HB BL!

we are all different and that is nice. i don't count calories. i just eat until i am full.

i don't restrict salt and my blood pressure is always wonderful.

i am 5' 10". about 165 pounds. 55 years under my belt - (pun intended).

my lipid panel is stunning. my hba1c is in the non-diabetic range despite my having an impaired carbohydrate mechanism.

the only way i can do this is with a little insulin and a restricted carb diet.

that is how it works for me...

:)

-- joel.

as i said. we are all different. i was slim and healthy for a long time on a low fat, high carb diet.

then, at age 45 or so, my lipids stated to blow out and my weight went up and my pancreas decided to go on strike.

now i am healthier than i have been for years. i have lost weight and kept it off for three years by simply restricting carbs to 30-50 grams per day.

the good thing about this is i can eat fat and protein and it makes me full and keeps me full. now i just keep eating until i am no longer hungry.

so, in my case, the only number i have to watch is the amount of carbs i eat.

:)

-- joel.

you're right, of course, we're all different to some degree or another in our metabolic requirements.

if your ability to process carbs is restricted, then eating just carbs isn't gonna be good for you. course you still won't get fat - you'll just die, which is a bit drastic for losing weight. still, physics and chemistry tell us that, overall, you can't get more energy out of a system than you put into it. to put it another, slightly more extreme way: that's how anorexia works. definitely not advocating eating disorders nor making light of them, but there comes a point where it doesn't matter what you eat if you're not meeting your over metabolic requirements. there's a line between "starvation" and "overfed" that can be met with varying difficulty and that is where, I think, the differences between individuals come into play more than anything.

That being said, woo, I dropped 7 lbs in two weeks, despite that pizza. At 6', I'm now 230 lbs. 200 is my goal.

also for dinner, to keep things relevant? I have no clue. I'm up for suggestions. Lunch was rice with imitation crab, soy sauce, sesame seed and spicy garlic chili sauce.

for dinner tonight i am making greek lamb. i have marinated the lamb for 24 hours in olive oil, oregano. paprika and garlic.

i have roasted that for an hour in foil at 180C.

it is resting now.

later on i will shave the meat off and fry it in olive oil to make it crispy.

we will have that with a huge green salad. the girls have tortillas to wrap the meat and salad i, i have some low carb wraps 3g per wrap for mine.

smells awfully good here at the moment.

:)

-- joel.

We are having southern fried bunny.

And your GPS coordinates are ?
We'll be right there.

meatloaf and au gratin 'taters.

For the boy - who will be home around one-ish after a long afternoon of scooping ice cream. :)

Chicken with Blackberry Bourbon Sauce

I found a bag of blackberries in the freezer when I went hunting for the chicken and decided it was time to make use of them. I also added a bit of blackberry jam to the bourbon to make a more saucy sauce. Served over exotic rices (brown, wild, red, and some other kind of hippie rice).

:) it was darn good. all gone now. of, course, i just realized my iphone gives me these coordinates.

bad luck eh?

:D:D:D

Southwest King Ranch Casserole was last night and today for lunch.

I ended up using Herdez salsa verde instead of tomatillo sauce and I think it worked just fine.

Here is a picture for Sky, but I don't have the recipe on me. You can find it on Amazon if you search for the Whole Foods cookbook then look inside. Search for King Ranch and there it is. It was supposed to be in an 8x8 pan, but I didn't think it would fit. I think next time, I am going to take all the ingredients except the salsa verde and make enchiladas with it. Or maybe try putting it in a loaf pan.

Southwest King Ranch Casserole? I wonder if they have a Northeast King Ranch Csserole, for the King Ranch holdings here in PA? :haha:

It would probably have pierogies and kielbasa somewhere in it. If you want to get more northeast, maybe crab instead of chicken :D


Now I want Pierogie lasagna!

OMG such a thing exists? I think I just had premature foodjaculation. :blush:

Yes. Yes it does :drool:

http://crepesofwrath.net/2008/12/09/pierogi-lasagna/