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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.
Monday, August 1, 2016
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.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Feast day.
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I had some things to do for the meatzza. Grinding cheese, two kinds, then bagging those. A dose of corn starch to keep it from clumping. By the time I started, I already had the oven heated and the hamburger 'crust' going. I checked for other ingredients. I have several spaghetti toppings, of various costs. I was experimenting. While I did find that the expensive stuff tasted no better than the cheap stuff, in looking at the nutritional information I did find a reason to buy the expensive stuff. It has a quarter of the carbs, or even less. It probably simply doesn't use sugar as a filler. Assuming labels are worth a hoot, that is. I honest don't think there is a government agency that hasn't been corrupted and dumbed down at this point. Government work has become the dumping ground for people who aren't actually employable. Once hired, they can't get rid of them even when caught committing a federal crime.
Anyway, so... a quarter cup of the "gooder" spaghetti sauce, then mozzarella balls, pepper jack, cheddar, and olives (at least the green olives, pickled, have no carbs). On top of that, when the cheese is melted, I will add salsa. Hmm, I will also have a salad and dressing. If I have any room I might have a grapefruit? No... too late. I had grapes as an appetizer while tinkering anyway. Just a bit of things.
I may need to figure out how to get potassium and vitamin B into my diet. I consume enough dairy that I am sat, to my mind, with vitamin D. There are some others I am looking into or already have. But starting things in limited runs. Start too much at once, and something goes wrong, figure which one is the problem can be a hassle. Still, I have a list I know is okay, a group I will be starting, and a few things I know I need or am reviewing. Yeah.
Oh, best check on that. I'll let you know how it was in a bit. No rush though... this will probably numbskull me if I eat a bit much or a bit fast, which is possible.
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Well, no salad. Nothing else. Ever! Oh, it was good. Too good. I cut off a portion I thought I could handle and it handled me just fine. No, I didn't finish it. As suggested, much the opposite. The rest is for tomorrow. Or not. Wow. Did I mention asiago? Yeah, about a quarter cup freshly grated. Oh, ouch. If you are on keto, or paleo I believe, or just don't have flour for crust or don't want to mess with it? There you go. Now I'm not sure about pepperoni. Could accidently kill myself with that add. Det. Smith, "We don't know. We found a slice of pepperoni meatzza in one cold, dead, hand. A pistol and bible in his other cold dead hand and arm. Yes, he was smiling."
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I had some things to do for the meatzza. Grinding cheese, two kinds, then bagging those. A dose of corn starch to keep it from clumping. By the time I started, I already had the oven heated and the hamburger 'crust' going. I checked for other ingredients. I have several spaghetti toppings, of various costs. I was experimenting. While I did find that the expensive stuff tasted no better than the cheap stuff, in looking at the nutritional information I did find a reason to buy the expensive stuff. It has a quarter of the carbs, or even less. It probably simply doesn't use sugar as a filler. Assuming labels are worth a hoot, that is. I honest don't think there is a government agency that hasn't been corrupted and dumbed down at this point. Government work has become the dumping ground for people who aren't actually employable. Once hired, they can't get rid of them even when caught committing a federal crime.
Anyway, so... a quarter cup of the "gooder" spaghetti sauce, then mozzarella balls, pepper jack, cheddar, and olives (at least the green olives, pickled, have no carbs). On top of that, when the cheese is melted, I will add salsa. Hmm, I will also have a salad and dressing. If I have any room I might have a grapefruit? No... too late. I had grapes as an appetizer while tinkering anyway. Just a bit of things.
I may need to figure out how to get potassium and vitamin B into my diet. I consume enough dairy that I am sat, to my mind, with vitamin D. There are some others I am looking into or already have. But starting things in limited runs. Start too much at once, and something goes wrong, figure which one is the problem can be a hassle. Still, I have a list I know is okay, a group I will be starting, and a few things I know I need or am reviewing. Yeah.
Oh, best check on that. I'll let you know how it was in a bit. No rush though... this will probably numbskull me if I eat a bit much or a bit fast, which is possible.
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Well, no salad. Nothing else. Ever! Oh, it was good. Too good. I cut off a portion I thought I could handle and it handled me just fine. No, I didn't finish it. As suggested, much the opposite. The rest is for tomorrow. Or not. Wow. Did I mention asiago? Yeah, about a quarter cup freshly grated. Oh, ouch. If you are on keto, or paleo I believe, or just don't have flour for crust or don't want to mess with it? There you go. Now I'm not sure about pepperoni. Could accidently kill myself with that add. Det. Smith, "We don't know. We found a slice of pepperoni meatzza in one cold, dead, hand. A pistol and bible in his other cold dead hand and arm. Yes, he was smiling."
Food day!
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It's not time. I have to wait until 17:00 (or later if I head back to sleep and sleep a long cycle). But I know it's on the way. It's almost like a birthday. If I go to three days total fasting, and then take my other day to double day fasting, food days will be a true treat. Even now, though, they are something I look forward to with relish. Mostly in the literary way, as relish isn't my thing and probably has too many carbs. *grins*
Today I plan on making something like a mmeatza? Using hamburger as a bit of a crust. Baking that in a cast iron pan until it is mostly done. Then adding >some< tomato stuff, but mostly several cheeses... asiago and cheddar, though maybe pepper jack as well. I don't have pepperoni or I would do that, maybe I should get some of that for on hand, since it seems okay. I know, sounds crazy, right? And, yet, for carnivore types? Meat, on meat, on cheese, on... You could really go places with this. I ought to get black olives. Hmm, I should have green olives. I'll check them, might be able to add some. I don't think I'll do the jalapeno poppers tonight, cooking one thing is enough. But everything will be ready for those tomorrow. Oh, I am quite excited to see how this turns out. Probably way more than I can eat... even with just a pound of burger. With two nights of eating, however, I can get a good portion of it down. Blood sugar is down a bit, to 151.
Something else, while I have been looking, that caught my eye? Artichokes. Now, I am not sure they fit in my diet. One keto eater seems to think so. I tried to make them some time back, and... Well, I cooked according to instructions. Then I tore into them. I thought... there would be... something something in there. Nope. Just a bunch of stinking leaves. I simply did not get it. In shame I tossed what I had cooked and what else remained and never, until recently, looked back. Well, I looked up how to do it. I would, if they fit, like to give them another shot. Said to be good with butter, mayo, and even a mix. Couldn't be all bad?
Oh, and it seems I finished a book in a rather quick order. I'd like to try some of his other books, which I already have two. I now have two books to review, and two more... and more beyond, books to read. I'll do reviews here, shape them up, form them, then send them live on Amazon. When I can get to it. That is work. And I want those crafted correctly, but true. I can hack things fairly hamfisted if I am not attentive. And yet I hate being a Monty Hall give-away host either. Oh woe is me! *punch* *grins*
Later.
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It's not time. I have to wait until 17:00 (or later if I head back to sleep and sleep a long cycle). But I know it's on the way. It's almost like a birthday. If I go to three days total fasting, and then take my other day to double day fasting, food days will be a true treat. Even now, though, they are something I look forward to with relish. Mostly in the literary way, as relish isn't my thing and probably has too many carbs. *grins*
Today I plan on making something like a mmeatza? Using hamburger as a bit of a crust. Baking that in a cast iron pan until it is mostly done. Then adding >some< tomato stuff, but mostly several cheeses... asiago and cheddar, though maybe pepper jack as well. I don't have pepperoni or I would do that, maybe I should get some of that for on hand, since it seems okay. I know, sounds crazy, right? And, yet, for carnivore types? Meat, on meat, on cheese, on... You could really go places with this. I ought to get black olives. Hmm, I should have green olives. I'll check them, might be able to add some. I don't think I'll do the jalapeno poppers tonight, cooking one thing is enough. But everything will be ready for those tomorrow. Oh, I am quite excited to see how this turns out. Probably way more than I can eat... even with just a pound of burger. With two nights of eating, however, I can get a good portion of it down. Blood sugar is down a bit, to 151.
Something else, while I have been looking, that caught my eye? Artichokes. Now, I am not sure they fit in my diet. One keto eater seems to think so. I tried to make them some time back, and... Well, I cooked according to instructions. Then I tore into them. I thought... there would be... something something in there. Nope. Just a bunch of stinking leaves. I simply did not get it. In shame I tossed what I had cooked and what else remained and never, until recently, looked back. Well, I looked up how to do it. I would, if they fit, like to give them another shot. Said to be good with butter, mayo, and even a mix. Couldn't be all bad?
Oh, and it seems I finished a book in a rather quick order. I'd like to try some of his other books, which I already have two. I now have two books to review, and two more... and more beyond, books to read. I'll do reviews here, shape them up, form them, then send them live on Amazon. When I can get to it. That is work. And I want those crafted correctly, but true. I can hack things fairly hamfisted if I am not attentive. And yet I hate being a Monty Hall give-away host either. Oh woe is me! *punch* *grins*
Later.
Questions, doubts? Good. Enter.
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Remembered. Some... time back... I cannot remember how long ago and did not bother to search. Another use of a song recently used in part. Used for a different purpose the first time? Maybe. It was indicated that, while I might not be built or made to move mountains, this I could do... meaning to handle a woman.
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Remembered. Some... time back... I cannot remember how long ago and did not bother to search. Another use of a song recently used in part. Used for a different purpose the first time? Maybe. It was indicated that, while I might not be built or made to move mountains, this I could do... meaning to handle a woman.
Lots of sleep.
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I think it was needed. I can't do a whole lot else as things stand. It's not impossibly hot, it simply is too warm when I am able to be awake and active to do much. And there is always hope that, if I sleep just right, get caught up, and twist it around while doing so, I might end up awake at a time when I can begin to do something. When I begin to walk, the goal is to do that on the days I eat, before I have eaten. Any time would work, if it is cool and light enough. And not too busy on the roads. I can walk here in town, probably for up to an half hour... for a while. I would probably begin getting bored with that soon enough. But for an hour walk, it really would require going on a road. There are three that leave town, mostly. Two are fairly heavily traveled.
I don't see my day moving around. I think some part of things is tied to being awake in the cooler part of the night. It simply is. I can't seem to push my way around that. My body seems to be dodging the sun as much as anything. I, sometimes, am simply along for the ride. "I want to be to bed by 21:00~22:00 so as to be up by 6:00~7:00!", I might say. And my body is like, "Right, sure. Go over there and sit down and shut up, Commander. I am right on that." I've learned that I am not in charge. I can jack things, for a price. No need to do so in an attempt to create a long-term thing because it just won't happen. Until the chamber with the bullet lands under the hammer, and then I can encourage that going forward, I can't just make it happen. My body can handle the heat, easily now it seems. It simply can't really tolerate the sun itself or tinkering in the higher heat. Most would do no such thing without very great incentive. It's not natural, I don't care what anyone says.
Oh, actually, it looks like I will be going with a three day fast for the long one. And, if need be, I will stretch the one day into a two day as well. I will hammer those numbers into place one way or another. Having accidentally fasted for weeks, at least, I really am not worried... or as worried. My blood sugar just now was 166. Last night, several hours after the unauthorized meal, it was 192. It has been holding, generally, in the 150's for the last bit before that... 152 the last time before the ua meal... if that wasn't listed.
Tomorrow/today, depending on how sleep works out... for dinner? I believe I will be making hamburger, crumbled, with cheese. I have salsa from the store (made at the store, so no serious mumbo-jumbo in it). And I will be stuffing the remaing jalapenos with cream cheese and wrapping them with bacon. Bake at 350, for... until the bacon is crispy on both side. Three or four will be eaten, three or four will be crafted, then frozen for another meal. Not sure exactly how many I have. Quite often, however, I won't be doing more than hamburger and cheese or dressing or mayo anymore. Until I can figure out carb counting, and probably get a better idea of what enough fat looks like. The fat really needs to be 65 to 80 percent, protein at just 15 to 35 percent, and cabs have to be 5 percent or less and only of a certain type. My guess is that I am eating way too much protein, to be honest. Which can skew it all. The body will simply replace carbs with proteins, turning those right into sugar just as it had been doing with carbs. Gah! But that would make sense.
Now, initially, I won't worry about total amounts, calorie counting. I am simply worried about the ratios. I plan to eat until I am satisfied. And that has reduced even so. I am getting there, just without enough information to make the thing work. Two mistakes, one with sweets, one with regular food but off the fasting schedule. Well, and I don't know if I would call the potential (hopefully) ratio problem a mistake. Ignorance is to be expected. That I dug in anyway is either laudable or foolish. I'll take it, personally. I can adjust on the fly, always could, often did, had to do so.
It does feel like I have stopped losing weight though. Perhaps I am just in that gray area that is between sizes, or even just at the new size so it will take a while to go down, or to have it be noticeable. Though weight isn't the issue for me. I like the idea. Though if I could be fit and diabetes corrected at 280, or even 350? I'm not sure it matters at this point in my life. More so with Alaskan on the horizon. Bears, moose, elk, and trout simply don't care. Still, if it takes losing to make it all work, my ego won't be hurt by that I suppose. Later.
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I think it was needed. I can't do a whole lot else as things stand. It's not impossibly hot, it simply is too warm when I am able to be awake and active to do much. And there is always hope that, if I sleep just right, get caught up, and twist it around while doing so, I might end up awake at a time when I can begin to do something. When I begin to walk, the goal is to do that on the days I eat, before I have eaten. Any time would work, if it is cool and light enough. And not too busy on the roads. I can walk here in town, probably for up to an half hour... for a while. I would probably begin getting bored with that soon enough. But for an hour walk, it really would require going on a road. There are three that leave town, mostly. Two are fairly heavily traveled.
I don't see my day moving around. I think some part of things is tied to being awake in the cooler part of the night. It simply is. I can't seem to push my way around that. My body seems to be dodging the sun as much as anything. I, sometimes, am simply along for the ride. "I want to be to bed by 21:00~22:00 so as to be up by 6:00~7:00!", I might say. And my body is like, "Right, sure. Go over there and sit down and shut up, Commander. I am right on that." I've learned that I am not in charge. I can jack things, for a price. No need to do so in an attempt to create a long-term thing because it just won't happen. Until the chamber with the bullet lands under the hammer, and then I can encourage that going forward, I can't just make it happen. My body can handle the heat, easily now it seems. It simply can't really tolerate the sun itself or tinkering in the higher heat. Most would do no such thing without very great incentive. It's not natural, I don't care what anyone says.
Oh, actually, it looks like I will be going with a three day fast for the long one. And, if need be, I will stretch the one day into a two day as well. I will hammer those numbers into place one way or another. Having accidentally fasted for weeks, at least, I really am not worried... or as worried. My blood sugar just now was 166. Last night, several hours after the unauthorized meal, it was 192. It has been holding, generally, in the 150's for the last bit before that... 152 the last time before the ua meal... if that wasn't listed.
Tomorrow/today, depending on how sleep works out... for dinner? I believe I will be making hamburger, crumbled, with cheese. I have salsa from the store (made at the store, so no serious mumbo-jumbo in it). And I will be stuffing the remaing jalapenos with cream cheese and wrapping them with bacon. Bake at 350, for... until the bacon is crispy on both side. Three or four will be eaten, three or four will be crafted, then frozen for another meal. Not sure exactly how many I have. Quite often, however, I won't be doing more than hamburger and cheese or dressing or mayo anymore. Until I can figure out carb counting, and probably get a better idea of what enough fat looks like. The fat really needs to be 65 to 80 percent, protein at just 15 to 35 percent, and cabs have to be 5 percent or less and only of a certain type. My guess is that I am eating way too much protein, to be honest. Which can skew it all. The body will simply replace carbs with proteins, turning those right into sugar just as it had been doing with carbs. Gah! But that would make sense.
