5/16/2010

This morning noon I awoke, eager to watch the Monaco Formula One Race, which I DVR'd (I'm not getting up at 7:30AM on a Sunday). As I was brushing my teeth, I noticed the bathroom scale... which was taunting me as it sat smugly in the corner of the bathroom. True,I had a good bit of Hop Devil & Vodka over the weekend not to mention chicken Parmesan, baby back ribs soaked in a Jim Beam Bourbon sauce among other tasty foods; I fully expected to have put on a pound or two four. With a bit of trepidation I stepped on the scale. Much to surprise I found that I have lost a total of Thirty pounds! I stepped on off and on the scale three more times to make sure it was not an error. It was not, I have lost thirty fucking pounds!

My earlobes are back to vertical (they had been splayed out sideways like the miniature wings found on F1 cars a few years ago) & I can once again see my penis! Speaking of that... you know what they say “for every twenty pounds of weight loss, you gain an inch of penis length” I'm not bragging but I'm down 30 pounds! I can now also run up two flights of stairs and not be so fucking winded that I need a half hours rest and a bottle of Oxygen.

I would have to go back and look up the exact date that I started this little experiment but it has to be around three months. In that time I've learned more about food than I had in 44 years. I ate as much, if not more food than I had previously. I still drink like the Polish / German that I am. All I did was cut out the manufactured, processed shit that big business markets to us as food.  It does take a few weeks to get into the rhythm but after that, it is not to hard to do!

All in all it was a great day, which have been few and far between lately. I crossed the 30 pound weight-loss barrier, the Monaco Grand Prix was pretty damn good and then the Flyers kicked the ever loving shit out of Montreal. Not a bad day at all...

If you are looking to lose weight and are having a hard time, do this one thing:  Don't eat HFSC or any other refined sugar.  Sugars from fruits and vegetables are fine in moderation.  If you have not read all of this blog, you may want to go back several posts and see the many forms that HFCS and refined sugars take in the ingredients lists.  Cut them out as much as you possibly can!

Just today I read something about "Veggie burgers" that really surprised me.  Many, if not most of the veggie burgers that are sold in this country (except those that are 100% Organic, not including the ones that say; "made from organic ingredients") and contain soy, are processed with Hexane.  Yeah, I'm sure that the residue is just fine to ingest! 

Thanks for reading! I really do hope to be able to post more often. Check back soon!

"Eat Real Food"

Regards,
Bald, I lost 30 lbs. Bill

Next up: Sunscreen and bug spray.

5/9/2010 Mothers day

Happy Mothers day to all the mom's out there!

Lisa and I had her parents over for dinner this evening.  Garlic soup, Grilled pork tenderloin w/horseradish sauce, collard greens with garlic, oil and hot peppers and mashed potatoes. It went well and we all had a great time... however my mom was absent.

I left a note and a box of chocolates at my mothers door; she lives across the street.  I did not hear from her, nor do I ever.  She prefers the bottle to me. I still love her.

Some days just suck!

Cinco de Mayo 2010

Today was one of those, healthy eating be damned days.  We had lunch at a Mexican Bodega/Restaurant.  We both ordered tacos but only ate one tortilla per taco (If that last sentence does not make sense to you, you have never eaten Mexican food, you have been eating Tex-Mex)  After lunch we went back to work and as fate would have it we found ourselves in a place where we could continue to honor Cinco de Mayo; Downingtown, PA.  So after work we stopped by Victory Brewing  After all, Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday... Okay it did not start as an American holiday.  It is the celebration of the Mexicans defeat of the French in 1862, though in Mexico it is only celebrated in the Pueblo region, Americans use it as an excuse to consume Mas Tequila!  Anyway, I digress... Cinco de mayo is the celebration of Victory!  So after a lunch at a Mexican "joint" it seemed only natural to stop in at Victory Brewing (in Downingtown) later in the day.  Are you buying this shit?  Though while at Victory we did order Nachos... which were invented here in the good ole USA.   Yea, I know that "Nacho" was a Mexican ex-patriot but I'm trying to justify stopping for nachos at Victory!

