Flyer's diary

i've never cooked a brisket before, but i've got 12 lbs in the oven today...

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well, maybe a few lbs less... i did lean it up some. sounded like a great deal, but i had no idea a whole brisket was that much meat... lol. found a good Texas style rub/ recipe online. after 4-5 hours to cook, it's going to yield a ton of meals and the freezer is certainly going to be packed for a while.

i'm sure i've seen this before, but good to know info...

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i've got to get a webcam on my birdbath.
right now there are 9 of these guys grouped around it...

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for those interested... it's a $1.49 bucket lid from Home Depot.
after years of study, i've found it makes a near-perfect shallow "tub".
 
after staying up until 3am to make sure the Georgia senate race was decided, i wandered just now over to the market to pick up some bubbly and come back to the Trump thugs breaching the Capitol Building... unbelievable ... the congress has to meet and impeach Trump today. no way that violence provoking idiot should hold federal office again.

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We're definitely living in interesting times and it's starting to feel like the old Chinese were right about that being a curse.
 
I have been catching up on the news, Flyer. It is just awful. He keeps inciting people while saying go home in peace. We always felt something like this might happen. This man is so dangerous.
 
10 months almost to the day.
glad i decided to get a little numb.
it made the sight of the Capitol siege a bit easier to take.

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pretty sure i had a chicken enchilada, too... maybe an 800 calorie day?
not sure i'd want to do this very often, though.
 
The news was absolutely horrifying. We half expected something terrible, but I was still really shocked. I can't believe that Trump hasn't been locked up for inciting such violence. I still can't believe how anyone could vote for him. *sigh*
 
I talk to people who are willing to vote for sadistic cruelty every day. They feel like life isn't as good to them as they think they deserve - or are even just mad that other people get a little bit as well. As if all of life is a zero sum game - in which someone else's happiness necessarily takes away from your own - rather than a pie that gets bigger the more we cooperate, show kindness, and share.
It must be such a sad and scary life. I'd be more inclined to feel sorry for them if they weren't so dangerous and destructive though.
 
this crap has got to stop...
the U.S. is being inundated with "news" stations reporting rants like this Texas redumblican congressman...

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claiming ANTIFA... not Trump redhat minions... were responsible for the attack on the Capitol building.
this is what Trump's supports glue their eyes to 24/7.
try to tell them differently and YOU are the liar.

over 70 arrests of known radical right wing activists, Q-anon & white supremacists have already been made.
absolutely no reporting of that.

even when Trump gets thrown out of the WH in 2 weeks, we'll still have to deal with a**holes like this.
 
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that does look like a tooth...lol.
this is surprising... i really haven't been watching my diet too closely... i know i've had a few 12/12 days this past week or two and i was sure i'd downed too many bagels recently.

street clothes (minus shoes)...
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condo clothes...
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You're normally in the 160s, right? I don't know what style of dress you normally weigh in but I'm guessing you're slightly up?
 
i'd like to be seeing 165, but for months now i've been hovering around 168. condo clothes are my usual weigh-in garb... sweat pants, t shirt, sox. street clothes are jeans, an over-shirt today, my hat and mask and pockets loaded. i like to keep my dr. office visits at 170 or below (closer to 173 today since that would also include shoes), so i really do need to get back on track a little.

when i push my days to 12/12, that last meal has recently been a boredom meal and i have to say it was pretty easy with the huge brisket i cooked up last week. any other year i would go out or do something constructive. isolation is wearing on me, but having gone this far, i don't want to do something dumb and be one of the last people who get a bad case of the virus.
 
Definitely stay careful out there. It's good that you can catch even small weight increases ealry so they don't turn problematic.
 
i've been trying to think back to when i was ~40 and lost a similar amount of weight. what made that eventually fail was my reliance on massive exercise to keep my eating and drinking in check. i knew very little about nutrition then, too. i remember thinking that "if you eat fat, you'll probably get fat"... "carbohydrates give you energy" ... etc. i wish i had the knowledge i have now, 40 years ago.

just a few hours ago i thought about the "light" breakfast i used to think was ok to do. i could have toasted a bagel and had it along with the cup of tea i brewed. but i know now what that would do. it's only ~250 calories. if i were on a restricted calorie diet, it would have been a good portion to have for breakfast. but now that i didn't have that small meal and my last calories were about 7pm yesterday, in an hour or so my body will be out of the easy to get at calories, i will be forced into ketosis and start burning fat... the only calories my body has to use.

my evil twin who might have had that bagel?... getting those calories will trigger an insulin reaction to moderate my blood sugar. those calories will be used for a few hours and getting at any fat to burn will be postponed. the second thing that will happen? in a few hours, the insulin drop will trigger a hunger episode. under a calorie restrictive diet, this will go on all day. merely restricting calories over 12-16 hour day of eating small meals, you will only be able to get to fat with increased exercise, ... for the hour or two you exercise. what's worse is that in the long term, if your diet is simply calorie restrictive, your body will react by slowly lowering your basal metabolism to adapt to that diet.

my increased knowledge about nutrition helps a lot psychologically and i believe my intermittent fasting routine has helped physiologically. i know the benefit of not giving in to a hunger episode.


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overlandflyer said:
what made that eventually fail was my reliance on massive exercise to keep my eating and drinking in check.
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For me it´s almost the reverse: I need to eat a lot in order to be able to do the amount of exercise that makes me feel good. No desire to make up the difference with alcohol though :p No idea how I´d manage my mental health if I ever lost my ability to work out and walk.
 
belt update... the 4th hole used to be a stretch some days... not anymore.

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still in the mid 160's, but the gut is still slowly receding.
 
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