Now, initially, I won't worry about total amounts, calorie counting. I am simply worried about the ratios. I plan to eat until I am satisfied. And that has reduced even so. I am getting there, just without enough information to make the thing work. Two mistakes, one with sweets, one with regular food but off the fasting schedule. Well, and I don't know if I would call the potential (hopefully) ratio problem a mistake. Ignorance is to be expected. That I dug in anyway is either laudable or foolish. I'll take it, personally. I can adjust on the fly, always could, often did, had to do so.
It does feel like I have stopped losing weight though. Perhaps I am just in that gray area that is between sizes, or even just at the new size so it will take a while to go down, or to have it be noticeable. Though weight isn't the issue for me. I like the idea. Though if I could be fit and diabetes corrected at 280, or even 350? I'm not sure it matters at this point in my life. More so with Alaskan on the horizon. Bears, moose, elk, and trout simply don't care. Still, if it takes losing to make it all work, my ego won't be hurt by that I suppose. Later.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Oh, right, I did do something.
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Small as it was, something is something. It got at least to the very low 50's last night. Even with windows open and fans fanning I could only drag it down to 76. I'll need to shut the windows up before long. So, yeah. Simply being high summer means less activity. If anything, the food plan and fasting are probably making life a lot smoother, easier. My health may not be improving as much as I would like, as quickly as I had hoped, but the heat is much more tolerable. Oh, as to my effort?
Pickling. Not a true pickle, I don't believe. More like a refrigerator pickle. And, yet, I did get a seal. I'm not exactly sure how good that is, or how long it will last. Further, I didn't just do jalapenos, I did a jar of cucumbers as well. I will have a nacho-like burger fry Saturday, and add some of the peppers. The cucumbers (or are they now actually pickles?) will be saved for next week. Just to give it time to settle and work in or out or... whatnot. Ah, here is the video I followed... more or less. I'm a guy, I don't "do" recipes... or you know. Oh, and I didn't have garlic. I did have dill, for the cucumbers/pickles. Oh well.
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Small as it was, something is something. It got at least to the very low 50's last night. Even with windows open and fans fanning I could only drag it down to 76. I'll need to shut the windows up before long. So, yeah. Simply being high summer means less activity. If anything, the food plan and fasting are probably making life a lot smoother, easier. My health may not be improving as much as I would like, as quickly as I had hoped, but the heat is much more tolerable. Oh, as to my effort?
Pickling. Not a true pickle, I don't believe. More like a refrigerator pickle. And, yet, I did get a seal. I'm not exactly sure how good that is, or how long it will last. Further, I didn't just do jalapenos, I did a jar of cucumbers as well. I will have a nacho-like burger fry Saturday, and add some of the peppers. The cucumbers (or are they now actually pickles?) will be saved for next week. Just to give it time to settle and work in or out or... whatnot. Ah, here is the video I followed... more or less. I'm a guy, I don't "do" recipes... or you know. Oh, and I didn't have garlic. I did have dill, for the cucumbers/pickles. Oh well.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
A new trick.
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I keep digging to find something that might help with the insulin numbers. Care has to be given. One doctor, for example, suggested nine servings of blended vegetable juices a day. I don't know what sort of vegetables he was advising, I clicked that off when I realized his gig. Vegetables are murder, for the most part. Some leafy greens, if those even only occasionally, in small amounts. But nine servings a day? Even the best, lowest carb, veggies I have seen would be murder to my insulin numbers. There have been many bits of advice. Some of it is just either outright not workable, as with the veggie smoothies, or simply too complex or dubious for other reasons. Cinnamon, however, is something I am hearing often. As much as two tablespoons per day?
I don't know about that much. Especially since I don't eat every day. That would be a lot to add to tea. Even if I brought cream back into the diet, that is a massive dose of cinnamon. Split over two cream teas a day? Only if I was heavy with the cream and keep the actual tea volume to half a gallon as well. I certainly wouldn't want two tablespoons of cinnamon in, what would essentially be, every single meal I eat. That just isn't possible. I would revolt, and quickly. Oh, I like cinnamon well enough. Just not that well. Still, I may attempt to add something, say half that, per day. Any movement on the dial indicating improvement, let it go and see where it ends up. I am not sure how sustainable that is. That is a lot of cinnamon, even at that amount. And, yet, I seem stuck. I would rather try a few more tricks, more strict food control, and giving those some time to cutting another day into the long fasting cycle.
Oh, and if someone is trying to sell you magic cinnamon that works while other, "just regular", cinnamon won't? Caveat Emptor. You heard it here... I hope not first. But if so, all good. Idjit.
I would love to add exercise, just walking for now. I think that might really help. I just don't have that option open to me quite yet. Patience. It's the trick of all true tricks, even if it is the absence of said at times. Yeah, contrarian, but not just for stylism. Later.
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I keep digging to find something that might help with the insulin numbers. Care has to be given. One doctor, for example, suggested nine servings of blended vegetable juices a day. I don't know what sort of vegetables he was advising, I clicked that off when I realized his gig. Vegetables are murder, for the most part. Some leafy greens, if those even only occasionally, in small amounts. But nine servings a day? Even the best, lowest carb, veggies I have seen would be murder to my insulin numbers. There have been many bits of advice. Some of it is just either outright not workable, as with the veggie smoothies, or simply too complex or dubious for other reasons. Cinnamon, however, is something I am hearing often. As much as two tablespoons per day?
I don't know about that much. Especially since I don't eat every day. That would be a lot to add to tea. Even if I brought cream back into the diet, that is a massive dose of cinnamon. Split over two cream teas a day? Only if I was heavy with the cream and keep the actual tea volume to half a gallon as well. I certainly wouldn't want two tablespoons of cinnamon in, what would essentially be, every single meal I eat. That just isn't possible. I would revolt, and quickly. Oh, I like cinnamon well enough. Just not that well. Still, I may attempt to add something, say half that, per day. Any movement on the dial indicating improvement, let it go and see where it ends up. I am not sure how sustainable that is. That is a lot of cinnamon, even at that amount. And, yet, I seem stuck. I would rather try a few more tricks, more strict food control, and giving those some time to cutting another day into the long fasting cycle.
Oh, and if someone is trying to sell you magic cinnamon that works while other, "just regular", cinnamon won't? Caveat Emptor. You heard it here... I hope not first. But if so, all good. Idjit.
I would love to add exercise, just walking for now. I think that might really help. I just don't have that option open to me quite yet. Patience. It's the trick of all true tricks, even if it is the absence of said at times. Yeah, contrarian, but not just for stylism. Later.
Sleep!
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I've been tired for a while, again. The heat, the fasting, the frustration with insulin which just read at 177, did I mention the heat? It's not blister hot. In the cave it is about 80 at the hottest part of the day now and can be taken down to 72 to 76 at night. That, to me, at times in my life, would have been way too hot. Whether it is the fasting or what I am eating, those temps simply don't matter on a daily basis. Heck, stepping out into 95 isn't too bad. I can even walk in it, short distances, without it really having any effect. And, now, when I have had to shop in full sun, it just... I don't get a burn going. I heat up just a bit, but just that bit. And I cool much more quickly.
However, day over day, day after day, and as with everyone else, it wears on me. Even so I could not sleep well, not extra sleep as I seemed to need. Come to think of it, I probably haven't been getting enough sleep. Too hot. Often only sleeping four to six hours... I think. It would be great to keep a sleep log. I know I could start such, but it would be forgotten quickly. There are so many things in life I can't keep up with, adding something else to the list just doesn't seem wise. Other than curiosity, I'm not sure it would help all that much. Would it allow me to change things? Dubious on that notion. Yeah, but I seem to be sleeping less. In any case I have been needing and/or wanting more sleep.
Today I figured it out. Or more decided to do it and did what it took. Air conditioning. No, I haven't been using that daily, even for sleep. From time to time, rarely at night. Rarely on any particular day. I simply haven't needed it. To get more sleep, though, it was needed. It was perfect for it. I got a nap in the early morning, though needed more. A few hours after that I got in another good plug. Then, this afternoon, I went down again, hard and long. I don't think I have slept a full eight hours even once. Which is probably what my body is craving. I will try to stay awake a goodly bit then using ac again attempt an eight hour sleep. My guess is, I have been more hitting five hour sleep cycles pretty regularly for a week or more, as an average. That is catching up with me.
On the good sides? I have gotten my leg, the water swelling, under control. In part by controlling how much I drink total and how much at any one time. I really can drink a large amount if I don't drink large amounts in one small portion of time. I have to let it work it's way through. Flow, not blow out, I guess. Then my body can handle larger volumes. Next I have learned to fast and without a mistake as to when to eat and not eat and keeping to that. I do not believe I have eaten in a fasting period, if I have and often do fast in an eating period... because I don't need as much time to eat and I don't eat as much as I did in the beginning... by far. And, whatever else, more slowly or quickly, I am losing weight. Down to 251 last I checked. While not the main goal, and honestly more a side issue, and knowing that getting down to a once almost mythical 240 will mean nothing now, today, tomorrow... I... I'll just let the weight deal with itself. Down is fine, and it will go that way as is it's due. But really, insulin and fitness to the level that is worth my time at my age is really where it is at.
On the other side, I have not figured out carbs, fats, and proteins... not exactly... not yet. What I am lacking, I realize, is nutritional information on large amounts of food. From fruits and nuts to veggies and meats. All of the books with larger stores of nutritional information seem to mix good food with fast food with raw with all else. So I will get more than I really need and it will... just... It will have to do. I have a book just indexing food nutrition and a highly recommended one on type-2 diabetes.
More good than bad. More success than seeming failure. Everything is being modded and refit, rearranged, and tweaked. It is still one great big experiment. I can't seem to find the keys or buttons on some things, though I am sure they are in there somewhere, and will be put into play, and in the correct order, to get the treat the big Scientist in the sky meant to offer those who seek rightly. The thing is, it's not a treat. The treat is to self, and for living rightly. It isn't for Him, or His, or us collectively. It's more of an invitation... not to follow, to join. And, so, I seek, more and more, right over my own grave innit. Later.
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I've been tired for a while, again. The heat, the fasting, the frustration with insulin which just read at 177, did I mention the heat? It's not blister hot. In the cave it is about 80 at the hottest part of the day now and can be taken down to 72 to 76 at night. That, to me, at times in my life, would have been way too hot. Whether it is the fasting or what I am eating, those temps simply don't matter on a daily basis. Heck, stepping out into 95 isn't too bad. I can even walk in it, short distances, without it really having any effect. And, now, when I have had to shop in full sun, it just... I don't get a burn going. I heat up just a bit, but just that bit. And I cool much more quickly.
However, day over day, day after day, and as with everyone else, it wears on me. Even so I could not sleep well, not extra sleep as I seemed to need. Come to think of it, I probably haven't been getting enough sleep. Too hot. Often only sleeping four to six hours... I think. It would be great to keep a sleep log. I know I could start such, but it would be forgotten quickly. There are so many things in life I can't keep up with, adding something else to the list just doesn't seem wise. Other than curiosity, I'm not sure it would help all that much. Would it allow me to change things? Dubious on that notion. Yeah, but I seem to be sleeping less. In any case I have been needing and/or wanting more sleep.
Today I figured it out. Or more decided to do it and did what it took. Air conditioning. No, I haven't been using that daily, even for sleep. From time to time, rarely at night. Rarely on any particular day. I simply haven't needed it. To get more sleep, though, it was needed. It was perfect for it. I got a nap in the early morning, though needed more. A few hours after that I got in another good plug. Then, this afternoon, I went down again, hard and long. I don't think I have slept a full eight hours even once. Which is probably what my body is craving. I will try to stay awake a goodly bit then using ac again attempt an eight hour sleep. My guess is, I have been more hitting five hour sleep cycles pretty regularly for a week or more, as an average. That is catching up with me.
On the good sides? I have gotten my leg, the water swelling, under control. In part by controlling how much I drink total and how much at any one time. I really can drink a large amount if I don't drink large amounts in one small portion of time. I have to let it work it's way through. Flow, not blow out, I guess. Then my body can handle larger volumes. Next I have learned to fast and without a mistake as to when to eat and not eat and keeping to that. I do not believe I have eaten in a fasting period, if I have and often do fast in an eating period... because I don't need as much time to eat and I don't eat as much as I did in the beginning... by far. And, whatever else, more slowly or quickly, I am losing weight. Down to 251 last I checked. While not the main goal, and honestly more a side issue, and knowing that getting down to a once almost mythical 240 will mean nothing now, today, tomorrow... I... I'll just let the weight deal with itself. Down is fine, and it will go that way as is it's due. But really, insulin and fitness to the level that is worth my time at my age is really where it is at.
On the other side, I have not figured out carbs, fats, and proteins... not exactly... not yet. What I am lacking, I realize, is nutritional information on large amounts of food. From fruits and nuts to veggies and meats. All of the books with larger stores of nutritional information seem to mix good food with fast food with raw with all else. So I will get more than I really need and it will... just... It will have to do. I have a book just indexing food nutrition and a highly recommended one on type-2 diabetes.
More good than bad. More success than seeming failure. Everything is being modded and refit, rearranged, and tweaked. It is still one great big experiment. I can't seem to find the keys or buttons on some things, though I am sure they are in there somewhere, and will be put into play, and in the correct order, to get the treat the big Scientist in the sky meant to offer those who seek rightly. The thing is, it's not a treat. The treat is to self, and for living rightly. It isn't for Him, or His, or us collectively. It's more of an invitation... not to follow, to join. And, so, I seek, more and more, right over my own grave innit. Later.
It isn't bread, really.
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Granted, if you put a warm loaf of fresh bread in front of me, even now, the temptation would be intense. Though, I don't know about you, but when is the last time you were offered a loaf of fresh baked bread? Yeah. Even if that is what I had become accustomed, that isn't my problem at this point. I don't crave bread, if I had stopped eating it, mostly, save for cold-cut sandwiches recently. Even that wasn't all that recent, or for a long stretch. It isn't the bread, no matter how much I like it. It is the role bread fills.
Blood sugar 159.
Not just bread. Pasta, of course. Rice too. Those may be about to be replaced, however roughly. Just having something to soak up sauce (or seemingly so). Having something that reminds of favored foods from before problems became too much. Well, and just filling those culinary roles... rolls? Those too. So, looking. Recipes, general ideas, videos, reading. Of course, until my insulin is under control, and I again begin exploring foods, those are just hopes. Meat, maybe mayo or dressing (only if homemade), butter, few very specific veggies, nuts, and fruits. Smaller portions of even meat while pushing fats. Still, in time, perhaps these other items.
