Free The Animal

Low-fatters are fooling themselves — especially vegans, vegetarians, and high-fiber advocates
This should be fun.
Ok, I’m going to call stupid right off the bat. No; just ignorant, and this includes some top names. Why? I figure it like this: if Dean Ornish, Joel Fuhrman, John McDougall, T. Collin Campbell and others are ignorant about this when little [...]

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I’m going to need reader help with this one. An email.

I was very impressed to read your path. I am currently 360 lbs and I am 5′10. I know it is decision time or I have to pack my bags and leave the planet. I do have the book primal [...]

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I don’t post a lot about the specifics of my workouts. Why? Well, whereas all the diet & fasting stuff was very accessible and could be put into practice quickly — with quick results to verify, repeat, verify, and so on — workouts never struck me like that. I’m a neophyte (still) but that’s changing. Also, I have a trainer and he’s proven himself to be unconventional and actually willing to listen to me. Right off the bat, he said all I need is two 30-minute session per week of high intensity. That told me he had a lot right. Now, he often sports my Free the Animal T-shirt. That’s pretty cool. There’s a new book out there I may have mentioned. It’s by reader and sometimes commenter Dr. Doug McGuff, Body by Science, which is soon coming up in my reading stack. In the meantime, workout guru extraordinaire, Keith Norris, has reviewed it in multiple parts here, here, and here. [Added later: Chris Highcock interviewed Dr. McGuff here, and here's another interview on video.] There’s a bit of a coincidence. When I first began this journey two years ago, I went to the bookstore to pick up a book…

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I actually gave you a hint in the title of my previous post, Cold, Wet, Hungry, and Running For Your Life. Also, this is not the first time, and since I wrote fairly extensively on it before, I’m going to cover what I did differently and what I did on ocassions when this didn’t work. In a nutshell, it’s the cold water, again. However, the gym has in the last few months managed to keep the water at a steady 40 degrees rather than the 50 it used to be. Let me tell you: huge difference and it took quite a while to adapt to spending minutes at that temperature. So, the fast began around 1:30 PM, after a pretty big breakfast and lunch. To the left is self explanatory. To the right is leftover sauerkraut, which was Alexander Valley fresh sauerkraut (not caned), which is simply awesome, even uncooked. I had made this in the crock pot a couple of days earlier, with about 3 pounds of pork sparerib, an onion, and lots of caraway seeds. All the pork was gone, but not all the kraut and broth, so I used it with some uncured, gluten free polish sausage….

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So, did any of you come up with some tweaks after yesterday’s read? I’ve receive one email with some good ideas. That was really a good refresher for me, but I’m not going to tell you what I did yet. The reason is that I still have 9 hours to go on my 30-hr fast, a workout early this afternoon, followed by a “secret” technique, and I’m already down 5 full pounds from where I was when I began the fast. I want to see where I end up. Then I’ll post.

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