What Annoyed you today

[Mongoose]

Technically, 'annoyed' does not, indeed, equal 'offended'. They are synonymous at best.

[doppelgaenger]

Technically, 'annoyed' does not, indeed, equal 'offended'. They are synonymous at best.

Indeed. I could write an entire paper on the etymology of these two words and their usage and how they are different. You should never argue lexicon with a linguist!!!

[qwertz]

Wow, sorry to hear about this...Would you be willing to try something new?

If so: limit your carb intake to 30G (per day) maximum from only vegetables.

Cut out fruit ENTIRELY from your diet and avoid Potatoes.
Cut out ALL breads and ALL grains.
Take the food pyramid and take a huge dump on it! Don't listen to the ADA/FDA guidelines: they are wrong.

Do eat heavy cream/sour cream, unsalted butter in abundance.
Do eat animal based protein, lots of fat foods (no polyunsaturated) lots of saturated IS good for you!
Do eat lots cheeses...

Here: read this (please) It won't be a waste of time, promise:


When considering how you eat and the advice you take from 'experts' remember that diabetic patients are worth $500 a month to Big Pharma, so its not surprising that this is rising. It has been rising exponentially since the 'low-fat' mantra was adopted and sold!

I am 5 foot 9 and used to weigh 235 pounds and lost 85 pounds by turning all the conventional health advice on its head! I was starting to develop full blown diabetes and was getting the side effects like arthritis, psoraiasis, painful tingling toes and fingers, etc. All these conditions have almost fully reversed on my new way of eating.

The fact is EVERYTHING you have ever been told about diet is totally wrong .... like totally!

OK, here is an email I sent to someone else on the subject and has a lot of links. It is done from the perspective of various people suffering from related Metabolic Syndrome conditions - gaining weight, diabetes,blood pressure, high cholesterol, Alzheimers, etc.

The simple ratio is this for the Kwasniewksi Optimal Diet, which is the one that my wife and I pretty much follow:

3 - 3.5 g fat to 1g protein to 1/2 or 1/4 gram (depending on glucose tolerance levels) carbs

The protein and carbs are the most important since they are the only two that can lead to weight gain. To calculate your correct protein amount

for losing weight - do this equation:

What is your ideal weight in kilo's? Mine was 70 kg.

That equates to 1g of protein per kilo of body weight i.e. 70 grams per day.

To lose weight carbs should be 20 grams or under.

So basically this equates to

210 - 245 gm of fat - 70 gm of protein - 20 gm of carbs = about

2250-2610 calories

I have found that the calories and fats don't matter at all - all that matters is protein and carbs.

Sounds complicated - but its not - stick to green vegetables, count the protein portions but pretty much the fat is eat as much as fills you up so you don't feel hungry.
If you weight 90 kilos and eat 70gm's of protein - you create a deficit and in the absence of carbs your weight will drop pretty fast until the two come into balance.

THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE
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You may want to start off by first getting used to restricting the carbs and eating as much meat, cheese, etc as you want. You will still lose weight, though not as fast as when you kick into full mode.

If you get a stall, try reducing the protein by 10-20 gm and increase the fat by about the same amount for a couple of days. Yes, you increase your calories by doing this by about 140 a day and your weight drops, a real paradox.

Exercise increases the rate of weight loss, but is not really required to lose weight. It does help bring your resting pulse rate down though and makes you feel fitter and builds muscle which is good. It also means that you can get away with more protein that is used to build muscle fibre rather than make glucose.

If you feel hungry - then eat. This is important. And try not eat late at night. Ideally eat meal at 6-7pm but best to eat not later than 8:30.

Getting a good 7-8 hours sleep and having the occasional long lie-in speeds up weight loss. Yes, SLEEP!! And lie-ins speed the weight loss. Far more effective than any exercise.

