Posted on 04/22/2015 10:03:53 AM PDT by C19fan
Americans should talk Jeb into a “ Hemlock- Only Diet”
Two years ago, I suffered a foot injury, which aggravated my bad bunion and hammer toes on my left foot.
Four months later, I finally had surgery, which took about 18 months to reach 90+% recovery.
I wasn’t able to really exercise walk nor exercise before and after the surgery until about 18 months post surgery.
During that time, I gained 45+ pounds, and my mild hypertension went to a serious level. My daily Vasotec went from 5mg/day to twice that dose.
I went on my modified Paleo diet July 5 th, last year.
Carbs were basically eliminated and any/all processed foods. Diet oleo and other so called diet products were thrown away. All of the sugars are avoided as well as the so called diet sugars.
My wife planted Kale in her garden, and I became addicted to Kale and fresh fruit/veggies. I eat eggs several times a week and real pork/beef/lamb and game like elk/deer/feral pigs and wild turkey and waterfowl. Also, ocean salmon, mahi mahi, cod and tuna are alternated with the other real proteins. We try to get grass fed beef, pork and lamb.
My snacks are walnuts, grapes and tangerines, left out on a counter by my wife. If I get a little hungry I grab some and eat it.
I eat a breakfast with smoked salmon, plus an egg 3-4 times a week and fruit, a grazing lunch with real protein, leftovers from the night before, kale, fruit and nuts. A regular dinner based on the foods cited above.
I eat one small dark chocolate bar for desert each night.
I have two good size coffees each morning and drink a lot of sun tea and Brita water.
I have a glass of red wine each night with my dinner and a smaller one after dinner sometimes.
The toughest part was giving up my two micro brews at night and the wonderful baked breads in this area.
7 weeks later after starting my food program, I had lost 30 pounds and my cardiologist said I didn’t need another Echo gram or to see him for at least a year. My fp had picked a heart murmur just before my surgery and had referred me to the cardio doc. My FP and Cardio doc couldn’t believe the changes in one year in spite of a slow surgery recovery.
My weight loss has continued to 45#’s, and I am back to power walking at least a mile plus once a day to twice a day. A good part of that walk is up and down a good sized hill. I’m walking a mile up and down a hill in 13-15 minutes.
My BP is as good as it was when I was in my 20-40’s, 110-120 over 70-80, and even lower after a walk. I am off my BP meds.
I don’t count the calories nor dream about food. I really haven’t been starving hungry after the first two weeks of this program.
Recently, the results of the MIND diet have been published in medical journals and the WSJ this week.
Basically, the MIND is my eating program. The people who followed this diet had less dementia and Alzheimer’s.
No, he’s always been that way.
“I’ve been trying to get back onto it, but I need high energy levels for my job, and crashing in the afternoon doesn’t cut it at the office.”
I had the same problem after a few months. I don’t work, but I use my computer a lot for finances and financial research and of course FR.
My wife and I joked about my reverse Querty naps in the afternoon.
I increased my afternoon snacks of walnuts and fruit and added some good jerky. Also, started my afternoon walk about 30 minutes before the Querty attacks. Next, a good size glass of sun tea. If the weather doesn’t allow a good walk, I have some more coffee.
Now, I’m good with minimal reverse Querty naps. Also, depending on the weather I do a couple of brisk 800’ to 1200’quick walks every couple of hours. In the morning and post lunch.
I saw a video clip of Jeb in New Hampshire last weekend. He looked about 20 lbs. thinner. I figured he was on some sort of diet.
Good for you...very impressive!
This is a great diet.
High protein, berries and vegetables. Very little or no refined carbs.
Seriously, cut the white carbs and eat some meat every meal.
“The people who followed this diet had less dementia and Alzheimer’s.”
If I followed that diet, I would hope I would have dementia so I wouldn’t know what the hell I was living off of...
Stick a Kale in my face and I might just put you in a headlock. :)
The sad fact of the matter is that I like to cook, and Italian is my favorite. I can't imagine a world without pasta and tomato based sauces. No Chicken Parm? No Italian bread? No Wine? Why bother losing weight and being "healthy" if you aren't even living? I've done it, I've lost weight and I was in misery the entire time.
Pull his feeding tube.
Eat what you want.
