It's 10AM and we haven't gone anywhere or done anything. There's supposed to be markets. There's supposed to be yoghurt brewing. There's supposed to be an adventure today.
Maybe I should blog in the afternoon. What say you?
Educational Moment
I like learning new things. And since I'm turning forty-five this year, that means that I'm well beyond Douglas Adams' statement that anything invented after I'm thirty-five is strange and scary. I'm one of those annoying people who act like a new thing should have always been like that.
Just ask Beloved. I'm always unimpressed by their programming of a new thing. No "yes, this is just what I wanted." It's all "why didn't they do this earlier?" Much frustrate. Very wearing.
Read more »Progress?
MeMum asked me about the ins and outs of Keto or LCHF, this morning. For her doctor to read. And I am glad to provide any information about it at all.
Not only am I a writer who does research for fun, but I am also a nerd who loves sciencey things.
I admit. I am neither a doctor nor a dietician, but I have listened to enough of them to get the basic gist of how ketogenics works, and retell that
Read more »How do I deal?
I managed to scare my mother with the threat of science. And when MeMum gets scared, she gets hostile. And since I don't want her to shut me down entirely, I must relent.
I have to maintain the avenues of communication.
I have to be the one making the tough decisions when those decisions are out of MeMum's reach. And that's a possibility that I didn't want to be looming, just yet.
And once Mum's put her foot down about a thing,
Read more »Unexpected Improvements
What I learned to expect from doing a LCHF diet was a general improvement to my health. What I didn't expect was a reversal of ageing indicators. I already mentioned in an earlier blog how my knees have come to function more properly than they have in two decades.
So along with the arthritis reversal, we've also noted: a slowing down and an ebbing of unwanted facial hair, a general improvement in skin conditions, stubble where there once was balding, an increase
Read more »Hidden Toxins
Okay. Now I'm pissed off. Beloved and I, and the mother-in-law, have discovered by complete accident that there's one place they put sugar, and you'd never suspect it at all.
Table salt.
It seems impossible. How can they add sugar to salt, right? You'd notice, wouldn't you. Well. Not so much.
Rewind to yesterday, we were having what we thought of as a nice, keto friendly broth and veg, and everything seemed to be fine. Until Beloved took their blood sugar reading
Read more »New Starts All Over
I bullied my beloved into going for a walk in last evening. Turns out that I'm still tasty to mosquitoes despite my daily dose of vegemite soup with extra salt.
Yes. On LCHF, vegemite soup is not salty enough.
And this morning, we went on our walk before the heat kicked in for the day. Allegedly. The sun was sharp, the walk was hot. We went for the 'figure eight' around both blocks and I managed to keep pace with my love
Read more »It's 2017, time for change
I confess, I fell over sick and Yuletide happened, and the house... went to crap. Waiting for everyone else to get their tail in gear and help remove the mess they made has been an abominable failure.
So the first thing I did this AM was going around the house and emptying all the little litter bins. Now Chaos has one less avenue to be lazy about cleaning the heck up.
New surprise policy for my little darlings: First kid awake gets
Read more »At the closing of the year
It's New Years Eve and I don't have many plans to stay up until midnight. I have little choice as to when my batteries need charging, but when I go down, I go down.
Resolutions
- Work to improve my writing
- Work to improve mine and my Beloved's health
- Do what I can for MeMum
People who make too many resolutions end up keeping none of them, so I keep it to three.
And there's a story in the third one. Those dear
Read more »Moanna and personal white noise
Saw Moanna. It's firkin brilliant. I'm loving that they paid attention to Pacific Island culture in general and lots of the art style too.
Things we can take away from Moanna:
- It's possible to do a movie about POC without getting into semi-racist stereotyping [Looking at you "Please Bring Honour to Us All" in Mulan]
- It's possible to have an animated female heroine who looks more like a real human and less like an alien [Looking at Tangled and all her weird,
International cuisine
Like all wisdom, some of the best food comes from outside of what we know. Beloved is determined to get this family away from western-themed bland monotony and ignorance of spices.
I miss Sweet Mustard Pickles, so Beloved has suggested a Korean version of Sauerkraut as a substitute. This version doesn't use sugar as a part of the pickling process, so I'm down with that.
We have lots of other options from all over the world. Some of which have ingredients that
Read more »Post-Yule
The good news is that I didn't bounce back out of Ketosis, nor did I gain more than I've lost. I'm still in the 84-kilo zone. Just... a little higher up in there.
Our cheese-cup-cakes were an immense success. The strawberry ones were way more delicious than the original flavour. I think we're going to go Genuine Fruit Flavour each time we make these things in future.
So, of course, I have to share the recipe.
Cheesecake the Easy Way
Implements
- Electric
Season's Greetings
It's Christmas Day in my household, and so far, everyone else is asleep. The fridge is overloaded with Feast Fare, including homemade chocolates, cheese-cup-cakes, a lo-carb pizza, and one of Beloved's own creations that I'm calling Salmon Bread in lieu of something better.
It's a sort of low-carb bread kind of deal, but as you can guess, it has loads of salmon in it. And it's tasty as hell. I'm encouraging Beloved to formalize the recipe so I can share it with
Read more »Christmas eve!
We've done all our shopping (I hope!) and got all our things for the glorious morrow.
And as an extra bonus, this Yule happens on a weekend, so I don't need to worry about my novel's word count. And I really don't need to worry about an Instant, either, since it's my day off.
And I especially don't need to worry about the gap between the Instant count and the days of the year... because of all the double prompts I've been
Read more »Quietly dying
The good news is: LCHF isn't killing me. The bad news is that dehydration got in the way first.
Not helped by the Lurgi and the infection it brought along for the ride.
When you're doing Keto, or LCHF, one of the big problems is getting enough liquids into you. The old sugary stuff could go down quick, for sure, but as you may recall, sugars are off the menu.
I don't know why so much liquid is needed... Maybe it's because
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