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[ronott1]

The ketones on your breath can knock a dog over at 20 paces - I find it hard to believe that can be healthy, even short-term.

Taken to an extreme, Atkins can cause kidney damage.

Moderation and losing weight slowly as a life style change is better.

 

[perchie.girl]

That's where the "too hardcore" part comes to play. Ketosis is not a healthy state to be in. I think the point is to stay a bit above it though.

Believe it or not Ketosis is a marker that your body is consuming its own fat for energy. Its much easier for your body to do that than convert oil into energy.

Here is a link to a NON Atkins article

http://www.dietdoctor.com/lose-weight-by-achieving-optimal-ketosis

excerpt from that article:

Ketosis

Ketosis is a state at which the body has an extremely high fat-burning rate. Even the brain runs on fat, via ketone bodies. These are energy molecules in the blood (like blood sugar) which become fuel for our brains after being converted from fat by the liver.
To encourage ketone production, the amount of insulin in your bloodstream must be low. The lower your insulin, the higher your ketone production. And when you have a well-controlled, sufficiently large amount of ketones in your blood, it’s basically proof that your insulin is very low – and therefore, that you’re enjoying the maximum effect of your low-carbohydrate diet. That’s what’s called optimal ketosis.


He also recommends people with Type 1 diabetes to NOT go on low Carb because they are already having a tendancy to Ketoacidosis.... which is different.


deb

 

[dsqard]

Womens body images have been skewed for a long long time.

And it doesn't help that 100% of the images of models on and in magazines are photoshopped. They are all enhanced to one point or another. The Kim Kardashian recent photos were so obviously photoshopped that if you saw her on the street you wouldn't recognize her because she doesn't look like those pictures. Hard to emulate a model that doesn't exist in reality. How many young girls are starving themselves to get "thigh gaps" when most of those are only a figment of the photo editor's imagination? The sad thing is we allow it buy buying those magazines and products that use those kinds of images to sell things.

 

[hennible]

They always reduce the size of Naomi Cambles butt... Not fair... I'm sure her butt is just fine at its real size.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Also, someone who could deliver and stack up a bunch of wood, and hay for her.

And yep, I would pay.

Always handymen posting on Craigslist if that is an option for you.

Quote:

Yep but if you eat it by the refrigerator light there are no calories.....

There are no calories:
Yep Yep Yep

deb

When I was in Switzerland for an extended ski holiday, there was a butter advertised called zero calories.
A Czech friend joked about it. He said, "one bite and you lose weight, two bites and you disappear" - followed by uproarious laughter.

I want to do a sprout box in the pen.....

This is what I made for one pen.

Ladder type frame


1" welded wire.


Base rails a bit longer to rest on bottom rail of chain link.


Plant in things that will grow through depending on season like winter peas, foliage turnips like 7-top, alfalfa, oats, buckwheat, radish, flax, etc.. I keep seeding it through the season.


They can get some fresh greens each morning as they emerge above the wire but they can't kill them by scratching. I still have some space for dustbaths.

Mine too. My favorite white landscape is the Gulf Coast beaches.

I have 2 favorite white landscapes. One warm, one cold. Mexico and Austria.

http://www.solcaribe-mexico.com/







http://www.stantonamarlberg.com/winter






That said, I would have a problem with what's going on in Buffalo, NY right now.

I had a hard time finding kale seeds. I can buy turnips, mustards, and collard seeds locally. I had to buy kale seeds off ebay.

Like other brassicas, it's a cold weather crop so that may be why local places don't carry it but I think it would be a great winter vegetable for you.

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All fats need to be in moderation but we need fat to live and absorb nutrients from vegetables. It also fills us up and causes us to not eat as much. Simple carbs do not fill us up so we keep thin gnawing hunger going.
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In a Paleo diet, fat is a good thing. Carbs are ok as long as they're from seasonal things like fruits and root crops rather than grains.
http://balancedbites.com/2011/08/paleo-diet-carbs.html

Oz, that's the sad part about Finland, there are very few independent butcher shops. Most meat is processed by the big players. And Finns don't shop at specialized stores, they want everything from the super market. The super markets are pretty well equipped, but it's not the same as going to a butcher's....

Butcher shops have become scarce here too. Grocery chains still employ a butcher but just till they're gone through attrition by meat cutter union agreement since everything comes packaged already.

I can personally attest to the benefit of lowering carbs... I stepped on the scale today, and 3 lbs has disappeared again. Totally, I'm down from a max weight of 212 lbs to 179 lbs.

I have to cut back on my primary source of carbs - beer.

I'm not eating anything older than me, period.

world's oldest foods http://mentalfloss.com/article/49610/7-world’s-oldest-food-finds

You may have to do it inside and take it out. My chickens like fermented feed much better than 4 day old sprouts. They will eat it eventually but I was the one disappointed.

My barley fodder last year. They like it when there's nothing else green afoot. Otherwise they prefer sprouts that just have a tail.

