So, too late last night, I had a bunch of pistachios. I knew it was a bad idea - but what made it worse was that my wife was sharing the bowl with me. She eats *fast*. It is really a terrible habit of hers that I can't break her of. 

My mother loved peanuts, but after her 50s, sometimes they would give her *terrible* heart burn. It isn't just heart burn, though. I get a knot in my shoulder blades, I get a lump at the bottom of my esophagus to the right. I get painful burps... 

But I've learned that I can eat almost *any* kind of seed or nut, short of sunflower seeds, as long as I slow down and chew thoroughly. 

Yesterday as we were mowing through this bowl of pistachios at breakneck speed - I had a little, "this may not go well..." 

Now... Cashews, I can eat a bunch of them, and I don't have to slow down even - and I'm almost always alright. So I was hoping it would be like that. 

It wasn't. 

Around 11, laying in bed, I could feel the knot forming in my back, near my right shoulder blade. I fought it for a while, then I had a couple of burps... the kind where you have to suck in some air to get the burp to come out and it hurts... and I was like... great, here we go. 

I got to bed by 3 AM. 

Terrible night.  

I moved about 10 miles east this month, so all my standard food stuff is jumbled up and some is just gone forever like my lemon juice spray bottle.  My new roommate is far less messy which is nice, but gets annoyed when anyone but him messes up the kitchen, which is hilarious and annoying at the same time.  He hates when anything is left on the counter.  To him, a clean kitchen requires empty counters.  To me that's fucking stupid as all hell, because where the fuck does my dish drainer go and how am I supposed to use my food scale if it's always buried under all the other kitchen stuff?  But I'm trying to be a considerate housemate.  I've gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks.  FML.

My rice cooker has a place on the shelf in my bedroom closet.  My instant pot is still in the box.  I think I'm going to put up a curtain and claim the kitchen as my own domain.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Those are difficult people to live with. Very minimalist. But their places almost always look like model homes. Totally devoid of clutter, and completely, logically organized. 

Super A-Type personality. I'm actually a super B type who attempts to apply A type traits consistently and almost always fails.

Wed Sep 22 2021 02:06:44 MST from TheDave

I moved about 10 miles east this month, so all my standard food stuff is jumbled up and some is just gone forever like my lemon juice spray bottle.  My new roommate is far less messy which is nice, but gets annoyed when anyone but him messes up the kitchen, which is hilarious and annoying at the same time.  He hates when anything is left on the counter.  To him, a clean kitchen requires empty counters.  To me that's fucking stupid as all hell, because where the fuck does my dish drainer go and how am I supposed to use my food scale if it's always buried under all the other kitchen stuff?  But I'm trying to be a considerate housemate.  I've gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks.  FML.

Oh, no! Sorry to hear it. 

I'm trying to get off carbs again. Too tempting. I have total control over the family food but I've been defaulting to easy food, which in America means carbs. Today I renewed my resolve to go low-carb because I hate carb crashes and want to increase my testosterone. 

I'll check back in in a few weeks. 

I just ordered two food-grade spray bottles, one for lemon juice and one for cooking oil.  Two more spray bottles for cleaning materials so I can make upholstery cleaner because my office chair is so old it's getting greasy from human, which is gross and also makes the chair hotter than it should be, and it smells.  I've had this thing for 15 years and I love it, but it needs cleaning.  Also a hair dryer, because I was messing around with candles in the bathroom and the glass exploded (it was heating unevenly and then I tried to cover it to extinguish the flame) so I have wax all over my bathroom counter and no decent way to get it up.

Nathan went hiking over the weekend and left the entire front of the house in total disarray, which was not a problem for me, but I think I might be able to get some leeway now hahaha

Trying to go low carb again here too. It *is* difficult - weird thing is... I feel more energy and better health on a low carb diet, and I lose weight... 

But the carb-by things TASTE so GOOD. 

