Flyer's diary

lol... well as predicted, about 5 hours and at least a dozen hand washings after touching that pepper (i made sure it was just a few fingers of my left hand), as soon as a touched the corner of my eye, i realized what i was doing and about 10 seconds later, it hit.... all i can say is that i was glad i wasn't driving. it probably wasn't that much more intense than any other pepper, but it did last a good 20 minutes before i could open my eye for any length of time.. i'm definitely picking up some plastic gloves if i'm going to touch the insides of another one of these peppers again.
 
i didn't plan on yesterday being an OMAD day, but it essentially turned out that way. the bar down the street is a Packers hangout and the owners put out a pretty substantial buffet for the games. about a dozen meatballs and a few plates of chips later, i walked home sometime in the middle of the afternoon game (gotta love west coast sports times! ... 10am/ 1pm is a much better schedule than 1/4pm the easterners need to put up with).... and immediately fell asleep for the next 12 hours...!

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something i almost ran into this morning watering the plants.... amazing how much work these guys put in over a single evening.... i really hate to take them down... you can barely see the little (BIG) guy, top dead-center...

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does this happen to anyone else shopping? i see one nearly every time i'm out. usually an older gentleman... and they seem lost. a few days ago i spotted one ... cart still empty, looking over packages of mac & cheese. so many times i want to say something.

maybe supermarkets should have some help wandering the aisles and offering advice. for the most part, i don't see much of a weight problem with these shoppers... sometimes even the opposite is true. school may teach a lot of things, but learning how to live (101) should at least be offered as an elective.

luckily i grew up with a mom who cooked practically every childhood meal we ate.... and i used to pay attention. i can't blame my dad much as he wasn't a sit-around-the-house guy. when he wasn't out working, he was home with his garden or in the basement working on one of his "i can make that" projects. ... but when my mom passed first, i remember him asking me how to make iced tea. he must have quaffed mega-gallons in the years i knew him, but never mastered the concept of putting tea bags into boiling water, not pouring boiling water over tea bags.
 
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overlandflyer said:
i apologize, but i can't help but stress how much this guy opened up my eyes to why traditional dieting/ exercise, while it may work for a while, and even in rare situations could be sustainable... usually fails.

Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem

if nothing else... i have heard from multiple sources, including the coach my nephew has for his running (he is a world class marathon runner), that refraining from eating for even 12 hours/ day will have a very positive effect on your general health. Chris easily tops 3500 calories/ day, but lets his digestive system recover at least 1/2 of every day.

following a schedule like this, i have not only blown past my original goal by 15 lbs, but more importantly, have maintained it for well over 6 months now.
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flyer, I saw the above on Matt's thread. With IF, do you eat on average more calories than someone would if they were following a “calorie-reduced diet” without the fasting? He doesn't really present any evidence or research specific to what he's claiming. He's a doctor and Asian so maybe I should believe him? j/k. I'm referring to a recent Andrew Yang quote btw for a laugh only, "I am Asian so I know a lot of doctors".
 
overlandflyer said:
an older gentleman... and they seem lost. a few days ago i spotted one ... cart still empty, looking over packages of mac & cheese. so many times i want to say something.
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Sometimes I think I am one good wife away from being that guy. I have not done any serious grocery shopping in many years, I do buy specialty stuff I like or for get togethers, but not the staples.
 
good timing... this wasn't a typical day, but i have very few typical days. i decided to document my meals today...

breakfast wasn't until 4:30pm ... very late, but i was doing a bunch of little chores and one thing led to another and all of a sudden it was late afternoon and i was getting hungry.... i get little hunger pangs during the day... maybe two or three times before i finally have breakfast, but by late afternoon it feels a little different. i either eat or i fast for the day.... i prefer the 1st option...

somewhere i mentioned i bought a bunch of chicken on sale and roasted 8 breasts yesterday... lots of chicken on hand...

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yes.... a bagel/ chicken sandwich and .... *sob* probably the last of the summer corn on the cob. a month ago it was 4/$1... it hit a low of 8/$1... but the other day, the few remaining were 79 cents each. ...still tasted great. this was breakfast at 4:30pm today.

so i then had to decide... eat until 10pm or later, or squeeze another meal in before 7 and call it a day. around 6pm i whipped up a snack/ dessert...

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a Bartlett pear, a Gala apple and some snack food... sesame sticks, soy nuts and a few raspberry chocolate covered almonds. i was going to avoid snack food for awhile, but last shopping trip i saw the writing on the wall,... literally. the choco-almonds were on closeout sale... *drat*.

the snack part was probably ~250 calories... don't know what an apple or pear go for.

about 7pm i had to do some PM cooking (Preventive Maintenance)... mushrooms i bought the other day had to be used, so i first threw in some diced up chicken (of course) and sauteed the mushrooms on top of that...

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quite a bit... i ate about a third and the rest will give me a start on something tomorrow... maybe throw in an egg and make a frittata -ish sort of dish. maybe just cook up some rice to go with it. i can see a lot of possibilities.

calories for the day? ...who knows.
 
bensanon said:
flyer, I saw the above on Matt's thread. With IF, do you eat on average more calories than someone would if they were following a “calorie-reduced diet” without the fasting? He doesn't really present any evidence or research specific to what he's claiming. He's a doctor and Asian so maybe I should believe him? j/k. I'm referring to a recent Andrew Yang quote btw for a laugh only, "I am Asian so I know a lot of doctors".
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as you can see, i don't really count calories, but i do TRY to follow two guidelines... keep sugar/ added sugar VERY low and try to keep carbs low, but not really to Keto levels... sometimes.

today, the only thing with added sugar was the very small amount of chocolate. not an insignificant amount of natural sugar, but i usually don't have more than one piece of fruit... with the reduced time eating window today, i didn't think it would be a bad idea.

i don't think i eat a reduced calorie diet, but i must admit, it's sometimes difficult to eat that much for me even in a 6-8 hour eating window.

i also have to stress, with intermittent fasting, WHAT you eat is much less important than WHEN you eat. if i spread out the same calories i eat inside a normal 6-8 hour eating window day over 12-14 hours instead (the "eat a lot of small meals all day" diet), my results would be MUCH different.
 
some of the last peppers of the year, but a mystery i don't think i will solve...