We will enjoy our grilled wild Pacific salmon, Pacific cod, mahi mahi, shrimp, oysters, mussels, beef, game like elk/venison, pork, lamb, turkey, and other real proteins.
Besides being tasty, the above go really well with a Kale salad or gasp an arugula salad. An avocado fits in well with all the above. I also grill asparagus and kale after the meat is taken off the grill and is sitting for a few minutes.
My wife and I just planted her 5 tomato plants that will feed us, neighbors and relatives with tomatoes to go with our Kale and arugula from mid June until the first hard freeze in Nov/Dec.
She will plant our Kale around her tomatoes after the tomatoes are well established. The kale can be harvested regularly to about Jan/Feb.
It all sounds great... EXCEPT THE KALE!
haha, you’ll never change my mind on that, nor chipped beef on toast otherwise known as SoS.
My daughter is a big Kale fan, she busted that out on thanksgiving one year, and it was a full frontal assault to my taste buds! But, being my daughter, I had to sit there like a 4 year old, and eat my vegetables and smile. They didn’t even have a dog for me to sneak it to under the table! So, I buried it in blue cheese dressing.
You are more of a man than I if you can tolerate such an evil vegetable! Beets may be the 2nd most evil vegetable (tuber/root/whatever), but my wife loves them to death. Cans them, mashes them, eats them boiled, stewed, grilled, etc. Yech!
Give me some brussel sprouts cooked in bacon fat with bacon bits with butter sauce over such nonsense as Kale anyday!
But... as a side note, the kale around tomatoes my neighbor swears by for cutworms. He does the same thing, says it keeps out all the grubs and worms from his tomayters, but I can understand why.... cuz even bugs won’t eat it! :)
I never tried arugala.
BOL!
One of the few things I don’t eat, are brussel sprouts.
A son, who is a former chef plans to fix me some on Father’s Day like you noted.
The other is Rhubarb in its various forms.
We love beets, my wife got a recipe for oven roasted beets from a Mexican Chef amig. She roasts them and has them ready for my Kale Salads:).
Having said that, my wife and I like all greens from Kale to Chard to Mustard except for beet greens. We have tried them and don’t like them.
The local farm where we buy kale, chard, eggs and other vegies also has beets. The farm manager s amazed after cutting my various type of Kale, and pulling our beets out of the ground. That I ask her to cut the greens off of the beets and feed her chickens. The chickens are fed kale, chard and beet greens, and their eggs are the best in spite of the beet greens.:)
oh yeah, Rhubarb too! We don’t have that around much here in Chicago, my wife did a pot roast recipe from Emeril years ago, that called for Rhubarb. They had it at the super duper market. That one we can agree on. Nasty!
People on the east coast I guess love it. Just not my cup of tea.
Here’s another gross one for ya, but when I was in the service, east coasters would get this all the time from home.... canned bread. Blech!
Many anthropologists would disagree. The chief problem with those days, was that you couldn't support a large population through hunting and gathering, so eventually you would have to start farming.
You have to be careful of rhubarb. It contains oxalic acid which is a nephrotoxin and also can sometimes cause kidney stones. Don’t eat the leaves.
I see you like beets. I do too. I’ve found you can roast them on the fire. I slice them and put them on the charcoal grill and they’re great.
Whatever you do - don’t feed the beet greens to the chickens! Cook them like spinach. They are especially good when the small plants get pulled up with the larger beets. That way there are tiny beets in with the beet leaves. Better than spinach - which by the way also contains oxalic acid.
Full disclosure: spinach, swiss chard and beet greens all contain some oxalic acid.
“Many anthropologists would disagree.”
Most anthropologists are Marxists, so I really don’t hold their opinions in much regard.
“We don’t have that around much here in Chicago...”
Maybe not in stores, but I used to have tons of rhubarb growing wild in my backyard when I lived in Old Irving Park. So I’m sure you could grow a mess of it up here if you wanted some.
The only time I’ve ever had kale was when it was in a lentil and sausage soup, and it was tolerable, but I have no idea what it tastes like on its own, so it may have been detracting from the other ingredients.
As for beets, I can stand those fine, because my mom always made them, but with one exception: pickled beets. Whoever invented those is the devil. If your wife isn’t serving pickled beets, count yourself lucky, slather them in butter and pepper, and choke em down. It could be much worse.
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