Mon Oct 04 2021 15:46:19 MST from Wangiss <wangiss@wallofhate.com>

 

Wed Sep 22 2021 02:06:44 MST from TheDave

I moved about 10 miles east this month, so all my standard food stuff is jumbled up and some is just gone forever like my lemon juice spray bottle.  My new roommate is far less messy which is nice, but gets annoyed when anyone but him messes up the kitchen, which is hilarious and annoying at the same time.  He hates when anything is left on the counter.  To him, a clean kitchen requires empty counters.  To me that's fucking stupid as all hell, because where the fuck does my dish drainer go and how am I supposed to use my food scale if it's always buried under all the other kitchen stuff?  But I'm trying to be a considerate housemate.  I've gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks.  FML.

Oh, no! Sorry to hear it. 

 

I'm trying to get off carbs again. Too tempting. I have total control over the family food but I've been defaulting to easy food, which in America means carbs. Today I renewed my resolve to go low-carb because I hate carb crashes and want to increase my testosterone. 

 

I'll check back in in a few weeks. 

Spray bottles arrived today.  Now I can put lemon juice in one and cooking oil in the other.  Cleaning bottles are here too, and my hair dryer.  I'm stoked.

I'm honestly happiest just eating beef and cheese and cabbage, but I have so many carbs in my house that need to get eaten, it feels like self sabotage.  When I stock up on beef it's really all I eat until I'm out, then I'm back on the carbs until I can get more beef.

Tue Oct 05 2021 20:21:11 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

Trying to go low carb again here too. It *is* difficult - weird thing is... I feel more energy and better health on a low carb diet, and I lose weight... 

But the carb-by things TASTE so GOOD. 

 

Yeah, we have an excess of carbs too... and I hate... going back and forth. On Keto... all your carbs go bad... then you fall of Keto, buy a bunch of carbs... then get fat again... back to Keto... bunch of carbs go bad. 

Wed Oct 06 2021 15:59:41 MST from TheDave

Spray bottles arrived today.  Now I can put lemon juice in one and cooking oil in the other.  Cleaning bottles are here too, and my hair dryer.  I'm stoked.

 

I'm honestly happiest just eating beef and cheese and cabbage, but I have so many carbs in my house that need to get eaten, it feels like self sabotage.  When I stock up on beef it's really all I eat until I'm out, then I'm back on the carbs until I can get more beef.

 

Tue Oct 05 2021 20:21:11 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

Trying to go low carb again here too. It *is* difficult - weird thing is... I feel more energy and better health on a low carb diet, and I lose weight... 

But the carb-by things TASTE so GOOD. 

 

 

So, dinner tonight was low carb, keto friendly, and it was Pizza and Chocolate pie.


The local pizza place started offering pizzas on Keto crusts with low sugar sauces. Which is awesome. It isn't cheap - but it is low net carbs.


And since I was a kid, I used to make Strawberry/Cool Whip Jello Pies for Church potlucks. One of the first recipes my grandmother taught me. That and deviled eggs. Anyhow - so, we were driving back from my wife's parent's house one night, and it occurred to me - that this would work with sugar free jello or pudding and sugar free cool-whip. The only thing I was at a loss for was the crust. My wife suggested that we have Quest low-carb chocolate cereal - and that she could grind that up into a crust with the food processor.


It isn't low calorie or low fat - but it is super low carb and other than a little bit of an aftertaste from the sugar alcohol of the Quest cereal - it doesn't have a lot of that "no sugar sweet" aftertaste.


And chocolate pie has been one of the things that I've struggled with when trying to go low-carb. That and old fashioned chocolate donuts.

The first one, we didn't get quite right - so it is lumpy. But I'm certain that future attempts will be far smoother - and I'm going to add some dark chocolate chunks in the future.

It is awesome sauce.

This monday I started counting calories again.  1550 a day is my limit.  I'm not doing anything like keto officially, but I am trying to minimize carbs.  So far I'm down 5 pounds.  That's something worthwhile I guess, but also food keeps me from hating everything in the world, so I've been less pleasant this week.  Ugh.  Also rode my bike 3 times around the block in my tiny gated community, just to get used to doing that.  This is NOT a bike friendly state.  I live just off apache trail now and it's THE WORST street ever.  Whoever designed it needs to experience eternal torment.

