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02 March 2016
Wow - i ate all of my food for the day within 2 hours! That's because instead of a raw greens salad, i had a 15 oz can of low sodium black beans and a cup of black/wild rice, along with a pound of cooked cauliflower, and then a chocolate cherry & blueberry shake with a tbsp ground flax. I feel satisfied with that. I doubt i will be hungry again anytime soon; but if i eat anything else today it will have to be before 6pm and most likely a salad. Going to the office after-hours today.
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01 March 2016
Had my 1 pound of salad with pomegranate seeds, walnuts and raspberry balsamic vinegar. Then i cooked fresh beets and beet greens. I also tried celeriac for the first time: Cut up the celery root and roasted it in the oven...really good stuff! Used rosemary and lemon for flavor.
I'm growing rather fond of dessert at the end of each day! This time i switched from frozen cherries to strawberries - blended with 1/2 cup of soy milk, cocoa powder date, and vanilla extract.
Eating less is the part i have been doing fairly well. The moving more - well - i need to move more! It's high-time for me to get in at least 30 minutes of walking each day. I believe i've lost another pound so i am eager to weigh-in.
(down to 155.4 today!)
For the last couple of weeks, i'm eating all the things i should be eating - fruits, nuts, seeds - and i'm feeling pretty good. I must confess to a piece of contraband - a cinnamon bun at my parent's house on Sunday. It was a bun from IKEA. You know, that place where Swedes make you feel like you just fell into a vat of warm, cinnamon sugary icing bliss? Well the husband brought it to the house and i was fixated. The rolls were heated in the oven. I was sure i could taste the cinnamon while i waited for a roll.
I bit into the thing. And i wondered where the hell the taste was...i licked my fingers, the icing was sticky and tasteless. The rest of the bites were the same...the thin three-eighth's-inch unrolled swirl of baked flour - i think it was dipped in nothing and baked into a void. And the cinnamon - cinnamon....there was cinnamon? It was a twilight-zone episode i swear! WTF just happened?? I was utterly dis-satisfied, disrupted, and overall, disappointed.
Some things happen the way they happen. Clearly my experience was nature's way of demonstrating a complete waste of calories. I won't be so keen to have such food again in the future; i'm better off letting the smells be the end of my immersion into such junk foods.
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01 March 2016
Weigh-in:
155.4 lb
lost so far:
6.6 lb
still to go:
20.4 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 2.8 lb a week
29 February 2016
Q: When we lose weight where does the fat go?
A: 84% of fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide and the remaining 16% is excreted as water (urine, sweat, tears, etc.)
Conclusion: The only way to lose weight is to eat less, move more and keep breathing! The lungs are the primary weight loss organ.
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26 February 2016
Found this article on Erythritol:
The only nontoxic noncaloric or low calorie sweetener may be erythritol.
For a while it was only available in Japan but now it's pretty much available everywhere.
It's found naturally in pears and grapes, but industrially we just have yeast make it for us. Doesn’t cause cavities, and hasn’t been implicated in fibromyalgia, preterm birth, headaches, hypertension, brain disorders, and platelet disorders.
In videos in years past I’ve talked about erythritol as being harmless, but new data suggests that I have to change my tune. Now it actually may be helpful. Adding to its role as a “low-calorie, tooth-friendly, bulk sweetener,” erythritol may be a sweet antioxidant.
This shows the dose dependent protective effect of increasing concentrations of erythritol on the oxidative destructive of red blood cells. The reason they even looked for antioxidant activity is because structurally it looks like mannitol, a well-known antioxidant.
The problem with mannitol and other polyols such as xylitol and sorbitol is that they aren’t absorbed and so can cause gastrointestinal symptoms lower down in the colon. “Safety studies suggest that erythritol is well tolerated and shows no signs of toxicity. It is therefore an excellent sugar substitute, for example, for individuals with diabetes because it can both replace sugar and maybe even help reduce free radical formation. Both are expected to reduce the onset and progression of painful and life-threatening diabetic complications.
Sources Cited:
Roberts HJ. Aspartame-induced thrombocytopenia. South Med J. 2007 May;100(5):543.
den Hartog GJ, Boots AW, Adam-Perrot A, Brouns F, Verkooijen IW, Weseler AR, Haenen GR, Bast A. Erythritol is a sweet antioxidant. Nutrition. 2010 Apr;26(4):449-58.
Jacob SE, Stechschulte S. Formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines: a possible connection. Dermatitis. 2008 May-Jun;19(3):E10-1.
Ciappuccini R, Ansemant T, Maillefert JF, Tavernier C, Ornetti P. Aspartame-induced fibromyalgia, an unusual but curable cause of chronic pain. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2010 Nov-Dec;28(6 Suppl 63):S131-3.
Halldorsson TI, Strøm M, Petersen SB, Olsen SF. Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm delivery: a prospective cohort study in 59,334 Danish pregnant women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Sep;92(3):626-33.
Roberts HJ. Perspective on aspartame-induced pseudotumor cerebri. South Med J. 2009 Aug;102(8):873.
Roberts HJ. Overlooked aspartame-induced hypertension. South Med J. 2008 Sep;101(9):969.
Arrigoni E, Brouns F, Amadò R. Human gut microbiota does not ferment erythritol. Br J Nutr. 2005 Nov;94(5):643-6.
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