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The Process!

The process. You have to respect the process of anything in life, and, more to the point, anything you wish to change about yourself. No one can be forced to do anything. They must arrive at their own conclusions! I'm working on a bulletproof meatza recipe. Look for that soon!

Keys to the Kingdom

I read a story on reedit about a man who's father took care of himself with diet and exercise every day of his life, and never ate to excess. Never drank to excess, never smoked. Therefore, his father was always in awesome shape, and whenever people would ask him, for YEARS, the man's father would tell them exactly what they needed to do.

Without fail the man would describe, in detail, his daily fitness regime. Exercise, running, and never being excessive. The conversation would constantly come back to "Well, that and your good genes!!"

This infuriated the man's father, who painstakingly crafted his health and physique, day in and day out, to look and behave the way he wanted to. This often meant missing out, not being able to partake in things like birthday cake, etc. He missed some of life's little pleasure in the name of his health. How dare these ignorant people blame that on his genes?!

After a few years, the man's father told him that he would no longer tell people his secret to success. That people were unable to understand that the true path to fitness includes a bit of temperance towards life's indulgences. He said something along the lines of "Let them figure it out. If i just give them the keys to the kingdom, they won't believe it any way."

So, until the USDA starts to understand how our bodies actually work, and that big ag has bought and sold our health, the "common sense" knowledge that people in the US hold so dear will continue. Just as an experiment, if someone asks you what you're doing to shed pounds, tell them you've cut out sweets and starches. They will react one way… who is going to say that your diet is crazy for cutting out sugar? Next, tell them you're on a high-fat, low-carb diet. Typically, the person will become an armchair physician, telling you all the ways that your diet will kill you.

So, for now, lets calm down. I know that finding LCHF is life-changing. I know that I want to shout it from the roof tops. Chemicals are bad, we should be monitoring the chemicals that we put in our bodies. But, people aren't ready for that. And if I'm correct (I hope I'm not), it will take years, if not decades for the USDA to come 'round about the misinformation its shoveling at everyone. So, take heart. Someone out there understands, but you can't just toss them the keys to the kingdom.

Do you remember how you reacted to being lied to? How when you find heard of Atkins, you may have joked about how a heart attack killed its patriarch (untrue)? The veil over your eyes was lifted, but it was lifted by you. Not by someone telling you about a diet where you can eat bacon all day. Respect the opinions of others, and let them arrive at their own conclusions. When your weight loss is going strong, and you seem happy and healthy, you, yourself, are the best endorsement for LCHF.

Cooking… Video?

I'm thinking about attempting to film some recipes. I need to figure out the best way to do it!

Stay tuned!

Low Carb Cheesecake!

This dessert is SO good, and the whole pie has about 100g of carbs! Not paleo, due to the splenda, but, we can't win'm all.

Ingredients

2 8oz Packages of Cream Cheese

3 Eggs

1/2 Cup Splenda bake

1 heaping cup of Sour Cream

2 packets of Splenda

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (or imitation, doesn't matter.)

1. Gather ingredients, and soften up the cream cheese (45 seconds in the microwave or so). Throw your cream cheese, eggs, 1/2 cup splenda bake and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla into your mixing bowl.

2. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix your ingredients with a whisk (lol), hand mixer or stand mixer until its combined. While this is mixing, butter your glass pie plate.

3. Dump your mixture into your buttered pie plate. Yes, there is no crust for this dish!

4. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. It will poof up, and, while this has never happened to me, I put a cookie sheet under the pie plate to catch spills just in case.

5. While your cake is baking, combine your heaping cup of sour cream, 2 packets of splenda, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla in a small bowl. Mix well. Throw in the refrigerator until you're done baking.

6. Take your pie out of the oven, and let it cool for 20 minutes. It'll be all poofed up when you take it out. After 20 minutes, smear the sour cream all over the top of the pie.

7. Bake for 10 more minutes, let cool for 10 minutes, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Slice up and eat!

Even lower carbs: I used Splenda Sugar Blend, and that equals just about 100g carbs for the pie. You can eliminate 90 of those carbs using granulated Splenda. Use 1/3 cup.

 

Mozza-Bacon-Steak Bites!

Another awesomely low carb meal!

Got the idea from http://www.sinorslim.com.

Ingredient List

Steak (I used 2 lbs of sirloin)

A normal sized box of Mozzarella string cheese

A pound of bacon

1. Get some steaks. I got 2 lbs of sirloin (on sale for 3.99 a pound… what…).

2. Trim off the fat, and cut into cubes of just smaller than 1 inch by 1 inch. This isn't super exact, don't stress.

3. Strip off a bit of string cheese, and cut a piece of bacon in half, and wrap up a cube of steak. Jab with toothpicks to keep everything together. Set them aside. Again, not real exact. This might take a while. When you've only got a dozen or so left to do, put a large frying pan on the stove, medium-high heat, and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

4. Throw all of your steak bites into the hot pan. Get a cookie sheet ready for transfer! Line your cookie sheet with aluminum foil! Turn the steak bites until the steak starts to cook.

5. Move the steak bites around until the bacon starts to crisp. Once they're all almost crispy, put the bites onto a cookie sheet, and put it in the oven for 7 minutes.

6. Enjoy!

The only carb content here is the mozzarella cheese, and each bite only uses 1/5th or so of a stick. Delicious!

Butter Parm Shrimp - Easy! - Recipe

In the shrimp vein, I've got something else for you to cook up, again, very low carb.

Take a stick of butter and melt it in a pan.

Throw a bit of garlic in there, it can be the jar kind, or fresh if you're fancy. Put your shrimp in, in an even layer. Cover and leave it alone for a while.

After they're all nice and pink (no more visible grey), cover with parmesan cheese (fresh if you can!). Recover to let it get all melty.

Dump in a bowl and eat with some greens!

Enjoy!