Everyone hates the Fat Kid. The Fat Kid is always annoying, whiny, and soft. No one in the 80s had any hesitation making fun of the fat kid’s weight. From Vern in “Stand By Me” to Chunk in “The Goonies,” there were abundant models of what the Fat Kid is like, and how you should… Continue reading Fat Kid
To lose weight, you have to exercise. Right? My whole life, that’s what I heard. The doctors said, find exercise that you enjoy and can sustain, and you’ll have fitness for life. Calories in, calories out. Nevermind that it took literally hours of strenuous work to burn off the calories in a single modest meal.… Continue reading Huffing and Puffing
Spoiler: It sure is! After years of success on keto as a meat-eater, I went vegetarian last year. I wasn’t sure how that was going to work – I really loved all the bacon, and chicken breasts, and sausages, and perfect steaks I got to enjoy on keto. Every meal had meat at the center,… Continue reading Is It Even Possible? Vegetarian Keto
I have talked in this blog about a long, dark time in my life when I was 300 – 350 pounds. You don’t get to that kind of weight without having some serious binge eating disorder. I have struggled for years with compulsive overeating – and it truly is compulsive. It is something I do… Continue reading My First Addiction
I’ve bragged a few times in this blog about how good the food is on keto. Every diet involves sacrifices. I had to decide what I was okay living without, what was available to me instead, and what I got in return for those sacrifices. When you can eat a crab and bacon omlet smothered… Continue reading Kicking Carbs with Keto
As I’ve written about in my blog before, I used to weigh 350 pounds, and through the ketogenic diet, I lost over 200 pounds in 18 months. Hooray! But then what happened? As Christy Harrison vigorously points out in her thought-provoking book Anti-Diet, 90% of dieters gain back all of the weight they lost, and… Continue reading 3 Ways Dieting Causes Suffering
The medical establishment and weight loss orthodoxy for a hundred years has been that people lose weight when they burn more calories than they take in. That’s the only way to lose weight, and if you are trying and failing to lose weight, it is because you are eating too much and not active enough. … Continue reading Calories In/Calories Out is Bullsh!t
