Ewwwww gross

Pork rinds. Fried pig fat. 0 carbs.

I know, right? Fried pig fat? bleech. That is right up there with pickled slugs.

I have started buying them by the case load.  It is a simple snack item with ZERO carbs and when you crunch them up they are a great replacement for bread crumbs. Bread crumbs that you would add to meat loaf. Bread crumbs that you bread chicken or fish with. I especially like the spicy ones.

Next I am going to try Faux Mashed Potatoes.  Made with Cauliflower *grimace*.  Hope I am as surprise with this as I am was the pork rinds.

Diet Update: So far the hardest part of the Adkins Diet is getting enough carbs from vegetables. I am also finding that the following tidbit is true. I have lost 2 pounds in 2 days.

Interesting tidbit: Carbohydrates make you hungry. Fat and protein actually reduce the total number of calories needed to keep you feeling satisfied. Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, said that studies showed that those who cut down on carbs ate less, but that it was important to remember that “no one was telling them to eat less!” From Judy Barnes Baker's soon to be printed book, Nourished.

I have a plan

I am going to start the Atkins plan.  Starting out with 20 carbs a day.  15 of those being greens.

I went to the doctor today and got a clean bill of health.  He was in intrigued with my no sugar idea of stopping cancer.  He says it has been know for a long time that cancer likes sugar.  That is what makes it so easy to see in a CT scan.

I made a pie

I made a recipe that is in the new cookbook I am working on, Nourished, by Judy Barnes Baker. Okay, I cheated a little. I couldn't find all the ingredients for the crust so I bought a graham cracker crust at the store. I will get there. Give me time. Here is the recipe:


Lemon Icebox Pie


My mother used to make a lemon icebox pie that had just three ingredients plus a graham cracker crust: sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and egg yolks. It seemed like magic when the acid in the lemon juice made the egg yolks set up. Here’s my super-easy version for the time-challenged. You don’t even have to measure anything, just open the containers and combine. You can leave out the lemon zest if that’s too much cooking for you!


Baked Almond Pie Crust, p.XX 
16 ounces (two 8-ounce tubs) whipped cream cheese 
1 eight-ounce container plain, Greek-style yogurt (full fat, if possible), with live cultures
3 packets of Crystal Light® On the Go powdered lemonade mix or the equivalent amount of any sugar-free lemonade mix
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest, optional 


Beat all ingredients together. Pour into cooled Almond Pie Crust, p.XX. Refrigerate until set. Top with sugar-free Whipped Cream, p.XX, if desired.

It was so yummy. Even Stan liked it.  He doesn't know it yet but he is going low carb also - lol.

It works for mice...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673053

Sabotaged

It is my birthday month so I get a free burger at Red Robin.  I was very good and had them put it in a low carb tortilla and didn't get the fries.  I was feeling so virtuous. Then they brought out the hot fudge sundae and told me happy birthday.  Of course I couldn't insult them by not eating it!  That would just be rude.  At least Stan helped me.

Hit on the Head by God

He started whispering to me months ago.  Just little snippets here and there. I was listening. Really. I was just moving in the right direction a little slow, gradual like. Then about two weeks ago I got a call from an author who needed my help. She wanted to sit with me and work through her book page by page. WHAT? Are you kidding me? I don‘t have time for this!

Well, as it turned out all my other projects were coming to an end and there was nothing new on the horizon. So I said ok. 

Now for the boring background stuff. As many of you know I have had cancer 3 times. The cancer wasn’t all that bad. As tumors go they have been well behaved. Staying where they do minimal damage. But the Chemo is the pits. I HATE losing my hair. Pain – nothing I couldn’t handle (by handle I mean take a pill and sleep through it). But losing my hair each time was so demoralizing. It was like screaming to the world “Look at me. I have cancer.” When all I really wanted to do was just get through it without fuss or muss.  From the very beginning I had turned it over to God. “It is in your hands.” I said, “If I die, I die. If I live, I live. Your timing is perfect and it is not for me to question.”  Well, I haven’t died yet.  God provided perfect timing and the right people at the right time to take care of me.

Now, from several, no, many, different sources I am hearing sugar is the cause for cancer. I even happen to turn to a news program about the savvy internet patient -- “If you start to see the same thing from several sources there may be something to it: So, I say “Hmmmm, sugar? Give up sugar? Naaahhhh.”

Enter author: Judy Barnes Baker.  Her first book – Carb Wars, Sugar is the New Fat – I only did a little work on in 2007. She called me, out of the blue, needing my help.  Her publisher doesn’t want to make any more changes to her book. She thinks he doesn’t want to spend any more money on it. But she wants it to be right so, on her own dime, she would like to sit with me and go over all the things she wants changed. I never, I mean NEVER sit with an author breathing down my neck. But I have always been an admirer of Judy’s, so, I said I would do what I could.  Judy is like the information freak on nutrition. Her new book started out being sponsored by the Diabetic Assoc as a way for diabetics to eat healthy so that they could get off the meds and live normal lives. It turned into so much more. Every day we are together she spouts so much information I am dizzy by the time she leaves.

God has gotten tired of my putzing and hit me over the head.  God’s timing is perfect. Mine is not.

Blog? Why not.

Everybody is doing it right?  Charlie, my little brother, does it (amazing blogs, I always look forward to reading them). Traci is going to Nicaragua and she has started a blog. (As she should. It is going to be an amazing trip.) So, here I am, jumping into the fray. Hope you enjoy the journey.