I was discussing this with a friend. I remember doing one of these diets many many years ago...

The Low-Fat Diet

How it REALLY works: Conditioned anorexia.You are required to eat at least 6oz of protein every day, but the only allowable forms are lean skinless chicken breast, or lean skinless turkey breast, with no gravy, sauce, or butter. ( Read more... )

I was delighted to find a rancher selling grass-fed bison meat outside the Kmart here in town. Yay! And apparently they come back every month, and give discounts on bulk orders. So I'll be concentrating on cooking from the freezer this month to make room for more awesome tastiness ( Read more... )

About a week ago, I talked about this Paleo Nutrition / Primal Diet thingy I'm doing, my metrics for declaring it a success, and the caveat that then, having only one week's worth of numbers, I didn't feel I had enough data to have a proper hurrah ( Read more... )

Well, it IS.

But judging by the reaction we all had to it, it could also be called "Hamburger Help-me-kill-the-others-so-we-can-take-their-portion". At least, it could be if it used hamburger. Which it doesn't.

Okay, so it PROBABLY needs a better name*. Suggestions welcome in the comments.

Fungus, Kale, and Cow Shavings
2 tbsp ghee or coconut ( Read more... )

Okay, so I thought the primal diet thing was a little kooky. I didn't know much about it, and it seemed like a bland, boring, limited diet (ooh, look, ignorance!).

Then adammaker started posting about it. And anything adammaker is looking at is definitely worth a second look.

So I read the stuff at Kurt G. Harris' blog (thanks to adammaker for the link). It was ( Read more... )

Last night, featherynscale and I went out for Thai food before visiting orcjohn in the hospital. I had laab, which is a tasty salad. Today, I threw the leftovers in soup and WOW!

( Laab )

Holy Moly.

auraseer just sent this my way -- I'd asked the VURD for information about fructose, insulin resistance, and obesity, and this really lays out how some of this stuff works (at least, current understandings and new theories about how this works). A lot of interesting data. I can't wait to look up the sources cited and do some more research ( Read more... )

Jeans that three months ago were skintight, can now be pulled off my body without unbuttoning or unzipping them. Do I even own a belt? Crap ( Read more... )

This week, I went a little crazy with the cooking.

Earlier this week I made cheese! (Thanks for being an inspiration, kenllama!) I made paneer from scratch, and added cumin, hot Hungarian paprika, roasted szechuan pepper salt, and onion powder. OMG. It is YUMMY ( Read more... )

And lo, the dark clouds of printer failure parted, and I was able to go to my workout at Curves after all. It was really slow in there, so I even got to do my monthly weigh-in. It's been exactly one month, so I got a handy shoe tote as a gift, but much better was the DATA. ::crunch, crunch ( Read more... )