AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

So, got some keto cookery done. The soft-shell tacos turned out well. I used an Old El Paso spice packet and followed the instructions printed on the back. The spice mix has about four carbs per serving. I found the tortillas in the Mexican section of a local grocery store; they’re some kind of low-carb flour, and according to the package have four carbs each. Throw in a guesstimate for the tomato, 19 or 20 carbs for the meal. (breakfast and lunch were zero-carb)

Yesterday I fixed chicken and broccoli using a recipe I got off the web. I cut up the chicken and broccoli and put them in the pan, then worked on the sauce while it was cooking. The sauce called for coconut aminos, water, garlic, ginger, Stevia, and xanthan gum. I left the Stevia out, mixed the dry ingredients, and poured the aminos and water in. Xanthan gum is used as a thickener, and a few minutes later I had a bowl of jello with xanthan lumps in it. I tried mashing the lumps out, then finally gave up, threw the mess out, and made up a new batch without any xanthan gum. It was runny like water.

The chicken didn’t seem to be done at the 5 minutes called for by the recipe, so I cooked it some more. At 10 minutes I called my wife over to take a look. She said it didn’t look done. I cooked it another few minutes, what the hell. Maybe the electric frying pan is about to go kaput. I tossed the sauce in and let it cook another three minutes. The coconut aminos smelled *bad* as the stuff warmed up; I didn’t have much hope for the result. However, it all tasted OK when we ate.

Next time I’ll put the chicken in by itself and turn the heat up a bit higher to mostly cook it before adding the broccoli. As for the sauce… I think I’ll cut the coconut aminos in half for the next batch. It’s not Kikkoman soy sauce, and it’s not bad… but it was a bit intense. Most of the sauce stayed in the serving bowl, so I need to find the secret of non-clumping xanthan. Going by the how thick the sauce was and all the pea-sized clumps, I suspect the recipe was in error; next time I’ll try 1/4 or less than what the recipe called for.

I’ve been eating salads (keto oil+vinegar) for a while. I had planned on at least one a day as a full meal. Unfortunately, that won’t work; more than a few days in a row and I get the shits. I found that lettuce affects some people that way. Salads had been a very occasional thing before, so I’d never run into it. I can safely eat them for three days in a row, then a skip a couple of days. I’m also going to mix up a new batch of dressing at 25/75 oil and vinegar instead of the usual 50/50, just in case it’s the oil that’s the problem.

Went grocery shopping by myself last night. I’d never realized how almost every packaged foodstuff on the shelf has sugar or wheat added to it. I saw some pre-cooked, frozen unbreaded “roasted” chicken strips in the freezer section. Looked like something that might be microwaveable as a snack. Looked at the package… apparently they were marinated and then glazed in sugar from the carb count. Which would have been zero otherwise. I put them back.

I’ve been keeping the carb count down to 5 to 16 per day so far, though it has only been nine days. I’m not planning on any “cheat days”; since it takes about three days to get back into ketosis, it looks like a bad idea.

You can get back into ketosis within hours. It might be worth considering a CGM. It’s quite boring when you’re in ketosis but it would allow you to figure out the area under the curve when you are burning carbs.

How does that work? The web returns “2 to 4 days” in most cases, “2 to 7”, and even “2 to 10 days”.

The only hits I get for CGM are for glucose monitors.

Delete, already had it

Memento’s description of the carnivore diet, plus the following page:

Pandemic of the Vaccinated now (p. 2)

Dropped here so I don’t have to find it again.

I dont think I see this thread before, but this is a very large topic. Body shape goes hand in hand with health. usually obesity or overweight is a sign of poor health, which has its foundation on poor nutritional habits.

Basically a healthy lifestyle consists in stopping eating the bad things, and putting in the good missing things. As you have seen, most of our food supply is poison. Is biohazard garbage full of sugar, salt, and chemicals. Stick to raw foods, and always whenever possible, organic, non gmo certified. It does make a big difference. Raw foods include chicken, meat, eggs, fish, seafood, veggies, fruits, rice, potatoes, etc. Basically, nothing processes. Nothing that comes in boxes, or frozen, or bagged, or ready to cook, etc.

