Week one is done!

Now that we are stocked up with foods that meet my self imposed criteria, it does not feel like I'm dieting at all (kinda the whole point of this exercise).  I am actually eating more food then I was before.  Lisa often needs to prompt me to eat.  I can definitively say that I hunger is not an issue.

Alcohol, the 500 pound gorilla in the room.  While I did cut my beer intake way down, in fact I had exactly three 12 ounce Hop Devil's over the first week, my vodka intake actually we up a little bit.

I was thinking of all these things as I approached the scale this morning.  Specifically I was thinking of how I was going to feel like a jackass telling you that I gained weight and that was totally incompetent to design a healthy diet.  So... as nervous as the proverbial whore in church, I stood on the scale.  That was the longest two seconds of my life!  Then the display lit up... I lost six pounds!

Needless to say, I'm very happy!

I'm still reading everything I can find about nutrition and food science and it is exhausting.  Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one but most of them stink.  I've come up with a filter.  When reading anything about how what and why our bodies do what they do with different types of foods, I look for one thing, a tangible reference to some well known medical institution's study.  You can find contradictory information on everything! Carbs bad, carbs good.  Fat is bad, fat is good.  Eat high protein foods, eat low protein foods and on and on.

In the end I'm following my gut instinct "Eat the most natural, un-fucked around with foods you can find.  Eat a good variety of foods in reasonable portions.  Drink a shit load of water"

One thing I have found that falls outside of my all natural mantra is this;  Whole grains probably should not be included in your diet.  Yep, that whole wheat bread should get chucked in the trash.  I won't go into great detail but basically it goes like this:  A seed sprouts and grows into a wheat plant,  a cow happens by and eats said wheat plant.  Even with four stomaches Mr. cow does not digest the wheat kernel or seed, instead he craps it out where it sprouts and grows into a new wheat plant and the cycle repeats.  When humans eat that same wheat, our stomaches do break the seed down but in doing so the liver gets sidetracked and is distracted from doing its normal liver thing.  Eat sprouted grains (they are more plant, less seed)

Did you notice that I did not site a major medical institution? If you follow my advice you should ignore what I just said!  But then again, I never claimed to know jack shit.  Seriously, that info was corroborated I just can't put my finger on it right now.

More later.... I need to get some work done!

Regards,
Bald bill