Good sources of fat:
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Macadamia Nuts (you can get big boxes of Mauna Loa - the BEST - at Costco) These are our staple snack. They are so yummie!
Cream Cheese
Cream + Cream Sauces (loads of recipe's out there)
Almonds (though watch the protein) ground good for thickening sauces
Pecans
Clotted Cream
Pate (though watch the carb content on some or better make your own)
Avocado
Olives
Chicken Wings
Pork crackling
Rib-Eye-Steak (nicely marbled with fat and a cream mustard sauce mmmmm!)
Streaky bacon (watch the nitrates though, they slow weight loss and make your joints ache)
Butter (great on all vegetables - yum)
Mayonnaise
Fatty Fish - mackerel, salmon, etc
Coconut Oil (one of the best for frying)
Olive Oil (pour copiously over all salads)
Groundnut Oil (great for home made mayo)

Things you can pretty much eat
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Meat
Cheese (esp. blue cheeses, cream cheeses, brie, camembert, etc)
Eggs (the greatest - fill you up for hours, perfect fat/protein/carb mix)
Fish
All green vegetables & salads
Cauliflower
Tomatoes in moderation
Garlic
Shallots as replacement for onions
Mushrooms
Olives
Avocado
Green and Red Peppers
Pickles
Spring Onions
Cucumber
Heavy Cream
Butter
Good oils (like coconut and olive - do not fry with olive oil, though can use on baked and drizzle in for flavour)

All herbs and spices

Salt & Pepper

Stay away from polyunsaturated fats (sunflower, canola, corn oil, etc) - they all cause weight gain!!! All the studies that show a link between fat and weight gain have a high polyunsaturate content. They are also implicated in many cancers.

Your body takes about 3 weeks to adapt to becoming a fat rather than carb/glucose burner so you might get some weird carb withdrawal symptoms(like headache, flu like symptoms, etc). They quickly pass and you will feel a burst of energy when it happens.

Here are a bunch of links that will give you a lot of background reading with some absolutely amazing health results. You may be surprised at some of the variety of health symptoms you may have that will disappear.

If you want to amaze yourself and convince yourself this is really good for you then take blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol readings when you start and then some more a few months into this. You will be amazed!! My blood glucose (from having been at 240, now never goes over 100 - NEVER!). My blood pressure is 90/60. My triglycerides collapsed.

Let me know if you need any recipe ideas, we have put loads together

Kwasniewski and the Optimal Diet
[link to high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com]

We actually stumbled on about 3 to 1 to 1/4 by accident - just workedours out and its 240g fat, 80g protein, 20g carbs - making about 2740 calories. I work out a bit, usually the rowing machine, so I can usually get away with 80-100 gms of protein.

The site

[link to high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com]

is worth a read - all the articles are fantastic and dispel many myths

More about the Optimal Diet
[link to [url]www.qfac.com][/url]
[link to [url]www.cybernaut.com.au][/url]
[link to magicbus.myfreeforum.org]

Dr. Jan Kwasniewski's diet is not Atkins diet-Update
[link to [url]www.communicationagents.com][/url]

Worth a read since it dispels so many myths about cholesterol, fat, etc (very good site!!)
[link to [url]www.second-opinions.co.uk][/url]

Gary Taubes related:

Eat Your Lungs Out While Getting Leaner
[link to [url]www.tmuscle.com][/url]

The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
[link to [url]www.second-opinions.co.uk][/url]

Big Fat Lie
[link to [url]www.telegraph.co.uk][/url]

What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
[link to [url]www.nytimes.com][/url]

From Sweden
[link to [url]www.examiner.com][/url]

Also, loads of stuff by Jimmy Moore from that link... more on his blog:

[link to livinlavidalowcarb.com]

Di Pasquale who came up with the Anabolic and Metabolic Diets (for losing body fat and for muscle building without drugs)
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
[link to [url]www.qfac.com][/url]

AACE: Insulin Not Sodium May Be Hypertension’s Bad Actor
[link to [url]www.medpagetoday.com][/url]

High saturated fat, starch avoidance weight loss diet offers good preliminary results
[link to news.bio-medicine.org]

No adverse lipid effects seen with high fat, no-starch diet
[url]https://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-173449.html[/url]

This article shows that the link between insulin, hypertension, diabetes and other metabolic syndrome conditions is well known, though they are pushing unnecessary drugs. High fat diet reverses metabolic syndrome.

A single mechanism for hypertension, insulin resistance and immune suppression
[link to esciencenews.com]

Potassium and Hypertension
[link to [url]www.aces.edu][/url]

The above article is quiet interesting and sums up a lot of my research that the best solution for insulin related disorders is to supplement my high fat diet with potassium but not reduce my sodium intake since reducing salt is known to make insulin resistance worse and you swap one problem for another. Increasing potassium causes increased sodium removal and that has a beneficial effect. The best natural source of potassium is avocado's and this has a very high fat content, which is good news too on a high fat diet.

