21 2 / 2012
Fat Tuesday… oh the irony.
Happy Mardi Gras. so much for carnivale. Its 8pm and I am about to call it a night.
today, I did go to the gym was on that machine for 45 minutes. then did some weights. I came home and had 1 egg + 1 egg white with a piece of toast and my favorite juice - beet, carrot, apple, mint I threw in some cucumber too, just because I had one. Made a cauliflower/garbanzo bean/ rice curry thing for dinner. not really hungry. just going to put some laundry away and then hit the bed. I am happy that I had a “good” day, even though I think that way of categorizing life is too simplified. I started the weight loss thing about two weeks ago? I think that’s right. I started out at 210 plus or minus a couple of pounds. I truly stopped stepping on the scale once it hit 210 and that was about three weeks ago.
well…here it goes. Where I’m at. according to my scale I’m at 200.8. the sacle at the gym says 202.5 and the wii says 199.6
20 2 / 2012
The “complementary protein” myth just won’t go away.
The “incomplete protein” myth was inadvertently promoted in the 1971 book, Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe. In it, the author stated that plant foods do not contain all the essential amino acids, so in order to be a healthy vegetarian, you needed to eat a combination of certain plant foods in order to get all of the essential amino acids. It was called the theory of “protein complementing.”
Frances Moore Lappe certainly meant no harm, and her mistake was somewhat understandable. She was not a nutritionist, physiologist, or medical doctor. She was a sociologist trying to end world hunger. She realized that there was a lot of waste in converting vegetable protein into animal protein, and she calculated that if people just ate the plant protein, many more people could be fed. In a later edition of her book (1991), she retracted her statement and basically said that in trying to end one myth—the unsolvable inevitability of world hunger, she created a second one—the myth of the need for “protein complementing.”
In these later editions, she corrects her earlier mistake and clearly states that all plant foods typically consumed as sources of protein contain all the essential amino acids, and that humans are virtually certain of getting enough protein from plant sources if they consume sufficient calories.
read the whole article here.
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-complementary-protein-myth-wont-go-away.html
18 2 / 2012
oOMG I just took a “before” photo.
that’s right. I just took some before photos, but I will NOT be posting them until I have a decent after. but ohmygod. what have I done to myself?
