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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!

Firehole Shrimp Salad - Recipe!

Well, I got cooking tonight, and shrimp was on sale. Made lunch for tomorrow!

Start off with a pound of shrimp.

Slap that stuff right into a hot pan, at about medium heat. Spray the bottom of the pan with cooking spray very lightly, so it doesn't stick. Spread them out evenly.

 

 

Salt and pepper to taste, and throw a bit of chili powder in there (for good measure!). Leave them cook until they are the right color (you know what I mean). Crispy is good!

 

Chop them up into thirds, smallish pieces. We don't need shredded shrimp, but small pieces is good. Throw them in a mixing bowl with a cup of real mayonnaise, a half cup of shredded cheddar cheese, and a up to a tablespoon of Sriracha.

Mix it up good!

You think that looks pretty good? Me too. But its not quite ready, it needs… Bacon. Yep. Get some nice thick bacon.

Throw two pieces on a paper plate, with paper towels underneath. A minute and a half on each side in the microwave, and chop it up nice, crumble it, even.

Mix it all in. I use "Artisan Lettuce" romaine lettuce to make my lettuce wraps. Spoon that goodness into the lettuce!

Looks good, doesn't it? Lunch tomorrow is HANDLED! Very, very few carbs. Enjoy!

Vegan Ice Cream - Crush that Sweet Tooth!

Alright, so… I wanted ice cream, and I remembered that I got an ice cream maker as a wedding present. Neat, right?

So, after a bit of googling, I made some ice cream that is really very good, and decent for you too!

Ingredients:

• 1 can (13.5 oz) Coconut Milk
• 1/3 cup Light Agave Nectar
• 1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla

This recipe makes a little over 16 oz of ice cream, so if you're using a ceramic container (like I am), throw it in the freezer awhile to chill it out.

Combine all ingredients into a bowl and whisk it until its all mixed up.

Toss it in the ice cream maker, and let it do its thing for 20 minutes or so, until its the consistency of… you guessed it, soft ice cream!

Use a spatula to scoop it all into your container (from the freezer), and freeze it for about 4-5 hours. Enjoy! (note, pay no attention to the frozen bacon fat.)

You can make a ton of different flavors, I just used Cocoa and Vanilla for this. I've also used 1 Tablespoon cinnamon, and its very good!

For the entire batch, the total nutrition facts are:

• 989 Calories
• 63.5g Fat
• 100.8 carbs

Its really good!

 

Low Carb Whipped Cream - Try 1

Its a Monday night, and after steak and greens (again, favorite meal, so what?), I had a bit of a sweet tooth. So, I looked in my fridge, saw a pint of heavy whipping cream, and decided to try my hand at low-carb whipped cream.

The recipe I used is as follows:

2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream

2 Tablespoons Splenda (roughly 20 packets, or so?)

2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

Yields: Roughly 4 standard ramekins

Whisk that shit together until its nice and creamy. A powered hand mixer helps a lot… Don't attempt with a whisk, unless you're trying to burn calories… a lot of them.

I love this stuff, and will continue to make it… But there is a chemical after-taste. I want to try this recipe with agave nectar, or a mix of agave nectar and Splenda to try to rid this thing of the chemical taste as much as I can. Obviously, agave nectar isn't chemical, so, I think its going to come down to consistency.

I've also popped two containers in the freezer, to see how this stuff firms up. Could be on to something good here! Next time, with picture… Was a spur of the moment thing!

Mean-Mugged out of a Yoga Class…

Today I attempted to go to a Yoga class at the Gym (Gold's Dundalk). I was not late, and I went in, and it was fairly full. Instead of being accepted, and welcomed, I was mean-mugged by a majority of the women in the class. I don't know why people would ever be pretentious in a gym. That's a terrible place to be judgemental when someone is trying to enter a class.

Thanks a lot, yoga. Better luck Thursday, eh?

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Ideas....

So, every Thursday night i am a single man, but with my new-found attempt at Paleo (or, not strict paleo, but "eat decent food, eh?") I've been toying with an idea to have friends over for dinner on thursdays. Makeshift, pot luck. It could improve my culinary skills, as well as spark an interesting convo. Should I give it a go? Eh, we'll see. Sounds like fun, though.

Also, I'm seriously toying with the idea of running the Michelob Ultra Challenge in Tampa. Thats a 15k, a 5k, an 8k, and a half marathon in one weekend. GRAAAAHH!

Half Marathon!

OMG I ran a half marathon.

I never ran anywhere (on purpose) before May of this year (2011). I picked up "Get Running" on the app store, and completed Couch to 5K in the fall. Half Marathon 6 months later in Richmond, VA. Felt great!

Kibble? Amazing thought. (Reaction)

I just got finished reading Dr. Tyna Moore's article (http://renegadewellness.org/2011/05/14/would-you-eat-kibble-for-the-rest-of-your-life/). That sure did stir up some thoughts.

The idea that grains and grains mashed together and formed are kibble, and also, bread, pastry, and a lot of other carb-based products... Its amazing.

 

 

Low calorie diets, and why carbs are bad for you!

 

100 Calorie packs are the devil.

There is a good reason that calorie counting doesn't often work in the long run: Carbs don't make you full! Sugars often manifest themselves as carbs. Carbs do not keep you full, protein and fat does.

When ancient man hunted for an animal, killed it, and followed it with some leafy vegetables, he didn't need chocolate. You don't need chocolate either.

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My name is Jesse, and I live in Baltimore. I love living in Baltimore, and I want to share my experiences with others that might stumble upon my blog. I'm a very active person, a lover of great food, great restaurants, and great cooking. I also love video games, beer, and loads of other things that might show up here.

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