights I have to get up to go all night it seems, every few hours. It's when I drink too much too close to bedtime. With it being hot yesterday, and hotter with the curtains open, I needed a bit more fluid right up until bedtime. I'll work on that a bit today. I sure hope to get my paws on a number of good sets of true stock bones, perhaps marrow bones, and then make an appointment, plus just maybe do some shopping and make some returns. Gah! I have some other meat and bones ready, I just want more solid beef bones to finish it all off. The meat will probably go to a thick creamy buttery beef stew. Oh yeah. Might even soak the meat in cream or yogurt overnight on top? Maybe not. This meat will probably be quite tender from making broth. I've been so lame lately. I fall behind so quickly. I'll... try to get back at it. Good morning and day.
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No, not causing an issue. It merely exists at this time. I bring it up, because that is why I slept a bit longer. If I push in the heat, giving myself extra water, extra sleep, and more cooling if possible, means I can deal with it fairly well. This year has been one of the best years in dealing with the heat all around. There have been nights when ac has not been needed, quite a few actually, at least earlier in the summer. As I first get used to the heat I do well. Though, over time, even my new-found resistance and fasting aren't enough to completely defend. Even so, I might wonder if I do better, given all the givens, than most. Especially this year? Oh, there are old-timers from these parts who live without. They, perhaps, have lived here longer than even I have been alive. And, should their health remain, they are stalwarts against the various seasons and conditions.
Oh, I think I was once quite superior in handling the environment, even living out in it. Hot, cold, wet, muddy, stinky, dark, mean... those, as I have said, were far more considered allies than enemies. For I could handle them easier than my enemies. More, my enemies were deadlier. The enemy of my worst enemy was my friend seems never truer than then. To add another common notion, then upend it... such was the opposite of a fair weather friend. Excluding it's better nature whole. But that was then. Although, if health returns, it may be true again.
I have been off my reading. Of course, I don't mind. Those heart and other issues really... gave me pause. Some suggest the notion of the idea of another walking on your grave. That isn't my issue, as that tickles for me. It is more as if I was walking on ice... thick, plate, ice. Even my gluteuses were holding on maximus. I've been there before. And, every time, I stop, drop, and begin seeing if this is it. It, I realize, isn't and won't be, if I tend the things. So far I've always been able to figure it out, or coast through. And, yes, eating more regularly has helped. It simply corrected. It's not complete... I can feel that. But it is enough that I am not on that edge. You know, keto does do something. I actually forgot dinner yesterday. You just aren't hungry on it. I suspect, if you can forget to eat, you probably can slip by, happily, without it. My blood sugar is 225 this morning, but... I've had a few ounces of pecans and a cream tea... so... I'll take it in two hours, see more what is what, without eating. Grazing is more of an issue that I need to watch, so have been while off fasting. Moo! Geez.
I am hoping to get some things done today. I did get extra sleep, like nine hours and change. But it wasn't solid sleep, either. Some nights I have to get up to go all night it seems, every few hours. It's when I drink too much too close to bedtime. With it being hot yesterday, and hotter with the curtains open, I needed a bit more fluid right up until bedtime. I'll work on that a bit today. I sure hope to get my paws on a number of good sets of true stock bones, perhaps marrow bones, and then make an appointment, plus just maybe do some shopping and make some returns. Gah! I have some other meat and bones ready, I just want more solid beef bones to finish it all off. The meat will probably go to a thick creamy buttery beef stew. Oh yeah. Might even soak the meat in cream or yogurt overnight on top? Maybe not. This meat will probably be quite tender from making broth. I've been so lame lately. I fall behind so quickly. I'll... try to get back at it. Good morning and day.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
What I may.
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Sleep is calling. Being 15:00 and change, I am not completely dissatisfied. Now, how long will I sleep? I simply don't know. The temp, outside, is staying in the mid-80's. Having had the curtains open for the morning and on a bit past means the place is a bit extra warm. Though, too, as I eat a bit more, I also feel the heat more. Burning food in the furnace does make the body warmer. A lot warmer. I'll be back to fasting before too long. And being on keto... yes my body is showing the signs again... it's just that fasting for several days does tend to keep the bubbling at bay, a bit... that might help a bit with heat tolerance?
I did have a cup of bone broth this morning but haven't had a second one yet. I'll try to keep adding two to my food regimen, until I get things sorted out. The potassium did not arrive with the rest of the order, so that won't begin being added in quite yet. Hmm... I wonder if it could be added to the bone broth? I'm not sure if the powder handles heat well... more research. Though I can have the broth at a more moderate temperature if need be. Or... perhaps that would just taste too awful. It is pretty nasty, if it's as the other stuff. Nothing really covers it.
Dreams, and lots of them. Just the last few days to week. Weeks? Time gets a little messy when I fall. Probably show up in my posts, here or there. Oh well. Sleep must be had. Good night.
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Sleep is calling. Being 15:00 and change, I am not completely dissatisfied. Now, how long will I sleep? I simply don't know. The temp, outside, is staying in the mid-80's. Having had the curtains open for the morning and on a bit past means the place is a bit extra warm. Though, too, as I eat a bit more, I also feel the heat more. Burning food in the furnace does make the body warmer. A lot warmer. I'll be back to fasting before too long. And being on keto... yes my body is showing the signs again... it's just that fasting for several days does tend to keep the bubbling at bay, a bit... that might help a bit with heat tolerance?
I did have a cup of bone broth this morning but haven't had a second one yet. I'll try to keep adding two to my food regimen, until I get things sorted out. The potassium did not arrive with the rest of the order, so that won't begin being added in quite yet. Hmm... I wonder if it could be added to the bone broth? I'm not sure if the powder handles heat well... more research. Though I can have the broth at a more moderate temperature if need be. Or... perhaps that would just taste too awful. It is pretty nasty, if it's as the other stuff. Nothing really covers it.
Dreams, and lots of them. Just the last few days to week. Weeks? Time gets a little messy when I fall. Probably show up in my posts, here or there. Oh well. Sleep must be had. Good night.
I love it when it works.
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I had to babysit the front yard, waiting for the UPS truck. No real problem, save that the curtains had to be open. It is partly cloudy, and only in the mid-80's... but that is enough. Hmm? Oh, actually it's too much. However, nearly doubling a big order is just a financial worry and hassle. I am pretty sure, if the packages go back with the deliverer, it is almost immediately stricken from the debt column in my account. And I got it. I didn't even have to wait unto 17:00 or later. Sometimes that is just when it arrives. All done at 13:00.
I thought about making some calls, but I am rather cooked and bushed. I will attempt to stay up through the day in the hopes of doing a few chores tomorrow. Maybe even shopping, or not. At least a few calls. I am overheating, so the ac was switched on. I may take a nap, if that carries the risk of oversleeping. Yeah, probably not. Among the items ordered were the noodles I wrote about. When I eventually try those, I will let you know. They have, pretty much, zero everything. Carbs, calories... the rest... if I read the package correctly. Something else I ordered, if I now realize mistakenly, was dietary yeast. I had been under the assumption that it was good in vitamin B, generally. Well, it is and isn't. It, just like many other things, has simply had those... or something they can call vitamin b complex... added. These "natural" foods are mostly bs. Still, I'll try it. I've never eaten such before. I have heard of it, and it sounds interesting... or not. *grins*
I did a minor stress test recently. My heard did pick up the pace, but then slowed down well and naturally... as far as I could tell. I don't have the timing for that down, so just guessing. What the heart did not do was take off like the hearts of two rabbits breeding and then refuse to slow down for... a long time. That is why I backed away from fasting. Not just once. It was becoming a bad habit, and I am no nun. Though I can't see where a nun would want a bad habit either?
