Quoth Og Mandino

"Strive for happiness and peace of mind."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

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 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, [...]