Ever since I found my way down to the state once known as the craziest (and now the freest) state in the nation (Florida), I’ve been exposed to a type of food that is ubiquitous in Florida, but not so common in my native Georgia. A type of food that Desi Arnaz might have stolenContinue reading “Good Habits #15 – Cubans Are Healthy, Especially When Libred”
Category Archives: Diet
Love Your Body Like You Love Children. Wait, Not Like That.
One of the more bizarre (and that’s saying something) debates I witness online is over the subject of “body positivity”. Mostly because body positivity is one of those bizarre phrases that can mean different things to different people and therefore doesn’t really mean anything. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. When I was growing up,Continue reading “Love Your Body Like You Love Children. Wait, Not Like That.”
The Twelve Pounds of Christmas, or Heavy For The Holidays
So I came home for Christmas a bit early this year. Despite the heart-pounding excitement one normally experiences while practicing public accounting, I had a lot of vacation time built up, and somehow managed to drag myself away from the siren’s call of the stacks of paperwork adorning my desk. And have now been atContinue reading “The Twelve Pounds of Christmas, or Heavy For The Holidays”
Good Habits #14 – Sugar Pellets and Pencil Shavings, A Part Of This Complete Breakfast
With some trepidation and some schadenfreude, I find myself about to write another piece about a subject which strikes terror and loathing in the hearts ketovores and carnivores everywhere. Because when I was a boy, I rarely ate a balanced breakfast. I know that seems like a non-sequitur. But it’s not. My childhood breakfast choicesContinue reading “Good Habits #14 – Sugar Pellets and Pencil Shavings, A Part Of This Complete Breakfast”
Bad Habits #13 – How Liberating Italy From Fascism Made America Fat
Since my wife and I live about 30 minutes from the beach, we often spend a Saturday there in the Summer. Assuming there are no hurricanes. Or massive algae blooms killing all of the fish and causing them to wash up on the shore. But assuming we’re not facing meteorological Armageddon or osteichthyan genocide, aContinue reading “Bad Habits #13 – How Liberating Italy From Fascism Made America Fat”
Good Habits #13 – You Can Have A Healthy Lunch Thanks To An English Aristocrat With Bad Habits
So when one works as a CPA, sanity requires that we occasionally step out of the office to escape the mind numbing, soul crushing monotony of wading through things like accounting standards, SEC regulations, DOL regulations, or the dark, fetid morass that is USC Title 26. Which is the internal revenue code. Or merely theContinue reading “Good Habits #13 – You Can Have A Healthy Lunch Thanks To An English Aristocrat With Bad Habits”
Uncle Sam Wants to Remind You Why Being Healthy is Good For You And The Country
So during the ravages of the Darkness That Came From Hubei Province, the Creeping Doom of Wuhan, The Disease That May Or May Not Have Come From A Lab Or From Bats And Pangolins Getting Frisky, Americans got a lot fatter. Over a third of us are obese now, and plenty more are overweight butContinue reading “Uncle Sam Wants to Remind You Why Being Healthy is Good For You And The Country”
Bad Habits #12 – It’s a Monk’s Life In The Online Heathbrosphere
I’ve noticed something while spending time on Twitter. And I know that I should stop spending too much time on Twitter. It appears to make you angrier, meaner, less happy, and dumber. Tech geeks figured out Twitter’s impacts the hard way. They tried to train an AI’s social interactions by putting it on Twitter. ItContinue reading “Bad Habits #12 – It’s a Monk’s Life In The Online Heathbrosphere”
Good Habits #12 – Spice Up Things In The Kitchen. No, Not Like That.
A while back, I posted a piece about how cooking for yourself can be helpful when losing weight. But one of the dangers of cooking for yourself is…mediocrity. My cooking skills have improved, but even now that I can manage to cook things that don’t qualify as Category 1 Toxic Materials on the EPA’s toxicityContinue reading “Good Habits #12 – Spice Up Things In The Kitchen. No, Not Like That.”
Bad Habits #11 – Short-Term Bro Anorexia
I’ve been living healthy for just over two years. I’m down sixty pounds and holding at the low to mid 190 pound range. It would be lower, but as I’ve mentioned before (on two separate occasions, really), I’ve added weightlifting to the regimen. So instead of losing fat, I now replace it with muscle whichContinue reading “Bad Habits #11 – Short-Term Bro Anorexia”
The Drill Down Diet 