Hmm... what next? Oh, well, I did order a game. I rarely order things I just want. This month a game, last month and this month some music. The music is from a group I have played for years and continue to use, and a group I used a goodly bit ago but... it has worn well. I know, just buy the digital bits. Piss off. I hate that. Yeah, I might lose my music. The cd might break or be stolen. Sure, I won't like all the songs. Heck, I may well not like even one other. Old habits. Hmm... a nun might actually not mind an old habit. If I had to have a habit, which I do, if slightly a different sort, it is usually the oldies that I enjoy the most. The Sword, finally, a couple of cds... and at least one other group... Mastadon I think, and Baroness. I'd like to find their music videos, but those are terribly difficult to keep and hold. If my machine doesn't die, than some software might say it isn't mine and wipe it, or be jealous if it didn't be bought through Apple and wipe it? I hear all sorts of things. I sure wish I knew how to secure such things. In these times, though possibly ever, there is no true way to secure data... online or off. Still... I ought to search for a way to hold the files in top quality, back them up, and have copies in several locations. If I could figure that out, perhaps taking pictures might go forth to a greater extent. Bleh.
Oh, well... listen to me banter. Or... read my blathering? Yeah. I best get somewhere a bit cooler, grab an iced tea, and see if I can't play Doom like I... well... *grins* Later.
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I had to babysit the front yard, waiting for the UPS truck. No real problem, save that the curtains had to be open. It is partly cloudy, and only in the mid-80's... but that is enough. Hmm? Oh, actually it's too much. However, nearly doubling a big order is just a financial worry and hassle. I am pretty sure, if the packages go back with the deliverer, it is almost immediately stricken from the debt column in my account. And I got it. I didn't even have to wait unto 17:00 or later. Sometimes that is just when it arrives. All done at 13:00.
I thought about making some calls, but I am rather cooked and bushed. I will attempt to stay up through the day in the hopes of doing a few chores tomorrow. Maybe even shopping, or not. At least a few calls. I am overheating, so the ac was switched on. I may take a nap, if that carries the risk of oversleeping. Yeah, probably not. Among the items ordered were the noodles I wrote about. When I eventually try those, I will let you know. They have, pretty much, zero everything. Carbs, calories... the rest... if I read the package correctly. Something else I ordered, if I now realize mistakenly, was dietary yeast. I had been under the assumption that it was good in vitamin B, generally. Well, it is and isn't. It, just like many other things, has simply had those... or something they can call vitamin b complex... added. These "natural" foods are mostly bs. Still, I'll try it. I've never eaten such before. I have heard of it, and it sounds interesting... or not. *grins*
I did a minor stress test recently. My heard did pick up the pace, but then slowed down well and naturally... as far as I could tell. I don't have the timing for that down, so just guessing. What the heart did not do was take off like the hearts of two rabbits breeding and then refuse to slow down for... a long time. That is why I backed away from fasting. Not just once. It was becoming a bad habit, and I am no nun. Though I can't see where a nun would want a bad habit either?
Hmm... what next? Oh, well, I did order a game. I rarely order things I just want. This month a game, last month and this month some music. The music is from a group I have played for years and continue to use, and a group I used a goodly bit ago but... it has worn well. I know, just buy the digital bits. Piss off. I hate that. Yeah, I might lose my music. The cd might break or be stolen. Sure, I won't like all the songs. Heck, I may well not like even one other. Old habits. Hmm... a nun might actually not mind an old habit. If I had to have a habit, which I do, if slightly a different sort, it is usually the oldies that I enjoy the most. The Sword, finally, a couple of cds... and at least one other group... Mastadon I think, and Baroness. I'd like to find their music videos, but those are terribly difficult to keep and hold. If my machine doesn't die, than some software might say it isn't mine and wipe it, or be jealous if it didn't be bought through Apple and wipe it? I hear all sorts of things. I sure wish I knew how to secure such things. In these times, though possibly ever, there is no true way to secure data... online or off. Still... I ought to search for a way to hold the files in top quality, back them up, and have copies in several locations. If I could figure that out, perhaps taking pictures might go forth to a greater extent. Bleh.
Oh, well... listen to me banter. Or... read my blathering? Yeah. I best get somewhere a bit cooler, grab an iced tea, and see if I can't play Doom like I... well... *grins* Later.
Better.
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Still keeping some controls. An three-egg omelet for breakfast, continuing with the two a day cups of broth, a small else meal, then a more regular sized dinner. Just until I get back on track. Fasting wasn't difficult. It just isn't sustainable as I was doing it. How did I go for weeks or months without eating? I slept hour on hour, day on day, for most of those times. I would wake to void, drink massive amounts of water, then go back to bed. If I had anything edible it wouldn't surprise me if I did eat from time to time. Or, in some situations, I could have someone drop food in, of some sort.
When I make it to the store, I have a short list. It is very good to have a side of beef and pork put up. And a year of grain and legumes, plus, as well actually. The only thing that might be a bit tricky in time would be water in a bad situation. Though there are water sources not far away, and water not too deep down... probably, for a group, not difficult to dig out wells for around town. Good for most of the year, and probably... potentially, able to be dug and fortified for the longer dry spells. And, other than parts, small personal wells would be extremely simple to put in. This area is just a lucky part of the state that way. With no manufacturing to the north, to pollute, though with natural dangers, farming perhaps, and some population, there is always some risk... much easier, however, to deal with than having some major metro and pollution source anywhere upstream.
Oh... whatever. I'm waiting for some packages. Amazon sent what I ordered, then because of some confusion, doubled some parts of my order. I tried to cancel but nope. I am hoping to send it back when it arrives... having to figure out which package. There are doubles in several packages, but most have singular orders too, so only one pack can go back immediately. It might have a singular in it, but that I can reorder. What a headache. A shower, then I'll keep the shades cracked so I might catch the delivery. In there should be the books that will allow me to begin meal planning with solid information... or more solid information. Some things are a bit tricky, like burgers. Even if it is 70/30, once cooked how much of the fat actually remains? Ugh... I'll... learn.
At least you can't say I am not trying. Once I realized there was something I might actually be able to do. No, they did try to get me in, to "teach me". But I found their teaching was... not good for me. Also, the advice was quite often contrary. Don't eat carbs, for example, but load up on vegetables. Huh? I think they meant for it to be confusing, and I am pretty sure it was a failed method... bought and paid for by those who put junk food in the diet. Maybe they realized they just didn't know, so... just said whatever so they could keep their job in spot of not doing it. Bleh. I'm not easy to work with. But then I expect you not to sit there and tell me not to do what you are telling me to do. That... doesn't help.
Oh... broth is ready. I have meat and bone thawing for my first beef broth. I hope to call my doc... if he still is... and the butcher today too. Maybe. As for beef broth, and probably chicken broth... with feet of both of those somewhat of a rarity, I'll probably be using hog trotters to thicken. It'll work just fine. You know, and I think tripe would be excellent with the beef bone broth. Later.
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Still keeping some controls. An three-egg omelet for breakfast, continuing with the two a day cups of broth, a small else meal, then a more regular sized dinner. Just until I get back on track. Fasting wasn't difficult. It just isn't sustainable as I was doing it. How did I go for weeks or months without eating? I slept hour on hour, day on day, for most of those times. I would wake to void, drink massive amounts of water, then go back to bed. If I had anything edible it wouldn't surprise me if I did eat from time to time. Or, in some situations, I could have someone drop food in, of some sort.
When I make it to the store, I have a short list. It is very good to have a side of beef and pork put up. And a year of grain and legumes, plus, as well actually. The only thing that might be a bit tricky in time would be water in a bad situation. Though there are water sources not far away, and water not too deep down... probably, for a group, not difficult to dig out wells for around town. Good for most of the year, and probably... potentially, able to be dug and fortified for the longer dry spells. And, other than parts, small personal wells would be extremely simple to put in. This area is just a lucky part of the state that way. With no manufacturing to the north, to pollute, though with natural dangers, farming perhaps, and some population, there is always some risk... much easier, however, to deal with than having some major metro and pollution source anywhere upstream.
Oh... whatever. I'm waiting for some packages. Amazon sent what I ordered, then because of some confusion, doubled some parts of my order. I tried to cancel but nope. I am hoping to send it back when it arrives... having to figure out which package. There are doubles in several packages, but most have singular orders too, so only one pack can go back immediately. It might have a singular in it, but that I can reorder. What a headache. A shower, then I'll keep the shades cracked so I might catch the delivery. In there should be the books that will allow me to begin meal planning with solid information... or more solid information. Some things are a bit tricky, like burgers. Even if it is 70/30, once cooked how much of the fat actually remains? Ugh... I'll... learn.
