Archives for February 2016

Why Does Karl Denninger Lie Like That?

February 29, 2016 32 Comments

The only real value of this post is to point out that the actions of the subject thingy motivated Tim Steele to put together some excellent information on sodium, potassium, and the balance thereof, vis-a-vis The Potato Diet. Otherwise, it’s just a damn chore that I ought just ignore.

Here’s Tim’s post: Mr. Potatohacker: Thank You! Feel completely free to read it and never mind about the rest of this (though I have included some interesting stuff on how potatoes spurred massive population growth toward the end, including a cool, free 57-page paper). I wasn’t about to cast pearls before swine in any meaningful way and was ready just to let this drop, but Tim had the grace to lemonade the thing, and now we have yet another reference in answer to another irrational, baseless fear. So, this post became important to do on that basis alone.

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The Potato Diet Practicalities: Dropping Big Weight Fast With High Energy and Without Hunger

February 27, 2016 244 Comments

First things first. Here’s a search link to find all the potato diet posts and thousands of comments from a few years back. That’s for ‘potato hack,’ what we were usually calling it. Here’s one for ‘potato diet‘ too. Lottsa stuff. This post is the 3rd in the series that began with Can Eating Mashed Potatoes With Your Meals Cause You To Eat 30-40% Fewer Calories? And my big tease of a couple of days ago: I’ve Dropped 13 Pounds In Four Days With No Hunger Or Cravings, And I’m Going To Tell You Precisely How.

And I am. Right here.

The first post covers the science of why potatoes work…from big and rapid weight loss to steady but sustained loss by eating less overall, to plain old maintenance: from doing a potato only diet periodically, to just upping your overall potato consumption in your diet and eating less overall as a consequence. I encourage you to read that post, but here’s 1,000 words worth.

Notice potato chips way down there on the bottom, both predicted and experimentally. “You can’t eat just one” was indeed a prophetic marketing slogan. But then, to see how experimentally, boiled potatoes blow everything else out of the water—including the prediction—is truly a remarkable finding that’s largely ignored in general, and derided and scoffed at by the low-carbohydrate community.

So, the takeaway is that boiled potatoes as a single food source are the most satiating food ever tested. That means that when eaten by themselves—compared with equivalent calories of anything else—test subjects waited longer to eat again and consumed less when they did eat, compared to any other single food. But that’s not all. When boiled potatoes are included as part of a meal (even mashed with sane amounts of butter & milk), test subjects consume far fewer calories overall in the meal, compared with any other starch…and I’d bet that would hold for any side dish. Your plate full of “leafy greens” that’s always all the rage in LC, where LCers eat more “leafy greens” than literally anyone else on the planet, including raw vegans? It’s a badge of honor; and plus, it allows them to up that steak from 6-8 oz. to 16 oz., thereby tripling the calories over a meal of mashed potatoes and a 4-6 oz. steak.

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I’ve Dropped 13 Pounds In Four Days With No Hunger Or Cravings And I’m Going To Tell You Precisely How

February 25, 2016 86 Comments

I was in such disbelief when I weighed in on the same Balance Beam Scale I weighed in on Sunday at the gym that I stepped on and off it, checking everything three times, and made sure it balanced at 0.

Yep, indeed. Thirteen pounds since this time Sunday, four days ago. Never have I dropped that much so rapidly—not even LCHF with topped off glycogen…not even close—and not even with the rather uncomfortable 30-hr fasts twice per week I used to do, which usually netted 1-2 pounds weekly in my 2008-2009 endeavor from 245 to 175.

It was so much work and often, brutally painful. …Which is at least part of why I’ve bounced around about 195 +/- on average for a good while, now. But anyway, on Sunday I was a solid 203, probably 203.x. Today, I’m 190, four days later. And it was so damn easy. Not uncomfortable in the slightest, absolutely zero gnawing hunger, no untoward cravings, and often feeling pretty stuffed.

For sure way most of it is water weight, but it had zero whatsoever to do with low carb, ketogenic, high fat, or calorie counting. It was completely ad libitum eating like LCHF is touted, but this is actually more effective, far easier, less craving and no hunger if you don’t want it.

The complete unabridged story and how-to in the next post, coming up later today, more likely in the morning hours of tomorrow.

Until then, then.

Update: The Potato Diet Day 10 Update: Weigh-In, Meals, Workouts, and Blood Glucose Measures

The Yuge Explanation of the Uniquely American Trump Phenomenon

February 24, 2016 35 Comments

I’ve been burnt out lately on the current events stuff I was to be posting about, and so have re-focussed more on food stuff lately, which I’m enjoying far more, truth be told. Perhaps I’ll do some sort of current bullshit roundup post every Sunday or something, just to keep some ideas and analysis flowing both ways. Plus, I’m just numb with leftist no-sense, and the social-justice stuff is enough to make me want to vomit my guts. I digress.

Here’s a very solid piece of writing and because it’s on Facebook (go give it a Like or Share), I’ll quote it entirely here, for the benefit of those who, unlike me, are smart enough to stay away from Facebook. It’s by Robert Bidinotto, author of the Hunter series of vigilante novels. I haven’t read them yet, but they’re highly regarded and I’m confident I’ll love them once I do. Bidinotto is a very smart man. I remember him from USENET back in the day, in philosophy newsgroups.

I’ve previously written that what I have liked about Trump being in this presidential race is his general iconoclasm…not in a nihilistic sense, but rather directed towards the entrenched elites who deliver failure upon failure, on both sides. I think Bidinotto is spot on here and delves a lot deeper than I have. I particularly like how he analyzes this as more about individual pride, self-esteem and worth than collective nationalism (we’ve seen that before).

Perhaps the bright spot is that If America’s cultural roots in revolution on behalf of individuals rather than collectives is strong enough to inoculate it from taking this to extreme nationalism, then perhaps it’s also strong enough to overcome a failed Trump presidency.

AN EPIPHANY ABOUT THE APPEAL OF MR. TRUMP.

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Why Am I “Attacking” The Low-Carb and Paleo Diets?

February 22, 2016 56 Comments

I’ve most recently put up yet another couple of posts that many perceive as me attacking the Low-Carbohydrate Diet, The Ketogenic Diet, and The Paleo Diet.

I suppose you could say that, but those saying it ought at least juxtapose my approach now, with my approach back when I was all the rage over my brutal attacks of low-fat, low-cholesterol, low-saturated fat, white meat & fish only, grain-based diets, vegetarian diets, vegan diets…grant whores…etc.

For those who don’t see that, allow me to explain. Here’s some reading material.

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