Ok, let’s get this outta the way mui pronto! My attempt at an egg-fest a la Jimmy Moore was a complete failure, haha. I don’t know how that guy managed to eat only eggs, butter, and cheese for a month. I was only trying for five days, and I just couldn’t hack it. I did eat only eggs for the first two days, and over the five day period, I ate a lot more eggs than I normally would… but all eggs all day all the time? I’m throwing in the towel on that idea.
Why? Well first off, my wife complained about my breath. Smelled fine to me, but she wasn’t happy about it. She complained a lot. I’m willing to try some crazy shit in the name of nutritional experimentation, but if it’s upending my happy hearth and home, well, you know, forget it. There was a joint in New York City called Lucy’s a while back that had a motto inscribed somewhere behind the bar that I’ve always agreed with: “Keep the chicks happy.” Yes indeed.
There was also the issue of severe temptation in the form of very nice weather, neighbors wanting to do a cookout in our common courtyard, free flowing beer and spirits, etc. etc. You get the picture. I stumbled. I fell. I had a good time. I blew my egg fest diet. Oh well.
There’s also my sneaking suspicion that it wasn’t doing anything special for me, above and beyond what a normal low carb diet does. I wasn’t losing any faster, I felt about the same.
Anyway, I did stick to a mostly low carb, meat and eggs style diet that week, and I have managed to get weight back down to 192 as of this morning (wrote this a few weeks ago). And sometime soon I’m gonna stiffen my resolve and find a way to get rid of the extra 15 pounds or so that I would like to lose so that I’ll look good in a wetsuit, haha, not to mention, shirtless on the beach.
But that is for another post on another day. Sometime soon, I hope.
Now that that’s outta the way, let’s get to the Nutrition and Metabolism Society meeting. I really enjoyed it, although there was an awful lot of science talk that went straight over my head. And I wondered why in the word I was spending my precious Saturday in a cramped little room that reminded me of being in school. Yuk.
But it was nice, really great, actually, to find myself surrounded by real live people who actually agree with me about my diet. Of all the actual flesh and blood folks that I know and see in person in my every day life, I can count the ones who don’t think my diet is completely crazy on one, no, no, actually, on no hands. As in zero. EVERYONE I know thinks my diet is wrong and crazy and I am gonna die of heart attack any minute now. If I ever try to convince them otherwise I am accused of being a zealot, a cult member, and worse.
I feel like, in their eyes, I’m Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. Only I know that those windmills really are giants. They are real. And very dangerous. They are all the official nutrition advice givers, like the ADA, AHA, etc., who have bought into the lipid hypothesis hook, line, and sinker, and who refuse to acknowledge that a low carb diet is heathy and superior to their pro-grains, low fat advice. In spite of the growing mountain of evidence to the contrary.
And here I was, in a room full of Don Quixotes. Many of whom have written books on the subject. Many of whom have published top-notch research on the subject. It was a nice feeling to spend a few hours amongst these folks.
It was particularly nice to listen to Dr. Richard K Bernstein talk about his life. I’ve heard the story before, but it was very interesting to hear him tell it in person: discovered he had diabetes when he was 12, Type 1. As an adult, he bought a blood glucose monitoring device back when such a thing cost 600 bucks and wasn’t really available to the public (It was only available to doctors, he got it through his doctor wife). Discovered, on his own, which foods jacked up his blood sugar. Discovered, on his own, that a very low carb diet was the only diet that kept his blood sugars under control. Discovered, on his own, that blood glucose monitoring was the only way to manage diabetes. Couldn’t convince the authorities of the same. (In fact, you still can’t. They are still giving out horrendous advice. The giant windmills still roam the countryside.) In his forties, went to medical school just so that he could get more people to listen to him. Published his books, etc. etc.
Here’s a couple of fuzzy cell phone pics of Dr. Bernstein, a very healthy guy in his seventies, he looks fantastic considering he’s been a Type 1 diabetic for his entire life.
It was also nice to meet Jimmy Moore – who, of course, is exactly that guy you see in his videos and hear in his podcasts. He’s no phony! Here he is:
Here’s a few more pics I managed to snap, enjoy!
This is Richard Feinman, the founder of the Nutrition and Metabolism Society.
Here’s Eugene, the only low carb blogger who posts less often than me. He apparently wants to hurt me. (Actually, Eugene is a trainer at Serious Strength, and was my first trainer there when I started about 3 plus years ago.)
That’s Fred Hahn, owner of Serious Strength, and author of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution and Strong Kids Healthy Kids.