... I did get a degree in
Spanish out of it though. My dream was to be the head curator of a big zoo and be the one who home raised the baby tigers when the mother rejected them, (or any other wild babies that came to me.) I went to U>T>, never got to Texas A&M for my vet's degree, did do 3 yrs. toward a bachelors in nursing but never finished due to divorce. In a nut shell; are we still polar opposites?

Speaking Spanish and vet/animal training would have you in high demand at many of the volunteer rescue/breeding/release wildlife sites in Latin America.
I can turn you on to some of them if you PM me.

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up low bandwith people need quality not quantity

cheers

Cheers,
I quote a lot but I try to delete most pictures and anything irrelevant.

Actually - I have no idea how to do the quote in quote thing you guys are doing

I just hit the quote button and only the reply entered ends up in the box

When I use Firefox it automatically puts nested quotes in. When using IE, only the last quote comes up.

Toddler can do scrambled eggs... With some help of course.
I'm hoping I can train them young, then once a week they will cook the family dinner... We shall see.

I started young, cooking the things I liked to eat. I believe the first thing I asked my mother to teach me was French Toast. I had to use a stool to see into the skillet but I was a French Toast eating son of a gun.

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So clearly, I am not a sweet and snugly parent. I am a be good, kind, obedient, or stay outside and don't enter my house and eat my food.

The sleeping inside, and eating and drinking of things that I buy, are only available to children that work happily and cheerfully. That includes eating food that they hate, or is burnt, or whatever. I don't make them clean their plates though. As long as they eat one bite happily, they are welcome to starve until the next meal, when something is offered that they prefer to eat.
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My wife ran the kitchen as though it was a restaurant and prepared whatever the kids asked for. It drove me crazy. I said, why don't we cook dinner and that's what everyone eats.

My daughter an I always squabbled. I finally told her, "You don't have to like me, but you do have to ACT like you like me."

No no I looked vehve and I are in the top ten... I need a more constructive hobby.
(So does vehve)

It seems like every time I go to post in a thread, vehve has just posted there.

I gotta find some eggs to hatch dadgumit! Why is it when you aren't looking EVERYBODY has them. When you want some all you hear is crickets!!

Someone has penedesenca eggs on Ebay for another day or so.

Whats the best way to ship eggs (without reading a million posts)?

I use these.
http://southernfarmhatchery.com/Egg-Shipping-Foam.php

I set 46 eggs tonight.....is that bad?

So bad. I've shut down the incubator till I butcher a bunch of cockerels. Then I'll wait to see how winter progresses.

I am in desperate need for eggs from birds that are white recessive (eWh or ey)
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One would think they would be easy to find and not get stiffed on price.

Many of those breeds are available from breeders here.
http://agriculture.mo.gov/animals/pdf/poultry_yearbook.pdf
Might be a hassle to do double shipping though.

still working on the trying to get grand parent stock

The Coco Red is a lot of generations away

Have you considered crossing with some native stock to get local disease resistance?

I do cheap in most things but I am a bit of a snob when it comes to wines - I prefer "value" wines.

My normal rule is over 90 points, less than $20 but I do have some nice 10-15 year old Bordeaux, Barolo and Shiraz that I bought at a bargain.

I have a small stone walled room under my front porch I was cleaning and tuckpointing to make into a wine cellar complete with a water feature for humidity, hobbit hole style round wooden door, wall sconces and a tasting table.
I was collecting wines every time I had some extra funds. Occasionally, I would splurge on something extra special that was no where mature but much cheaper than it would be when ready. I would buy a case of one or several wines, mostly a couple years after production. Some would be ready in 5 years, others in 20. I had quite a stash and once it was complete, it would have been a great place.
Little did I know that my wife was randomly plucking bottles from the boxes. Rather than buy a "value" bottle for the day's consumption, she absconded with untold numbers of bottles way before their prime.
I once went to the cellar and saw one of the boxes open. I peered in to find only one bottle remaining from a vintage that was only 2 years old and shouldn't be consumed for 15 years to infinity that was $38 a bottle for the immature wine. When I confronted her about it, I asked her how it tasted. She said it was just so-so. I said, I guess not, it wasn't ready for decades.
I put police tape across the room with the sign stating - "These wines are NOT for casual drinking!!!"
I was livid and it really took the wind out of my sails for completing the wine cellar.

 

[vehve]

I like the ones where they accidentally edit out a limb and print it.

 

[vehve]

CC, that sounds horrible, I would be really mad if that happened to me. But around here, wine bottles don't tend to stay untouched for too long. I do have a couple of nice bottles I brought back from Italy, but I don't have the funds (or a suitable storage space) to set up a cellar yet. Maybe when it's time for the dream house...

 

[bamadude]

Cc: glad u are caught up. I like the idea for growing things in the run. And i have never ever been on a diet. Most ladies around here think im the hottest guy in the entire trailer park

 

[vehve]

Bama, you the only guy in the trailer park?

 

[hennible]

Yeah CC that's a great idea for the birds...
No diets either... Honestly Breast feeding has helped me shrink a lot,but that's not really an option for bamadude keg...