At least you can't say I am not trying. Once I realized there was something I might actually be able to do. No, they did try to get me in, to "teach me". But I found their teaching was... not good for me. Also, the advice was quite often contrary. Don't eat carbs, for example, but load up on vegetables. Huh? I think they meant for it to be confusing, and I am pretty sure it was a failed method... bought and paid for by those who put junk food in the diet. Maybe they realized they just didn't know, so... just said whatever so they could keep their job in spot of not doing it. Bleh. I'm not easy to work with. But then I expect you not to sit there and tell me not to do what you are telling me to do. That... doesn't help.
Oh... broth is ready. I have meat and bone thawing for my first beef broth. I hope to call my doc... if he still is... and the butcher today too. Maybe. As for beef broth, and probably chicken broth... with feet of both of those somewhat of a rarity, I'll probably be using hog trotters to thicken. It'll work just fine. You know, and I think tripe would be excellent with the beef bone broth. Later.
A Julia Child inspired omelet.
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Ah, who am I kidding. Inspired indeed. She would have tossed this out as a rebuttal to a fool in the kitchen. It simply didn't turn out well. No, it's not the pan. All-Clad stainless with top-of-the-line non-stick (yes, she actually both had non-stick back then, and used it). It wasn't the ingredients. If you look it up, she uses standard white eggs. I probably use better eggs, technically. Not quite farm, but closer to it. Or... so it says. Butter, volume, maybe too much water? There was something else though. Too much, and different, cheese? I used a mix of cheddar and pepper jack, she used swiss. Shredded swiss? She uses that in many of her recipes. It is lower salt, perhaps lower calories, is that it? Or a simple preference?
I did my best. I simply could not get my omelet to work in the pan as she did. I had the same amount of butter, pretty much the same temp. My non-stick should have been better but it wasn't as effective. More and different cheese, which really might have been it. Bleh. In the end, I did make a fine omelet. With cheeses to my taste. It took longer, and would not brown or twist in the pan or flip. The egg was done, the cheeses were melted and tasty. The fresh diced herb was a very nice boost. I'll keep working.
Though, if you watch her shows, you will note that she had cooked the recipe(s) over and over. She may have worked a week on a recipe, starting with all the ingredients and doing this, that, and the other thing... trying it this way, that temp, and on and on. Was she a professional or did she become one on the show? If she was already a professional, she certainly honed her skills and dishes on and for the show. No, not a doubter. That would be a good way to do that. It's more honest than the cooking shows where it seems the chef or "chef" just knew exactly what to do with new to them raw product and random additives.
With eggs being something I'll need in my diet more heavily for a while, I will get some practice. Though boiling a dozen and an half isn't a bad idea either... for eating a cold meal and for adding cold to a salad for the extra fat as well as electrolytes or vitamins. It has been fun looking over various cooking and fasting videos. I honestly don't think it can be perfectly figured out. And I am positive you can't eat even close to recommended dailies. But you might figure out something you are lacking and manage it. Like a cast though, special foods, diets, and such, are merely to help you get back on your feet... as I see things. Might, as an alcoholic though truly a diabetic, have to cut some things out, or drastically reduce some things. But... that may not always be possible. Especially if tough times really are upon us. Those who can't adapt will die. Though, too, with less to eat all around, and greater effort for it, IF the work can be done, the mild privation might cover the problems.
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Ah, who am I kidding. Inspired indeed. She would have tossed this out as a rebuttal to a fool in the kitchen. It simply didn't turn out well. No, it's not the pan. All-Clad stainless with top-of-the-line non-stick (yes, she actually both had non-stick back then, and used it). It wasn't the ingredients. If you look it up, she uses standard white eggs. I probably use better eggs, technically. Not quite farm, but closer to it. Or... so it says. Butter, volume, maybe too much water? There was something else though. Too much, and different, cheese? I used a mix of cheddar and pepper jack, she used swiss. Shredded swiss? She uses that in many of her recipes. It is lower salt, perhaps lower calories, is that it? Or a simple preference?
I did my best. I simply could not get my omelet to work in the pan as she did. I had the same amount of butter, pretty much the same temp. My non-stick should have been better but it wasn't as effective. More and different cheese, which really might have been it. Bleh. In the end, I did make a fine omelet. With cheeses to my taste. It took longer, and would not brown or twist in the pan or flip. The egg was done, the cheeses were melted and tasty. The fresh diced herb was a very nice boost. I'll keep working.
Though, if you watch her shows, you will note that she had cooked the recipe(s) over and over. She may have worked a week on a recipe, starting with all the ingredients and doing this, that, and the other thing... trying it this way, that temp, and on and on. Was she a professional or did she become one on the show? If she was already a professional, she certainly honed her skills and dishes on and for the show. No, not a doubter. That would be a good way to do that. It's more honest than the cooking shows where it seems the chef or "chef" just knew exactly what to do with new to them raw product and random additives.
With eggs being something I'll need in my diet more heavily for a while, I will get some practice. Though boiling a dozen and an half isn't a bad idea either... for eating a cold meal and for adding cold to a salad for the extra fat as well as electrolytes or vitamins. It has been fun looking over various cooking and fasting videos. I honestly don't think it can be perfectly figured out. And I am positive you can't eat even close to recommended dailies. But you might figure out something you are lacking and manage it. Like a cast though, special foods, diets, and such, are merely to help you get back on your feet... as I see things. Might, as an alcoholic though truly a diabetic, have to cut some things out, or drastically reduce some things. But... that may not always be possible. Especially if tough times really are upon us. Those who can't adapt will die. Though, too, with less to eat all around, and greater effort for it, IF the work can be done, the mild privation might cover the problems.
A bit more research.
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While I am trying to figure out what to eat, while I am forced to eat, some notions are simply too vague. For potassium, as an example, what exactly are "leafy greens"? To my way of thinking, that should/could be anything from spinach to kale to romaine lettuce. But, of those, if they all fit, which is the richest in potassium? What else has higher values of potassium? Same goes for B5. Why, with supplements on the way, am I going to aim at consuming more as well? Because food born minerals are more likely to be used by my body than supplements. I am hoping that by eating foods, my body may come around to realizing the insufficiency and then begin looking more closely at what is going through. If nothing else, it should give me a jumpstart. That was some serious palpitation. It just would not calm down. I've had it before, rarely. No worse. Still, now I have an idea that it is probably nutritional, I can work on it.
For potassium, I found a top ten list. More, it offers other foods in each listed item which also have high(er if not the highest) sources. I did likewise for B5, another top 10 list with sub-lists under each type. Some of the food fits my diet aims, some such as potatoes, squash, bananas, and maybe sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes or yams, never can quite tell and the stores often get it wrong. One is okay, I believe, the other is not. There is at least one crossover, avocados. Too bad I am allergic (not!). I'll enjoy digging into avocados, which go great in salads as do eggs and mushrooms, or simply sliced and eaten or put on meats, or mashed and whatever. Either you love avocado or you hate them, I think. I am on the phile side of them. Was always told to eat them with great caution. Wrong! Bleh.
I am hoping to make it to the store yet today. Or maybe later, or tomorrow, or... soon. If I run out of foods that are best, I have other food around. Well, and plenty of eggs. I'll see how I am feeling and if the salads and such have helped. Later.
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While I am trying to figure out what to eat, while I am forced to eat, some notions are simply too vague. For potassium, as an example, what exactly are "leafy greens"? To my way of thinking, that should/could be anything from spinach to kale to romaine lettuce. But, of those, if they all fit, which is the richest in potassium? What else has higher values of potassium? Same goes for B5. Why, with supplements on the way, am I going to aim at consuming more as well? Because food born minerals are more likely to be used by my body than supplements. I am hoping that by eating foods, my body may come around to realizing the insufficiency and then begin looking more closely at what is going through. If nothing else, it should give me a jumpstart. That was some serious palpitation. It just would not calm down. I've had it before, rarely. No worse. Still, now I have an idea that it is probably nutritional, I can work on it.
