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The world is your cow. But you
have to do the milking.
–New England Proverb
So what should we eat? There is still a lot of disagreement about that, even within those circles that advocate ditching grains, sugar and excessive fruit and eating lots of healthy fat. So where do we turn if we want to eat like out ancestors used to?
You can’t keep trouble from coming, but you don’t have to give it a chair to sit on.
–New England Proverb
When I was visiting Brother #3 in this summer he asked me:
Is there anything your magic diet doesn’t help with?
We both laughed–it was meant in jest, and he himself had seen some real benefits from changing up his way of eating. But what I said and thought at the time is: No. It does help just about everything.
Even though you weren’t there at the time, I’d like to clarify that statement for you. By it, I do not mean that I think eschewing grains, sugars, and Frankenfats and eating lots of saturated fat and meat is a miracle cure of any ailment. There are three things I do mean:
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
― Larry Lorenzoni
It’s been a little silent because on Monday I got a concussion. This was unfortunate, as I’m entering “birthday week,” that time of year that exists in nearly every school, office or family, in which a disproportionate number of birthdays fall in a short amount of time.
You may be wondering how I got the concussion, and I can tell you that it was something thrilling and exciting and memorable, which will definitely be a scene in the made-for-TV movie they make about me, where I bent over to get an extension cord and forgot there was a corner of concrete-over-rebar wall right behind the curtain.
Some of you may remember a previous post, where I directed you to the website of Sam Feltham. Mr. Feltham conducted a little personal experiment whereby he over-ate an incredible number of calories worth of fat for twenty-one days straight. He did not eat carbohydrates, and he ate sufficient, but not excessive, protein. He changed nothing else about his lifestyle for those twenty-one days.
By “overeat” I mean that he consumed more than 5,700 calories a day.
The Gospel According to Nutritionist Fatphobes says that he should have put on more than 16 pounds. What actually happened is that his mean weight on day 21 (he weighed morning and evening and averaged the two, to try and get around the up-to-5 pound daily weight shift that everybody sees) was 2.8 pounds higher than on day 1. Not only that, but his waist shrunk by 1.18 inches.
I used to moderate a weight loss community and we had this whole Weight Watchers trend a while ago and 20 women or so joined it. Only one that was 270lb or so was told to eat above 24 points… Everyone else was supposed to eat under 24 points. 24 points is 1,200 calories, so they were supposed to eat less than where most starvation diets begin.
This summer I met a number of people doing Weight Watchers.
I also met a number of people doing Weight Watchers for the second, third, fourth or fifth time.
No real gentleman weighs more than 300 pounds.
–William Howard Taft
It’s been all over the news the last few days: William Howard Taft, our 27th president and later supreme court justice, struggled with his weight just like you and me, the lowly peons, do.
[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place . . . Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.
― Steve Grand
Just a thought about how we are so much more than our atomized stuff, before we talk about that stuff.
This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate the eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them.
–Gracie Allen
It’s about time we started cooking again, don’t you think? Let’s start with dessert because we’re all adults and we can.
I had leftover ground almonds. I sensed The Roommate was getting bored, so I went to make something different for a snack. Something filling, but not sweet (other than a little natural sweetness in the almonds and coconut). So I made:
Almond Butter Coconut Things
Grind some raw almonds in a coffee grinder or something similar
Mix in butter. How much butter? However much you like
Form into patties, roll in egg white and shredded coconut
Fry in coconut oil
I had a little leftover peanut butter cream cheese stuff, so a dollop of that went onto these. Our favorite thing all week.
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