Another night had sushi at Sushi Fever. Generally disappointed. Not as good as Makino, and.... I hate the service concept there.... we were a group of 5.... all ordered at the same time... a few minutes later the waitress brings out my salmon roe, and smelt roe two pieces each. It is the only food on the table other than a small few pieces of cucumber each diner was given complimentary. Then a single spicy tuna roll was brought out and the waitress asks who ordered it. Both me and one friend affirmed, so I told her to give it to my friend. A minute later another roll comes out, same process. After a bit 4 of us have some/most of our order in front of us while one patron has nothing! When it seemed like they were done, I mentioned to the waitress I was not served one of my rolls... she apologized and I got it basically when everyone else was finished eating. BRING IT ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Had Mexican at Tivoli Village in Summerlin with our host, the Wizard. I had some sort of spicy shrimp bowl which was good. Mexican food is usually good, not great. Prickly Pear tequila drink was WAY too sweet. Mike did bring a dufflebag full of magic tricks... I'd say half of them were quite good! Our cute waitress did participate in one, and I have to say, it was a good trick.
Generally disappointed in Italian restaurant in Summerlin. Basically just OK and twice the price of an equivalent in Buffalo. New England Clam Chowder was not as good as canned Wegman's. Chopped salad was limp. I did like my main course, a spicy cioppino.
Lunches were at golf clubs, and were generally good for golf course type places.
Yum.
I did Keto about 3 months ago -for about 3 weeks. I failed to keep myself well-hydrated during that period - and I wound up with muscle soreness that discouraged me from doing it longer. But my fall-back was to a low carb diet - a diet that was not as extreme as Keto.
I definitely like where I am right now. Keto is an effective way to take off pounds quickly - but its just not a lot of fun. The longing for Carbs and sugar can be significant.
Tomorrow will be rough.
I ordered a bunch of keto snacks from Amazon, but I've never been a sweets person.
Is there ANY purpose whatsoever for iceberg lettuce to continue to be grown or exist? There is almost no nutritional value whatsoever and no one is eating lettuce for the taste.
Discovered it at a local Hawaiian restaurant.
Quote: mcallister3200Is there ANY purpose whatsoever for iceberg lettuce to continue to be grown or exist? There is almost no nutritional value whatsoever and no one is eating lettuce for the taste.
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I do not want to taste the lettuce on a sandwich, but I do enjoy a bit of the lettuce crunch and supposedly roughage is wholesome.
I think a wedge salad would be wrong with any lettuce other than iceberg.
Otherwise, yeah.
Quote: SOOPOOI have been assigned to bring the cranberry gel thing that no one ever eats. $1.29 down the toilet.
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The canned stuff, I presume.
I find it's best to use it like marmalade and smear it on some sort of bread.
When I was younger, we'd occasionally get dinner from Chicken Delight and they would toss in the stamp-sized containers of cranberry sauce. They were the best part of the meal.
I can't stand the stuff with pits in it, and leftover cranberry sauce is nasty unless it's on a turkey and stuffing sandwich.
Quote: gordonm888On Keto, try to snack on fruit. Nuts are usually allowed -get mixed nuts or whatever. Chicken is cheap and easy. I like some fish so I ate salmon, canned tuna, etc. Salads are great for the diet, but a bit of work. Eat as much as you can stand. After 2-3 days you should start burning fat. No sustainable diet I know reduces weight as fast as keto.
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Fruit mostly isn’t keto, that’s paleo the way I understand it. You can basically have maybe 1/2 a cup of berries of keto a day without going over, almost all other types of fruit are a no no from the way I understood it, a big reason I couldn’t stick with it. Eating one apple or banana knocks you out of ketosis.
I ordered an assortment of keto snacks off Amazon and if one or two of them pan out, I don't see this diet being all that bad. Having a ribeye steak, salad, and a few prawns a couple of days a week goes a long way towards making this keto thing tolerable.
Breakfast today was three scrambled eggs with mozzarella cheese and a splash of hot sauce. Beats the heck out of NutriSystem.
Cheese and meat platter, fruit platter and mixed nuts with pastry platter.
Ready and doing it.
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Is there ANY purpose whatsoever for iceberg lettuce to continue to be grown or exist? There is almost no nutritional value whatsoever and no one is eating lettuce for the taste.
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Well, when it comes to nutrition:
Kale >> Romaine Lettuce >>Iceberg Lettuce.
Iceberg lettuce is a good source of Vitamin A, and has some calcium and magnesium, which is good for bone health. It has some potassium. And its sodium-free (but so is styrofoam, lol) So, its not a complete zero when it come to nutritional value. Its low in calories, etc.
