One Great Piece of Advice You Need To Heed

Sugar is what is killing us. Not carbohydrates. Everything in moderation, except when you can get to very low sugar you will feel way better. I sure do. Rarely crave it at all anymore.

 

Sometimes I have dark thoughts about our foods.

It's fortunate that I have a large amount of experience hauling the stuff and understand for example where that Jar of Mt Olives Pickles came from because Ive delivered to and picked up from those exact same products with the added bonus of being able to walk the production line to learn what I can using my eyes.

It's almost I have to go to either the west, carolina, West Virginia (Jane Lew comes to mind..) or into the Dutch country to get non chain store foods usually produced on site or locally. Eating is very good at this point.

My diet is pretty bare at times, but I do supplement it with a form of Dad's Stew in which I learned in Alaska once.

Grab a pound or two of Ground Sirlion lean 93% 7% fat content more or less.

Fry it in grill spray that is of good quality until it starts to cook well. Use worchester sauce around the pan and meat and continue frying until it's well done (To your taste. It has to be well done for food safety, but if you want blood rare, go for it but I will not gaurantee the final product)

Obviously you will be chopping the ground beef as you cook ending up with a variety of sizes from tasty larger pieces down to what I call crumbs. And everything in between.

Grab Potatoes, a 5 pound bag. Start chopping and peeling until you have a hat ful of cut potatoes however you like it.

Put the meat into the bottom of a VERY BIG crockpot. I cannot emphasize the important of the size. I think they call the one we have a 5 quart one which is humongous.

Place the Potatoes around and over the meat.

Pour Beef Broth until the level of liquid covers the potatoes and meat. (You should have quite a bit of freeboard left (Meaning more than half empty on that big pot...) hold the rest set aside.

Diced tomatos, larger can from Delmonte. Toss that in. Put in a bit of oregeneo.

Slice 5 individual jalapeneo Peppers, toss those in making sure there is some distance between them. Again we use the Mt Olives brand...

Add some more beef broth to raise slightly everything in the pot so far. Not too much, you will be adding more.

Drain the corn's fluid out of the can. (Yellow sweet is recommended) or grab corn stalks and start shucking and slicing until you have a plate of corn toss into pot. Add more beef broth.

Chop onions. All the way down. Toss into crock pot.

Carrots, toss a can minus fluids into that pot.

Add beef broth but not anymore. You should be 3/4 of a way up and approaching your final goal of pre-cooked clearance of about 1 inch from the rim where the lid is.

Toss in pepper and salt to taste, omit one or both if that is your fancy.

Go get a pint can of Pompeii Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Toss quite a bit of that into the pot, pouring everywhere. You should see the oil have a oppertunity to cover most everything in that pot. Then stop pouring. Ideally it should be individual bubbles following your pour as you do it in a spiral manner from outside in to center. Don't let it gurgle. Just a straight pour.

Celery, chop that down to about 1/4 to 1/2 inches thick. Toss into the crock pot. Try for a layer of the stuff. But like the Onions not too much. (Not that it really matters when everything gets hot and begins to get stirred)

I pour worcheshire sauce from the brown and silver wrapped bottle on hand when first cooking the potatoes.

Finally grab a bottle of McCormick steak flavoring that suits according to the region of the USA you are in and add that stuff to the top of everything.

Put the lid on, crock it on high for 4 hours. Remember that if you stopped filling that thing about a inch to a minimum of 3/4 inches from the lid, the heat expansion of the cooking at high will not overflow the pot. You will require a insulating block to protect your counter top and a cookie tray under that pot to protect everything including yourself and your children should there be nothing hanging over the edge of the counter.

Also... you might discover a regional food flavoring or add on that you choose for your family taste that goes with ground beef and potatoes.

When everything has been cooking with a attitude a hour or two, add the spouse And teach her how to shut off the crockpot. If you are running a large dutch oven on coal, charcoal and or wood, allow the fire to bank itself.

This is a basic recipie. Consisting assembling the food according to your family's tastes and so on. Just keep in mind layering is pretty important. You will understand why as the food cooking process becomes apparent.,zen

Good luck to you and Good luck!

 

I quit smoking 2 years ago and now have perfect blood pressure.
I've never liked soda or fast food and avoid it more than ever now .
I'm no health nut and love my beer and steak .
Had a complete physical done recently and all is well ...started eating salads and really watching what I eat and losing weight now..

 

My opinion is people are better off removing sugar from their diet than switching to non-sugar/artificial sweeteners. I say that because switching to other sweeteners keeps feeding your internal demand for the sweet stuff. Slowly or rapidly cutting the sugar you consume in your normal pattern is shocking to taste for about a week or two and then slowly you become used to it. To aid your transition to low-sugar life don't spend time EVERY time you taste the low-sugar drinks/food remembering "the good old days" when you were consuming high-sugar items.