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the roundish central pepper, by process of elimination from the plants i bought, must be a Habanero. it's got that general shape and i have a feeling if i leave the rest on the plant a while... they will probably turn orange and form that wrinkled look.

the two at the top are the mystery. they certainly look like little tomatoes... not cherry tomatoes... like a normal really big tomato, but much smaller... they certainly are peppers, though.

three more ghosties... i'll probably wind up with ~20 more... what to do with all that heat... still don't know.
 
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....He doesn't really present any evidence or research specific to what he's claiming.....
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i have watched that video a number of times. the charts he puts up, most of the time ... well, to me when i first watched it... don't make any sense right off, but if you study them, you can see the points he is making and how those facts back up his words.

the bottom line with me, IS me... i have this documented somewhere, but it's worth repeating. i was trying to break past 210 for a few years. i kept rebounding off that weight, though... 210 ... 215... 210 ... 217.... 212 .... 220. i went through this cycle for months. then i started this diet. i was shooting for 190. i'm now at 170 and holding. i'm not taking any magic pill or drinking detox tea. i'm eating better... avoiding some foods completely that used to be staples for me (milk, yogurt for two), cutting sugar to bare minimums. i don't do any exercise besides walking. other than intermittent fasting, i have no other explanation how this happened.

i have only noticed one faux-pas in his lecture... when he is talking about the single "sink full of calories" model... he mixes up the output phrase, but it's an easy error to pick up. it helps to do some side reading on a few terms... insulin is the one hormone you need to understand when it comes to why IF works.

once you watch the J. Fung video, look around... there are half a dozen other doctors and nutritionists who talk about similar things. more than a few, not even Asian. ... :)
 
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the incredible, amazing Google comes through again... search for... "peppers that look like tomatoes" ... first return...

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Pimento Pepper
100 – 500 Scoville heat units

Pimento peppers have a lovely tomato-like round shape and their heat, actually, is closer to zero than it is a jalapeño pepper. Only the most minuscule spiciness is present – barely a simmer. But the overall flavor is just delicious – a sweet, succulent taste that makes the pimento a nice bell pepper substitute for foodies looking for something different.

these are exactly how they appeared on the vine and the SHU number sounds right. i tried a bit and it was pretty mild. i suppose my confusion came about because of the 9 peppers mentioned on the nursery tags, the Pimento Pepper wasn't even listed. oops...? i wish i had more of these now. they taste great and are really "meaty" peppers. i'm guessing these are the peppers used for Pimentos? i'm not a big olive fan.

saving seeds from all of these and will try out growing in bigger pots next spring.
 
this was a surprise... the other day i claimed "out the door" clothes weight from now on ... but i don't think i mentioned i was wearing shorts. today it was jeans... pockets full (not a ridiculous amount of change)...

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this is going to be a tough day to reckon... it's 4pm... i haven't eaten today... i already walked ~4 miles.... i had a few beers.... but i'm not hungry. i could still salvage the day... i have ~4 hours max left in an eating window today. it will be simple to whip up a chicken sandwich in a while.
 
well, as attractive as the 4-pint diet appears to be on the surface, i'm not convinced of its long term effectiveness...

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a part to fix one of my bathroom fixtures arrived yesterday... this should be a more normal day... whatever they are.
 
lol... driving somewhere to drink doesn't even enter my mind these days. if i do eat out somewhere i have to drive to, i have a strict 2-pint limit. btw... there hasn't been a cold beer in my fridge in years... maybe decades. i don't drink alcohol at home. give me a Mon-Thur NYT x-word puzzle with an ocean view and it's a whole other ballgame. ... too bad the Padres suck this (and other) years.
 
started off today's eating window at 12:30.... back to a better schedule. have to keep at that chicken, so another boring chicken sandwich for breakfast. at 2:30 i got a little more imaginative. cut up some of my peppers, sliced up an onion and threw in the chicken and mushrooms left over from the other day...

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plated out about half the skillet (my dependable, new, 10" cast iron) and ... yum...!

this may be one of the longest lasting leftovers i've ever tried to finish.

still have some apples and pears, so i'll probably end my eating window day in a few hours with some fruit and a little cheese. if i'm really hungry (doubtful), i may break out these leftovers and make a small frittata.
 
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to wind up the day... no pears, only an apple. cheese is the last of the veggie cream cheese with a ghost pepper mixed in... interesting combination with the cool apple... a lot better than i thought it would be. added a side of snackie stuff... not much.

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riddle... how is a poker hand like my downstairs bathroom as of an hour ago?
hint...

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learning some simple plumbing by watching my dad and his friends who came over to "help" has probably saved me a lot of money over the years. i was just thinking about how the word fixture actually starts with the word fix...!
 
A flush?

I learned most of my plumbing skills from my father-in-law. My wife likes to point out the thing I learned best from him was lots of swearing while struggling with the pipes.
 
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