But Romaine lettuce is better, Romaine provides all the nutrients that Iceberg has but more Vitamin A, and also Romaine also has Vitamin K, and folates. Vitamin K is only available from leafy vegetables and helps with blood clotting, so its absence from iceberg is significant. Folates are a type of Vitamin B which helps produce red blood cells, but you can get folates from many other popular fruits (bananas, oranges), and from nuts, beans and other vegetables. So folate deficiency is not a big problem.
a couple of days ago we got chicken from one of the little Peruvian joints - there are several in the DC area
their chicken is very tender and they have unique spices
it crushes the competition IMHO
it's really no contest
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a trick I learned in college to prevent a hangover
after getting plastered - before going to sleep take 2 Tylenols
you'll wake up feeling pleasantly empty headed
you killed a lot of brain cells, but you'll survive
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a trick I learned in college to prevent a hangover
after getting plastered - before going to sleep take 2 Tylenols
you'll wake up feeling pleasantly empty headed
you killed a lot of brain cells, but you'll survive
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It can be dangerous for your liver to mix alcohol and Tylenol.
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a trick I learned in college to prevent a hangover
after getting plastered - before going to sleep take 2 Tylenols
you'll wake up feeling pleasantly empty headed
you killed a lot of brain cells, but you'll survive
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It can be dangerous for your liver to mix alcohol and Tylenol.
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you can get the same result with aspirin or ibuprofen
also, I don't do this often - and it's less than 25% of the maximum recommended per day dosage
I believe you have to consume a lot of alcohol and a lot of tylenol to damage your liver
I'm not in that category
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I have experience with weed
I actually prefer alcohol - I don't think I can put into words exactly why - but I do
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Quote: mcallister3200Weed works better. Or so I’ve heard, I would only know for scientific purposes of course. And you would have to take it in edible form for the purposes of staying on thread topic. It’s I haven’t drank enough to be hung over in over a decade anyway I guess.
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Quitter!
I wouldn't call it exactly a diet but I've started eating a lot of fiber to try to lessen my big gut
I don't have a scale but I have other ways to judge it and it seems to be working - it has definitely caused me to feel full and reduced my appetite and snacking
the main 2 products I use are raw Quaker oats - 4 grams of fiber - and Kellogs All Bran cereal - believe it or not 12 grams of fiber per serving
both are excellent products IMO - I mix them together - the All Bran has just a little bit of sugar so the taste is actually pretty good
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At bar in hotel in Gainesville the menu had exactly two things. Mac and cheese (wife said pretty good) and Buffalo chicken wings (below average). I’m hungry.
Quote: SOOPOOSometimes advertising works! On way down to Florida stopped at a Sonic. Had the garlic butter bacon cheeseburger. Pretty good for fast food. The fries from Sonic are nearly inedible.
At bar in hotel in Gainesville the menu had exactly two things. Mac and cheese (wife said pretty good) and Buffalo chicken wings (below average). I’m hungry.
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Enjoy your time in Florida. How long are you down for? It is supposed to be in the low 80's here for the next 10 days with no rain and the humidity is so low it isn't even noticeable. I guess until March this is the dry season.
Quote: MrVOne way to eat less is to drink a lot of water immediately before eating a meal.
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Rather than the eight glasses we were told growing up, the newer guideline is to drink half your body weight in water. Pretty much no one who drinks anything but water or doesn’t exercise a ton probably does this, tough to drink that much water especially if at all overweight. But, anybody drinking close to half their weight in water is going to eat less than they otherwise would.
Quote: mcallister3200Quote: MrVOne way to eat less is to drink a lot of water immediately before eating a meal.
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Rather than the eight glasses we were told growing up, the newer guideline is to drink half your body weight in water. Pretty much no one who drinks anything but water or exercises a ton probably does this, tough to drink that much water especially if at all overweight. But, anybody drinking close to half their weight in water is going to eat less than they otherwise would.
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You skipped a few words in there. No one drinks half their body weight.
Quote: mcallister3200Ok, an amount that is half your body weight In OUNCES rather than pounds
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So... 1/32nd your body weight?
Much more manageable. There's a lot of me.
Quote: DieterQuote: mcallister3200Ok, an amount that is half your body weight In OUNCES rather than pounds
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So... 1/32nd your body weight?
Much more manageable. There's a lot of me.
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A bit more than that but pretty close. It’s a fluid ounce of water, not a weight ounce of water.
Quote: DieterQuote: mcallister3200Ok, an amount that is half your body weight In OUNCES rather than pounds
ex. 87 ounces for 174 pounds
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So... 1/32nd your body weight?
Much more manageable. There's a lot of me.
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you better make sure that every time you leave your house that you know where the nearest bathrooms are__________(-:\
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Quote: unJonQuote: DieterQuote: mcallister3200Ok, an amount that is half your body weight In OUNCES rather than pounds
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So... 1/32nd your body weight?
Much more manageable. There's a lot of me.
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A bit more than that but pretty close. It’s a fluid ounce of water, not a weight ounce of water.