For potassium, I found a top ten list. More, it offers other foods in each listed item which also have high(er if not the highest) sources. I did likewise for B5, another top 10 list with sub-lists under each type. Some of the food fits my diet aims, some such as potatoes, squash, bananas, and maybe sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes or yams, never can quite tell and the stores often get it wrong. One is okay, I believe, the other is not. There is at least one crossover, avocados. Too bad I am allergic (not!). I'll enjoy digging into avocados, which go great in salads as do eggs and mushrooms, or simply sliced and eaten or put on meats, or mashed and whatever. Either you love avocado or you hate them, I think. I am on the phile side of them. Was always told to eat them with great caution. Wrong! Bleh.
I am hoping to make it to the store yet today. Or maybe later, or tomorrow, or... soon. If I run out of foods that are best, I have other food around. Well, and plenty of eggs. I'll see how I am feeling and if the salads and such have helped. Later.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
I have to break the fasting.
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I will probably be going to two smaller meals a day. And, when I can, I will get in to buy greens and some other items... foods rich in what I need. Oh, it got a bit rough there. Still is from time to time. Most likely too little potassium, though other electrolytes were also rather low. I'll work on those. When I feel they are back on track, I will go back to fasting. There is some hope that, with these things managed, perhaps the fasting will be more successful. One which hadn't been on my radar until now was B5. I am still looking for a trustworthy source. That may not have been as important until now, or maybe it was something missing all along, a part of the problem.
When something is out, due to a bad heart, diabetes, etc, either the body fails to hold onto what it needs, was missing it already as part of the problem, or through illness the lack of proper nutrition leads to a lack of the right stuff. Then again, much of the modern American diet really doesn't have nutrition. Fats, of the worst kind, extra salt and sugar to cover the bad taste and empty of nutrient food, or even added but unnatural vitamins such. While supplements are inferior to foods naturally rich, such foods, at some point in deficiency, simply cannot be eaten in the volume necessary. And, at least with supplements, you can choose the type of replacement added to your diet. When added to food, they don't pick the best type or the easiest to digest, they pick the cheapest.
I am back on vitamins. I have potassium on the way. And I am searching for B5. And I am back to normal foods. Why? Extremely hard heartbeats, and fast, with some pains. It wouldn't slow down, relax. Yeah, that is very likely potassium deficiency. And it also means I need to take it easy, for the most part. I have been, if I had been pushing past that in the last few days. Yeah, best relax and go slow even when I go shopping. Very unnerving to have a heart go off the rails. Not something I am used to sensing. At least I might have a fix, along with diet change and weight loss. We'll see.
Oh, right... blood sugar 221. And I will continue with the keto (high fat low carb) diet, only probably adding slightly more carbs in the way of greens. I will be cutting per meal consumption. Perhaps splitting and less what I had been eating. At least until I have been on the replacements and have a sense that things are back in some kind of order. I've got to admit, I don't mind the break. But the fasting really wasn't all that bad either. Just, like, I don't know, a holiday.
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I will probably be going to two smaller meals a day. And, when I can, I will get in to buy greens and some other items... foods rich in what I need. Oh, it got a bit rough there. Still is from time to time. Most likely too little potassium, though other electrolytes were also rather low. I'll work on those. When I feel they are back on track, I will go back to fasting. There is some hope that, with these things managed, perhaps the fasting will be more successful. One which hadn't been on my radar until now was B5. I am still looking for a trustworthy source. That may not have been as important until now, or maybe it was something missing all along, a part of the problem.
When something is out, due to a bad heart, diabetes, etc, either the body fails to hold onto what it needs, was missing it already as part of the problem, or through illness the lack of proper nutrition leads to a lack of the right stuff. Then again, much of the modern American diet really doesn't have nutrition. Fats, of the worst kind, extra salt and sugar to cover the bad taste and empty of nutrient food, or even added but unnatural vitamins such. While supplements are inferior to foods naturally rich, such foods, at some point in deficiency, simply cannot be eaten in the volume necessary. And, at least with supplements, you can choose the type of replacement added to your diet. When added to food, they don't pick the best type or the easiest to digest, they pick the cheapest.
I am back on vitamins. I have potassium on the way. And I am searching for B5. And I am back to normal foods. Why? Extremely hard heartbeats, and fast, with some pains. It wouldn't slow down, relax. Yeah, that is very likely potassium deficiency. And it also means I need to take it easy, for the most part. I have been, if I had been pushing past that in the last few days. Yeah, best relax and go slow even when I go shopping. Very unnerving to have a heart go off the rails. Not something I am used to sensing. At least I might have a fix, along with diet change and weight loss. We'll see.
Oh, right... blood sugar 221. And I will continue with the keto (high fat low carb) diet, only probably adding slightly more carbs in the way of greens. I will be cutting per meal consumption. Perhaps splitting and less what I had been eating. At least until I have been on the replacements and have a sense that things are back in some kind of order. I've got to admit, I don't mind the break. But the fasting really wasn't all that bad either. Just, like, I don't know, a holiday.
Some issues. Extra broth?
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I've not been doing well the last few days. Not terrible. Simply some things are causing me some concern. Enough concern to finally get going on vitamins and minerals. I won't be starting supplements quite yet, I fear rocking the boat too fast. It might, or might not, be good for me. But too many additions, while I am in some minor distress, might simply be a poor choice. I am thinking, however, that adding extra bone broth might be good and fine. What it adds is all natural, food-borne, and what I am probably lacking... electrolytes, with potassium probably being the lead in what I am lacking. Yeah... not a good feeling. Still, I think I'll make it through.
Blood sugar is at 212. I have fasted for... ~26 hours now. I have consumed one cream tea with two tablespoons of cream and one 'shot' of liquid splenda, one six ounce (standard coffee cup) of straight bone broth, and perhaps a gallon to gallon and an half of simple tea (nothing added, sometimes iced sometimes warm). I may have to go without the cream? This simply isn't making sense. I will be having another cup of bone broth. I think I really need it until supplements have time to work in.
For now I will be adding another cup of broth per day. At least until the potassium arrives and I figure out how to add that. While the food based electrolytes will most likely be absorbed better, the volume I would need to consume to get the same effect would be prohibitive. Actually, even if I get potassium and the rest back up to snuff, I may consider continuing to down two cups of bone broth per day, at least until diabetes is back in pretty full check. Then begin backing off a bit. Of course, this greater volume means I need to get going on the beef stock much more quickly than had been planned.
Lazy? A bit. But it's high summer, I am hard core fasting, and my diet has changed. All that on top of having a seriously bad heart. Lazy? I'd love to see you even survive my shoes for a week. Honestly, I don't think you would make it. I'm not sure how I have made it for so very long. And, yet, I won't say laziness isn't... a part of it. Every human has it. It probably actually keeps us from working ourselves to death. At least those who want more out of life and believe they can find their way to it. It sucks for those who think they can to be in my condition. Yeah... I'll try to get the stock going soon. I may also call my butcher and see if they have real stock bones... beef leg knuckles... say four packages of six pound sets, oh and marrow bones... a couple dozen, split. Marrow bones just for food as is, mind you.
I ought to contact the doctor, see if he has time to see me. Or if he knows of another doc. Just diabetes. I don't need or want any other "care". And just monitoring for state purposes. Bureaucrat to bureaucrats, by the law and no more. Bleh.
It'll work out. Later.
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I've not been doing well the last few days. Not terrible. Simply some things are causing me some concern. Enough concern to finally get going on vitamins and minerals. I won't be starting supplements quite yet, I fear rocking the boat too fast. It might, or might not, be good for me. But too many additions, while I am in some minor distress, might simply be a poor choice. I am thinking, however, that adding extra bone broth might be good and fine. What it adds is all natural, food-borne, and what I am probably lacking... electrolytes, with potassium probably being the lead in what I am lacking. Yeah... not a good feeling. Still, I think I'll make it through.
Blood sugar is at 212. I have fasted for... ~26 hours now. I have consumed one cream tea with two tablespoons of cream and one 'shot' of liquid splenda, one six ounce (standard coffee cup) of straight bone broth, and perhaps a gallon to gallon and an half of simple tea (nothing added, sometimes iced sometimes warm). I may have to go without the cream? This simply isn't making sense. I will be having another cup of bone broth. I think I really need it until supplements have time to work in.