It really is quite easy and becomes totally intuitive after a few months.

FAT is good! Especially Saturated, but also mono-unsaturated.

If you want to be thin - you have to eat FAT, or your body will make it instead!

Oh, and not really for this article - AVOID FRUCTOSE in ALL FORMS. It is the quickest way to get fat. I will never let another fruit touch my lips, esp not a fruit juice! Been 2 years now. It builds central body fat and destroys your liver more effectively than alcohol.

Good luck!

Did you write that or someone else?

I know diet helps a great deal but this seems as if it is aimed mainly towards type 2 diabetics (I'm type 1) and not all diabetics are fat i actually struggle to keep weight on, so following all the advice i would waste away

[SelflessnHumble]

This diet is not mine, nor was the text written by me. It also helps people with epilepsy too.

I found this link:
[url=http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/dieting-and-nutrition-diabetes/25479-type-1-diabetes-low.html]Type 1 Diabetes and Low Carb Diet[/url]

Which may help...I'm just sorry to hear and I didn't see you mention type 1, but low carb is still a good idea for type 1.

[Gratedwasabi]

Had a working interview scheduled for today, a job I assumed I had in the bag.

Got there.. owner said he had already filled the position. ...

Claims he called me and sent me an email, which are either lies or the planet's magnetic forces conspired against me to wipe the records from my phone and the internet.

Now putting all my furniture on Craigslist to make rent. After that it's the laptop, then the phone, then my kitchen stuff, then I hit the street (or more realistically, I fly back home to live with my mom like a ****** deadbeat loser.)

My problem? The jobs I'm qualified for don't want to hire me because I'm too young and the jobs I'm overqualified for don't want to hire me because I'm overqualified and there's thousands of people in this city alone look for jobs. My friends from my old job have kind of thrown me out of the loop because I didn't consistently want to go get wasted with them, my two really solid friends moved away, and I got dumped (which, in retrospect, is a good thing considering I don't have the money to spend and having a home + car > having a girlfriend that doesn't even put out.)

I'm hoping I paid enough of my student loans to get my usual $1,500ish tax return as that would at least allow me to prolong my suffering. I'm also hoping at some point someone decides I'm not too young, preferably, or not too overqualified. I guarantee I can do better than anyone else these idiots hired, I've gotten where I am so young because I know how to manage people, run a business, and no employee can outskill me at cooking. Hard to show that stuff when you don't even get callbacks, though!

[Lipp]

Spent Australia day in the city with my housemates.

I'm not really annoyed, it was just a bit disappointing. Overcast, crowded, crap food for exorbitant prices, all the stuff was either for seniors (vintage car shows, chess, bagpipes, dog competitions, folky live music) or for young kids. If I ever go to Texas that's what I imagine it to be like.

Bleh. Was gonna go and have a barbeque and beers with a bunch of friends, but just got so sick of it and would be pretty late so nah, stuff it, so now I'm just gonna take today off. Good thing though, turns out my housemate left the keys in the lock from the outside, so we'd've gotten burglarized if I hadn't gone back

[doppelgaenger]

I'm just annoyed at how little time there is in a day. By the time I finish with my schoolwork, it's time to go to work or I have some kind of obligation... no free time, and no time for my personal research or hobbies. I just don't get why professors overtax us poor students, as if we were only taking one class with them. By the time I graduate, though, at least my work ethic will be through the roof. Positiv denken!

[Petit Papillon]

Informatics is going to kill me. I think this exam is going to be even more difficult than maths... Cheesus.

[doppelgaenger]

Is that why dicksauce is 'teaching' you math?

I thought you were forming an interest for programming.

[Petit Papillon]

Me and volountary interest in informatics or math? Cheesus, that would be end of the world

[KingZ]

I thought you were forming an interest for programming.

Shut the fu​ck up.

[doppelgaenger]

I had a horrible stomach ache all morning. I'm probably coming down with the flu.

[Sonrisa]

annoyed at being told that it's too cold to wear shorts to work.

[doppelgaenger]

I just noticed a small blood stain on my bedspread, damn it. My GF must be on her period... how am I supposed to get it out? tan/beige colour...

[KingZ]

I just noticed a small blood stain on my bedspread, damn it. My GF must be on her period... how am I supposed to get it out? tan/beige colour...

i got nothing smart to say