In a day or so I'll be adding a funky little Feed Burner subscriber meter up on my blog so I can see how the readership of my blog is doing.
In my last post on going totally paleo to see if my osteoarthritis (as well as my wife's issues) could be resolved, I neglected to mention that we are both starting today. We are coming of mid-winter school break and chose to start after the kiddie festivities ended.
My knees hurt. They have been hurting now for almost 2 years. They hurt so badly that I can no longer do the things I love to do that require knees. The diagnosis - severe medial osteoarthritis caused mainly by being bow-legged (genu varum) which leads to deforming arthrosis. I remember as a kid people would often make comments to me like "Hey fella - did you just get off your horse?"
First let me preface this blog by saying that I am not calling people who eat cereal stupid. Nor am I suggesting that clowns are stupid either. But breakfast cereal is stupid. So don't eat it.
OK low carbers - this low carb biscuit is to DIE for. Each one has only 6gms of carbs and 3 gms of fiber so a net carb load of only 3gms!
Many experts assume that the our metabolism - the chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life - increases very little from resistance training. Some fitness experts argue that building more muscle increases it as little as 1-5 calories per pound of muscle built.
Not on your life.
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Though many have said this before I have, and as Gary Taubes points out so succinctly in his new book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Affiliate link, meaning, if you click on it and buy Gary's book I make a shekel or two), counting calories is an exercise in futility.
