Quoth Og Mandino"Always take another step. If that is to no avail take another, and yet another. One step at a time is not too difficult." | 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 [...] 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 [...] Let me be one of the last to say, “Happy New Year!” to all my friends and readers. As I was saying to my husband on our New Year’s Day walk (which has become somewhat of a tradition in our family), I can make one prediction with 100% confidence … it will be a [...] Given my current unsatisfactory state, I’ve been thinking a lot over the past couple of weeks about the economics of pain—and more specifically, how my decision processes regarding my condition have been shaped by my need to adopt a consumerist mentality, and the compromises attendant to that mentality. Jeez, what a chewy sentence! Let’s [...] So as I blogged about a while ago, my right hip/leg/back has been playing holy hell with me. And alas, things have gone from bad to worse, to the point where it’s getting hard to get dressed in the morning, I’m letting household chores slide, and getting my shoes on? Well, that requires about [...] | |