Low Carb Friends - Zer's LC Joy (an Aspie's circuitous pursuit of Dr.Atkins)

This is a journal to help me learn LC tactics and to record LC success as 2007 draws to an end and 2008 looms large and hopeful ahead of me.

Wish me luck! Luck?

Ah, luck is the residue of design.

Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.

Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!

Supplements for good health; how much of what?

Posted 02-26-2008 at 09:42 AM by Zer
Updated 02-26-2008 at 09:46 AM by Zer

How to know what to take? I'm wondering if I can curb my nighttime spasms from this hinky hip by taking magnesium, but what dosage? I'm reading at Pure Essence Labs site about 2:3 as optimal calcium-magnesium ratio, about "ionic" being the best delivery for absorption, about cramps that sound a lot like the nighttime spasms that keep me from sleeping, wake me up and make me sit up to sleep easier:

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Calcium is the mineral that promotes muscle contraction. Magnesium is the mineral that helps muscles relax after they contract. Cramps are simply muscles that have contracted, but are not

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Halcyon days...LC'ing joy

Posted 02-16-2008 at 07:14 AM by Zer

A term - halcyon days - comes to mind, as I contemplate how amazingly good, how calm, I feel with 40g of protein in me this ayem, having just slurped up my hot slosh (WPP+espresso+cacao+VCO) in preparation for a productive day.

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halcyon: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves; a large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World; (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher
(adjective): idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity

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Why plan?

Posted 02-15-2008 at 09:14 AM by Zer

I think we all need to map out a direction, using our moral compass, else we are drifting - and are lost. Remember what the Caterpillar says to Alice in Wonderland?

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Alice asks the caterpillar which path she should take and the caterpillar asks Alice where she wants to go. Alice tells the caterpillar that she doesn't know where she wants to go and the caterpillar tells Alice that in that case it doesn't matter which path she takes.

Having a plan and consulting a moral compass in making choices seems better than drifting aimlessly. After all, I got fat by eating randomly, then got fatter and eventually...

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Fooling my Feast Beast...Yay, ME!!!

Posted 02-11-2008 at 06:34 PM by Zer

While I was posting somewhere, I realized that this might make a great topic, so I'm giving it a trial by posting it in my own BLOG, just to see if it tickles anyone the way it tickles me.

As I approach my prime, I'm learning how to outfox my Feast Beast. My Feast Beast is not awfully bright. Greedy, but not awfully bright.

Trickling a few drops of balsamic vinegar onto a mess of mashed sardines in olive oil got my Feast Beast thinking it was an illicit treat. No fooling. Sardines! Yay!!! If you agree with me that's something to celebrate, feel free to join me...

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FitDay.com

Posted 02-09-2008 at 03:42 AM by Zer

With scales to weigh me in (432.4# on 2/8/08), I figure it's time to start working FitDay to find out true values of what I'm eating on my LC plan.

Looks as if my hot slosh is 500calories a slurp:
...2scoops (60g) of ALG's vanilla WPP
...1 Tbs (each) espresso & cacao
...2 Tbs VCO
Total: 498 calories, with F/C/P=32/17/41grams

Protein goal: 148g daily (400# x .037 = 148g)

Inactive as I am, I shall have to pay attention to calories as well as to curbing carbs, to lose the weight that I aim to lose. Toting up my hot slosh...

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