Now there seem to be two schools on bread replacements. I've covered noodles, or at least what I will be going with. For breads, the two schools seem to be the exotic and the plain. The complex, or at least rare, is often based in various new-fangled (to me) flours, additives, and such. I have no clue how these things taste, or how well they work. They are expensive. Though they aren't used often, so perhaps smaller purchases would help. Or even larger, much as with other storage items. If I suspect they don't last long. The freezer would help, but they seem to be items which will go rancid quickly. So... smaller amounts and the rarity of use might mitigate the high costs. The other choice is simple. One of the simplest seems to be grated, cooked, cauliflower. Packed, patted, then baked, fried, or slow-cooked, the stuff seems to really perform. And not just as a bread replacement. But also as a potato and rice replacement. It is something I know I like, it is inexpensive, it is rather perishable but easily obtained. I do need to check it's nutritional values though. Veggies, incredibly, are quite often serious carb offenders.
I really need to find a chart and study it. Actually for several things... glycemic index, fat content, actual carb count, and maybe a few other things. If I can't do bone broth, I would, for example, like to find groups of foods friendly to my choices which are high in potassium (bananas are out... lower on that and pretty high on sugars), and other things in bone broth. Hmm... I made the broth in April. It's on the bag. I should go back to see if I added mirepoix or not. That... might be the problem. Or... not. Maybe my body just goes nuts, or is turning that protein or something else in there to sugar, or... Gah!
Right... some videos. Tortillas, a grouping of options, flat bread, and... some other things, perhaps. I can only, until I regain control and figure some things out, look on in curiosity. Funny, as with bread, there is no great temptation. Simple curiosity about how I could use these, what they might taste like, and such. Yeah, I'm doing my homework. I really thought insulin would be under control now though. Ah well. Soon, perhaps.
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Granted, if you put a warm loaf of fresh bread in front of me, even now, the temptation would be intense. Though, I don't know about you, but when is the last time you were offered a loaf of fresh baked bread? Yeah. Even if that is what I had become accustomed, that isn't my problem at this point. I don't crave bread, if I had stopped eating it, mostly, save for cold-cut sandwiches recently. Even that wasn't all that recent, or for a long stretch. It isn't the bread, no matter how much I like it. It is the role bread fills.
Blood sugar 159.
Not just bread. Pasta, of course. Rice too. Those may be about to be replaced, however roughly. Just having something to soak up sauce (or seemingly so). Having something that reminds of favored foods from before problems became too much. Well, and just filling those culinary roles... rolls? Those too. So, looking. Recipes, general ideas, videos, reading. Of course, until my insulin is under control, and I again begin exploring foods, those are just hopes. Meat, maybe mayo or dressing (only if homemade), butter, few very specific veggies, nuts, and fruits. Smaller portions of even meat while pushing fats. Still, in time, perhaps these other items.
Now there seem to be two schools on bread replacements. I've covered noodles, or at least what I will be going with. For breads, the two schools seem to be the exotic and the plain. The complex, or at least rare, is often based in various new-fangled (to me) flours, additives, and such. I have no clue how these things taste, or how well they work. They are expensive. Though they aren't used often, so perhaps smaller purchases would help. Or even larger, much as with other storage items. If I suspect they don't last long. The freezer would help, but they seem to be items which will go rancid quickly. So... smaller amounts and the rarity of use might mitigate the high costs. The other choice is simple. One of the simplest seems to be grated, cooked, cauliflower. Packed, patted, then baked, fried, or slow-cooked, the stuff seems to really perform. And not just as a bread replacement. But also as a potato and rice replacement. It is something I know I like, it is inexpensive, it is rather perishable but easily obtained. I do need to check it's nutritional values though. Veggies, incredibly, are quite often serious carb offenders.
I really need to find a chart and study it. Actually for several things... glycemic index, fat content, actual carb count, and maybe a few other things. If I can't do bone broth, I would, for example, like to find groups of foods friendly to my choices which are high in potassium (bananas are out... lower on that and pretty high on sugars), and other things in bone broth. Hmm... I made the broth in April. It's on the bag. I should go back to see if I added mirepoix or not. That... might be the problem. Or... not. Maybe my body just goes nuts, or is turning that protein or something else in there to sugar, or... Gah!
Right... some videos. Tortillas, a grouping of options, flat bread, and... some other things, perhaps. I can only, until I regain control and figure some things out, look on in curiosity. Funny, as with bread, there is no great temptation. Simple curiosity about how I could use these, what they might taste like, and such. Yeah, I'm doing my homework. I really thought insulin would be under control now though. Ah well. Soon, perhaps.
Having to reconsider.
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The fasting periods may not be long enough. I really don't want to do double multi-day fasts. It might be too much. Even if I can handle it, I don't think it would be good. However, adding another day of fasting to the two-day fast might be reasonable. I have considered doing that alternatively... one time two-day, the next three-day... but that gets too complicated. Better to pick something simple and stick with it. I won't call it an extreme step. Two days to three is not that much. That first stretch was the test. By the fifth it wasn't even a sweat. As suggested, even on days on which I am well awake and aware, I often start my meal prep late. Food simply isn't on my mind, not even on meal days. Now, when I'm into prep, know I will be eating? Then getting between me and food might end up with someone in the hospital (and someone, as a hint, well fed and apologetic... mostly).
I will give going back to absolutely simple food a chance first. Perhaps I went astray trying to be fancy. Maybe I just din't count well. Maybe those first few cycles were extreme enough to trigger something in my body, but now it's used to it, and maybe I am eating too much protein to fat. I want more food experimenting first. Now, I don't mind going to three day fasting. I don't see it as even an issue, for me personally. My will is good. The one thing I have concern regarding is my body. I am not sure how far it can be pushed. So, for now, plain meats, as much extra fat as I can shove into my diet, no extras, no broth, no cream tea, no gum, and just one 'sweetened' tea a day... since that has proven out in small doses. Only plain tea, black coffee, or water to drink otherwise.
My middling blood sugar reading just now was 152. It's not bad, it just isn't 126, or lower. I may have to count fats, proteins, and carbs closely, as another option. I am almost certain I am not getting enough fat. I may be getting too much protein, which can become just another carb. I do think I am doing well with carbs. Can you do too well? Yeah. I am starting to think that carbs, every other meal day, as the first course (a la salad, vegetable, or fruit) is the way to go for me. I hate halvsies, or tiny portions. I can cut, but there needs to be some... taste of it. Anyway... working on things. Something just is not working as it should. It's in there somewhere. I either use a scalpel to gently lay it open and excise the problem or I grab a hammer and just starve it longer. Both may work. I am just hoping both aren't required.
I know exercise would be good to add. Walking, from what I have heard, has some limits. It has been suggested, for my purposes, if I am going to walk to walk for an hour. On a steady walk, it has been suggested, it takes 25 minutes to use the sugars in the body (more for a type-2 diabetic(?)). Which means a 30 minute walk would only begin burning fat, then do so for about five minutes. The goal is to load the body so as to use sugar (in my case). Whether I can walk for even 30 minutes to start is questionable. I simply don't know. It is possible. Perhaps an hour walk is doable. But then is it repeatable multiple times a week? Once a week is not enough, better to go three 15 minute walks, and work my way up, then one 1 hour walk. I can't really do that with sleep running from late morning to early evening, though that may be changing. Or I might use the ac in an attempt to shift the sleep cycle. It is simply too hot most of the day, sometimes all day perhaps. I'll keep at it.
Oh, I have been looking for a recipe to bottle refrigerator jalapenos and cucumbers... not a true canning thing which requires a wet bath or such. Many recommend sugar. Of course, that is out. I'm not seeing anything on Y.T., so I may do searches elsewhere. Perhaps there is a reason sugar is used, perhaps that is a part of the problem with the American diet, or maybe that is what the government wants pushed. All sugar, in everything, all of the time. Kill em' with their hunger, especially a self-created hunger. If I find something, try it, and it works, I will put a link, or do a small quote with dues and link back to the original. I really don't know how to do that all properly.
Later.
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The fasting periods may not be long enough. I really don't want to do double multi-day fasts. It might be too much. Even if I can handle it, I don't think it would be good. However, adding another day of fasting to the two-day fast might be reasonable. I have considered doing that alternatively... one time two-day, the next three-day... but that gets too complicated. Better to pick something simple and stick with it. I won't call it an extreme step. Two days to three is not that much. That first stretch was the test. By the fifth it wasn't even a sweat. As suggested, even on days on which I am well awake and aware, I often start my meal prep late. Food simply isn't on my mind, not even on meal days. Now, when I'm into prep, know I will be eating? Then getting between me and food might end up with someone in the hospital (and someone, as a hint, well fed and apologetic... mostly).
I will give going back to absolutely simple food a chance first. Perhaps I went astray trying to be fancy. Maybe I just din't count well. Maybe those first few cycles were extreme enough to trigger something in my body, but now it's used to it, and maybe I am eating too much protein to fat. I want more food experimenting first. Now, I don't mind going to three day fasting. I don't see it as even an issue, for me personally. My will is good. The one thing I have concern regarding is my body. I am not sure how far it can be pushed. So, for now, plain meats, as much extra fat as I can shove into my diet, no extras, no broth, no cream tea, no gum, and just one 'sweetened' tea a day... since that has proven out in small doses. Only plain tea, black coffee, or water to drink otherwise.
My middling blood sugar reading just now was 152. It's not bad, it just isn't 126, or lower. I may have to count fats, proteins, and carbs closely, as another option. I am almost certain I am not getting enough fat. I may be getting too much protein, which can become just another carb. I do think I am doing well with carbs. Can you do too well? Yeah. I am starting to think that carbs, every other meal day, as the first course (a la salad, vegetable, or fruit) is the way to go for me. I hate halvsies, or tiny portions. I can cut, but there needs to be some... taste of it. Anyway... working on things. Something just is not working as it should. It's in there somewhere. I either use a scalpel to gently lay it open and excise the problem or I grab a hammer and just starve it longer. Both may work. I am just hoping both aren't required.
I know exercise would be good to add. Walking, from what I have heard, has some limits. It has been suggested, for my purposes, if I am going to walk to walk for an hour. On a steady walk, it has been suggested, it takes 25 minutes to use the sugars in the body (more for a type-2 diabetic(?)). Which means a 30 minute walk would only begin burning fat, then do so for about five minutes. The goal is to load the body so as to use sugar (in my case). Whether I can walk for even 30 minutes to start is questionable. I simply don't know. It is possible. Perhaps an hour walk is doable. But then is it repeatable multiple times a week? Once a week is not enough, better to go three 15 minute walks, and work my way up, then one 1 hour walk. I can't really do that with sleep running from late morning to early evening, though that may be changing. Or I might use the ac in an attempt to shift the sleep cycle. It is simply too hot most of the day, sometimes all day perhaps. I'll keep at it.
Oh, I have been looking for a recipe to bottle refrigerator jalapenos and cucumbers... not a true canning thing which requires a wet bath or such. Many recommend sugar. Of course, that is out. I'm not seeing anything on Y.T., so I may do searches elsewhere. Perhaps there is a reason sugar is used, perhaps that is a part of the problem with the American diet, or maybe that is what the government wants pushed. All sugar, in everything, all of the time. Kill em' with their hunger, especially a self-created hunger. If I find something, try it, and it works, I will put a link, or do a small quote with dues and link back to the original. I really don't know how to do that all properly.
Later.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Too full.
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I was just barely able to fit cream tea into the last bit of my food window. Stuffed. Mushroom stuffed Doom? Now there is a taste treat to avoid. Beside whipping cream, I added cinnamon. I have heard that might be worth adding to food and drink from time to time, daily or more. There are capsules. I simply plan on going with the spice. I actually looked for a rawer form, something to shave from... bark? twirls? Dunno. Could find nothing else. On the good side, the gooder brand was on half price sale. It sure is a tasty add.
I did tear the rest of the romaine lettuce, save one heart, and spinach for a quick salad, first thing, next meal day... which is... Friday... no, Saturday. Brain just clicked off for a second while looking at the calendar. What else? I best thaw hamburger. I have half the cup of cashews, but those will wait until Sunday. I will only even eat them then to push getting rid of them. Bleh. Hmm... Oh, between now and then I would like to find a recipe for refrigerator pickling some things, and perhaps process the cucumbers and some of the jalapenos. Not together, I don't think. Something about cucumbers doesn't always go with other things. Onions, sure. Maybe tomatoes. But not much else, not quite right, as I see... or taste... things. Vinegar and... stuff. I'll... have to check. Plus, it makes fresh items last longer. I hate buying good fresh and the next time I turn around it is brown goo juice. I'm not sure if the lettuce will last, in either form. Which... yeah... I'll try to check on it from time to time to see how long that stuff does actually last.
I'll be checking blood sugar at the hour mark only, in about 26 minutes. I'll just post it here. If nothing else, at least my blood sugar seems to be dropping to at or below pre-meal levels within the two hour mark... usually. I am not checking pre-meal anymore. Pretty much down to fasting... random time sometime in the day between meal and fast test, and then an hour after. No time between fasting and meal today, so will test later. Messy when you don't run regular days. Back in a bit with the numbers.
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It was 179, just a bit lower than fasting blood sugar. I will test in three or four hours. Unless I forget. Oh well. Then again, usually, meals take that up thirty to forty... But... gah... so many exceptions, possibilities, unknowns. Nap time maybe.
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I was just barely able to fit cream tea into the last bit of my food window. Stuffed. Mushroom stuffed Doom? Now there is a taste treat to avoid. Beside whipping cream, I added cinnamon. I have heard that might be worth adding to food and drink from time to time, daily or more. There are capsules. I simply plan on going with the spice. I actually looked for a rawer form, something to shave from... bark? twirls? Dunno. Could find nothing else. On the good side, the gooder brand was on half price sale. It sure is a tasty add.
I did tear the rest of the romaine lettuce, save one heart, and spinach for a quick salad, first thing, next meal day... which is... Friday... no, Saturday. Brain just clicked off for a second while looking at the calendar. What else? I best thaw hamburger. I have half the cup of cashews, but those will wait until Sunday. I will only even eat them then to push getting rid of them. Bleh. Hmm... Oh, between now and then I would like to find a recipe for refrigerator pickling some things, and perhaps process the cucumbers and some of the jalapenos. Not together, I don't think. Something about cucumbers doesn't always go with other things. Onions, sure. Maybe tomatoes. But not much else, not quite right, as I see... or taste... things. Vinegar and... stuff. I'll... have to check. Plus, it makes fresh items last longer. I hate buying good fresh and the next time I turn around it is brown goo juice. I'm not sure if the lettuce will last, in either form. Which... yeah... I'll try to check on it from time to time to see how long that stuff does actually last.
I'll be checking blood sugar at the hour mark only, in about 26 minutes. I'll just post it here. If nothing else, at least my blood sugar seems to be dropping to at or below pre-meal levels within the two hour mark... usually. I am not checking pre-meal anymore. Pretty much down to fasting... random time sometime in the day between meal and fast test, and then an hour after. No time between fasting and meal today, so will test later. Messy when you don't run regular days. Back in a bit with the numbers.
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It was 179, just a bit lower than fasting blood sugar. I will test in three or four hours. Unless I forget. Oh well. Then again, usually, meals take that up thirty to forty... But... gah... so many exceptions, possibilities, unknowns. Nap time maybe.
Dinner.
