Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Woosh!
... and just like that, another week flies by ...
Run You Clever Boy, And Remember.
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016
Saturday, Sept 18, 2016
GPS Madness! It's like Space Madness, but terrestrial. Actually, it's what the GPS reported while I was using the indoor track at the Central YMCA.
Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
Run You Clever Boy, And Remember.
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016
Saturday, Sept 18, 2016
GPS Madness! It's like Space Madness, but terrestrial. Actually, it's what the GPS reported while I was using the indoor track at the Central YMCA.
Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
Some new articles discussinog low-carb, and the sugar industry.
- How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - NY Times
- Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research - JAMA
- Before You Spend $26,000 on Weight-Loss Surgery, Do This - NY Times
- NYT: How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - DietDoctor
- Is the High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet Right for You? - Outside
And, some articles against low-carb.
NB : The NY Times uses a paywall ; best way I've found to deal with the site is to use private mode
I haven't had the time to read all of these articles in detail, let alone process them, so I'm not in a position to discuss them - and in the end, I may not.
Read them over if you like, and if you think there's something there to talk about, let's talk.
-tak! thbbft!
Monday, September 12, 2016
Another End Of Another Weekend
Run You Clever Boy, And Remember
Saturday, Sept 10, 2016
Sunday, Sept 11, 2016
Oh For Fuck's Sake
Hey, a new section! Another section for me to rant away about shit that bothers me! wooo!
Starbucks is adding a stevia-based sweetener to its menu ... here's a couple of articles ... or just google "Starbucks stevia"
My initial reaction? "Sounds good ... what's the catch?". Always RTFA man, always RTFA.
Starbucks intends to roll out a sweetener called "Nature Sweet", from Whole Earth Sweetener Co.
Groovy. Looking at the ingredients for "Nature Sweet" ... oh look!
Erythritol, Fructose, Chicory Root Fiber, Stevia Leaf Extract, Monk Fruit Extract
- Erythritol - a sugar alcohol, that
- Fructose ... da fuq? second ingredient is an actual sugar! And a shitty one, too! Fructose needs to be broken down by the liver, and results in glucose and triglycerides ... seriously, straight glucose is better than that!
- Chicory Root Fiber - aka Inulin ... non-digestible fibre, typically used as a bulking agent
- Stevia Leaf Extract ... finally!
- Monk Fruit Extract ... another natural sweetener that has a zero glycemic index (I have heard some describe it as negative) ...
Somehow a sweetener that has a thing as its fourth (and second-last) ingredient can be called a "thing-based" sweetener?
Let's pick on Doritos! Here's the ingredients for Nacho Cheese Doritos!
Corn, Vegetable Oil, Maltodextrin, Salt, Cheddar Cheese, Whey, and a bunch of other stuff.
By the above news media logic, one could legitimately describe Nacho Cheese Doritos as a "cheddar cheese-based snack". And we all know *that's* a fucking bullshit statement.
The packet is a total of 2g, with 0 calories, and less than 1g sugar ... thanks to nifty nutritional labeling guidelines, you can round down! so, doing the math
- the packet claims 0 calories, so it has less than 0.5 calories in total
- sugar has 4 calories per gram
- 0.5 calories / 4 cal/g = 0.125 grams sugar max
- so there's at most 0.12 grams of fructose in each packet
Which may be no big deal, in the grand scheme of things, Why am I getting ranty over something as minuscule as 0.,12g of fructose? I find the whole situation frustrating ...
- the media's coverage of this gives it a health halo - "ooo! Stevia! Stevia's not sugar so that's good, right?"
- the sweetener in question barely has any stevia in it
- AND THERE'S STILL FUCKING SUGAR IN THERE!
sigh.
From Ranty To Schwifty! (But Still Ranty)
Sarah Hallberg and Osama Hamdy had a great piece in the New York Times this weekend ... "Before You Spend $26,000 on Weight-Loss Surgery, Do This".
I think it's fantastic that this kind of information made its way to a publication as large as The New York Times, It also along a similar theme to a post Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt made on his dietdoctor.com website - "Why Weight Loss Surgery is Not the Solution".
It's a message that I now understand clearly, because I'm living it. The message is simply "To both avoid and reverse some nasty shit, all I have to do is change what I put in my fucking mouth".
-tak! thbbft!
Thursday, September 8, 2016
A Simple Update
Run You Clever Boy, And Remember
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
A busy weekend meant I didn't get out to Queen's Park on Saturday ... and I missed it. I've said it before and I'll say it again - crap it's getting dark quickly!
Trivia! Or Doctor Who And Bobby McGee And Julio Down By The Schoolyard And Myself & I?
ACK! THBBFT!! It's time for recap. (yes, it's the same as last week ... it amuses me and I'm lazy, so win-win!)