Heres an excellent video of the things humans are supposed to avoid at all costs putting in their bodies:

> biohazard garbage

I was eating what they now call the “Standard American Diet.” What they taught with the “food pyramid” in school. Which in practice mostly came down to sugar, wheat, and additives.

I didn’t know any better and never thought to question it. But like with so many other subjects, the depth of the deceit is deep.

There is a very simple and logic explanation for that “wrong” Standard American Diet. The reason is: It comes from MD directed allopathic medicine. A doctor, any specialty, no matter if its a cardiologist, psychiatrist, oncologist, it doesn’t matter, any of them, have only one semester of nutrition in medical school. They have ZERO nutritional science study and practice. Why? Because is not their field. An MD is trained for Allopathic reductionism. Trauma in other words. To repair what breaks. Thats it. We have wrongly been trained over generations to believe that an MD is the holy master of all medicine and are there as the only ones to save us when shit hits the fan. Thats the problem.

The correct specialist for Nutritional science, chronic symptoms, chronic diseases, how to manage, reverse and cure disease, is the Naturopathic Doctor ND who goes to Naturopathic school for 4 years and is certified and licensed to practice in some 32 states in the USA.

Nutritionist, doesnt work. “functional medicine”, doesnt work. Shaman, doesnt work. Naturopathic Doctor is the expert in science of nutrition.

P.S.: Stay away from the standard American diet lol.

In my opinion the food pyramid lacks any real evidence. It is just following what is nutrition for thousands of years in ‘civilized’ cultures. Carbs can be grown in large quantities, many things can be prepared from them and they feed you - that’s all. Be it wheat, rice or corn, all old civilizations fed their dense population that way. As for so called ‘uncivilized’ cultures who live on hunting and gathering or who are nomadic, their diet is very different. It may seem lacking variety, but some of that guys are really healthy!

I personally believe that as we are all individuals, thus are our organisms. You can not conclude that something that works for somebody, works for everyone. Personally for me keto was a revelation. I had the feeling that for the first time in my life my organism works as it should. This feeling is not placebo-effect induced, since my only expectation towards keto was to loose weight. What it did in the end to me was totally out of the blue.

I know from close friends and family, that keto, too, is not a panacea, it doesn’t work for everybody. But it is worth a try.

My appeal to everybody concerning nutrition is: stay away from processed food, eat only as much as necessary, don’t use food as a reward or happy-maker, don’t believe in ‘standards’, listen to your body!

It not only lacks any real evidence, but one of the guys who was on the original study finally confessed as to how they took money from ag corps to tweak the results. And apparently nobody ever made a validation study; it was accepted at face value and so became dogma.

Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories” goes into tedious detail about how medical and nutritional studies are done, interpreted, and presented.

Saw recently a documentary about cholesterol - it’s just as bad!!!

In the 1990s, my bone-pressed shaft length was 5-3/4”.

In June I measured a non-bone-pressed 5-7/8”; I couldn’t get a bone-pressed measurement due to the thickness of the fat pad. This was after 11 months of very low pressure (1-3” Hg) pumping and a few months with a vacuum bell and 1-1/2 pounds of weight.

About a month ago I stepped up the pumping to 5” of vacuum and started using a vacuum extender. Yesterday I measured 6-1/2” with about a 75% erection, still non-bone-pressed.

That’s 3/4 of an inch more than my 1990s measurement. Same ruler; it has an L-shaped piece of aluminum and a binder clip; I slide it down until it touches my glans.

I’d do the happy dance if my knees were in better shape.

Nice gains. Have you though of adding your stats here? It means everywhere you go on the forum, people can click and find that out.

I had planned to, but the stat page has mandatory fields (BPEL is one) that I have no answer for, and it won’t allow me to continue otherwise.

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