July 2011 was my first full month of blogging at Life After Carbs. The blog ended the month averaging 51 visits a day, a 40% increase over the June average. The best day was July 2 when 134 visits were recorded. This was thanks to Jimmy Moore, who included Life After Carbs in his list of 50 new low-carb blogs to read over the holiday weekend. Indeed, a third of my visitors for the entire month of July came here via Jimmy's Livin' La Vida Low-Carb blog. (Note that I am returning the favor by … [Read more...]
Coffee = Life = Coffee
Early on in my low-carb adventure, I ran across the advice to stop drinking coffee. That nearly ended my low-carb adventure right then. There are some things you can't give up. Coffee's at the top of my list. Repeat after me, friends: "Coffee is life, life is coffee." That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Coffee is low-carb -- right? There are carbs in black coffee -- about a tenth of a gram in a cup. S0 coffee is low-carb, though not quite as low-carb as plain water. In … [Read more...]
McDonald’s makes changes, but so do I
It's common place to criticize McDonald's and other fast-food franchises for marketing fattening food to kids. This week McDonald's has responded by changing the composition of their famous Happy Meals. The toy is still in the box, though. McDonald's and I go back a long way. I'm old enough to remember when they sold their hamburgers for 15 cents. There was no seating. You just walked up between the Golden Arches and placed your order. Then you went home, or sat in your car, to eat … [Read more...]
Pasty cravings
I am just back from a quick trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was my first visit to the UP since going low-carb. My main observation from the trip is that someone needs to invent a low-carb pasty. First, a little history. In 1835-36, the Territory of Michigan and the State of Ohio fought a war over the Toledo Strip, a parcel of border land that includes the present-day city of Toledo, Ohio. You may think Ohio won the war, given that it currently possesses the Toledo Strip. In … [Read more...]
Two upward trends: drinking calories and getting diabetes
I was born in a simpler time. Back then, soda pop was an occasional treat, not an everyday (or twice a day) habit. In 1952, Americans on average drank 11.5 gallons of carbonated, caloric soft drinks per year. I doubt that I personally accounted for any of 1,786,100,000 gallons of cola, root beer, red pop, etc., produced and consumed in the U.S. that year, but a decade later, when per capita availability had increased to 14.5 gallons per year, I was doing my part. I continued drinking my … [Read more...]
Big lunch can be dinner, too
It's funny how after you've been eating low-carb for a while, you look at food differently than you did before. Looking over the high-calorie entrees pictured in the Xtreme Eating Awards 2011 (PDF file) from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), I notice the carbs first, which come in the form of bread, buns and fries. There's also a pasta dish and a porterhouse steak accompanied by a big serving of mashed potatoes. The accompanying text from the CSPI focuses on the … [Read more...]
My latest good numbers: 110/65
Every now and then, I'll have an anxiety dream. I guess it happens because I hold things in and don't express my feelings enough. Or maybe because my subconscious is a big baby. Either way, it happens. For instance, just before the start of a new semester, I'll dream that I can't find the right classroom. Why I, as the teacher, should be worried about that, I don't know. In all my years of teaching, I've only gone to the wrong room once. That was in the middle of the semester. I got … [Read more...]
A typical day in my life after carbs
Following up on my post "What is a low carb diet?" I'm presenting here a typical day of low carbing. The day was a Saturday. Breakfast (6:30 a.m.) Most days, I'm an early riser. The sun comes up, and I'm right there with it. no-filler salmon patty (leftover) two eggs scrambled with butter two mugs of coffee, each with two teaspoons of half-and-half one multi-vitamin for men Morning Snack (10:00 a.m.) Having this mid-morning snack was a-typical. Often I make it to lunch … [Read more...]
What is a low carb diet?
When I say that I follow a low carbohydrate way of eating, what do I mean? When you say it, what do you mean? I suspect we might all mean something a little different -- or even a lot different -- if we were to get down to specific foods we include or avoid, or to the number of grams of carbs we consume per day. The title of my blog -- "Life After Carbs" -- implies that I don't eat any carbs at all, but of course that's not true. The title ought to be interpreted as meaning, "Life after … [Read more...]
For that special low-carb eater, a bouquet of beef jerky
When I was a kid in the previous millenium, TV was a big deal. Until the late 1960s, my family had one set, a black-and-white model in a blond-wood cabinet, and we gathered around it to watch programs as a family. Interesting, you say (being nice to the old guy), and a little quaint, but what has it got to do with beef jerky? I was getting to that. Words have emotive as well as cognitive meaning. They can point outward at things in the world, and at the same time inward to our … [Read more...]
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