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Is it still dinner if you only eat once a day? Is it still dinner if you eat it just a few hours after waking? By time, if a wee late, it fits. By all other measures I think I am misappropriating the term. And yet here we are... in the middle of dinner. How do you like them apples? Them, those? Dinner? This is a place of questions and doubts. If you don't like it, go to some place where all is know and divulged. No, I would rather not go to hell with you. For, on earth, that is the only place which might presume such. Oh? You didn't know hell was on earth? Who rules this plane? And where would he rule? *wink*
First course? Cashews. These are the ones roasted in either peanut or cottonseed oil. I won't be doing them again, both because of the oil(s) and now because of the taste. What did they do, use stale oil? They aren't rancid so much as dated-tasting. I will finish them, no more. Probably. I portioned them to about half an cup, and will portion them down to half that. They simply aren't tasty enough. Will be used just as bio-fuel until gone, then never replaced. I will look for others. Not sure I like cashews? Odd how when junk food isn't a part of our diets, we notice the bad in even semi-good food so easily.
The next course was a salad. I honestly, for decades, thought I hated salads. Then my last ladytype taught me better by feeding me better. Her organics I nubbed. Same with her bent into vegetarianism. Nub, nub, drubbed. Well, I suggested I would pay for standard, she would have to cover the rest. Guess what? We went with standard. I don't mind spending a bit more to make sure it's fresh. And, if it's a special occasion... that is guests are coming... and organic is the freshest as to the promised meal plan? Well, there is minor wiggle room. Or a change in menu... depended on mood... and price differences, depth of wallet atm.
The salad? Right. Heart of romaine was the main part. As well spinach, a number of halved small raw button mushrooms, about a quarter of an avocado roughly diced (you know avocado), and the dressing I made yesterday... today... something. Good? Oh, yeah, that was absolutely delicious. Of course, there seemed something missing. I was several bites in when I realized. No insulin spike! Hmm? Yeah. Without sugar in this, certain vegetables, and this and that, the food was... just... food. It was so very strange. I think it is the first salad I have had, probably since being with my last woman... and because we made salad and dressing ourselves back then too... that I didn't get a rush from eating a f*)$ing salad. They are trying to murder us with food. And medicine. And doing a damn fine job of it. Now you know why they tried to push Zerocare so hard... to make sure everyone got to a doctor who would help murder them, often with food recommendations. Thing is, they realized that killing the middle class with the taxes, fees, and all else was much more valuable. Wine is fine but whisky is quicker.
Next, for the main course, I did an experiment. I didn't like the chicken I grilled. I didn't like it hot, I didn't like it cold. It was done correctly. Not over or under cooked. It just, I didn't like it. Could not tolerate taste or texture. I am wondering if even chicken is being brought in from China. Though it would be just as bad from Mexico or Canada I am hearing. At least the FDA is inspecting one percent of what is coming in. That's a relief. In any case, I diced and fried onions, boned and large rough diced the chicken (thigh meat), diced a quarter of the remaining mushrooms, let that go for a bit after the onions had softened, then added spinach on top. Cooked low, mostly to heat the chicken and soften the shrooms, then added the spinach to steam off. Bleh. I ended up picking out the mushrooms and spinach, tossing the rest. That just wasn't enough, so I diced a remnant chunk of onion I had intended to throw (too small, won't be cooking for two day, and won't have onions but every other meal period, as they are sort of higher carb). Got that going, then sliced the remaining half of the mushrooms. Butter is a fine friend. I thought about adding spinach, but there wasn't enough bulk to really steam them, and I had torn and put them in with the romaine, so... I would have had to dig it out.
As is the onions and mushrooms made a fine meal. A couple of glasses of milk. I should cut milk. A glass, even a bigger one, is fine. I just need to find another grouping of regular caloried, fatted, drinks for meal time. Beer is okay a few times a month as a treat. Same with a shot or mixed drink in that twice a month line up. But... not so much for regular. Could do a liquid splenda hot cocoa, but not in the summer. Hmm... I'll have to think about that.
Anyway, there is that. The next few weeks will be mostly burgers, with chops and steaks thrown in for variety every once in a while. Salads? Once or twice a week. I fear the carb load even from that. Mayo and salad dressing will be added to burgers. Steaks and chops don't really need additions for fat. The burgers wouldn't need as much if I would pan fry, or not cook them too long. It's just that, every time I cook burgers, it seems different. Same size, same temp, different outcome. I simply won't hover like a mother hen. Screw it, mayo!
An ogres eye view on a keto-neo paleo meal. I need to read more on paleo and ketogenic diets. I have the fasting down. I really don't have the feasting part down. Well, in several senses I do, in some I simply don't.
Oh, I have decided to start having my cream tea at around dinner time. It doesn't seem to affect insulin, and yet I don't need it at other times, other than for the fat. I really need to ramp up fat intake and that isn't as easy as it sounds. Plus, just in case the cream is messing things up with insulin, keeping it with meals will... may... reduce the effect... or make it more obvious. I will be having it at the time I originally was having my second meal, toward the end of the window. I simply don't eat, or even graze, all that much. Short courses, but really just one meal, and a rather fast one all said and done. So there is plenty of time. Gah! Getting this to work is driving me to distraction. Still... I'll keep at it. Later.
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Is it still dinner if you only eat once a day? Is it still dinner if you eat it just a few hours after waking? By time, if a wee late, it fits. By all other measures I think I am misappropriating the term. And yet here we are... in the middle of dinner. How do you like them apples? Them, those? Dinner? This is a place of questions and doubts. If you don't like it, go to some place where all is know and divulged. No, I would rather not go to hell with you. For, on earth, that is the only place which might presume such. Oh? You didn't know hell was on earth? Who rules this plane? And where would he rule? *wink*
First course? Cashews. These are the ones roasted in either peanut or cottonseed oil. I won't be doing them again, both because of the oil(s) and now because of the taste. What did they do, use stale oil? They aren't rancid so much as dated-tasting. I will finish them, no more. Probably. I portioned them to about half an cup, and will portion them down to half that. They simply aren't tasty enough. Will be used just as bio-fuel until gone, then never replaced. I will look for others. Not sure I like cashews? Odd how when junk food isn't a part of our diets, we notice the bad in even semi-good food so easily.
The next course was a salad. I honestly, for decades, thought I hated salads. Then my last ladytype taught me better by feeding me better. Her organics I nubbed. Same with her bent into vegetarianism. Nub, nub, drubbed. Well, I suggested I would pay for standard, she would have to cover the rest. Guess what? We went with standard. I don't mind spending a bit more to make sure it's fresh. And, if it's a special occasion... that is guests are coming... and organic is the freshest as to the promised meal plan? Well, there is minor wiggle room. Or a change in menu... depended on mood... and price differences, depth of wallet atm.
The salad? Right. Heart of romaine was the main part. As well spinach, a number of halved small raw button mushrooms, about a quarter of an avocado roughly diced (you know avocado), and the dressing I made yesterday... today... something. Good? Oh, yeah, that was absolutely delicious. Of course, there seemed something missing. I was several bites in when I realized. No insulin spike! Hmm? Yeah. Without sugar in this, certain vegetables, and this and that, the food was... just... food. It was so very strange. I think it is the first salad I have had, probably since being with my last woman... and because we made salad and dressing ourselves back then too... that I didn't get a rush from eating a f*)$ing salad. They are trying to murder us with food. And medicine. And doing a damn fine job of it. Now you know why they tried to push Zerocare so hard... to make sure everyone got to a doctor who would help murder them, often with food recommendations. Thing is, they realized that killing the middle class with the taxes, fees, and all else was much more valuable. Wine is fine but whisky is quicker.
Next, for the main course, I did an experiment. I didn't like the chicken I grilled. I didn't like it hot, I didn't like it cold. It was done correctly. Not over or under cooked. It just, I didn't like it. Could not tolerate taste or texture. I am wondering if even chicken is being brought in from China. Though it would be just as bad from Mexico or Canada I am hearing. At least the FDA is inspecting one percent of what is coming in. That's a relief. In any case, I diced and fried onions, boned and large rough diced the chicken (thigh meat), diced a quarter of the remaining mushrooms, let that go for a bit after the onions had softened, then added spinach on top. Cooked low, mostly to heat the chicken and soften the shrooms, then added the spinach to steam off. Bleh. I ended up picking out the mushrooms and spinach, tossing the rest. That just wasn't enough, so I diced a remnant chunk of onion I had intended to throw (too small, won't be cooking for two day, and won't have onions but every other meal period, as they are sort of higher carb). Got that going, then sliced the remaining half of the mushrooms. Butter is a fine friend. I thought about adding spinach, but there wasn't enough bulk to really steam them, and I had torn and put them in with the romaine, so... I would have had to dig it out.
As is the onions and mushrooms made a fine meal. A couple of glasses of milk. I should cut milk. A glass, even a bigger one, is fine. I just need to find another grouping of regular caloried, fatted, drinks for meal time. Beer is okay a few times a month as a treat. Same with a shot or mixed drink in that twice a month line up. But... not so much for regular. Could do a liquid splenda hot cocoa, but not in the summer. Hmm... I'll have to think about that.
Anyway, there is that. The next few weeks will be mostly burgers, with chops and steaks thrown in for variety every once in a while. Salads? Once or twice a week. I fear the carb load even from that. Mayo and salad dressing will be added to burgers. Steaks and chops don't really need additions for fat. The burgers wouldn't need as much if I would pan fry, or not cook them too long. It's just that, every time I cook burgers, it seems different. Same size, same temp, different outcome. I simply won't hover like a mother hen. Screw it, mayo!
An ogres eye view on a keto-neo paleo meal. I need to read more on paleo and ketogenic diets. I have the fasting down. I really don't have the feasting part down. Well, in several senses I do, in some I simply don't.
Oh, I have decided to start having my cream tea at around dinner time. It doesn't seem to affect insulin, and yet I don't need it at other times, other than for the fat. I really need to ramp up fat intake and that isn't as easy as it sounds. Plus, just in case the cream is messing things up with insulin, keeping it with meals will... may... reduce the effect... or make it more obvious. I will be having it at the time I originally was having my second meal, toward the end of the window. I simply don't eat, or even graze, all that much. Short courses, but really just one meal, and a rather fast one all said and done. So there is plenty of time. Gah! Getting this to work is driving me to distraction. Still... I'll keep at it. Later.
Something just isn't working.
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My fasting blood sugar is 185. I have stopped with gum, haven't used even sugar replacement of any kind... just drinking tea, and I haven't eaten in more than ~22 hours. I do believe I am going to go back to extreme basics regarding food. Meat, tea, salt, and pepper. I simply don't know if I am doing something wrong by eating something I shouldn't, if my system got messed up severely by the ojd*, or if my system simply can't cut the number. I am not so inclined to believe the latter, as my numbers were steadily going down until the ojd. I guess, if I don't know what was in it, I simply cannot eat it. Not a judgement, just how things have to go.
I really didn't like the chicken I grilled a few days ago. I really thought about tossing the remnants. I haven't. But also, I don't want to go out. Less so under the new plan. With the items purchased yesterday, and with what is on hand, I believe I could debone and stir-fry the meat, adding spinach as it steams down a bit. Would you believe onion is fairly carb-heavy? Yeah. Still, a bit of that, and this, in small amounts, might do well enough.
The thing is, my eating window is, of course, off. Usually 17:00 is my start time. But sleep has been off. Today I actually did need the air conditioner in order to sleep. I simply couldn't drop into a real sleep without it. It wasn't so much the ac that threw me, as wasting time trying, several different times, to sleep but without the ac. Not too hot, more like too warm? It's almost 18:00 as I wake. I simply don't want "breakfast". I'll give it a few hours, whatever it takes to rise and shine a bit, then begin meal prep. I knew this would eventually happen, so it's simply not an issue. Later.
*orange juice debacle - for those of you with a shorter memory
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My fasting blood sugar is 185. I have stopped with gum, haven't used even sugar replacement of any kind... just drinking tea, and I haven't eaten in more than ~22 hours. I do believe I am going to go back to extreme basics regarding food. Meat, tea, salt, and pepper. I simply don't know if I am doing something wrong by eating something I shouldn't, if my system got messed up severely by the ojd*, or if my system simply can't cut the number. I am not so inclined to believe the latter, as my numbers were steadily going down until the ojd. I guess, if I don't know what was in it, I simply cannot eat it. Not a judgement, just how things have to go.
I really didn't like the chicken I grilled a few days ago. I really thought about tossing the remnants. I haven't. But also, I don't want to go out. Less so under the new plan. With the items purchased yesterday, and with what is on hand, I believe I could debone and stir-fry the meat, adding spinach as it steams down a bit. Would you believe onion is fairly carb-heavy? Yeah. Still, a bit of that, and this, in small amounts, might do well enough.
The thing is, my eating window is, of course, off. Usually 17:00 is my start time. But sleep has been off. Today I actually did need the air conditioner in order to sleep. I simply couldn't drop into a real sleep without it. It wasn't so much the ac that threw me, as wasting time trying, several different times, to sleep but without the ac. Not too hot, more like too warm? It's almost 18:00 as I wake. I simply don't want "breakfast". I'll give it a few hours, whatever it takes to rise and shine a bit, then begin meal prep. I knew this would eventually happen, so it's simply not an issue. Later.
*orange juice debacle - for those of you with a shorter memory
Sleep just wouldn't happen.
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In around 6:00. I closed up the cave, retaining as much cool as I could get in last night. Leaving the windows open through the day is a huge mistake. I do have a fan going upstairs, and two windows on the west side open. I haven't been closing those during the day. If heat actually does rise up through there I have to guess that having a couple of windows open and a fan pushing air toward them, would help. The windows in question are shaded. Yeah. It's how I am going. I checked the outside thermometer. It suggested the outside got down to nearly 50... say 52. If it got cooler after that I simply do not know. Curiosity, you know.
I did make the mayonnaise this morning, before trying to sleep. As well, I used half of that to make ranch dressing. I didn't have all the herbs, or all the same herbs. I had the main ones and a few oddities. I did remember something from the video. The suggestion that cucumber would make a wonderful addition to the dressing. I happened to see small local cucumbers, and jalapenos, and put them in my cart. The jalapenos will be for... something. I might even attempt to home fridge pickle the jalapenos... or some of them. Yeah, I like them, if they turn out. The ranch dressing is fantastic. And I know absolutely everything in it. Have you wondered, if they know that added sugar increases diabetes, which increases obesity, heart problems, and all other issues... why the government is not just allowing, but seemingly supporting, the addition of sugar to so many things that obviously don't need sugar and haven't traditionally used sugar? Just a simple question.
There is something I mean to do today. And yet, without sleep, I am not sure it is possible. Everything is just a bit off. Perhaps I can figure out how to get on to bed in time to be up in time to get to some things. If I do, on the way home, I will do a drive through. Just for burgers. I will peel off the buns, slap on some ranch or mayo, and enjoy. I have three pieces of chicken, which I think I will toss. I will taste, perhaps... I just... I'm not sure about it. Perhaps it is my source. Though maybe I am just unsure about store-bought anymore. Though perhaps it goes even deeper. Yeah, burgers. No soda, no fries, not deep fried chicken nuggets. Just a triple, or double, or two. Don't know yet. Probably just one. My appetite is becoming... pathetic. In a good way, I guess.
I also hope to find those faux noodles and rice. I'd love to source faux bread that fits my constraints, if I doubt that is at all possible. Perhaps almond flour that is more affordable? Coconut flour? There are several types on my list. And oat fiber? Something like that. I have a list. Experimental. I doubt if I will do more than dabble with a few things, just to know, then never do it again. Burgers, especially with cheese, dressing of some sort, and such, is just satisfying enough and easy. I am simply curious about what might fill in for some other things, in a real pinch.
