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A week's difference.

For fairness of data, I'm using three Tuesdays for comparison. This Tuesday, last Tuesday (Nov 29) and the Tuesday before that (Nov 22). And I have the help of my blog entry for the day to gauge my overall mood. With a side helping of contributing factors.

Tuesday, November 22nd:

Weight: 89 kilograms
Diet: Lo Fat Hi Carb
Mood: Pissed off and looking forward to an apocalypse.
Contributing factor: The Muppet just became the alleged leader of the free world.

Tuesday, November 29th:

Weight: 87.2 kilograms
Diet: Just switched to Ketogenics and feeling the difference.
Mood: Slightly 'down' but not as 'down' as usual.
Contributing factor: Loss of salt.

Today. Tuesday, December 6th:

Weight: 85.5 kilograms
Diet: Lo Carb Hi Fat
Mood: Emotionally 'high' yet exhausted.
Contributing factor: The 2.76 kilometer walk that Beloved and I bullied each other into doing.

Obviously, the biggest difference for the numbers people is the fact that I've lost a net weight of three and a half kilos in the space of a fortnight. Whilst the weight loss seems the same on a weekly basis, there is a world of difference on the emotional level.

My need for sleep aids has vanished. My need for supplements has vanished. Heck, even my need for asthma meds is dwindling.

I've gone three days without needing a dose of Atrovent by any means, and that means that I'm stepping down on the Seretide. If I go another three days without needing Atrovent, I can stop taking Seretide and just make sure I have a spare puffer nearby in case of allergen encounters.

Which means my old standby of: Puffer in my pocket, puffer in my bag (in case of no pocket days), puffer on the bedside table, and puffer in the medicine cupboard. Because paranoia has served me well.

...which reminds me, I need to scrabble around and find ALL of my old ventolin puffers. Hand them in at the Chemist's for safe disposal and all.

The biggest problem for me with Ketogenics is serving portions. I'm still living with the meat-to-veg ratio of the old school. Aka, little bit of meat, especially if it's lean meat, and loads of vegetables.

Which also contain their share of natural carbohydrates.

Ketogenics says: More meat, less veggies. And fry them all in fat. And add salt. And creamy sauces.

This is peculiar for me because the entirety of my life as been all about increasing veg and decreasing meat to the rough volume of a pack of cards. Or less. Plus it probably doesn't help that I find lots of vegetables to be very tasty indeed.

The Ketogenic plate should have eighty grams of protein, twenty grams of carbs, and two hundred grams of fat. I know, that sounds daunting, but you can have fats in any form. Avocado, oils, cheese... it's not hard.

And apart from some intermittent depth-charge sneezing, I have been feeling absolutely wonderful. Apart from the whole problem with salt and portion proportions that I'm busy getting over.

And next tuesday, I'll do the full weight update folderol so you can keep check. Now onto the important stuff. The dreaded bullying.

Last night's dinner had the wrong amount of carbs because I'm still getting used to all that. As a result, Beloved was suffering this morning. They didn't want to go for a walk. So I made them their salty broth. Had my own, and basically harangued Beloved to get up and take a walk around the shorter block, because exercise must be done daily to have good effect.

Then Beloved turned to walk around the longer block, because might as well go big.

Then, instead of going back home, we went on around the shorter block, and back around the longer block. Each of us egging the other on. That was the final turn, though. We returned home sweaty, exhausted, high as a kite on adrenaline, and having to organise the kids at warp nine because it was already past time to go to school.

That... was bedlam. And partially sideways because Beloved would much rather research things whilst sitting down than fry up some eggs for an all-protein lunch. I can forgive... it's just that I didn't get a chance to sit down because I was running after everyone else. Until about nine-ish.

We're not doing that long a walk again on a school morning. We just can't.

The strangeness of me

I've always known I'm not 'normal', and protest much that there's no such thing. My creativity and whims of creating, aka my Muse, takes me to strange places, sometimes.

My stories, fanfic and professional, are... odd. Just as I am odd.

As a kid, I was "weird". According to the professionals at the time, I was "brilliant but disorganised" and needed something to keep my creativity in one place. Not that that worked very well.

I did not have a wide social

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Waiting for equilibrium

The diet's going fine, before you get worried. Going out and eating at the same time is a pain in the arse because there's carbs freaking everywhere. Every single take-out deal has chips and if they don't have chips, then it's noodles or rice.

Carbs, carbs, everywhere, and hardly a scrap to eat.

Beloved recorded an audio of themself trying to get deconstructed burgers for the family, this Friday gone. They had to explain 'no buns' four times. They just didn't understand.

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Converting the masses

Everyone who's figured out that modern medicine is trying to kill us for profit has had zero problems whatsoever flipping to Ketogenics, and flipping their nearest medic the bird. It's the people who believe in doctors like they believe in The Powers That Be1, who are all over the others with objections of their own.