For now I will be adding another cup of broth per day. At least until the potassium arrives and I figure out how to add that. While the food based electrolytes will most likely be absorbed better, the volume I would need to consume to get the same effect would be prohibitive. Actually, even if I get potassium and the rest back up to snuff, I may consider continuing to down two cups of bone broth per day, at least until diabetes is back in pretty full check. Then begin backing off a bit. Of course, this greater volume means I need to get going on the beef stock much more quickly than had been planned.
Lazy? A bit. But it's high summer, I am hard core fasting, and my diet has changed. All that on top of having a seriously bad heart. Lazy? I'd love to see you even survive my shoes for a week. Honestly, I don't think you would make it. I'm not sure how I have made it for so very long. And, yet, I won't say laziness isn't... a part of it. Every human has it. It probably actually keeps us from working ourselves to death. At least those who want more out of life and believe they can find their way to it. It sucks for those who think they can to be in my condition. Yeah... I'll try to get the stock going soon. I may also call my butcher and see if they have real stock bones... beef leg knuckles... say four packages of six pound sets, oh and marrow bones... a couple dozen, split. Marrow bones just for food as is, mind you.
I ought to contact the doctor, see if he has time to see me. Or if he knows of another doc. Just diabetes. I don't need or want any other "care". And just monitoring for state purposes. Bureaucrat to bureaucrats, by the law and no more. Bleh.
It'll work out. Later.
Another search.
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I do have potassium on the way. I had hoped the vitamin B complex... or super-complex, would have vitamin B5. As I was setting up to put vitamins and minerals back into the queue, I checked. Nope. Why call it a super-complex if it is lacking? Never mind. So I am back at looking for another addition. I am asking the same question... made, bottled, shipped from or through China? I have asked about several. Note none of them will say. The US "lost" a case about naming where food originates, and I guess they are now no longer legally "allowed" to say where anything originates. Big pharma to grocers are simply bawling about it too, you'll note, as they buy the cheapest poisoned food they can claw into their stores.
I'll keep looking. Sometimes you can find something out of some other at least more modern Western nation, like Germany. It seems okay for them to state it's made in Germany, or Switzerland, but not if it is made in the US. And they wonder why Trump is favored by the people. I actually want him to win. Sadly, I get the feeling, that the thing is too rigged. I just don't think he will win. Best prepare to get out or away or just learn to live as a peasant. Many, most perhaps, already seem rather comfortably resigned to that. I never thought I'd see the day.
Well, best to do what I can to figure out my system and health so that I can get far enough away to not be of interest. And close enough to places bureaucrats simply won't go even if pressed. To that end I am making great efforts. Later.
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I do have potassium on the way. I had hoped the vitamin B complex... or super-complex, would have vitamin B5. As I was setting up to put vitamins and minerals back into the queue, I checked. Nope. Why call it a super-complex if it is lacking? Never mind. So I am back at looking for another addition. I am asking the same question... made, bottled, shipped from or through China? I have asked about several. Note none of them will say. The US "lost" a case about naming where food originates, and I guess they are now no longer legally "allowed" to say where anything originates. Big pharma to grocers are simply bawling about it too, you'll note, as they buy the cheapest poisoned food they can claw into their stores.
I'll keep looking. Sometimes you can find something out of some other at least more modern Western nation, like Germany. It seems okay for them to state it's made in Germany, or Switzerland, but not if it is made in the US. And they wonder why Trump is favored by the people. I actually want him to win. Sadly, I get the feeling, that the thing is too rigged. I just don't think he will win. Best prepare to get out or away or just learn to live as a peasant. Many, most perhaps, already seem rather comfortably resigned to that. I never thought I'd see the day.
Well, best to do what I can to figure out my system and health so that I can get far enough away to not be of interest. And close enough to places bureaucrats simply won't go even if pressed. To that end I am making great efforts. Later.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Long sleep, hungry, and more.
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Again, I slept much of the day. I can't be sure when I went to bed, waking at 22:00 or so though. I would guess twelve hours of sleep, though that may just be a false sense. Eight hours would be about the least? All through the sleep I was hungry. Hungry? Nah. HUNGRY. It wasn't as much sharp as broadband. I actually think that is a good thing. Oh, right, I weighed in this morning. I weigh 261. Yeah, no clue. I am eating less and neither, honestly, more or less active. And it is warm, so I should be burning calories? Or would that make me burn less? The thing is, I weighed in right after my two days of eating. You see, there it is. That won't work. Even so, it really doesn't make sense. Blood sugar tonight was right at 192. Again, that really isn't making sense.
I have the potassium on the way. I never did set up my vitamins, but will do that tonight. I need to check the vitamin B super-complex I have. While each has it's place, along with magnesium, calcium, and some others, vitamin B5 seems to be the one I need in order to function through fasting... or... maybe. Free advice is worth every penny you spend on it. Though, sometimes, you just get lucky. Well, and, if you listen to people who might know, you might here something that actually pertains to you. Though to be honest, if you ate enough to consume every vitamin, mineral, and..., and..., and whatever else, you would be so overweight you couldn't walk. So even good advice has to be taken with moderation. Vitamin B5? I'll add it, for a while. If things kick up, in time, it will probably be replaced, removed, or just forgotten. Actually, that is guaranteed.
The whole goal of my efforts is to regain a certain level of health from which to restart a more normal living arrangement. Perhaps sugar and carbs in general are out forever. I don't know that at this point. I suspect it would be better to, at a minimum, make those rarer in my diet. Why risk ending back up in trouble? If I can't limit naturally, it's probably best to omit. No less than an alcoholic probably really, if they get clean, never drink again... or any other addict. For that seems to be a minor form of what that is. Actually, I would say sugar and alcohol are more closely associated than most would ever imagine. They do very similar things, dieteticly. If you drink enough, or I do, beer... which is weaker as to alcohol... because of the volume of fluid, it actually cleans much of itself out. Probably better than sugar. And it seems to have helped me stay alive. Yeah, better than sugar, if still not all that good.
I am going to be cutting and changing a few things. Less cream in my tea, less liquid splenda, if I think the bone broth is fine, and every other day adding two tablespoons of cream to that is fine... Along with longer diets, vitamin and mineral adds, I am hoping to get the program going again. This really isn't making sense. I should not have gained weight. It's not even like my body is holding on. I am 'regular'. *cough* Yeah, I have been trying to figure out what is wrong, or not working. Maybe my body has shut down more than I suspected. Dunno... I'll keep at it.
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Again, I slept much of the day. I can't be sure when I went to bed, waking at 22:00 or so though. I would guess twelve hours of sleep, though that may just be a false sense. Eight hours would be about the least? All through the sleep I was hungry. Hungry? Nah. HUNGRY. It wasn't as much sharp as broadband. I actually think that is a good thing. Oh, right, I weighed in this morning. I weigh 261. Yeah, no clue. I am eating less and neither, honestly, more or less active. And it is warm, so I should be burning calories? Or would that make me burn less? The thing is, I weighed in right after my two days of eating. You see, there it is. That won't work. Even so, it really doesn't make sense. Blood sugar tonight was right at 192. Again, that really isn't making sense.
I have the potassium on the way. I never did set up my vitamins, but will do that tonight. I need to check the vitamin B super-complex I have. While each has it's place, along with magnesium, calcium, and some others, vitamin B5 seems to be the one I need in order to function through fasting... or... maybe. Free advice is worth every penny you spend on it. Though, sometimes, you just get lucky. Well, and, if you listen to people who might know, you might here something that actually pertains to you. Though to be honest, if you ate enough to consume every vitamin, mineral, and..., and..., and whatever else, you would be so overweight you couldn't walk. So even good advice has to be taken with moderation. Vitamin B5? I'll add it, for a while. If things kick up, in time, it will probably be replaced, removed, or just forgotten. Actually, that is guaranteed.
The whole goal of my efforts is to regain a certain level of health from which to restart a more normal living arrangement. Perhaps sugar and carbs in general are out forever. I don't know that at this point. I suspect it would be better to, at a minimum, make those rarer in my diet. Why risk ending back up in trouble? If I can't limit naturally, it's probably best to omit. No less than an alcoholic probably really, if they get clean, never drink again... or any other addict. For that seems to be a minor form of what that is. Actually, I would say sugar and alcohol are more closely associated than most would ever imagine. They do very similar things, dieteticly. If you drink enough, or I do, beer... which is weaker as to alcohol... because of the volume of fluid, it actually cleans much of itself out. Probably better than sugar. And it seems to have helped me stay alive. Yeah, better than sugar, if still not all that good.
