One of the many podcasts I listen to is Fat Burning Man by Abel James. Some of you may remember seeing him and his “Wild Diet” on the tv show “My Diet is Better Than Yours“. If not, though, suffice to say the Abel’s podcast is one of the most popular health and nutrition related […]
Nutrition
Discussion about diet and nutrition. What is and isn’t working for me.
Book: Younger Next Year
I just finished Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge. It’s been on my reading list for quite some time, but I finally got around to it. The gist of the book is that aging will happen to all of us, but that there are things we can do to make it less […]
Book Suggestion – “Death By Food Pyramid”
I just finished Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health by Denise Minger. The title gives a pretty good summary of the book, but it covers how our food pyramid (here in the U.S. of A.) got its start and grew into the recommended daily […]
Status check – July, 2016
Weight loss wasn’t very impressive this month. I started the month at 217 lbs. and ended up at 219 lbs. An increase, but nothing big. I’m still at a 30+ lbs loss since July of 2015, so I’m fine with that. I don’t think that I’ve hit my balance point, I think that hovering a […]
Fueling on fat doesn’t mean eating a bowl of bacon grease before a run!
I read a lot of blogs and listen to a lot of podcasts that at least touch on the idea of fueling for endurance events with fat. In a nutshell, and leaving out the health effects of a carb/fat/protein focused diet, the idea is that our bodies can only store so much energy in the […]