  • "But my doctor says..."
  • "You need carbs (for brain function/to live)."
  • "That can't be good for your cholesterol..."
  • "But [CARB-LOADED THING] is healthy."
  • "But I
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Shitstirring for humanity

Vegans struck me as a little peculiar. Okay. You don't want to eat anything related to animal exploitation? Good for you. Just... please don't try to make me change my ways and we're aces.

Alas, there's a certain section of people (coughcoughivorytowergranolasetcoughcough) that claim that honey is bee slavery.

This just gets a big fat WAT from me because they continue eating fruits and vegetables that use bee labour regardless.

Like... I've tried to do some research on this and... unless you're

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Easing up

Beloved informed me on our morning walk that we had been hitting the Ketogenic diet hard. It's why I've been having difficulties the way I have been.

So we're easing up. We're no longer fasting for 16 hours. We're going back to 12 hours and allowing some fruity sugars in as well as the carbs that come in the veggies.

Both Beloved and I have been waking up earlier and I forwarded the idea that it would be an ideal time to

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The down side

Every diet has a down side. Slowly rationing fruit to small amounts so I get just the right kind of carbs in the correct amount is just one of them.

And I've discovered what fellow dieters are calling the "Keto flu". As the body gets used to not having carbs around, it goes into carb panic and starts trying to conserve energy. The result is a listlessness and a lack of energy that gets some people swarming back to carbs.

But what

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Proof in the absence of pudding

This is my fourth day of doing the Ketogenic Diet and I have some fantastic news: I now weigh 87.4 kilos. My previous lowest record, recorded in 2012, was 87.7 kilos.

In four days, I have gone to my lowest recorded weight.

I feel energetic and happy and Beloved and I have gone on our 15-minute walk and not felt drained or strained as a direct result.

Hell, I even put on a load of washing before I was desperate

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I feel fantastic!

Okay, to start off, I have to note that what I've been calling the "Ketonic" Diet is actually the KETOGENIC Diet and works similar to Fatkins but doesn't induce Ketoacidosis like Fatkins does.

How? By replacing carbs with natural animal fats and the simple sugars found in fruit. That keeps the ketones behaving themselves and reduces the need for processed, carb-o-riffic nastiness that makes everyone fat.

That skim milk the doctors recommend based on the Lipid Theory? Carbs.

That lo-fat, Atkins-approved diet

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Things I Wish I Knew About

I'm starting in on the Ketonic Diet and there's loads of info about it if you become a member1. Starting with how this diet could have plausibly saved my father if I had just known about it.

Current treatment of diabetes goes like this: lower or eliminate the sugar, eliminate the fats, give insulin, and load up on the carbs.

Which is mental, because carbohydrates metabolise directly into sugar.

This leads directly to a fatty liver, a fatty pancreas, fatty eyes,

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New meds... hooray?

Since the Serotonin was making me constantly semi-drowsy, my doctor switched me out to Zoloft. Or, in this case, the generic, no-brand equivalent of Zoloft because the Australian medical system is not the price-gouging hell-hole that the US has got.

I'm on half a pill, taken in the evening, to scale up to a whole pill later on. And right now, because I dropped the Serotonin and took up the Zoloft, I feel pretty damn awful.

There's the post-swimming heaviness, the difficulty

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Firkin Anxiety

Yesterday was quite a bit more adventure than I was prepared to deal with. I was following the busses to Brisbane to visit the Kelvin Grove campus of QUT so I could keep an eye out on Miss Chaos whilst she had a fun day of learning.

Which would have been fine except I misplaced the busses at the very last turn and got the first parking space I could achieve.

As I predicted, I got frelling lost. I got absolutely, hopelessly,

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Another special day

Miss Chaos is having an adventure, and everything is revolving around her, today.

Which is why you won't be getting a fresh story until sometime this afternoon. Doing my bloggy stuff is quick and easy, but doing a story takes daydreaming time.

I will be taking Beauties and the Beastly with me via the lappy, but it's anyone's guess as to whether I'll be able to write anything in it before the day is over.

I'm pretty good at squeezing sentences out

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What another fine day for politics...

...ze said whilst oozing sarcasm until hir audience drowned in it.

There's an old law that the POTUS can't have any kind of business earnings whilst also in power, lest conflict of interest rear its ugly head and corruption eat the government alive. And since the Muppet has shown no signs of surrendering his holdings to anyone else, it looks like the grand old new rule of "It's okay if Republicans are doing it" seems to be coming to the fore.

If

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Unriddling

New med schedules are kicking my arse. Sure, I get a good night's sleep, but afterwards is the buttnugget.

I've figured out that light levels are linked to the amount of awareness I have during the day. Too much or too little, and the groggy, foggy feeling returns in abundance. Just the right amount, and I'm 'clear' while that light lasts.

And I'm currently writing this with a light in my face. Care of the same light I used to illuminate myself

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