I can't believe how easy fasting has become. While I haven't forgotten a meal, I have let them nearly slip by, starting an half an hour, even hour, late regularly. And, no longer eating nearly as much nor two meals per food window. I actually still feel a bit full from last night... a couple of patties and that was about it. It's a different little world. Still not feeling the best, if it's high summer and I'm jacked on new food and fasting, losing a lot of weight quickly. I think if it was going to kill me it would have. I think, think I say, I am in the clear. Later.
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In around 6:00. I closed up the cave, retaining as much cool as I could get in last night. Leaving the windows open through the day is a huge mistake. I do have a fan going upstairs, and two windows on the west side open. I haven't been closing those during the day. If heat actually does rise up through there I have to guess that having a couple of windows open and a fan pushing air toward them, would help. The windows in question are shaded. Yeah. It's how I am going. I checked the outside thermometer. It suggested the outside got down to nearly 50... say 52. If it got cooler after that I simply do not know. Curiosity, you know.
I did make the mayonnaise this morning, before trying to sleep. As well, I used half of that to make ranch dressing. I didn't have all the herbs, or all the same herbs. I had the main ones and a few oddities. I did remember something from the video. The suggestion that cucumber would make a wonderful addition to the dressing. I happened to see small local cucumbers, and jalapenos, and put them in my cart. The jalapenos will be for... something. I might even attempt to home fridge pickle the jalapenos... or some of them. Yeah, I like them, if they turn out. The ranch dressing is fantastic. And I know absolutely everything in it. Have you wondered, if they know that added sugar increases diabetes, which increases obesity, heart problems, and all other issues... why the government is not just allowing, but seemingly supporting, the addition of sugar to so many things that obviously don't need sugar and haven't traditionally used sugar? Just a simple question.
There is something I mean to do today. And yet, without sleep, I am not sure it is possible. Everything is just a bit off. Perhaps I can figure out how to get on to bed in time to be up in time to get to some things. If I do, on the way home, I will do a drive through. Just for burgers. I will peel off the buns, slap on some ranch or mayo, and enjoy. I have three pieces of chicken, which I think I will toss. I will taste, perhaps... I just... I'm not sure about it. Perhaps it is my source. Though maybe I am just unsure about store-bought anymore. Though perhaps it goes even deeper. Yeah, burgers. No soda, no fries, not deep fried chicken nuggets. Just a triple, or double, or two. Don't know yet. Probably just one. My appetite is becoming... pathetic. In a good way, I guess.
I also hope to find those faux noodles and rice. I'd love to source faux bread that fits my constraints, if I doubt that is at all possible. Perhaps almond flour that is more affordable? Coconut flour? There are several types on my list. And oat fiber? Something like that. I have a list. Experimental. I doubt if I will do more than dabble with a few things, just to know, then never do it again. Burgers, especially with cheese, dressing of some sort, and such, is just satisfying enough and easy. I am simply curious about what might fill in for some other things, in a real pinch.
I can't believe how easy fasting has become. While I haven't forgotten a meal, I have let them nearly slip by, starting an half an hour, even hour, late regularly. And, no longer eating nearly as much nor two meals per food window. I actually still feel a bit full from last night... a couple of patties and that was about it. It's a different little world. Still not feeling the best, if it's high summer and I'm jacked on new food and fasting, losing a lot of weight quickly. I think if it was going to kill me it would have. I think, think I say, I am in the clear. Later.
Well? It is summer.
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It's 76 and change in here. With the fan going it actually feels cool. It is 63 and change outside, or according to the oftenwrong thermometer. Just not going to check the other one. A final blood test before I crash indicates 160. All I have had is tea. Oh well. I guess it will just do what it does until it does what it should. I have even quit the gum. That, for whatever reason, had become ocd... almost literally. I wasn't sure I'd be able to quit. I would like to keep some around, for occasional use. I am simply not sure I can do that. I will give it a go in a few days. Driven to chew like... I don't know. Oh, it is coming up on a year since I quit tobacco. I don't think there is any connection, save a potentially funny sort of crossover without any real ties.
I need to get to town again soon. I did find some of the specialty items on Amazon, if I believe those are being sold at a hefty premium. If there is something very exacting, and rare, I might use Amazon from time to time. I just won't, anymore, pay that premium if I can do otherwise. Even if I am paying, pretty much, the same local... it's in hand right now. Buying local is a fiction, mostly, anymore. There are a few privately owned local shops, but I am no more enamored of them than I am of Amazon or even regional chains. Who knows who really owns anything. And truly locally owned both have to, and want to, overprice. Just as it's always been. No real good way out of that large/small local/global dilemma without going back to American made. Which... will carry a premium. All bad? No. All good? No. Choices, though, I suppose.
I keep thinking about politics. I really don't trust Trump. He is a New York City denizen, with all that means. He, honestly, doesn't care. If it doesn't cost him or inconvenience him he won't concern himself with it. Large city folk will step over a corpse and go about their business. They will ignore immorality all around them and just go about their day. They won't involve themselves in a crime, to avoid being another target though just as much to avoid having to be a witness. On the other hand is Hillary. Though Republicans did attempt to put someone else up, as McCain and Romney before those. No! As with the economic policies, choices are limited. It looks like the Republican party has been taken to the shed and the Democrat party has chosen status quo.
I probably won't vote. Politics can't fix what is wrong. And I haven't seen a politician who will actually do what is right in my life. I've seen a few lean more one way than the other. If I were to vote for Trump, it would be in hope that he would actually be American first, as politicians used to be. I'm not even sure that is possible today. Too much has changed. Probably just a promise for the older set... ie the ones who usually vote. I just don't actually see it. Even if he could get jobs to return, the economy at local, state, federal, and international levels, are broken. If manufacturing returns it will be automated. Then again, who am I kidding. The jobs that have existed for the last fifty years, quite often, were just created jobs... which stretched the economy to create... paper pushers. Even at Fortune 500 companies, in academia, at plants and businesses everywhere, believe it or not. That era is ending, has ended really.
What is next? That is a very good question. Some believe that elites think most of us are expendable, and will work to that end. Academics, to include medical, seem to agree. That is not a good combination. Though politics, and with it the military, offer similar risks... more so if that goes to automation. As I have suggested, if the elites attempt it, it really most likely will not turn out as they believe. Giants to many kingdoms and empires have wrestled to slay the world at times. And, should by some foul way they succeed? They will regret it much more quickly and terribly than they can imagine.
I am surprised I am still here. For the most part this really isn't my concern. Just... thinking out loud. Later. Or, more, good night... or day. I'll sleep, you... do your stuff. Good day.
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It's 76 and change in here. With the fan going it actually feels cool. It is 63 and change outside, or according to the oftenwrong thermometer. Just not going to check the other one. A final blood test before I crash indicates 160. All I have had is tea. Oh well. I guess it will just do what it does until it does what it should. I have even quit the gum. That, for whatever reason, had become ocd... almost literally. I wasn't sure I'd be able to quit. I would like to keep some around, for occasional use. I am simply not sure I can do that. I will give it a go in a few days. Driven to chew like... I don't know. Oh, it is coming up on a year since I quit tobacco. I don't think there is any connection, save a potentially funny sort of crossover without any real ties.
I need to get to town again soon. I did find some of the specialty items on Amazon, if I believe those are being sold at a hefty premium. If there is something very exacting, and rare, I might use Amazon from time to time. I just won't, anymore, pay that premium if I can do otherwise. Even if I am paying, pretty much, the same local... it's in hand right now. Buying local is a fiction, mostly, anymore. There are a few privately owned local shops, but I am no more enamored of them than I am of Amazon or even regional chains. Who knows who really owns anything. And truly locally owned both have to, and want to, overprice. Just as it's always been. No real good way out of that large/small local/global dilemma without going back to American made. Which... will carry a premium. All bad? No. All good? No. Choices, though, I suppose.
I keep thinking about politics. I really don't trust Trump. He is a New York City denizen, with all that means. He, honestly, doesn't care. If it doesn't cost him or inconvenience him he won't concern himself with it. Large city folk will step over a corpse and go about their business. They will ignore immorality all around them and just go about their day. They won't involve themselves in a crime, to avoid being another target though just as much to avoid having to be a witness. On the other hand is Hillary. Though Republicans did attempt to put someone else up, as McCain and Romney before those. No! As with the economic policies, choices are limited. It looks like the Republican party has been taken to the shed and the Democrat party has chosen status quo.
I probably won't vote. Politics can't fix what is wrong. And I haven't seen a politician who will actually do what is right in my life. I've seen a few lean more one way than the other. If I were to vote for Trump, it would be in hope that he would actually be American first, as politicians used to be. I'm not even sure that is possible today. Too much has changed. Probably just a promise for the older set... ie the ones who usually vote. I just don't actually see it. Even if he could get jobs to return, the economy at local, state, federal, and international levels, are broken. If manufacturing returns it will be automated. Then again, who am I kidding. The jobs that have existed for the last fifty years, quite often, were just created jobs... which stretched the economy to create... paper pushers. Even at Fortune 500 companies, in academia, at plants and businesses everywhere, believe it or not. That era is ending, has ended really.
What is next? That is a very good question. Some believe that elites think most of us are expendable, and will work to that end. Academics, to include medical, seem to agree. That is not a good combination. Though politics, and with it the military, offer similar risks... more so if that goes to automation. As I have suggested, if the elites attempt it, it really most likely will not turn out as they believe. Giants to many kingdoms and empires have wrestled to slay the world at times. And, should by some foul way they succeed? They will regret it much more quickly and terribly than they can imagine.
I am surprised I am still here. For the most part this really isn't my concern. Just... thinking out loud. Later. Or, more, good night... or day. I'll sleep, you... do your stuff. Good day.
Still too warm.
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[Not sure what happened to the title, or what it was supposed to be. It's like blogger just lopped off most of the last word. Odd. I'm sure it was whole when I posted.]
At 1:07 it is 72. After checking the questionable thermo reading I double checked with the good thermometer. It seems the bad one can read correctly. Now, it seemed right. I was just hoping for cooler. There is more night, just not a lot of hope for much more cooling. Fans can go as fast as their motors will let them and it doesn't mean all that much. I doubt if it would mean all that much, save a trip to town.
Grocery shopping is becoming more complicated. I've always had some things in my list that favor higher fat, a bit more protein heavy, sorts of foods. Cream cheese, dairy, meats both fresh and cured... among many other things. So some things just stay the same, or even are added in greater volume. Other things are simply new. So even knowing where they might be, or which store will carry some items, is a learning process.
I could not find the noodle substitutes. I couldn't find some of the other ingredients for the bread substitutes, such as almond flour. There was a "health food" section, but it seems to be shrinking. As is the "organic" produce and vegetable sections. Mommy and daddy are pulling up short, or people are simply understanding the truths. I have to wonder how many organic fish come directly from China, for example? Even if it is truly based on "organic" methods, is it actually one iota better for you? I'll lay money on that one. Easily. And win. Yeah, so, no. They had none of the products I was seeking. There are two health stores. One is rather small, the other is larger but still somewhat limited in selection. I'll give them a shot next time I am in town. I'm not sure I will use the items much. It's a lot of work for a bread substitute.
I bought a pair of larger portabella mushrooms. You can use those as a substitute bun, or pizza crust. It's not perfect, but none of them are. The thing is you can be pretty sure there is nothing processed into that. I did look at one low-carb tortilla like replacement in the store. There was so much stuff in it I had no idea what to even think. I didn't make it half way through the ingredient list before simply giving up on even considering eating that. I'm not sure there was any actual food in it.
Some fruit, milk, eggs (a brand I know and like), this, that, and the other thing. I got much of what I wanted, other than what I could not find. I even purchased herbs so as to make a stab at ranch or some other sort of dressing. Yeah, I even remember romaine hearts, spinach, and button mushrooms, for a minor mixed salad. Oh, and blue cheese crumbles for a second homemade dressing... for next time. I'm letting the eggs come to room temperature before attempting a production run.
I have decided to stop using three things for now. Bone broth, liquid stevia, gum. I think the main problem remains the ojd. However, I think something else is helping to kick it up. Before dinner my blood sugar was 189, an hour after it was 221, an hour after that it was 180. It is now 143. The problem is I hadn't eaten anything today, only drinking a stevia tea (one application) and chewing gum (a lot). Something is just off, and it's staying off. So I'll keep to what I know is not a problem until I can sort things out, then test each thing singularly. That's the trouble with this diet. I honestly think they can't figure it down to even a number of types of people. I really think glycemic index for each individual might end up being as unique as fingerprints. Which may really mean they are adivising more people to death than not. The question isn't if they know, it's when they knew and why they didn't stop.
Later.
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[Not sure what happened to the title, or what it was supposed to be. It's like blogger just lopped off most of the last word. Odd. I'm sure it was whole when I posted.]
At 1:07 it is 72. After checking the questionable thermo reading I double checked with the good thermometer. It seems the bad one can read correctly. Now, it seemed right. I was just hoping for cooler. There is more night, just not a lot of hope for much more cooling. Fans can go as fast as their motors will let them and it doesn't mean all that much. I doubt if it would mean all that much, save a trip to town.
Grocery shopping is becoming more complicated. I've always had some things in my list that favor higher fat, a bit more protein heavy, sorts of foods. Cream cheese, dairy, meats both fresh and cured... among many other things. So some things just stay the same, or even are added in greater volume. Other things are simply new. So even knowing where they might be, or which store will carry some items, is a learning process.
I could not find the noodle substitutes. I couldn't find some of the other ingredients for the bread substitutes, such as almond flour. There was a "health food" section, but it seems to be shrinking. As is the "organic" produce and vegetable sections. Mommy and daddy are pulling up short, or people are simply understanding the truths. I have to wonder how many organic fish come directly from China, for example? Even if it is truly based on "organic" methods, is it actually one iota better for you? I'll lay money on that one. Easily. And win. Yeah, so, no. They had none of the products I was seeking. There are two health stores. One is rather small, the other is larger but still somewhat limited in selection. I'll give them a shot next time I am in town. I'm not sure I will use the items much. It's a lot of work for a bread substitute.
I bought a pair of larger portabella mushrooms. You can use those as a substitute bun, or pizza crust. It's not perfect, but none of them are. The thing is you can be pretty sure there is nothing processed into that. I did look at one low-carb tortilla like replacement in the store. There was so much stuff in it I had no idea what to even think. I didn't make it half way through the ingredient list before simply giving up on even considering eating that. I'm not sure there was any actual food in it.
Some fruit, milk, eggs (a brand I know and like), this, that, and the other thing. I got much of what I wanted, other than what I could not find. I even purchased herbs so as to make a stab at ranch or some other sort of dressing. Yeah, I even remember romaine hearts, spinach, and button mushrooms, for a minor mixed salad. Oh, and blue cheese crumbles for a second homemade dressing... for next time. I'm letting the eggs come to room temperature before attempting a production run.