Try to see food as nothing but fuel for your body. Stop seeing it as comfort, happiness, love, etc. And try eating just a little bit less for your meals than you normally do. I'm not saying your breakfast is a little less, lunch less than breakfast, and dinner less than lunch. I mean if you normally eat a particular meal for breakfast, start eating that same breakfast but don't eat all of it. Stay at that level for a week or month and then cut it back again. I noticed I was getting into a habit of eating more and more over time.

You don't have to be Thanksgiving Day full after every meal. You should stop trying to get high score at each meal. You will not starve to death if you stop with your regular meals and eat ONLY 2 McD small cheeseburgers in a day. After 2 days of severely restricted food you will occasionally remember you are hungry but you won't have the gnawing constant hunger like on the first day or two. Stay busy, drink water, don't think about food.

 

Cutting back the sugar by as much as possible helps a lot with eating less as a whole. You don't have the sugar highs and lows all day, where when you go into a low you feel hungry and you eat again then you have a sugar high. You can still eat cheeseburgers and pizza. Just eat less and cut out the regular pop and any of the candy bars or chips. Takes a while, but soon enough you can reduce to 3 meals a day consisting of say cereal with milk in the morning, or oatmeal if you prefer, 1 slice of pizza for lunch or 1 burger, and for dinner same thing again. If you have a fridge you can make your own sandwiches which is very cost effective and is a way healthier option. Just avoiding the mindset of buy 1 get the 2nd one for $1 or whatever deal it is will cut the calories in half. Yes it is a deal to get the 2nd one for less than you paid for the first one but do you need the 2nd one? Most times the answer is no. I eat subway quite a bit and only ever get 6" subs, I used to not see the point because you pay about 70% of what a foot long costs. I am saving money and do not feel hungry. If you are team drivers or if you have someone to share with it works even better for you, just share a whole sub or 2 slices or whatever greasy food deal that so many of us are easily talked into buying. Some will say switch to salad only, but let's get real ... I do not like salad one bit so I need another option and there are other options that work.

 

In other words stay off the sugary foods and you'll be fine.

 

One thing I do is eat the same thing over and over. The boredom of the same food keeps me from thinking about it or "lusting" after my next meal. It's enough food for me, it's boring, I can prepare it and eat it in a short time. I don't have to plan the meals, my shopping is easy, I have food so I don't have to go get other food (fast-food, etc.). Make food as little a part of your day and thinking as possible.

 

I've went from 300lb in march of 2013, to 175lb right now

Eat super clean since then, started running 3-5 miles per day, at least 5 days a week the past year. I'm too the point that I feel like crap if I go more than 48 hours without a nice long run

 

You are almost absolutely correct.

SugarS are the building blocks of carbohydrates, just as amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and lipids are building blocks of fats.

There are THOUSANDS of different sugars, amino acids, and lipids. Our body can synthesize almost all of them, except a few.

If you talk about SUGAR as a singular, you are talking about refined sugar, which is actually 50% glucose and 50% fructose. High fructose corn syrup is about 45% glucose and 55% fructose.

The problem with today's food supply and consumer habits drilled into us by billions of dollars advertising is a huge over consumption of SUGAR (the singular) and simplified carbohydrates. The average human ate less than 10 lbs of sugar a YEAR in 1900. Today the average is 180 lbs per year. The problem is all this sugar and refined, simplified carbohydrates (sugars) has radically skewed our microbiome (the bacteria in our gut).

Anyone remember the award winning documentary "Supersize Me"? The film maker ate nothing but super sized McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a month. His doctor begged him to stop after two weeks. He gained 30 lbs in a month and his blood sugar and cholesterol became problematic.

Research in microbiome has exploded in the last decade, since Supersize Me was released. Recently a film maker tried to recreate the experiment, but this time focusing on his own microbiome. When the experiment began he had a healthy population of over 3500 species of bacteria in his gut. At the end of the month that population was down to 1500 AND the species of bacteria that thrive on fructose DOMINATED. The problem with THAT is those particular species of bacteria that thrive on fructose can cause a whole host of health problems if they dominate the gut ecosystem.

There's another common word for carbohydrates: FIBER. ALL plant based fiber is carbohydrates, made of thousands of different sugars. Cooking them breaks down the long chain carbohydrates (fibers) into simple sugars AND kills all bacteria that are on the surface of all fruits, roots, and vegetables. Those bacteria are probiotics, or the good bacteria species you need to be healthy.

If you really want to get healthy, make most of the bulk of your diet RAW fruits and vegetables. The bacteria that SHOULD thrive in your large intestine that break down fibers into usable sugars will start repopulating your microbiome. Without them you risk getting leaky gut syndrome, Crohn's disease, inflammation, or cancer.

If you can eliminate SUGAR from your diet you will notice a remarkable thing. Your sense of taste will change. I can no longer stand sweet sugared up foods anymore. Natural raw fruits are plenty sweet for me.

Google "sugar detox". This can apparently done within a matter of days or weeks. I did it in a matter of months.