My point is that even when you are trying to eat as healthy as possible, there are times when you need to take a day off.  Today was one such day.  We still tried to do the best we could.  As I mentioned earlier we only ate one tortilla per taco and we ate less than half of the order of nachos.

In the interest of full disclosure, I must include the following:

After not eating deep fried food for two months and limiting the amount of fats we consume, todays meals did have a few effects on me.  One thing to note, we eat hot peppers with almost every meal, the hotter the better!  Peppers and or spicy food are not the issue... That said... on our way home, I had a bit of rumbling in my (now smaller) belly.  As the miles rolled on the rumbling got worse.  I was now experiencing contractions.  The closer we got to home the closer and more intense the contractions got, I broke out in a cold sweat.  By the time we got to our street, Lisa was laughing her ass off while I was crowning.

How is it that our bowels know when we are close to home, and exponentially increase our pain?  The closer I got to home, the worse the contractions became.  To the point where I was doubled over in pain, cold sweat pouring out of me and praying to God that I would not shit myself.  I am proud to say that I did make it!...barely... moments later I gave birth to the son of the Blob.  (if you don't get that, search the movie: "The Blob" and read where it was filmed back in 1958)

One a completely different note but following the same thread, watch this for a laugh, the relevant part is between 50 seconds and 65 seconds but the whole bit is really funny!

"Eat Real Food"

Thanks for reading,

Bald Bill

5/4/2010 part two...

If you have been reading this blog for even a few weeks, you already know that about 90% of the soy raised in this country is "Roundup Ready" as is around 70% of all corn.  If you are not familiar with this, 90 and 70 percent, respectively of our soy and corn crops are grown from genetically modified seeds that are resistant to Roundup.  The same company that patented Roundup is the one holding the patents to the seeds that are genetically resistant to Roundup, draw your own conclusions.

So, what we have now are crops that can be planted and then sprayed with a toxic herbicide which will kill all of the weeds but the planted crop will survive.  Gee, wasn't there a problem with agent orange (a defoliant e.g. weed killer) being sprayed on humans?  We have been growing this shit for years now, do you think that we may have absorbed some of this shit?   All of a sudden, up sprang weeds that were unaffected by Roundup.  Well no fucking shit!  Haven't we seen this for decades with human antibiotics?  One good thing that seems to be coming out of this is that now that there are roundup resistant weeds, farmers are less likely to buy Roundup ready seeds.

Big business is driving our food production and they have no interest in our health, only profits. Do you think you are unable to effect change?  You are!  Vote with your wallet.  Buy as much food as you can from local farmers and ranchers.  Buy organic as often as you can (look at my past posts for list of the most important foods to buy organic)

I started this experiment thinking it would only last a month or so.  Now, two and a half months on, I have lost 26 pounds and read several thousand pages of health information.  The more I read the harder time I have injecting humor into my posts.  We are being fucked without so much as a kiss!  Several big corporations control most of our food market, they are geared toward profits, they could give a shit about you and your kids.

Fuck me!  I never thought that I would become a social advocate.  I'm an independent conservative!

Please do the following for your family:

• Filter your water and drink half your body weight in pounds, in ounces every day.
• Cut all High Fructose Corn Syrup out of your (and more importantly, your kid's) diet.
• Buy as much organic food as you can afford (keep in the back of your mind the later health costs, due to obesity, diabetes etc...)
• Search out and go to local farmers or farmers markets.  Ask questions, look at their animals.

"Eat Real Food"

You know... there is a comments box below this post.  Ask a question, I'll research it and report back.

Thanks for reading,

Bald Bill

5/4/2010

I think that we can all agree that eating more fruits and vegetables is a good step forward in the healthy eating direction.  So I was shocked... well, not really shocked, more accurately; the word "Figures!"ran through my mind, when I read an article in the New York Times.  It contained information on federal food subsidies in the good ole US of A.