I have decided to stop using three things for now. Bone broth, liquid stevia, gum. I think the main problem remains the ojd. However, I think something else is helping to kick it up. Before dinner my blood sugar was 189, an hour after it was 221, an hour after that it was 180. It is now 143. The problem is I hadn't eaten anything today, only drinking a stevia tea (one application) and chewing gum (a lot). Something is just off, and it's staying off. So I'll keep to what I know is not a problem until I can sort things out, then test each thing singularly. That's the trouble with this diet. I honestly think they can't figure it down to even a number of types of people. I really think glycemic index for each individual might end up being as unique as fingerprints. Which may really mean they are adivising more people to death than not. The question isn't if they know, it's when they knew and why they didn't stop.
Later.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
They just don't know.
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They ask me how. Why? Something. I get the gist. I don't have the answer. A filthy beast? A son of hell? A servant of heaven, God? Or just... just. I can't tell what I don't rightly know. I don't think it matters. If you think you have a need to know, pray to God. If He is mum, there you go. Yeah. I really... don't know any more than you do. Mostly. What I do know wouldn't make any sense to you.
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They ask me how. Why? Something. I get the gist. I don't have the answer. A filthy beast? A son of hell? A servant of heaven, God? Or just... just. I can't tell what I don't rightly know. I don't think it matters. If you think you have a need to know, pray to God. If He is mum, there you go. Yeah. I really... don't know any more than you do. Mostly. What I do know wouldn't make any sense to you.
Replacements.
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I highly doubt that what is on offer instead of wheat noodles, flour bread, or rice of any sort, is going to taste like... well... what it is replacing. At this point it honestly doesn't matter. As long as it fills the role well enough. It isn't so much the flavor that I am missing, as the sense that something isn't in the dish that should be. Actually, you simply can't have spaghetti without... well... spaghetti. It just isn't what it is. And the sauce... without noodles, or even bread? As I learned tonight, however, meatballs are great just with the sauce and some melted cheese. Oh, I can do that. I've been eating plain burgers for a while, so it was a treat. Yeah, I am working on it.
To the store soon. Working on a list. Standard issue foods, like milk, cream, eggs, of course. Now there are new foods. Further, I am looking much more closely at labels. Does this heavy cream have stabilizers? Does that have dextrose, do those have sugar, is this so and such? Not just what is in it, but... how many carbs? Even with a carb count, I am going to have to see if it disturbs my own body's glycemix indexer. Testing, and more, on new and old. Of course, with my insulin doing yo-yo tricks I'll... have to test cautiously.
As to the noodles, or noodle replacements really, if they aren't in the stores I shop I have found them at Amazon. As well as a rice replacement. Not just random picks, these come recommended. Not that they will work, for me, but they are a start. Further, they will give me some notion of how my tastes and tolerances compare with a particular taster. Here is a link to the spaghetti, fettuccine, and rice replacements... just to show where I am looking. I have heard that adding a cup of brown rice, to the package, needing no water, will produce a very close run... if my system will handle it well enough. I think I had brown rice whole, without a blood sugar shock, so... Actually I might hold off on the rice replacement until/unless testing shows a real need.
It is amazing what all is out there. It isn't just packaged, either. Simply cooking cauliflower, then pressing it through a ricer, and... there is another rice/potato substitute. Crazy what all is out there that I really didn't know. Or did but conveniently ignored. Crazy how, until you are ready to take a corner in life, you often won't/can't begin to see around it. *Boo!* Run away, run away fast! Ah well. I am here now, and cornering fairly well. I think I am surprising people. I am not sure that is a good thing. Some people don't like surprises, some don't like specific surprises. Ah, the dead man CAN walk... run... disappear. But... I thought he was, you know... dead... deadish? Can't we all just get along? *poof* *wink*
Later.
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I highly doubt that what is on offer instead of wheat noodles, flour bread, or rice of any sort, is going to taste like... well... what it is replacing. At this point it honestly doesn't matter. As long as it fills the role well enough. It isn't so much the flavor that I am missing, as the sense that something isn't in the dish that should be. Actually, you simply can't have spaghetti without... well... spaghetti. It just isn't what it is. And the sauce... without noodles, or even bread? As I learned tonight, however, meatballs are great just with the sauce and some melted cheese. Oh, I can do that. I've been eating plain burgers for a while, so it was a treat. Yeah, I am working on it.
To the store soon. Working on a list. Standard issue foods, like milk, cream, eggs, of course. Now there are new foods. Further, I am looking much more closely at labels. Does this heavy cream have stabilizers? Does that have dextrose, do those have sugar, is this so and such? Not just what is in it, but... how many carbs? Even with a carb count, I am going to have to see if it disturbs my own body's glycemix indexer. Testing, and more, on new and old. Of course, with my insulin doing yo-yo tricks I'll... have to test cautiously.
As to the noodles, or noodle replacements really, if they aren't in the stores I shop I have found them at Amazon. As well as a rice replacement. Not just random picks, these come recommended. Not that they will work, for me, but they are a start. Further, they will give me some notion of how my tastes and tolerances compare with a particular taster. Here is a link to the spaghetti, fettuccine, and rice replacements... just to show where I am looking. I have heard that adding a cup of brown rice, to the package, needing no water, will produce a very close run... if my system will handle it well enough. I think I had brown rice whole, without a blood sugar shock, so... Actually I might hold off on the rice replacement until/unless testing shows a real need.
It is amazing what all is out there. It isn't just packaged, either. Simply cooking cauliflower, then pressing it through a ricer, and... there is another rice/potato substitute. Crazy what all is out there that I really didn't know. Or did but conveniently ignored. Crazy how, until you are ready to take a corner in life, you often won't/can't begin to see around it. *Boo!* Run away, run away fast! Ah well. I am here now, and cornering fairly well. I think I am surprising people. I am not sure that is a good thing. Some people don't like surprises, some don't like specific surprises. Ah, the dead man CAN walk... run... disappear. But... I thought he was, you know... dead... deadish? Can't we all just get along? *poof* *wink*
Later.
Ah... man, gotta watch everything.
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I have not been liking chicken lately. Just not liking it. Something... wrong. Taste buds on the fritz? It's not extremely recently, but the last year or two or three. I don't eat chicken often, so dating the problem isn't exact. On another topic, I began a search in an attempt to locate US caught and handled fish. I have the link, but that is really pricey. I'd like to find something I could have slightly more regularly. Sure, fishing. But I'm not that good. Actually, I haven't caught a fish as an adult I don't believe. I've only tried, perhaps... four or five times. Still, it's a bit of effort to get good, and then maintain a stock.
No luck finding US caught and processed fish. China. And not good. Really, stay away from fish. Even cans of tuna are not, most likely, tuna. What is it? Hard to say. Just as likely whatever ends up on the hook, in the net, mixed with whatever tuna is also caught by the sounds of it. Yeah, I found this out some time back. Not sure if it matters, in one sense. If it definitely does in another. I wonder if the FDA just lets that fly? They, it is suggested, turn back lots of Chinese fish. But they only inspect a very tiny portion of what is coming in. Canadian and Mexican foods are just as bad. Why do we have them if they can't or won't do their job?
What I found, or saw, or was suggested, is that chickens are not American, often, either. Great. I may have to find better sources of chicken, even if just for stock. What I used last time did what it was supposed to do, and actually boiled clean. Perhaps I simply don't care for chicken all that much? There is that. But there is the concern with foreign poultry. Fish and poultry are both things you don't want to mess with. If bad, they will mess you up heartattack fast. I may speak with the butcher shop tomorrow. It really depends on what they have going, the price, and such. I really only like hindquarters, split or not, with skin and bone on and in. Well, and bones for broth. They can keep the change. :p
Fish? I may simply have to pay the premium for honest, non-poisonous, fish. Or... as close to it as my wallet can get. Yeah, you guessed it, I am out of fish and have a hankering for it. Well, and I am thinking about more chicken broth. I have enough bones for a broth, if I would like a few more. Though, I don't think I will be using the pressure cooker. Why? That is a very limited method. I would only get... maybe... a gallon, max? Whereas, if I used one of my massive stock pots I could get double that or more. Whought... 36 quarts, divided by four innit? That's nine gallons. Won't come close to full, will go down over time, call it half... 4 1/2 gallons without a sweat, especially if water is added through the process, and meat and bones, are taken out. Math? I'll... check on it. Math is fine if I have the quart to gallon thing... I am almost sure it's 4 to 1.
Gosh, I would sure like America to go back to serving it's own, and correctly, then on to helping the rest of the world. Until then, buckle up and do what it takes? Bigger government didn't help, and the blackout made matters much worse.
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I have not been liking chicken lately. Just not liking it. Something... wrong. Taste buds on the fritz? It's not extremely recently, but the last year or two or three. I don't eat chicken often, so dating the problem isn't exact. On another topic, I began a search in an attempt to locate US caught and handled fish. I have the link, but that is really pricey. I'd like to find something I could have slightly more regularly. Sure, fishing. But I'm not that good. Actually, I haven't caught a fish as an adult I don't believe. I've only tried, perhaps... four or five times. Still, it's a bit of effort to get good, and then maintain a stock.
No luck finding US caught and processed fish. China. And not good. Really, stay away from fish. Even cans of tuna are not, most likely, tuna. What is it? Hard to say. Just as likely whatever ends up on the hook, in the net, mixed with whatever tuna is also caught by the sounds of it. Yeah, I found this out some time back. Not sure if it matters, in one sense. If it definitely does in another. I wonder if the FDA just lets that fly? They, it is suggested, turn back lots of Chinese fish. But they only inspect a very tiny portion of what is coming in. Canadian and Mexican foods are just as bad. Why do we have them if they can't or won't do their job?
What I found, or saw, or was suggested, is that chickens are not American, often, either. Great. I may have to find better sources of chicken, even if just for stock. What I used last time did what it was supposed to do, and actually boiled clean. Perhaps I simply don't care for chicken all that much? There is that. But there is the concern with foreign poultry. Fish and poultry are both things you don't want to mess with. If bad, they will mess you up heartattack fast. I may speak with the butcher shop tomorrow. It really depends on what they have going, the price, and such. I really only like hindquarters, split or not, with skin and bone on and in. Well, and bones for broth. They can keep the change. :p
Fish? I may simply have to pay the premium for honest, non-poisonous, fish. Or... as close to it as my wallet can get. Yeah, you guessed it, I am out of fish and have a hankering for it. Well, and I am thinking about more chicken broth. I have enough bones for a broth, if I would like a few more. Though, I don't think I will be using the pressure cooker. Why? That is a very limited method. I would only get... maybe... a gallon, max? Whereas, if I used one of my massive stock pots I could get double that or more. Whought... 36 quarts, divided by four innit? That's nine gallons. Won't come close to full, will go down over time, call it half... 4 1/2 gallons without a sweat, especially if water is added through the process, and meat and bones, are taken out. Math? I'll... check on it. Math is fine if I have the quart to gallon thing... I am almost sure it's 4 to 1.
Gosh, I would sure like America to go back to serving it's own, and correctly, then on to helping the rest of the world. Until then, buckle up and do what it takes? Bigger government didn't help, and the blackout made matters much worse.
Some things are so right.
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Other things seem so wrong. I can't say what it is, but I am crashing today. I have slept twice! Hmm, well... maybe it isn't all that bad. The first time was a nap. Though I was only awake for a while before crashing again. Hmm... maybe that was due to the rising temps. More so since I have learned to, fairly reasonably, sleep through the heat... even with a light blanket on. Wait... that's crazy. Just this year, when it was cooler and hadn't heated the surroundings, I had to have the ac. And that was in order to sleep at night. Yeah, no, I haven't been using the ac. Just a fan in there.
The body is back to being grumpy. Of course, whether it is 22 in less than two weeks, or 30 in three(?) weeks... that is simply a lot of weight off in a very short time. And, most likely, it is still coming off. There might well be gaps, perhaps almost more presenting as tears until the other sides stitch themselves back together? It sure feels like it.
I'm not hungry. I'm not grumpy. Just a bit sore. Oh, and today is dinner day! And that is coming up shortly. I'll do a blood sample before eating... which means now. Hmmm? Not so good, 189. Why? Other than there being a bounce from the orange juice debacle, henceforth the ojd, I'm not sure. I did add a new liquid sweetener, a stevia type. Shouldn't have been a problem. I'll keep watch. Oh well. I will be eating within the half hour, and will test an hour after my last bite. I may do a two hour too, again, just... to see. Something is really off. Or so it seems to me. But then, I can't remember the last thing everything felt as it should. And I have to wonder, at this point, if that was naivete.
Well, today? Just staying in the chair, having food, and... I don't know what else. Later.
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Other things seem so wrong. I can't say what it is, but I am crashing today. I have slept twice! Hmm, well... maybe it isn't all that bad. The first time was a nap. Though I was only awake for a while before crashing again. Hmm... maybe that was due to the rising temps. More so since I have learned to, fairly reasonably, sleep through the heat... even with a light blanket on. Wait... that's crazy. Just this year, when it was cooler and hadn't heated the surroundings, I had to have the ac. And that was in order to sleep at night. Yeah, no, I haven't been using the ac. Just a fan in there.
The body is back to being grumpy. Of course, whether it is 22 in less than two weeks, or 30 in three(?) weeks... that is simply a lot of weight off in a very short time. And, most likely, it is still coming off. There might well be gaps, perhaps almost more presenting as tears until the other sides stitch themselves back together? It sure feels like it.
I'm not hungry. I'm not grumpy. Just a bit sore. Oh, and today is dinner day! And that is coming up shortly. I'll do a blood sample before eating... which means now. Hmmm? Not so good, 189. Why? Other than there being a bounce from the orange juice debacle, henceforth the ojd, I'm not sure. I did add a new liquid sweetener, a stevia type. Shouldn't have been a problem. I'll keep watch. Oh well. I will be eating within the half hour, and will test an hour after my last bite. I may do a two hour too, again, just... to see. Something is really off. Or so it seems to me. But then, I can't remember the last thing everything felt as it should. And I have to wonder, at this point, if that was naivete.
Well, today? Just staying in the chair, having food, and... I don't know what else. Later.
Well bless my sainted aunt's thyroid.
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Other than to say something seems to be working out for the better, a minor call out to someone who knows. I haven't heard such side-kickery in ages, by the way. Neverthewho.
I got a bit of a nap in. Needed it, wanted it, could take it, right over the 78 degree mark that was the way of things when dirt.. or pillow.. and face met. It was an ugly thing, a face being molded into a gravity flattened thing. And, yet, it was beautiful. All things must go through the eye of the beholder. At least one. Two hours? Three? I can't be sure. Seems more like a nap as things turn. Which is fine. I have been... careful... of late. What with what all. Even while sleeping, some caution was seen. I had to wake, but just for normal calls, and that ended my nap.
I woke well enough. Though I wanted to check something, right away. I had a feeling. What feeling? Can't say, exactly. Blood sugar. Test. Well, whatever I did it was the right thing. My insulin level read 127! Was it the broth? It seemed to shoot the insulin up. It wouldn't have been the cream, I use that every morning in tea, and in the afternoons on through-fasting days. It must have had something to do with the broth. But... what? Never mind. As a reward? You guessed it, a cup of broth. Though this time only two cubes. Next time, three. Two cubes for this volume of water is just too thin. Actually I'm adding another in with this and warming it. Make it two more cubes, and some more water. Too thin is too thin and no amount of salt and pepper can fix that. I will, in an hour, test again. I am curious about this bone broth stuff. Maybe it does jump the blood sugar, but allow it to back down at some point? Crazy, but good. It had to go forward, I could tell it was needed.