I am going to be cutting and changing a few things. Less cream in my tea, less liquid splenda, if I think the bone broth is fine, and every other day adding two tablespoons of cream to that is fine... Along with longer diets, vitamin and mineral adds, I am hoping to get the program going again. This really isn't making sense. I should not have gained weight. It's not even like my body is holding on. I am 'regular'. *cough* Yeah, I have been trying to figure out what is wrong, or not working. Maybe my body has shut down more than I suspected. Dunno... I'll keep at it.
Had to laugh. Mostly.
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I wrote something, about being sharp, and broken, in rebuttal to a comment on another blog. I then commented further here on my blog. Then I read that some slow learner, who obviously cannot understand even simple things, suggested that some of us yahoos out there believe we are Strider, but are in truth Wurmtongue. Here is the video.
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I wrote something, about being sharp, and broken, in rebuttal to a comment on another blog. I then commented further here on my blog. Then I read that some slow learner, who obviously cannot understand even simple things, suggested that some of us yahoos out there believe we are Strider, but are in truth Wurmtongue. Here is the video.
Fats first.
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The easiest and best way to deliver fats is through meats, cheeses, cream, and such. The most difficult way is through carbs, even or especially greens. Dressing helps, but there is a limit. However, I know I need some things greens offer. I finished my meal and, simply could not eat more. However, wanting to push greens for exacting dietary needs, and dire ones, I set the alarm this time. I was hoping I might get a second gastronomic wind... of the consumptive type anyway. Flatulence has ended, which I don't think is a good thing? I think it means I am out of ketosis. Or my body no longer gets that side effect? It is all an experiment at this point.
I did get my second wind, and was then able to consume a pretty large portion of greens. Romaine lettuce, by three fourths I should guess, with spinach filling the other fourth, or third perhaps. Dressing, and plenty of it. As much as possible. Actually, just a normal ratio, it was simply a large salad, and then the remnants. Oh, and grated asiago, pepper, and a touch of salt. It was good about two thirds through the second meal and seconds. Then it just became... hmm... grass to the cow... urhm bull. Moo! Still, I hope it puts something good in. Something is a bit off.
I may or may not have mentioned, but I did find several sources of potassium powder... that is usually able to be stronger anyway. I questioned which was non-Chinese. Only one answered, but with the answer I wanted. Not made, sourced, bottled, or shipped through China. New trick is to bottle it in, say, Illinois but have it all made, bottle included for all I know, in China. Or even say it is made in the US, but somehow gets shipped through China. WTF? No. Slimy bastards, gotta watch them every second. Actually, there was only one that simply stated nothing was through, from, out of, by the way of, or otherwise involved with China. One. Still, I'll be ordering that tomorrow. I may order it singularly, with extra fast shipping. Yeah, something is really a bit off. I really want to be set for longer fast periods when the time arrives. That means not just having the extra vitamins, minerals, and whatnot, but having them already working in my system.
Truth be told, I don't think I am fasting any more than I used to fast. It's just that it used to be uncontrolled fasting. Which is how I broke diabetes twice before. It takes a while. Though I think I "fasted" for much longer periods of time. Weeks. They say you can't go without food for x... like a month and an half. I think you can, especially if you are sleeping most of it. While, until recently, I wasn't able to sleep extended periods, I have found that with the ac on, even in high summer, in my newer state, I might be able to sleep more, much more. I don't want to do months, again, or weeks. But several days would be fine... just to kill time until perhaps it is cool enough when it is light enough to go walking. At 99 F, I just don't see that happening any time soon. Later.
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The easiest and best way to deliver fats is through meats, cheeses, cream, and such. The most difficult way is through carbs, even or especially greens. Dressing helps, but there is a limit. However, I know I need some things greens offer. I finished my meal and, simply could not eat more. However, wanting to push greens for exacting dietary needs, and dire ones, I set the alarm this time. I was hoping I might get a second gastronomic wind... of the consumptive type anyway. Flatulence has ended, which I don't think is a good thing? I think it means I am out of ketosis. Or my body no longer gets that side effect? It is all an experiment at this point.
I did get my second wind, and was then able to consume a pretty large portion of greens. Romaine lettuce, by three fourths I should guess, with spinach filling the other fourth, or third perhaps. Dressing, and plenty of it. As much as possible. Actually, just a normal ratio, it was simply a large salad, and then the remnants. Oh, and grated asiago, pepper, and a touch of salt. It was good about two thirds through the second meal and seconds. Then it just became... hmm... grass to the cow... urhm bull. Moo! Still, I hope it puts something good in. Something is a bit off.
I may or may not have mentioned, but I did find several sources of potassium powder... that is usually able to be stronger anyway. I questioned which was non-Chinese. Only one answered, but with the answer I wanted. Not made, sourced, bottled, or shipped through China. New trick is to bottle it in, say, Illinois but have it all made, bottle included for all I know, in China. Or even say it is made in the US, but somehow gets shipped through China. WTF? No. Slimy bastards, gotta watch them every second. Actually, there was only one that simply stated nothing was through, from, out of, by the way of, or otherwise involved with China. One. Still, I'll be ordering that tomorrow. I may order it singularly, with extra fast shipping. Yeah, something is really a bit off. I really want to be set for longer fast periods when the time arrives. That means not just having the extra vitamins, minerals, and whatnot, but having them already working in my system.
Truth be told, I don't think I am fasting any more than I used to fast. It's just that it used to be uncontrolled fasting. Which is how I broke diabetes twice before. It takes a while. Though I think I "fasted" for much longer periods of time. Weeks. They say you can't go without food for x... like a month and an half. I think you can, especially if you are sleeping most of it. While, until recently, I wasn't able to sleep extended periods, I have found that with the ac on, even in high summer, in my newer state, I might be able to sleep more, much more. I don't want to do months, again, or weeks. But several days would be fine... just to kill time until perhaps it is cool enough when it is light enough to go walking. At 99 F, I just don't see that happening any time soon. Later.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Lots and lots and lots of sleep.
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Something is a bit off kilter. Then again, outside it was 99 today. Real, or felt, or an off thermo, I can't say. Though at least two of us thought that sounded about right. The cave was 78, a 21 degree difference. While that is excellent, without ac, that is still... let me see... oh, right, 78 degrees! For the last three decades, heat like that would absolutely destroy me. I can nap in this, sometimes, with a blanket. Though lately, the last couple of days, I have been using the ac. Which, I do believe, is allowing me... or almost forcing me... to sleep very long hours. As to dreaming, I am not sure if that is caused by extra sleep or the cool. But women have been oppressing my sleep cycles. Hmm? I'm a celibate. Oppressing indeed. Sure, until I went clean, I spent half of my money on wine women and song. The rest of it I outright wasted. I suppose locking Athena away was bound to give me headaches. Pampered little... never mind.
I do believe I am going long. With fasting that is. I will do one more cycle, as I am set up for it. Then I will go three days off, eating on the third day, then two days off, eating on the second day. By then potassium and an edible form of vitamin b complex should be in. I will definitely be using creamed tea and creamed or not bone broth, both daily. Though I do believe I have to... get a grip on volumes. I have been a bit... inattentive regarding volumes, and that might be part of the problem. A few tablespoons rather than an half to a full cup of cream, for example. I haven't dug back to review how I prepped the stock, whether with mirepoix or not. I have it, I need it, I will use it, either way. But next time, for sure, beef, chicken, fish, or pork, I will not use mirepoix.