This thing called recap, I just can't recap it
This thing called recap, I must recap round to it
I ain't recap
Crazy little recap called love
This recap (this recap)
Called recap (called recap)
It cries (like a recap)
In a recap all night
Recap swings (woo woo)
recap jives (woo woo)
It shakes all recap like a jelly recap
I kinda recap it
Crazy recap thing called recap
There goes my recap
She knows how to recap 'n' recap
Last week, The Keith and I asked the Second Question, the second-oldest question in the universe, that y'know probably could be answered, obscured by clouds ... "Doctor Who Wants A Cold One?"
The first half had us digging deep to pull out a couple of hail marys ... which landed us 30 for the half! Aahoo, not too shabby! Hos were second with 28.
Alas, we could not maintain the momentum throughout the second half ... a couple of tough rounds (Music, Movie Tag Lines From 2010) and the odd oops here and there earned us an additional 24, for 54 on the night ... good enough for top 5 at least ... but with a perfect second half, the Hos won the night with 58! ... *maybe* we could've got there ... regardless, we had fun, and we got beers to boot! :)
Anyways, yeah - kicked most of the ass.
... so much for Manbang Dreams ...
Pear pimples for ALL OF THE hairy fishnuts, and hope to see y'all tonight!
-tak! thbbft!
P.S. ... the meaning of thbbft! ... http://static1.squarespace.com/static/529f398ee4b0ee6848fe2724/55cb9e87e4b0700524105cf0/560037e2e4b0ba0141af4428/1468445968957/?format=1000w
-tak! thbbft!
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
It's Welding Tuesday! (w/ The Why Of I Part 4)
The Why Of I ... Am A Remoreseless Eating Machine (Part 4)
This is a list of everything I put in my damn mouth today. Today being Tuesday, September 6, 2016.
a glass of water w/ apple cider vinegar and salt
a glass of water w/ 1 serving greens powder, 2 tsp ceylon cinnamon, 1 tsp maca root
morning supplements
some more water ... ~500mL -1 L, depending how I feel
coffee w/ chaga, reishi, lion's mane mushroom powders, ~300mL
3 brazil nuts, and some pumpkin seeds ... maybe 60g?
coffee, ~300mL
water, ~700mL
- ~50-100g butter, with ~400g greens (baby spinach, kale, chard, arugula, other stuff), microwaved for a couple of minutes to wilt the greens, w/ a bunch of turmeric and black pepper
- ~300g meat - some heritage pork, grass fed rib eye, sausage
- ~2 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 avocado (hey, that's the serving size!)
- 5 mini cucumbers (~300g?)
coffee, ~300mL
water, ~700mL
pre-cardio supplements
post-cardio supplements, incl. ~35g protein from whey concentrate + isolate ; ~750mL of liquid
~50-100g butter with ~400g vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, arugula), w/ a bunch of turmeric and black pepper
- ~250g meat - some heritage pork, grass fed rib eye, sausage
~250mL chicken broth w/ kombu stock, with ~20g collagen peptides, garlic, ginger, cayenne
- ~250mL sauerkraut + kimchee (all fermented, none of this cabbage in vinegar water shit)
- 750mL San Pellegrino sparkling mineral water
- 3 brazil nuts
- some 100% cacao chocolate?
- magnesium drink + 0.5 tsp camu camu powder
- evening supplements
This is a list of everything I put in my damn mouth today. Today being Tuesday, September 6, 2016.
I weighed most of my food items today so that I could provide some actual numbers for this post. Normally, I just eyeball stuff - I don't weigh my food.
a glass of water w/ apple cider vinegar and salt
a glass of water w/ 1 serving greens powder, 2 tsp ceylon cinnamon, 1 tsp maca root
morning supplements
some more water ... ~500mL -1 L, depending how I feel
coffee w/ chaga, reishi, lion's mane mushroom powders, ~300mL
3 brazil nuts, and some pumpkin seeds ... maybe 60g?
coffee, ~300mL
water, ~700mL
- ~50-100g butter, with ~400g greens (baby spinach, kale, chard, arugula, other stuff), microwaved for a couple of minutes to wilt the greens, w/ a bunch of turmeric and black pepper
- ~300g meat - some heritage pork, grass fed rib eye, sausage
- ~2 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 avocado (hey, that's the serving size!)
- 5 mini cucumbers (~300g?)
coffee, ~300mL
water, ~700mL
pre-cardio supplements
post-cardio supplements, incl. ~35g protein from whey concentrate + isolate ; ~750mL of liquid
~50-100g butter with ~400g vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, arugula), w/ a bunch of turmeric and black pepper
- ~250g meat - some heritage pork, grass fed rib eye, sausage
~250mL chicken broth w/ kombu stock, with ~20g collagen peptides, garlic, ginger, cayenne
- ~250mL sauerkraut + kimchee (all fermented, none of this cabbage in vinegar water shit)
- 750mL San Pellegrino sparkling mineral water
- 3 brazil nuts
- some 100% cacao chocolate?
- magnesium drink + 0.5 tsp camu camu powder
- evening supplements
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