This gig is going well boys and girls. Not bad for someone the world has given up upon. I'll dig out of this grave if it kills me. I already know the shortest timeline... the rest of my life. Which I know, without any uncertainty, remains to me. I'll be looking into some supplements and over the counter things tonight. Oh, and my leg seems to be red again. Not swollen. Might have to see about that. Yeah, I haven't been wearing the socks, at all... not even every other days like I said I would. I best get back to that.
Later.
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Other than to say something seems to be working out for the better, a minor call out to someone who knows. I haven't heard such side-kickery in ages, by the way. Neverthewho.
I got a bit of a nap in. Needed it, wanted it, could take it, right over the 78 degree mark that was the way of things when dirt.. or pillow.. and face met. It was an ugly thing, a face being molded into a gravity flattened thing. And, yet, it was beautiful. All things must go through the eye of the beholder. At least one. Two hours? Three? I can't be sure. Seems more like a nap as things turn. Which is fine. I have been... careful... of late. What with what all. Even while sleeping, some caution was seen. I had to wake, but just for normal calls, and that ended my nap.
I woke well enough. Though I wanted to check something, right away. I had a feeling. What feeling? Can't say, exactly. Blood sugar. Test. Well, whatever I did it was the right thing. My insulin level read 127! Was it the broth? It seemed to shoot the insulin up. It wouldn't have been the cream, I use that every morning in tea, and in the afternoons on through-fasting days. It must have had something to do with the broth. But... what? Never mind. As a reward? You guessed it, a cup of broth. Though this time only two cubes. Next time, three. Two cubes for this volume of water is just too thin. Actually I'm adding another in with this and warming it. Make it two more cubes, and some more water. Too thin is too thin and no amount of salt and pepper can fix that. I will, in an hour, test again. I am curious about this bone broth stuff. Maybe it does jump the blood sugar, but allow it to back down at some point? Crazy, but good. It had to go forward, I could tell it was needed.
This gig is going well boys and girls. Not bad for someone the world has given up upon. I'll dig out of this grave if it kills me. I already know the shortest timeline... the rest of my life. Which I know, without any uncertainty, remains to me. I'll be looking into some supplements and over the counter things tonight. Oh, and my leg seems to be red again. Not swollen. Might have to see about that. Yeah, I haven't been wearing the socks, at all... not even every other days like I said I would. I best get back to that.
Later.
A mild warning.
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If you are going to do bone broth do so slowly and with some caution. Perhaps more so in the middle of a fast. As I recall, I reduced the stock to 2~4 to 1 ratios. And, while I added water, about half or thereabouts again what the cubes created I did consume a fair quantity and added cream in one cup, making it even richer than already being richer than standard. What is the problem? Make sure you have a restroom easily available and nothing between you and it until you know how it might react.
Now, both the fasting method and the food choices I have taken to consuming can do this. That they haven't after nearly two weeks, however, suggests to me that the problem was the broth. I am going to continue to consume broth. However I will be cutting volume and, for now, ending the notion of adding cream. Tea and cream, and coffee and cream, seem fine. Perhaps as I stabilize on these methods I will be able to play a little more with what I can do.
On another topic... I had a rough moment earlier. I looked at the weight, and thought back. At the peak of my health, I weighed 240... roughly... always ups and downs. I also wore a 31 waist. Just eleven pounds heavier, 27~28 years later, and I'm at a 38 waist. And that is down from about 46 waist when I arrived in Utah. I was just on the edge of buying bigger jeans. I decided to wait to see if the move and this new place would get some weight off, and it did. Size more than weight, though maybe some weight? I'll never be to 31 again. I might get to 36, perhaps 34. But that'll be down in the 200~220 weight range, assuming I also add exercise, probably several types. Oh, that stung. It sure did. Always will. Then again, who doesn't go through that?
Later or good night.
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If you are going to do bone broth do so slowly and with some caution. Perhaps more so in the middle of a fast. As I recall, I reduced the stock to 2~4 to 1 ratios. And, while I added water, about half or thereabouts again what the cubes created I did consume a fair quantity and added cream in one cup, making it even richer than already being richer than standard. What is the problem? Make sure you have a restroom easily available and nothing between you and it until you know how it might react.
Now, both the fasting method and the food choices I have taken to consuming can do this. That they haven't after nearly two weeks, however, suggests to me that the problem was the broth. I am going to continue to consume broth. However I will be cutting volume and, for now, ending the notion of adding cream. Tea and cream, and coffee and cream, seem fine. Perhaps as I stabilize on these methods I will be able to play a little more with what I can do.
On another topic... I had a rough moment earlier. I looked at the weight, and thought back. At the peak of my health, I weighed 240... roughly... always ups and downs. I also wore a 31 waist. Just eleven pounds heavier, 27~28 years later, and I'm at a 38 waist. And that is down from about 46 waist when I arrived in Utah. I was just on the edge of buying bigger jeans. I decided to wait to see if the move and this new place would get some weight off, and it did. Size more than weight, though maybe some weight? I'll never be to 31 again. I might get to 36, perhaps 34. But that'll be down in the 200~220 weight range, assuming I also add exercise, probably several types. Oh, that stung. It sure did. Always will. Then again, who doesn't go through that?
Later or good night.
Monday, July 25, 2016
I needed that.
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I may have overdone. I ended up having three (small) coffee cups... those original true coffee cups, of broth. The first and last were just broth, the middle one got a splash of cream. Salt had to be added. In the last one I added less salt though went with black pepper. Wow. I could not get enough. And, yeah, my body was craving it. Whatever is in there was missing. Still, I can't go that far in. I'll have to work on volume. I used six broth cubes (from the ice cube tray), two per cup. I only added about a quarter cup of cream. Salt was added sparingly, and can go down a lot more with black pepper in it's place... or other spices or herbs. The thing is my blood sugar reading went up to 197 (from about 169). I'll be checking in a moment to see if it is coming down, as if a normal meal had been eaten, or if there is some sort of problem. Down to 177... Hmm... volume? I want bone broth in there, so I'll have to figure out how much, and such. It shouldn't be taking my blood sugar up. Then again, that orange juice really did a number on things. I am sure it isn't the cream, I use nearly half of a pint in my tea, when I have it. And it doesn't affect blood sugar. So...
I really think it is just that the juice messed things up. I'll have to watch what I eat very carefully to get back down. And then to keep it down. I just can't take risks with some things. Yeah, I can tell that the bone broth was absolutely needed. My body didn't just consume it, it soaked it in like a dry sponge in a flood. Could not get enough. I am just hoping that clears up some of the minor body nags and complaints. Perhaps even improving life over a relatively good, if slack, run of time. It's an experiment, all of it, and a complex one. I'll keep cooking the runs, checking the numbers, and doing what I can. Later.
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I may have overdone. I ended up having three (small) coffee cups... those original true coffee cups, of broth. The first and last were just broth, the middle one got a splash of cream. Salt had to be added. In the last one I added less salt though went with black pepper. Wow. I could not get enough. And, yeah, my body was craving it. Whatever is in there was missing. Still, I can't go that far in. I'll have to work on volume. I used six broth cubes (from the ice cube tray), two per cup. I only added about a quarter cup of cream. Salt was added sparingly, and can go down a lot more with black pepper in it's place... or other spices or herbs. The thing is my blood sugar reading went up to 197 (from about 169). I'll be checking in a moment to see if it is coming down, as if a normal meal had been eaten, or if there is some sort of problem. Down to 177... Hmm... volume? I want bone broth in there, so I'll have to figure out how much, and such. It shouldn't be taking my blood sugar up. Then again, that orange juice really did a number on things. I am sure it isn't the cream, I use nearly half of a pint in my tea, when I have it. And it doesn't affect blood sugar. So...
I really think it is just that the juice messed things up. I'll have to watch what I eat very carefully to get back down. And then to keep it down. I just can't take risks with some things. Yeah, I can tell that the bone broth was absolutely needed. My body didn't just consume it, it soaked it in like a dry sponge in a flood. Could not get enough. I am just hoping that clears up some of the minor body nags and complaints. Perhaps even improving life over a relatively good, if slack, run of time. It's an experiment, all of it, and a complex one. I'll keep cooking the runs, checking the numbers, and doing what I can. Later.
Ah!
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The actual what and why. I hear those often. Near and far, in many ways. Never completed. Just. How? Why? And... a trailing off. More is wanted to be spoken. Surprise. Sometimes awe. I forget what I was speaking of or writing, sometimes, right while doing so. Especially if I am uncomfortable about a subject, or even a subtopic within. I think in this case it was a bit of both. Sometimes the block passes and I get back to it. As in this example.
As it turns out, the very particular case discussed... both expressions were used, in the singular, and not too far apart. The answer is, I am able to answer the questions that aren't asked because I know what they are before they are spoken. Often I know before the person about to ask had even thought to ask. It is only possible because, when I write something, or craft works from the works of others, I have already understood the many possible implications. And, in some, I can see where they are going and how they are reacting without being told. I don't have to be in the physical presence, though it can allow for more precision. That is what that was about. I have said I see in the dark.
It isn't just about what is written here. I can see trouble coming, and quickly. Some will say it is for this, others for that. I, and they, know it has nothing to do with this and that, but a comment in an email. Oh, yes, they do pay attention. I am amazed that such things, and slights, make it to the ears that read such. I do see in the dark. And they know exactly what I am saying. If there are troubles, you will know, to a degree, the real cause.
Anyway. So... yes. I do see. No real issue. I always thought everyone else could see. I am finding that isn't the case. Much as most can't... trail... notions... through time and space, see patterns that most miss, and have some ability to put things together. How well? As much as I am being viewed, and by whom, I would say... much more than you would suspect. Oh... just stories. Unless... you have been hit. If so, the question is, what next? *grins*
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The actual what and why. I hear those often. Near and far, in many ways. Never completed. Just. How? Why? And... a trailing off. More is wanted to be spoken. Surprise. Sometimes awe. I forget what I was speaking of or writing, sometimes, right while doing so. Especially if I am uncomfortable about a subject, or even a subtopic within. I think in this case it was a bit of both. Sometimes the block passes and I get back to it. As in this example.
As it turns out, the very particular case discussed... both expressions were used, in the singular, and not too far apart. The answer is, I am able to answer the questions that aren't asked because I know what they are before they are spoken. Often I know before the person about to ask had even thought to ask. It is only possible because, when I write something, or craft works from the works of others, I have already understood the many possible implications. And, in some, I can see where they are going and how they are reacting without being told. I don't have to be in the physical presence, though it can allow for more precision. That is what that was about. I have said I see in the dark.
It isn't just about what is written here. I can see trouble coming, and quickly. Some will say it is for this, others for that. I, and they, know it has nothing to do with this and that, but a comment in an email. Oh, yes, they do pay attention. I am amazed that such things, and slights, make it to the ears that read such. I do see in the dark. And they know exactly what I am saying. If there are troubles, you will know, to a degree, the real cause.
Anyway. So... yes. I do see. No real issue. I always thought everyone else could see. I am finding that isn't the case. Much as most can't... trail... notions... through time and space, see patterns that most miss, and have some ability to put things together. How well? As much as I am being viewed, and by whom, I would say... much more than you would suspect. Oh... just stories. Unless... you have been hit. If so, the question is, what next? *grins*
Right. More notions.
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One of the things about this way of consumption is that it is dehydrating. That is something I have overlooked. Why? In part because I have been fighting over-hydration, and swelling in a leg from that. Tea is good. More so being that I often double or triple steep the loose leaves I use. What does that do? It weakens the caffeine, and pretty much all else. While it does offer a varying flavor, so has it's purposes. Plus it makes tea last that little bit longer. The problem with dehydration is that it is not simply a matter of water. There are things in the water being voided that are terribly important.
Now I had not gotten to the point of serious keto-flu, as they like to call it. Looking at the symptoms, it sure looked like dehydration to me. And, the symptoms I was exhibiting, if fewer and lighter, were headed that way. There is a trick for this as well. And, actually, I had already created the cure before I knew it would be needed. How is that for taking care of the mocking suggestion that... physician, heal thyself? Oh, yeah. Ah, right, the solution.
Bone broth. It has everything that is being leached by voiding because of the rest of the processes... probably from sweating extra too? Well, and all around generally being cleaned out. Remember earlier, in mid to late winter, I made chicken broth, and soup. The broth I put into ice cube trays, froze, then bagged. I just... well... wasn't sure I'd ever really have another use for them. Who knew?!? I pulled three cube out, put them in a heat-proof glass measuring cup with some water, microwaved until done, added a bit more water and salt (I added no water to the original stock), and... bingo! That was absolutely delicious. I am hoping a cup or two of that a day will fix me up sooner rather than later. I'll still be suffering in the heat a bit, and not stirring all that much until it cools. And yet I might enjoy fewer aches pains and general or even specific complaints... caused by any number of things.
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One of the things about this way of consumption is that it is dehydrating. That is something I have overlooked. Why? In part because I have been fighting over-hydration, and swelling in a leg from that. Tea is good. More so being that I often double or triple steep the loose leaves I use. What does that do? It weakens the caffeine, and pretty much all else. While it does offer a varying flavor, so has it's purposes. Plus it makes tea last that little bit longer. The problem with dehydration is that it is not simply a matter of water. There are things in the water being voided that are terribly important.
Now I had not gotten to the point of serious keto-flu, as they like to call it. Looking at the symptoms, it sure looked like dehydration to me. And, the symptoms I was exhibiting, if fewer and lighter, were headed that way. There is a trick for this as well. And, actually, I had already created the cure before I knew it would be needed. How is that for taking care of the mocking suggestion that... physician, heal thyself? Oh, yeah. Ah, right, the solution.
Bone broth. It has everything that is being leached by voiding because of the rest of the processes... probably from sweating extra too? Well, and all around generally being cleaned out. Remember earlier, in mid to late winter, I made chicken broth, and soup. The broth I put into ice cube trays, froze, then bagged. I just... well... wasn't sure I'd ever really have another use for them. Who knew?!? I pulled three cube out, put them in a heat-proof glass measuring cup with some water, microwaved until done, added a bit more water and salt (I added no water to the original stock), and... bingo! That was absolutely delicious. I am hoping a cup or two of that a day will fix me up sooner rather than later. I'll still be suffering in the heat a bit, and not stirring all that much until it cools. And yet I might enjoy fewer aches pains and general or even specific complaints... caused by any number of things.
Monday already?
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Late is the hour. Which... is great! I am, somehow, now able to sleep through the hottest part of the day without the heat of the outside disturbing my slumbering. No crazy fevers, or fevered dreaming, no upset g.i., upper or lower, no feeling of having been baked while asleep, no serious grump upon waking... or that headache fevers can make. Now, I'm not out in it much, which might also be helping. But the truth is, quite often, being outside in the heat isn't so bad with all of the outside in which to share the heat. At least for the times I have been out.