I've got to go back on the diet... I've been being terrible with food. 

By friday I was so hangry I was ready to shoot myself, so I think I'm going to up my daily calories to 1800 so I avoid that.  What a shitty week.  Ugh.

The first couple of weeks are hell, low energy, irritable, hungry all the time. Then you adjust and you start feeling much better. 

Sun Oct 31 2021 23:48:02 MST from TheDave

By friday I was so hangry I was ready to shoot myself, so I think I'm going to up my daily calories to 1800 so I avoid that.  What a shitty week.  Ugh.

This week at work has been so stressful I haven't even tried to lose weight.  I'm stress-eating and I'm fine with it because it prevents me from doing something really stupid.

Mon Nov 01 2021 09:23:48 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

The first couple of weeks are hell, low energy, irritable, hungry all the time. Then you adjust and you start feeling much better. 

Sun Oct 31 2021 23:48:02 MST from TheDave

By friday I was so hangry I was ready to shoot myself, so I think I'm going to up my daily calories to 1800 so I avoid that.  What a shitty week.  Ugh.

Dedicating yourself to your goals is difficult, and it is easy to back slide. Spiritually, physically, emotionally. Backsliding is usually taking the easy way out. They don't call it "the easy way out," because it is difficult to chose that route. 

Take the hard route more often than you take the easy way, and you'll eventually achieve your goal. 

And even if you don't, you'll get further than you would have not trying at all. 


But  I'll abuse you and call you a fat piece of shit that is a shame to your family, and then threaten you as you lift free weights for 45 guilt filled minutes - for $145 an hour, if that helps. I'm an excellent personal trainer. '

if a slightly fat one. 

Sun Nov 14 2021 02:12:55 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

Dedicating yourself to your goals is difficult, and it is easy to back slide. Spiritually, physically, emotionally. Backsliding is usually taking the easy way out. They don't call it "the easy way out," because it is difficult to chose that route. 

Take the hard route more often than you take the easy way, and you'll eventually achieve your goal. 

And even if you don't, you'll get further than you would have not trying at all. 


But  I'll abuse you and call you a fat piece of shit that is a shame to your family, and then threaten you as you lift free weights for 45 guilt filled minutes - for $145 an hour, if that helps. I'm an excellent personal trainer. '

 

if a slightly fat one. 

 

I was into it until the price tag.

I'll give you a shiny nickel and all the reese's pieces you can eat.

I'm not into Reese's Pieces. Make it CUPS, and you may have a deal! I didn't get this physique eating PB M&Ms! 

Mon Nov 29 2021 20:55:45 MST from TheDave

I was into it until the price tag.

I'll give you a shiny nickel and all the reese's pieces you can eat.

Mon Dec 06 2021 17:29:53 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

I'm not into Reese's Pieces. Make it CUPS, and you may have a deal! I didn't get this physique eating PB M&Ms! 

 

Mon Nov 29 2021 20:55:45 MST from TheDave

I was into it until the price tag.

I'll give you a shiny nickel and all the reese's pieces you can eat.

 

New job, I'm maintaining weight.  Everyone keeps asking me if I'm overstressed with the job until I tell them about the last one.  LOL

But if you want to be my trainer and get paid in peanut butter cups, I'm in.

Congratulations on scoring the new gig. I like how things keep on keeping on for us lately. 

Fri Dec 17 2021 19:38:40 MST from TheDave

 

Mon Dec 06 2021 17:29:53 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

I'm not into Reese's Pieces. Make it CUPS, and you may have a deal! I didn't get this physique eating PB M&Ms! 

 

Mon Nov 29 2021 20:55:45 MST from TheDave

I was into it until the price tag.

I'll give you a shiny nickel and all the reese's pieces you can eat.

 

New job, I'm maintaining weight.  Everyone keeps asking me if I'm overstressed with the job until I tell them about the last one.  LOL

 

But if you want to be my trainer and get paid in peanut butter cups, I'm in.