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"Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

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Banting Update

It’s time for an update on my jolly Banting adventures! As faithful readers may recall, I have been Banting since June of last year. This means I’ve been eating a very high fat (>60%), medium protein, very low carb (<5%) diet, with all the carbs I do eat coming from vegetables only, no grains [...]

Banting update

I continue to bant, though over the winter I have noticed an appreciable slowing of results. This I ascribe to several factors, both simple and complex. Let’s start with simple. Being that I’m much smaller than I was when I began (by 70 lbs), I thus need fewer calories. My body is OK with [...]

Banting Redux: The Tale of the Tape

Three months ago, I went to my doctor and had my fasting bloodwork done. The results that came back were horrible, simply horrible. So I embarked on a program of diet and exercise (aka “Banting”) intended to bring my numbers into closer alignment with, you know, ongoing existence as a human being and all [...]

My jolly Banting adventures

So one of the things that’s been taking up a lot of my mind space lately is Banting. Which is a term taken from the name of a gentleman named William Banting, who wrote a screed in 1869 called “A Letter on Corpulence” that proved so popular that throughout much of the 19th century, [...]