My body is still a bit tender and creaky from losing, changing, fasting, and the switch to 'bio-diesel'. Burning fat instead of sugar just does different thing. Fat that has been put here, or there, or such is being slowly taken to the furnace... if I can keep sugars out. At my weigh-in, I was 251 (not worrying about decimal points, which will average out since I round up). Last week I weighed 256, the weigh-in before that (not quite a week before, I believe) I was 154, the weigh-in before that, from sickness, had brought my weight down to 271 or 272... from my usual of 280. My blood test showed 169 this morning... that orange juice sure did a number on my body... it was 166 at it's lowest last eve... yeah... I've been following it closely. Probably measured four or five times throughout yesterday. So pissed. My blood sugar high was 336 from near the start, a fasting blood sugar. My low, also a fasting blood sugar I believe, was 126 from a few days ago. I can't swear, but it's been... say... 8~12 cycles of fasting (4~6 if you count each click and clack, up and down, of each kind as one... I count in sets).
I figure, with the heat, I just won't be able to kick a leg over the hump until that starts coming down. I just can't multi-superman task. Period. One hard thing at a time, maybe two. But that is fasting and the new diet, which are both adjusting both my metabolism and bodily energy source change, and at great speed. Wrestling with the sun and heat are just... it's too much. I can tolerate them, and fairly well. But that is in the passive, not active.
Monday? Who said that? Oh, never mind. Right. Monday. I am hoping to get in to the store sometime early this week. I also need to... do something else. Time is flying on that as well. Tick-tock, always. Still... I think I can, I think there is enough time, I will figure it out. Hmm... Hmm? I don't know. Later.
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Late is the hour. Which... is great! I am, somehow, now able to sleep through the hottest part of the day without the heat of the outside disturbing my slumbering. No crazy fevers, or fevered dreaming, no upset g.i., upper or lower, no feeling of having been baked while asleep, no serious grump upon waking... or that headache fevers can make. Now, I'm not out in it much, which might also be helping. But the truth is, quite often, being outside in the heat isn't so bad with all of the outside in which to share the heat. At least for the times I have been out.
My body is still a bit tender and creaky from losing, changing, fasting, and the switch to 'bio-diesel'. Burning fat instead of sugar just does different thing. Fat that has been put here, or there, or such is being slowly taken to the furnace... if I can keep sugars out. At my weigh-in, I was 251 (not worrying about decimal points, which will average out since I round up). Last week I weighed 256, the weigh-in before that (not quite a week before, I believe) I was 154, the weigh-in before that, from sickness, had brought my weight down to 271 or 272... from my usual of 280. My blood test showed 169 this morning... that orange juice sure did a number on my body... it was 166 at it's lowest last eve... yeah... I've been following it closely. Probably measured four or five times throughout yesterday. So pissed. My blood sugar high was 336 from near the start, a fasting blood sugar. My low, also a fasting blood sugar I believe, was 126 from a few days ago. I can't swear, but it's been... say... 8~12 cycles of fasting (4~6 if you count each click and clack, up and down, of each kind as one... I count in sets).
I figure, with the heat, I just won't be able to kick a leg over the hump until that starts coming down. I just can't multi-superman task. Period. One hard thing at a time, maybe two. But that is fasting and the new diet, which are both adjusting both my metabolism and bodily energy source change, and at great speed. Wrestling with the sun and heat are just... it's too much. I can tolerate them, and fairly well. But that is in the passive, not active.
Monday? Who said that? Oh, never mind. Right. Monday. I am hoping to get in to the store sometime early this week. I also need to... do something else. Time is flying on that as well. Tick-tock, always. Still... I think I can, I think there is enough time, I will figure it out. Hmm... Hmm? I don't know. Later.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Cooling.
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It seems to be really cooling, compared to even yesterday. Much more so than before that. It's not even 22:00 and the temp, outside, is just dropping below 70. That doesn't mean it will get in the mid-40's (I don't think it got cooler, though possibly... stopped checking at some point, if I can't quite be sure when... between 3:00 and 5:00 if I had to guess). If it gets even to the low 50's, that would be a blessing.
I have been doing research on my diet and fasting method. I am looking for cues, clues, hints, advice, warnings, and any other information I can collect which I believe I can trust, or is worth putting to the test. Many, many, many, many people who post videos or blogs are... idiots. Perhaps, though, different bodies react differently. Some of them, however, are so out on some very specific and basic things so as to believe they have never attempted reaching ketosis or fasted intermittently.
Still, it really is up to you. If something seems wrong, off, or it's all going south on you? You really are in charge. If someone tells you to do something bad, and you do it, and you have the wherewithal to find and then take the advice? Then, really, it's on you. So... I check. I do, with some small trust, until it works or not. Especially if someone differs from most others, significantly, in places they shouldn't. Oh, and if you see an obvious junky musclehead, suggesting the diet is why he looks like a manorexic, just know he's jacking you around. I exclude those idiot face-timers as fast as I can. Though dames are in on it from the cutesy side as well. *zap*
Anyway... one of the things I have been looking at, more closely, is what to exclude. Some things I will abide, from advice. Others not so much. Peanut oil is fine, for some things, to me. Cottonseed oil not so much. So, what to do when it could be one or the other? I found that on the label of cashews. I'll eat that, in small portions, until it is gone, then either be done with cashews or cashews fried in that. I went through a number of recent purchases. Most made muster, smokehouse almonds did not. Someone else can enjoy them. Since they haven't been opened, I am hoping to give them away.
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It seems to be really cooling, compared to even yesterday. Much more so than before that. It's not even 22:00 and the temp, outside, is just dropping below 70. That doesn't mean it will get in the mid-40's (I don't think it got cooler, though possibly... stopped checking at some point, if I can't quite be sure when... between 3:00 and 5:00 if I had to guess). If it gets even to the low 50's, that would be a blessing.
I have been doing research on my diet and fasting method. I am looking for cues, clues, hints, advice, warnings, and any other information I can collect which I believe I can trust, or is worth putting to the test. Many, many, many, many people who post videos or blogs are... idiots. Perhaps, though, different bodies react differently. Some of them, however, are so out on some very specific and basic things so as to believe they have never attempted reaching ketosis or fasted intermittently.
Still, it really is up to you. If something seems wrong, off, or it's all going south on you? You really are in charge. If someone tells you to do something bad, and you do it, and you have the wherewithal to find and then take the advice? Then, really, it's on you. So... I check. I do, with some small trust, until it works or not. Especially if someone differs from most others, significantly, in places they shouldn't. Oh, and if you see an obvious junky musclehead, suggesting the diet is why he looks like a manorexic, just know he's jacking you around. I exclude those idiot face-timers as fast as I can. Though dames are in on it from the cutesy side as well. *zap*
Anyway... one of the things I have been looking at, more closely, is what to exclude. Some things I will abide, from advice. Others not so much. Peanut oil is fine, for some things, to me. Cottonseed oil not so much. So, what to do when it could be one or the other? I found that on the label of cashews. I'll eat that, in small portions, until it is gone, then either be done with cashews or cashews fried in that. I went through a number of recent purchases. Most made muster, smokehouse almonds did not. Someone else can enjoy them. Since they haven't been opened, I am hoping to give them away.
Damn!
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Looks like I was right about the orange juice. Fasting blood sugar, 198. That little bit in and my body wants to go back to burning sugars. It is holding on, prepping to make the switch back. It loves sugars. Then again I knew this process was not bullet proof, that there would be mistakes, that a learning curve is involved. No problem, simply disappointing how many steps back that is. Well, back to the salt mines.
One thing I was considering, and have tried, but will be doing regularly, if doing extra testing regarding, is adding whole whipping cream to a darker tea or coffee (if I start coffee back up, which I am considering). I am thinking twice a day pretty much every day. I haven't, specifically, checked blood sugars with that going on. But I have done it on days on which I have hit lows. So if it is hurting, it isn't hurting blood sugar that much. That will keep some fat, right there, to help my body begin more easily seeking it for energy. If I keep the insulin low, the body has to chase something. If I put in just enough fat that it gets the scent? You guessed it. Well... in theory. Does anyone actually know? I mean, really? They might infer from this or that, or it might be highly suggested, but for the individual or anybody? I really don't believe they do know. They see something work, and infer that it is universal and guess why, nothing else.
My body felt like it didn't quite fit my bones a while back. It is starting to feel like that again. It feels like meat is sliding off bone, and things that used to be tight are loose. It is not a comfortable feeling. Though, I think, it is... probably about right. I suspect I will go through this for... six months? a year? Honestly though, I did actually gain most of my weight right at the beginning of my illness. They put me on the wrong meds, on top of my convalescence (which I never recouped out of, even to this day). Those stacked weight on top of my inactivity. So, I did put it all on in a year, maybe six months. It hasn't been years of abuse. Still, it has been on for decades. Though, at my worst, I weighed 350, 70 higher than what I have weighed for the last... fifteen years? Something like that. I have been down to 260, or close to it, several times. Never under it, and I think I got there more from being ill, or a trick the doctor gave me that shouldn't have worked. This time is the first time I, mostly, earned. Started with illness, then I figured out the trick... with a little more information from the web.
Yeah, feels like live meat sliding off living bone, loose areas where something used to be but is gone, and bones that don't have the taught support of skin and muscle they were used to knowing. It'll work itself out. I've truly never felt something quite so terribly odd. Slightly, sometimes more, painful. Not sure if anacin would help. Might take some just to know. Later.
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Looks like I was right about the orange juice. Fasting blood sugar, 198. That little bit in and my body wants to go back to burning sugars. It is holding on, prepping to make the switch back. It loves sugars. Then again I knew this process was not bullet proof, that there would be mistakes, that a learning curve is involved. No problem, simply disappointing how many steps back that is. Well, back to the salt mines.
One thing I was considering, and have tried, but will be doing regularly, if doing extra testing regarding, is adding whole whipping cream to a darker tea or coffee (if I start coffee back up, which I am considering). I am thinking twice a day pretty much every day. I haven't, specifically, checked blood sugars with that going on. But I have done it on days on which I have hit lows. So if it is hurting, it isn't hurting blood sugar that much. That will keep some fat, right there, to help my body begin more easily seeking it for energy. If I keep the insulin low, the body has to chase something. If I put in just enough fat that it gets the scent? You guessed it. Well... in theory. Does anyone actually know? I mean, really? They might infer from this or that, or it might be highly suggested, but for the individual or anybody? I really don't believe they do know. They see something work, and infer that it is universal and guess why, nothing else.
My body felt like it didn't quite fit my bones a while back. It is starting to feel like that again. It feels like meat is sliding off bone, and things that used to be tight are loose. It is not a comfortable feeling. Though, I think, it is... probably about right. I suspect I will go through this for... six months? a year? Honestly though, I did actually gain most of my weight right at the beginning of my illness. They put me on the wrong meds, on top of my convalescence (which I never recouped out of, even to this day). Those stacked weight on top of my inactivity. So, I did put it all on in a year, maybe six months. It hasn't been years of abuse. Still, it has been on for decades. Though, at my worst, I weighed 350, 70 higher than what I have weighed for the last... fifteen years? Something like that. I have been down to 260, or close to it, several times. Never under it, and I think I got there more from being ill, or a trick the doctor gave me that shouldn't have worked. This time is the first time I, mostly, earned. Started with illness, then I figured out the trick... with a little more information from the web.
Yeah, feels like live meat sliding off living bone, loose areas where something used to be but is gone, and bones that don't have the taught support of skin and muscle they were used to knowing. It'll work itself out. I've truly never felt something quite so terribly odd. Slightly, sometimes more, painful. Not sure if anacin would help. Might take some just to know. Later.
No sleep.
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I just couldn't go down. While up I went looking for information on a number of topics. While at it, I ran into a food I've been meaning to make for a while, a long while. I have most of the ingredients for it, save fresh herbs. Well, and if you wanted to get picky, I don't have the right onion. The problem was that it creates a spread. What does a spread go on? Bread, often enough. Which was the case, so I looked for an option there.
First of all? I think, if I merely focus on adding fat (and not overcooking the burgers and other meats) I'll do just fine. I do believe homemade mayo and other types of dressings would greatly add to fats and allow me to keep carbs and fats I am not interested in out of my diet. Egg, lemon juice, olive oil, and... what? That's pretty close to simple healthy homemade may. Then just add anything from blue cheese to various spices and herbs for other sorts of dressing. Bingo. Plus, adds to greens well, or just goes on some meats just as well. I am not going to calorie count, I won't even count carbs, fats, or proteins. I will just, and roughly, aim.
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I just couldn't go down. While up I went looking for information on a number of topics. While at it, I ran into a food I've been meaning to make for a while, a long while. I have most of the ingredients for it, save fresh herbs. Well, and if you wanted to get picky, I don't have the right onion. The problem was that it creates a spread. What does a spread go on? Bread, often enough. Which was the case, so I looked for an option there.
First of all? I think, if I merely focus on adding fat (and not overcooking the burgers and other meats) I'll do just fine. I do believe homemade mayo and other types of dressings would greatly add to fats and allow me to keep carbs and fats I am not interested in out of my diet. Egg, lemon juice, olive oil, and... what? That's pretty close to simple healthy homemade may. Then just add anything from blue cheese to various spices and herbs for other sorts of dressing. Bingo. Plus, adds to greens well, or just goes on some meats just as well. I am not going to calorie count, I won't even count carbs, fats, or proteins. I will just, and roughly, aim.
Ah. Problem?
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I started this thing, this change of eating habit... if truly just a controlled version of what I often fall into... on the spur of the moment. What had I to lose? I suck at dying. I'm good with pain, hell, almost adopted each other officially. I have figured some things along the way. Still learning as last night showed. And, well, learning continues? If something new per day is the going rate, I doubled down. Now, it's only a maybe. I'll take it, for now.
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I started this thing, this change of eating habit... if truly just a controlled version of what I often fall into... on the spur of the moment. What had I to lose? I suck at dying. I'm good with pain, hell, almost adopted each other officially. I have figured some things along the way. Still learning as last night showed. And, well, learning continues? If something new per day is the going rate, I doubled down. Now, it's only a maybe. I'll take it, for now.
Midnight-ish test.
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It is cooling nicely outside. I opened things up, even in a new are, hoping to see even cooler temps in the cave. As the midnight hour approached, and passed, I wasn't sure I really wanted to test. A bit of internal debate and it was settled. I thought so... 177. That is a bit lower. I think that juice really did a number on me. It might even take a while to get back to fat burning. We'll see. I'll still set up an appointment this week. Not FOR this week, just... next month, early. Even with this hiccup, the trend should be enough for a sign-off. Whether it will be forthcoming is another matter.
You know, I think I'll crash for a bit. Maybe. Pouting, a bit. Ah well, no use in crying over spilled milk. Monday is weigh-in day, if I don't think it will be down much, if any. Walking... I really have to get that going. Can't do that until I can be up at a time that is cool enough and light enough. Gah! Patience, Cricket.
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It is cooling nicely outside. I opened things up, even in a new are, hoping to see even cooler temps in the cave. As the midnight hour approached, and passed, I wasn't sure I really wanted to test. A bit of internal debate and it was settled. I thought so... 177. That is a bit lower. I think that juice really did a number on me. It might even take a while to get back to fat burning. We'll see. I'll still set up an appointment this week. Not FOR this week, just... next month, early. Even with this hiccup, the trend should be enough for a sign-off. Whether it will be forthcoming is another matter.
You know, I think I'll crash for a bit. Maybe. Pouting, a bit. Ah well, no use in crying over spilled milk. Monday is weigh-in day, if I don't think it will be down much, if any. Walking... I really have to get that going. Can't do that until I can be up at a time that is cool enough and light enough. Gah! Patience, Cricket.
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