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My fruits are ones most don't know are fruits like peppers - mostly jalapeños, serranos and cayenne (hañero are not ripe yet) - and okra from my garden. Also, cucumber and some zucchini. I will occasionally have some blackberries, but that is a rare occasion where I will get a couple of 6 oz containers and eat them over…

I really do feel your pain. My wife is a vegetarian (not vegan as she does eat dairy and eggs) and if my daughter had her way, she would live solely on mac & cheese, cheese quesadillas and grilled cheese. I have had good enough health improvements over the last 4+ years that I have at least gotten the bread and pasta…

Key points here before you make that statement is those with glucose intolerance were not included in the study, and these are plain potatoes - as in no salt, no butter, no cheese, no bacon, etc. They were just plain potatoes. It may have been less about satiety and more fear they were going to be forced to eat more of…

I understand the "always hungry" thing. My wife knew to ask "how hungry are you?" rather than "are you hungry?" when trying to start dinner. Please take my comments as I intend which is to be helpful. Everyone here has had struggles. I was just talking to someone this morning about how I am like the food version of an…

I think the pricing is deceiving. That $2 bag of chips may seem cheap, but if I eat that, I will be hungry in 30 minutes. A box of corn flakes - same thing. My wife used to eat a bowl of Special K every morning. I got her to switch to an omelet with a bit of mozzarella cheese. Instead of needing a mid morning snack every…

Simplicity is key for me. As for being inexpensive, the best thing invention for low carb is the crock pot. You can take the cheapest piece of meat (beef or pork) that is in the markdown section at the grocery store because the use by date is impending. Put it in the crock pot with some salt pork/butter/or other good fat…

Bacon crusted ribs are getting close

Bacon wrapped chicken just off the smoker. The back crusted ribs are still going, so another picture to come later, although I think I have posted a pick of the ribs before.

It was touched on above, but sometimes fiber makes it worse as can be seen in this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/ I found this is the case for me, at least when dealing with insoluble fiber (i.e. chia seeds). I am ok with a reasonable amount of fiber from real, whole foods like spinach,…

Looking at this study, I think a better descriptor would be impulse control rather than will power. Think about times like reacting quickly to something before really thinking about consequences. Things like responding to an email that has made you mad. Nowadays a great example would be the tweet storms on Twitter.…

I have been eating this way with few variances for the better part of 4 years. For me, it is a way of life. I found at about the 3 month mark of not eating sweets that other flavors really started to come through, and I was able to appreciate the natural sweetness of foods I never thought of as sweet, like celery. I used…

I have been working out since I was a teenager. When I went keto, I did notice a slight drop in performance. Carbs were not the answer. Increased protein is what helped me. From a weight loss standpoint, protein is more satiating which helps control overall food intake. From the muscle building standpoint, nothing is…

My average is about 30-36 per week. However, I am at weight maintenance and eating an average of over 3000 calories a day, so not sure is someone smaller than me or trying to lose weight would be able to have so many and still eat other foods. I have a source of good eggs as well, but not free. I hope over the next year or…

That is the one!

I have not looked at amino acid testing. Given how my diet has changed based on my own n=1 experimentation and what is working for me, my protein intake has gone up quite a bit and is mostly from animal sources and therefore complete proteins.

I have been buying from them for a couple years as well. I have found the Thrive brand to be as good as the name brand. From a price standpoint, it depends on what you mean. If you look like for like, they tend to be less. If you are comparing something like conventional tortilla chips from the store versus a product that…

That portion of my response that you had in bold was referring to the fact that if you are losing weight, your body would be burning fat from your body. If one is maintaining weight, then one would be eating a bit more fat. Dr. Phinney has a great illustration of that. I did not save it, and can't seem to find it.…

My recommendation is to first get yourself checked to see where you are deficient or even below optimal to know what YOU need. I found out through such testing that despite my high intake of B vitamins, I was low or borderline low on all but 1 of them. Subsequent testing showed I have a variant of the MTHFR gene that makes…

I have become higher protein than most because 1) it has had a better effect on my BG, 2) it is more satiating, 3) there are far more micronutrients in proteins than in fats and 4) it seems to happen naturally when not adding fat just for the sake of adding fat. That said, eating things like mackerel (which I was surprised…

This is a situation where I will refer to an old Mark Twain story. He was told by his doctor to cut back on his cigar smoking. His response was that he could not. He could quit, but he could not cut back. I find the same is true for many, if not most, when it comes to added sweeteners. Over the last few years of being on…

Bones are just nature's handles so we don't need utensils. :D My wife is not always happy about my take on this when eating a porterhouse in a restaurant.

This is one of the things I will be putting on the smoker this summer. This last weekend was the first in 6 weeks where it didn't rain, so only one day of smoking so far this season. Looking forward to doing it several more times before it gets cold again.

Boredom is a big driver for me along with availability. Some "good" foods like almonds as an example, I have to just not have in the house or I will end up eating a pound of them. From a boredom standpoint, my TV watching is down to maybe 30-45 minutes a day outside of some sports (big basketball fan, so watching a bit…

One of the benefits of feeding the gut bacteria is they make short chain fatty acids - particularly butyrate that is beneficial in feeding the gut lining, which is nearly identical to beta-hydroxybutyrate and one would have in their circulating blood if one is producing ketones thereby feeding those same cells just from…

I used to think fiber was a good thing, but it didn't seem to make me feel very well. After some research, I found the recommendation for the amount of fiber suggested came from a single observational study of a population group that had very little disease but ate a lot of fiber. When looking closer, there were MANY…

I am a big fan of the crock pot for meal prep. It is simple to just put in a piece of meat with some seasonings of choice. Then for the last part, if you want to add a low carb veggie like zucchini slices, that works well for a one dish meal than can be separated out and re-heated easily. I like to use Miracle rice (rice…

My latest diet adjustments to get BG down are continuing to show improvements. I had been frustrated because my daily fasting readings in the mornings are so varied that it was hard to see if I was making progress or not. I started charting my 7 day, 14 day, 30 day and 90 day average. As a result, I could see that the…

I felt I had to share a picture of armadillo eggs I have brought a few times to potlucks recently and will again tomorrow because of all the examples of bacon wrapped items. Jalepeño stuffed with cheese, enclosed with ground sausage and wrapped in bacon, then smoked for about 60-90 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ewa5wiw0Bxs&fbclid=IwAR14RpiZxNJ2F1yqjV_iNXagiOLBkthICfjROB6S-gUigTeGMgA3rNI0Ixc&app=desktop There was a recent article bashing "statin deniers" of whom Dr Aseem Malhotra was listed as one. He is a cardiologist in the UK who has done some wonderful research and not a statin…

Steak and eggs with some Parmesan on the eggs