Fish stock? Or so they say. I haven't dug into that yet. Although as dear as good fish are, I'm not sure I could afford it. Though, who knows. Maybe the fishmonger wouldn't mind sending fish heads for the stewing along in the batch on the cheap, with large enough orders. Well, and the shells and heads of shrimp, lobster, and such could be saved together in the freezer until enough was left for the stock? Even if both are even rare delicacies than fish itself. Hmm... I will keep such things on my mind. Do NOT poison my fishhead soup. My spirit will have first one, then the other, of your eyes. *wink blink grin*
I have received a response to my inquiry. I expected that I might have, in my possession, one of the potentially more egalitarian books by the author. I will review it, after reading what is underway. I don't skip well. I do what I do as I do things. Though, when finished, if it is sat, I will look at another book by the author. There is a chance his ideas on these matters are not too... modern... to be tolerated. While I absolutely reject equality, I also know that women have to watch out for themselves at times. They are not simply dainty flowers. However, if they follow their nature, and refuse to murder, they will go through times where they are or are nearly completely dependent. And that time might last from months to... longer. They may not be able to go back to work. And employers should not be required to wait for them, and then wait on them and their child(ren). Not equal. If they need to have some understandings. The world may be unkind to a single solo man, but they are absolutely ruthless to women. Not equal. Not close.
Blood sugar was 184. Bleh. Part of the reason I have decided to go ahead with longer fasting, though after I have extra vitamins and minerals. I would like to add more salads, but that is more carbs. Even every other meal of that is pushing things. And, yet, until I have potassium going into the engine, that is the way of it. That potassium powder is such nasty stuff though. Oh well. Perhaps I can doctor it up somehow. Extra thick stock, cream on that, go savory... or with extra liquid splenda, fruit, and cream... or tea cream and sweetener... whatever it takes at first, and then learn how to ease back and just take it like the sick dog I am. Nasty. Amazing that hasn't killed me yet. Very very low. It's actually what killed my bulimic sister-in-law... potassium deficiency lead to a heart attack. Odd how, on either end of the spectrum, for such varied reasons, it might come down to the same thing. Her around 80, myself at 250. Same damned potential killer.
With those notions, and if you look into diabetes (especially or mainly(?) type-2), you will find that as people get bigger, their insulin goes up. As their insulin goes up, they literally need to eat more, because the insulin is storing the fat rather than letting them use it. They are, literally, eating themselves into starvation. Then look at bulimics and anorexics, to include manorexics who attempt to lower body fat into the starvation area... Hunger indeed strides in the lands of wealth. It is welcomed, in fact nearly worshiped by some, if some of us attempt all we may to deny it. I didn't think I was alone. More are on the way. Though, as I have suggested, this is just, from what I can tell, another dress rehearsal. Though it might be the most intense one so far. It looks like everyone from the cast, to the honored observers, to the peanut gallery are prepping to really dig in and do their part with gusto!
Uhm, right. Later? I never know these things. Yes, actually, one way or another.
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Something is a bit off kilter. Then again, outside it was 99 today. Real, or felt, or an off thermo, I can't say. Though at least two of us thought that sounded about right. The cave was 78, a 21 degree difference. While that is excellent, without ac, that is still... let me see... oh, right, 78 degrees! For the last three decades, heat like that would absolutely destroy me. I can nap in this, sometimes, with a blanket. Though lately, the last couple of days, I have been using the ac. Which, I do believe, is allowing me... or almost forcing me... to sleep very long hours. As to dreaming, I am not sure if that is caused by extra sleep or the cool. But women have been oppressing my sleep cycles. Hmm? I'm a celibate. Oppressing indeed. Sure, until I went clean, I spent half of my money on wine women and song. The rest of it I outright wasted. I suppose locking Athena away was bound to give me headaches. Pampered little... never mind.
I do believe I am going long. With fasting that is. I will do one more cycle, as I am set up for it. Then I will go three days off, eating on the third day, then two days off, eating on the second day. By then potassium and an edible form of vitamin b complex should be in. I will definitely be using creamed tea and creamed or not bone broth, both daily. Though I do believe I have to... get a grip on volumes. I have been a bit... inattentive regarding volumes, and that might be part of the problem. A few tablespoons rather than an half to a full cup of cream, for example. I haven't dug back to review how I prepped the stock, whether with mirepoix or not. I have it, I need it, I will use it, either way. But next time, for sure, beef, chicken, fish, or pork, I will not use mirepoix.
Fish stock? Or so they say. I haven't dug into that yet. Although as dear as good fish are, I'm not sure I could afford it. Though, who knows. Maybe the fishmonger wouldn't mind sending fish heads for the stewing along in the batch on the cheap, with large enough orders. Well, and the shells and heads of shrimp, lobster, and such could be saved together in the freezer until enough was left for the stock? Even if both are even rare delicacies than fish itself. Hmm... I will keep such things on my mind. Do NOT poison my fishhead soup. My spirit will have first one, then the other, of your eyes. *wink blink grin*
I have received a response to my inquiry. I expected that I might have, in my possession, one of the potentially more egalitarian books by the author. I will review it, after reading what is underway. I don't skip well. I do what I do as I do things. Though, when finished, if it is sat, I will look at another book by the author. There is a chance his ideas on these matters are not too... modern... to be tolerated. While I absolutely reject equality, I also know that women have to watch out for themselves at times. They are not simply dainty flowers. However, if they follow their nature, and refuse to murder, they will go through times where they are or are nearly completely dependent. And that time might last from months to... longer. They may not be able to go back to work. And employers should not be required to wait for them, and then wait on them and their child(ren). Not equal. If they need to have some understandings. The world may be unkind to a single solo man, but they are absolutely ruthless to women. Not equal. Not close.
Blood sugar was 184. Bleh. Part of the reason I have decided to go ahead with longer fasting, though after I have extra vitamins and minerals. I would like to add more salads, but that is more carbs. Even every other meal of that is pushing things. And, yet, until I have potassium going into the engine, that is the way of it. That potassium powder is such nasty stuff though. Oh well. Perhaps I can doctor it up somehow. Extra thick stock, cream on that, go savory... or with extra liquid splenda, fruit, and cream... or tea cream and sweetener... whatever it takes at first, and then learn how to ease back and just take it like the sick dog I am. Nasty. Amazing that hasn't killed me yet. Very very low. It's actually what killed my bulimic sister-in-law... potassium deficiency lead to a heart attack. Odd how, on either end of the spectrum, for such varied reasons, it might come down to the same thing. Her around 80, myself at 250. Same damned potential killer.
With those notions, and if you look into diabetes (especially or mainly(?) type-2), you will find that as people get bigger, their insulin goes up. As their insulin goes up, they literally need to eat more, because the insulin is storing the fat rather than letting them use it. They are, literally, eating themselves into starvation. Then look at bulimics and anorexics, to include manorexics who attempt to lower body fat into the starvation area... Hunger indeed strides in the lands of wealth. It is welcomed, in fact nearly worshiped by some, if some of us attempt all we may to deny it. I didn't think I was alone. More are on the way. Though, as I have suggested, this is just, from what I can tell, another dress rehearsal. Though it might be the most intense one so far. It looks like everyone from the cast, to the honored observers, to the peanut gallery are prepping to really dig in and do their part with gusto!
Uhm, right. Later? I never know these things. Yes, actually, one way or another.
They don't always understand.
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I ask, this way and that. I look, poke, check. Monsters. Everywhere. If it isn't a postmodern piece of "art", jazz "music", then it's a muslim, queer, or something else. Always. Almost everything. Because of some presentations, I think some believe I am forgiving, or accepting. Of many things, perhaps of everything? I am not. Not an iota. The sinner, so long as not the sin is acceptable. Usually it isn't. Not even egalitarianism. That was the start of the fall of America and the West in general. Or at least one of the strongest mechanisms put into play by bad actors with very specific bad intentions.
I have asked for more information. Is this problem a personal peccadillo or is it a supported public offense? I need to know more, and perhaps view evidence, before deciding where to go and what to do. I simply cannot support it, won't. To some degree I feel tricked. Though there were no promises. If too, I think there was something of a... I will look further. I just am not sure how this will turn out. Nor, exactly, what to or not to do. As a general rule, I don't go on the offensive. If it was merely a misunderstanding, unless attacked, I merely go on my way. Though, too, most attacks are of little import. Few know how to throw a punch of any sort which would catch my attention these days.
I've sent an email. I will wait for a response. Consider that, perhaps look more. Oh well. Later.