I was actually surprised that the Grains Industry was not the most subsidized, after all the stories of farmers being paid not to grow corn ($1.3 Billion over the last decade).  Or the fact that most of the corn sold in American is sold below the production cost; thanks to subsidies.  It was the Meat & Dairy industry that receives the most federal money, to the tune of almost 74%.  Sugar, Starch, Oil and Alcohol are up next at near 11%.  Nuts and Legumes receive about 2%.  Bringing up the rear are Fruits and Vegetables which receive subsidies amounting to 0.4 %

That is why struggling family's finds it easier and cheaper to eat and a major fast food joint, than to buy fresh produce.  Don't think that you upper middle class kids is fairing any better at school!  The low prices of federally subsided foods make the very foods that your kids should be eating less of, more attractive to the school board bean counters.

This same article went on to say that as recently as a decade ago the average womans waist was two inches smaller.  Eighteen year olds are now 15 pounds, on average heavier than they were in the 1970's.

Changing the subject.... Last night we attempted to eat some 100% organic, grass fed, ground beef.  93% lean.  When I saw it in the bowl, I honestly thought it was some sort of cat food.  It was like plasma in that it was not a solid, liquid nor a gas.  We made a small "test" burger, which tasted like cooked, old dog food.  We decided to scrap the burger idea and instead make chili.  The chili was a little better but it still had a weird semi-solid yet still gritty texture.  The insinkerator seemed to enjoy it.  The next time we will buy the beef and then have it ground or grind it ourselves.

Tonight it is chicken parm!  All organic and baked not fried but still delicious.

As of yesterday I have lost 26 pounds and have dropped into the 220's for the first time in a long while.

"Eat Real Food"

Thanks for reading,

Bald Bill

5/1/2010 Damn it's been a while!

I really must apologize to you, I'm sorry to have taken so long to post an update!  Work has had us swamped (a damn good thing)  Speaking of work; we just finished a job, that... well let me start from the beginning.  One of the things that we do is assist Realtors.  Say that they have a homeowner looking to sell their property but the roof leaks, the electrical service is inadequate, the place needs painting and landscaping, etc...etc...etc...  This is where we come in.  We fix everything and get the property ready to sell. Well, this week we had one such property.  However this property was one of a select few that made it into our hall of shit shame.

The kitchen had a stench that could only be described as a combination of rancid fat and puss.  Our shoes stuck, I'm not kidding, to the floor.  The carpets (close to white, originally) were dotted with a mixture of cat vomit and a sampling of every fucking meal that they every ate in the place!  Picture five frat guys living in a house for six years.  They are Martha Stewart compared to this place.

Shit and piss were hanging from the toilet seats like stalactites .  Seriously, is this how you would leave a house that you were selling?  What the fuck is wrong with people?!

Here is the best (worst) part; we found several used tampons on the floor of the linen closet!  How the fuck does that happen?  She's naked, putting away the linens, while doing jumping jacks... and sneezes... not once but several times?

Okay, on a different note:  An update on the new eating regime. (That had to be the worst segue in history!)

I am still getting lots of people asking me "how is the diet going?"  This is not a diet.  I'm eating "real food"  My criteria is simple: eliminating any processed foods, foods containing HFCS or any other ingredient that could not be readily identified by a fourth-grader. I still eat roast beef, sausage, cheese, pork, eggs, chicken and tons of other "real" foods.  I am only eliminating fucked with (processed) foods.

Is it a pain in the ass?  Yes.  Can we eat out? yes, with difficulty. Do we cheat, on occasion?  FUCK yes!  Were human!  If we can eat "real food" 90 to 95 % of the time, we are doing much. much better than we did before.  The world we live in has the deck stacked against us.  If you want to start trying to eat healthy, real, natural foods, look for these things:  The name of the farm, dairy or ranch.  Are they organic? do they use antibiotics or growth hormones?   Avoid any and all artificial sweeteners as well as any ingredient that ends in "ose" (one exception is dextrose)

Eat real food!

Speaking of real food, here is the burger:

The lettuce and tomato are deteriorating, yet the burger and fries are holding their own.  I have started a new test, without the lettuce and tomato.

One last thing, I'm down 23 pounds but I have stagnated in the last few weeks.  I need to get back on my self imposed program, I've been remiss. However, this is my attempt to find a healthy way to eat for life.  I fully expect that there will be week or two where i don't loose weight or even gain a pound or two.  I'm looking for a sustainable way to eat healthy for the rest of my life.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for sending this link to your friends.

Bald Bill