Hello Dave!

06 Jan 19 07:28, you wrote to me:

 MM>>    Hello everybody!

 DD> Back at you, youngster.

 Ha, Thanks.  This makes me feel like how i feel when some 18  year old
cards me at the checkout when buying whisky. It rarely happens anymore, and
only if I'm clean-shaven as my whiskers are mostly white.


 MM>> I hit 40 last year and my doctor put me on high blood pressure

 DD> Geez, I was 40 almost that many years ago. And should have gone on
 DD> high blood pressure meds about at that age.

 My doctor had a nice graph charting my blood pressure readings along with
my wieght. the lines are almost parallel as they went up over the years.

 Unfortunately the Lisinopril he put me on gave me the annoying dry cough
that about 1/3 of people get, which is a major reason I decided "diet
time", as I'd like to be off this medicine ASAP.


 DD> I've done the Atkins previously - and would love to again. But my head
 DD> croaker says "Nix on that" due to kidney damage caused by
ignoring my
 DD> hypertension. When the keto thing first came around I looked into it
 DD> and found that Atkins was designed for weight loss, and keto was
 DD> designed, it its strictest form, for seizure prevention. (Really! It
 DD> was a tool in the treatment of epilepsy, and has only recently been
 DD> adopted as a slim-down strategy.)

 My wife has severe kidney damage as well, along with a mountain of other
medical issues The kidney damage is likely a result of trying to resolve
the other things over the years.

I had read about keto being a seizure treatment, too. It's fascinating on
how many things were invented for one purpose, but wound up working better
for a completely different purpose. (Listerine mouthwash and Viagra come to
mind)


 DD> The Atkins "kick-start" (intake phase) and Keto are very
similar. But
 DD> keto keeps you in the "intake" whereas Atkins loosens up a bit once
 DD> the ketosis is started. Basically Atkins is 'all bacon, all the time'
 DD> and keto is the 'avocado a day' plan

 I love bacon. I tend to only eat Avacado in sushi, which I can't really
have anymore due to the rice.

 The trick is not only to put your body into ketosis, but to intake less
calories than you actually require, which is probably the most difficult
thing for me. I'm training myself to eat smaller portions than I used to,
and I've cut out snacking completely. My wife says I was an absolute grouch
the first week or so, but now I'm less hungry throughout the day and less
grumpy.


 MM>> I definitely miss Chinese food, so I decided to take a crack at
 MM>> making some Mongolian Beef, low-carb style. It wasn't bad, but
 MM>> I'm likely going to change a few things next time around.

 DD> Here's a favourite lo-carb Chinese dish ....

 I found a recipe for something similar that I wanted to try, but I think
I'm going to give this a shot. Thanks!


Mike


... The Recipe says a pinch of spice. I thought it said a 'pound'.
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