February 2011
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Weight Loss Continued
I remain 209 pounds down from 212. I’m very happy about that but am hoping to get myself down to 208 this Friday. I did not have a good couple of days, but I’m going to make up for it the rest of the week.
So far a restricted carbohydrate diet seems to be working. I’m going to stick with it for a little while and hope I can lose weight. The great thing about it is that I...
My Body Is Odd
After writing a quick post talking about how I haven’t lost weight this week, I woke up this morning to find my weight down 3 pounds. I started around 212.5 lbs and have dropped now to 209.5.
I know, I know, I shouldn’t weight myself every day. But I wanted to know what dropping my carbs would do to my weight daily. There are a lot of testimony to losing 5-10 lbs a week for the first...
First Week of Low Carbs
I am now finishing my first week of eating less than 50 grams of sugar and less than 150 grams of carbs. It’s actually gone pretty well and has been much easier than trying to restrict calories, even if calorie restriction has been a side-effect of eating fewer carbs.
The one thing I feel I can say for sure is that I feel better from eliminating nearly 150-200 of sugar a day from my diet. I...
Racializing Muslims
Not too long ago I read an article about how we in the west are racializing Muslims. What the article contended was that by attributing certain traits (usually in a negative context) to them in the media, i.e. how they dress, darker skin, different language, turbans and veils, that we essentially treat muslims as a race, thus people who denigrate muslims can be considered racist.
This is stupid....
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Low Carb
After finishing the book “Why We Get Fat”, I decided to try a low carb diet. I needed a baseline before I set any goals, though. So I decided to go crazy last Friday and stack up on the carbs and the sugar. Not only would this give me an idea of a bad carb day, but it would give me an idea of an upper limit.
Last Friday I ate around 319 grams of carbs and 206 grams of sugar. I was,...
Getting a Handle on Tumblr
A quick note to let you know that I am slowly getting a handle on Tumblr having never used it before. That means that I just discovered today that you could follow people. Hey after all, here at the League of Humans we are only….well…human. We’ll take some time to figure this out. In the meantime, I’ll keep posting since I did figure that out.
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Why We Get Fat
I’m so frickin sick of not losing weight, I decided to take a chance on this book by Gary Taubes called “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It”. I had never heard of Mr. Taubes and had no real idea of wht to expect. So I did some research.
It turns out Gray Taubes has a good reputation. He has written for the New York Times, wrote a book called “Good Calories, Bad...
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What's With You, Science?
Let’s talk about global warming. Okay, not really. But global warming is a great topic to use as a jumping off point to discuss why science today is screwy.
If you know anything about the way scientists are supposed to carry out their business, then you know that they are supposed to propose hypotheses, test those hypotheses with the scientific method, and then form a theory. Rarely does...
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Losing Weight
For the umpteenth time in my life, I am trying to lose weight. I’m pretty exasperated at this point and have decided to go back to the very start and find out for myself how we gain and lose weight. See, I’m not a sloth, and I generally don’t eat a lot. Last summer I even tookup jogging and limited mycalories to around 1700 a day. According to all the supposed...
The League of Humans!
Welcome one and all to the league of humans! A human is a bipedal primate that lives on the 3rd planet from the star Sol. If that is you, welcome! If you do not belong to this category of living, or non-living, organisms, then you may look around and learn a little about us humans.
What you will find her is articles on religion, politics, health, and general rants by the author: ME! I will update...