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I ask, this way and that. I look, poke, check. Monsters. Everywhere. If it isn't a postmodern piece of "art", jazz "music", then it's a muslim, queer, or something else. Always. Almost everything. Because of some presentations, I think some believe I am forgiving, or accepting. Of many things, perhaps of everything? I am not. Not an iota. The sinner, so long as not the sin is acceptable. Usually it isn't. Not even egalitarianism. That was the start of the fall of America and the West in general. Or at least one of the strongest mechanisms put into play by bad actors with very specific bad intentions.
I have asked for more information. Is this problem a personal peccadillo or is it a supported public offense? I need to know more, and perhaps view evidence, before deciding where to go and what to do. I simply cannot support it, won't. To some degree I feel tricked. Though there were no promises. If too, I think there was something of a... I will look further. I just am not sure how this will turn out. Nor, exactly, what to or not to do. As a general rule, I don't go on the offensive. If it was merely a misunderstanding, unless attacked, I merely go on my way. Though, too, most attacks are of little import. Few know how to throw a punch of any sort which would catch my attention these days.
I've sent an email. I will wait for a response. Consider that, perhaps look more. Oh well. Later.
Hmm... to be remembered, or understood?
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It's a bit of a flirt. Someone dug, so I... will reward.
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It's a bit of a flirt. Someone dug, so I... will reward.
Trying to find supplements I can trust.
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First question? Is the supplement made, bottled, shipped through, or in any way touched by the Chinese? If so, scratch that right off the list. American companies are bad enough. Canadian and Mexican? Getting out into medical ghetto land. China? You might as well just scrape your own stuff from a gutter and add it to whatever. Companies refuse to answer, so, when I ask... the same question three others asked, I then add that if the "manufacturer" won't answer, while they answer other questions, that it must be from China. Bottled in Illinois? Illinois? Right, that's bad enough. They have pushed many legit businesses out. Socialists, mafia types, and communists seem to work well together... as long as they aren't all in the same small area.
I am sure I need potassium. Actually, fasting as I am, I really need to be back on my full vitamin schedule, and for a short while probably on the additional vitamins I had been taking as part time extras. Drinking even in more moderation without eating means I am voiding things I need without replacing them. Bone broth might help, and yeah I best restart that too, but I don't think it is enough. And that's for starters. Then I'll look at some other possible adds... once I somewhat stabilize on those things. So, tonight, I'll put my medicine dispensers back into action. Skipping, for now, the otc heart stuff. I want to look more closely at what that is supposed to do. If it is just covering things up, or tricking the body, I'm not so sure that is a good thing. Vitamins, though, definitely. I think the ones I have were vetted, though I should check again. Some things, like food, vitamins, or anything taken internally for any reason... don't buy Chinese. Clothes, electronics (minus computers if at all possible, down to components), typical short term use junk, duct tape? Cool. Just nothing used on or for the body.
I have heard that one of my problems may be a general vitamin b deficiency with my diet (that makes sense with some issues, like exhaustion coming back). B5 seems to be the real problem with energy, at this point. Potassium has always been an issue, I just ignored it. The VA actually did try with this, but I couldn't handle the pills, and the powder was nasty. I think I am pretty much down to the powder. I guess, at this point, I'll have to push through. Now, my numbers were low, always, on potassium. That would not have changed. Now that I am climbing out of the hole on my own, and I see that it is needed, I'll take a shot at it again, but without their saying not to do it this way or that, or with this or... Shut the fuck up. Gah! I'll add it to whatever will allow me to drink it down that fits my nutritional deal... probably liquid splenda sweetened tea with cream, in an attempt to cover the nasty. Or, maybe, if that doesn't work, in with bone broth or bone broth and cream. Whatever works and works for me.
I am handling the heat well. I honestly don't think that is the problem. Even at 80, I was napping fairly well earlier. I don't think heat is causing me to be tired... B5. That I can fix. Not sure, even if that does fix well, that I want to run with it until I get potassium under control though, now that I have done a bit of looking. That is a good way to tempt blowing the motor. Once I find a non-Chinese potassium powder, I can get that going. I have a super B complex that worked fairly well to now, and a general vitamin, plus some others (everything but potassium, actually, in that line of what diuretics force the body to void). Electrolytes, I think would be the term I keep not being able to recall.
I'll keep at it. Something I have noticed is that I am finally making my way with the hand exercises. I can do 150 so easily it's barely useful as an exhaustion part, I do 200 rather well. Oddly 250 is a bit of a strain, while 300 isn't much worse. I think the 300 grip has a bigger size, perhaps more of an angle too? For me the size difference offsets the greater compression demand. Now the 350 still kicks my butt... or such. Beside strengthening, my arms are showing it. Hey, it's the only exercise I can get going on, so... I got going on it. I am also beginning to use the dyna-flex gyroscopic exercise for hands, wrists, lower arms. If I get it all going, I might really be ready for climbing, at least in this area. And rowing? Maybe. Later.
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First question? Is the supplement made, bottled, shipped through, or in any way touched by the Chinese? If so, scratch that right off the list. American companies are bad enough. Canadian and Mexican? Getting out into medical ghetto land. China? You might as well just scrape your own stuff from a gutter and add it to whatever. Companies refuse to answer, so, when I ask... the same question three others asked, I then add that if the "manufacturer" won't answer, while they answer other questions, that it must be from China. Bottled in Illinois? Illinois? Right, that's bad enough. They have pushed many legit businesses out. Socialists, mafia types, and communists seem to work well together... as long as they aren't all in the same small area.
I am sure I need potassium. Actually, fasting as I am, I really need to be back on my full vitamin schedule, and for a short while probably on the additional vitamins I had been taking as part time extras. Drinking even in more moderation without eating means I am voiding things I need without replacing them. Bone broth might help, and yeah I best restart that too, but I don't think it is enough. And that's for starters. Then I'll look at some other possible adds... once I somewhat stabilize on those things. So, tonight, I'll put my medicine dispensers back into action. Skipping, for now, the otc heart stuff. I want to look more closely at what that is supposed to do. If it is just covering things up, or tricking the body, I'm not so sure that is a good thing. Vitamins, though, definitely. I think the ones I have were vetted, though I should check again. Some things, like food, vitamins, or anything taken internally for any reason... don't buy Chinese. Clothes, electronics (minus computers if at all possible, down to components), typical short term use junk, duct tape? Cool. Just nothing used on or for the body.
I have heard that one of my problems may be a general vitamin b deficiency with my diet (that makes sense with some issues, like exhaustion coming back). B5 seems to be the real problem with energy, at this point. Potassium has always been an issue, I just ignored it. The VA actually did try with this, but I couldn't handle the pills, and the powder was nasty. I think I am pretty much down to the powder. I guess, at this point, I'll have to push through. Now, my numbers were low, always, on potassium. That would not have changed. Now that I am climbing out of the hole on my own, and I see that it is needed, I'll take a shot at it again, but without their saying not to do it this way or that, or with this or... Shut the fuck up. Gah! I'll add it to whatever will allow me to drink it down that fits my nutritional deal... probably liquid splenda sweetened tea with cream, in an attempt to cover the nasty. Or, maybe, if that doesn't work, in with bone broth or bone broth and cream. Whatever works and works for me.
I am handling the heat well. I honestly don't think that is the problem. Even at 80, I was napping fairly well earlier. I don't think heat is causing me to be tired... B5. That I can fix. Not sure, even if that does fix well, that I want to run with it until I get potassium under control though, now that I have done a bit of looking. That is a good way to tempt blowing the motor. Once I find a non-Chinese potassium powder, I can get that going. I have a super B complex that worked fairly well to now, and a general vitamin, plus some others (everything but potassium, actually, in that line of what diuretics force the body to void). Electrolytes, I think would be the term I keep not being able to recall.
I'll keep at it. Something I have noticed is that I am finally making my way with the hand exercises. I can do 150 so easily it's barely useful as an exhaustion part, I do 200 rather well. Oddly 250 is a bit of a strain, while 300 isn't much worse. I think the 300 grip has a bigger size, perhaps more of an angle too? For me the size difference offsets the greater compression demand. Now the 350 still kicks my butt... or such. Beside strengthening, my arms are showing it. Hey, it's the only exercise I can get going on, so... I got going on it. I am also beginning to use the dyna-flex gyroscopic exercise for hands, wrists, lower arms. If I get it all going, I might really be ready for climbing, at least in this area. And rowing? Maybe. Later.
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