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So... I should aim for 7 butts every 2 years? ;)
1 kilderkin per fortnight may be more practical to carry.
Quote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterQuote: mcallister3200Ok, an amount that is half your body weight In OUNCES rather than pounds
ex. 87 ounces for 174 pounds
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So... 1/32nd your body weight?
Much more manageable. There's a lot of me.
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you better make sure that every time you leave your house that you know where the nearest bathrooms are__________(-:\
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Yeah... I have trouble getting past 70 ounces in a day, but I do carry one of those handheld portable urinals on road trips just in case. Basically a glorified pre bottle.
Back of label daily recommended values:
Potassium: 15%. Vitamin C: 70%. Niacin: 200%
Folate: 200%. Zinc: 70%. Vitamin A: 70%. E: 70%
B6: 200%. B12: 200%. Magnesium: 15%
did you know that drinking too much water can be dangerous to your health?
hyponatremia is the medical term - it happens to athletes sometimes
a DC cop died from drinking too much water - although this is probably rare
neither article states how much water is too much
although the article on the cop states that he believed he drank 3 gallons of water before his bike ride which is much more than you're indicating
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/08/11/district-officer-dies-after-bike-ride/21ff14d6-0623-4a5e-8590-1e210e13bc22/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
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Asian food is amazing when it's done right - they really give you great flavor
quite a few of the restaurants cook with too much oil and it ends up greasy - I need to be particular about which restaurant
my faves:
chicken with cashew nuts, black pepper chicken and chicken teriyaki
I believe the Chinese are much better with chicken and pork then they are with beef
I've heard the Japanese are very good with beef but I haven't experienced that
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Today's menu-
Breakfast-18 ounce keto shake- 6oz milk, 12 ounces of water
Mid-morning snack- 6 large prawns, no sauce
Lunch- keto chile and cheese, from factor 75
mid-afternoon snack- Quest cookies and cream bar.
Dinner- 10 ounces of chicken breast with a rustic rub.
late snack- four ounces of milk and an Atkins brownie.
Tomorrow, I'll switch the snacks around and have a 12 ounce ribeye instead of the chicken breast.
Usually, I have a salad several times a week but am out right now.
I bought four different types of Quest/Atkins snacks so I can mix them up and I also bought a 12 pack of Atkins iced coffee protein shakes which can either replace a snack or even be lunch.
I just ordered ten pounds of ground bison and will be alternating my lunches between the keto chile and a 1/3 pound bison burger with cheese, no roll.
I bought some 1 carb tortilla shells thinking I could use them for burgers but they simply do not taste good.
I'm weighing myself on the 15th and the 1st. Last weigh-in, I was down seven more pounds. My nutritionist isn't crazy about my choices but can't argue with the success.
Quote: billryanI'm loving this keto diet.
Today's menu-
Breakfast-18 ounce keto shake- 6oz milk, 12 ounces of water
Mid-morning snack- 6 large prawns, no sauce
Lunch- keto chile and cheese, from factor 75
mid-afternoon snack- Quest cookies and cream bar.
Dinner- 10 ounces of chicken breast with a rustic rub.
late snack- four ounces of milk and an Atkins brownie.
Tomorrow, I'll switch the snacks around and have a 12 ounce ribeye instead of the chicken breast.
Usually, I have a salad several times a week but am out right now.
I bought four different types of Quest/Atkins snacks so I can mix them up and I also bought a 12 pack of Atkins iced coffee protein shakes which can either replace a snack or even be lunch.
I just ordered ten pounds of ground bison and will be alternating my lunches between the keto chile and a 1/3 pound bison burger with cheese, no roll.
I bought some 1 carb tortilla shells thinking I could use them for burgers but they simply do not taste good.
I'm weighing myself on the 15th and the 1st. Last weigh-in, I was down seven more pounds. My nutritionist isn't crazy about my choices but can't argue with the success.
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Good to hear it’s so far, so good. As long as you like the food shouldn’t be tough to stick with, any travel can make it tougher more limited choices.
You’re probably aware but that first five pounds or so on keto, part of the reason for dramatic initial loss, is all water. If anyone wants to easily gain five pounds in a week, just stop doing keto.
It may be a coincidence but I seem to have more energy and less nagging pain the last few weeks.
Veggie omelette and hash browns around noon. Blueberry muffin and apple around 4. Cheez its and peanut m+m’s near 10. Shot some hoops before eating anything but zero exercise once the eating began.
I will also report what happened last night in my mini baccarat session with the buy in I did not even have to take out of my bankroll! :)
Quote: billryanI just ordered ten pounds of ground bison and will be alternating my lunches between the keto chile and a 1/3 pound bison burger with cheese, no roll.
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I am on low carb diet and I made a large batch of chile recently and was a bit dismayed at the amount of carbs in the beans and amount of sugar in the BBQ sauce. Do you know what differentiates your "keto chile" from a more conventional chile?