| Archive for The Magic Bus Trip Never get off the Bus! |
| Steve |
I do everything ass backwardsHello everyone,My name is Steve aka Snowdog. I've finally gotten around to introducing myself even though I've been posting here for a couple of weeks now. I must say this is a great forum and you all seem like great people( a little sex deprived but aren't we all) I've been following low carb reading and dabbling in it for at least 20 years. I have a ton of books on nutrition and I am working in the health field. I own my own suplement company and it is a bitch to get it off the ground and keeping the investors investing. I ran a chain of health food stores and was a saleman for a leading nutraceutical company. Bodybuilding and fitness have always been a passion of mine and I wanted to be Arnold growing up as a child. Dabbing in bodybuilding has been great to my health and also detrimental. During the 80's when everybody was "power eating" and "carb loading" and "Eating to win" I just stuffed myself daily with brown rice,whole grain cereals,whole grain pasta,dried fruits,baked potatoes..you know. After following that absurdity,I got more into lower carbs for health and for weight loss. I championed it every where I went and to everyone I met. I wrote up diets for people and gauged their results and helped them with supplementation. but again I fell off track,working to many hours at a very stressful job,got married,my mom died ...just seemed like the last thing I wanted to do was to take care of my health. so over the last couple of years,I have had cancer,insulin resistance,sleep apnea,Shchatski ring with a hiatal hernia,extremely low testosterone and a bunch orf other crap going on. So what it all means is ( I guess) is that if one is carb sensitive and one continues to screw up and one does not excercise it will catch up with you. I was once the robust healthy guy..now I am on the road to getting back to where I once was. I gotta say,you guys have been an inspiration and I have started to work out again.. So again,glad to be here an look forward to sharing ,debating and hanging out with your guys. Best, Steve P.S. anybody got $500,000 
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| Alisa |
LOL, ass-backwards but headed in the right direction!
It's very nice to have you here! I hope you start a journal and an exercise log. Although your other posts are nice and informative, so keep those up too! Oh, and uh, by the way... 
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| Analog6 |
Well welcome.
You'll be interested to know that today in the garden we have a snake (I think a carpet or diamond python) who was chasing a mouse, and a bluetongue poking his head out of the rock wall. The snake is about 4' long and he has just shed we think, as we found a skin of about the right size last week ibn the same area of the rock wall. I am posting these to my Photobucket album (it is Analog6 too) under an album called reptiles. If you want to have a look later today they'll be there. It takes a biut of fingling to download as I shoot in RAW capture and have to 'translate' them, but doing that now. Cheers. |
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| Steve |
Thank Alisa and analog..I took some pics today but im not sure if I'm going to post them..
I love Carpet Pythons..they can be alittle cantankerous. I'm going out to move a den with some rattlers in it so they do not get destroyed,,too much constructon out here!! I'll start a journal Monday,,a little ADD so it will be one f'd up journal |
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| Analog6 |
Ok, they are there now. On a closer look I think it might have been a brown - looked much more patterned in the flesh, and the head looked larger. We have both. Obviously, it is time to stuff the rags under the door again for summer! | ||||
| kateryna |
Steve:
Thanks for your story. I have been down the same road as you. Did low carbing in 1977 with great success then promptly forgot about it as my head started absorbing all that low-fat propaganda, which I fell for, hook, line and sinker, developed several diseases of "old age" (arthritis, gall bladder, depression, had a stroke, gained weight, became insulin resistant). Why I forgot about the low-carbing I'll never know and didn't wake up from the carb-fog until about 2003. But my story is like yours, although you recovered your "mind" a lot younger and will be able to enjoy many years being healthy and happy. Very happy to hear your story and the inspiration it has given me and I'm sure everyone else. WELCOME 
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| Suzanne |
Howdy! Make yourself at home.  Except for the snake posts, I'm enjoying reading your posts.
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| kateryna |
Susanne, you don't like snakes?  (says Kateryna who lives in a cllimate not conducive to snakes and has never seen one in the wild although she knows there are 1 or 2 of them in the province during the summer, garters I think)  Steve and Odille would hate this snakeless place
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| CarolAnn |
Hi, Steve, and welcome! I am new here as well! I'm sure we will enjoy sharing the ride together! I like the back seat; it's fun when you bounce over the bumps in the road! 
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| Steve |
odille,
I forgot to tell you, I have an Austrailian python..ever heard of the Woma? It lives in the hottest regions of the outback..unique amongst pythons because it does not have any heat seeking pits.. His name is Gunther and he is just a sweet,slow nothing bothers him kindof snake..the kids at my shows love him. Susanne would love him as well,he would curl up to her in bed to keep nice and warm... and he's about 4 ft.
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| Heather |
I live very close to you Kateryna and I know what you mean, in my entire life I have seen one snake in the wild and it was a tiny garter. |
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| Heather |
And by the way, it's great to get to know you and have you here Steve.
Even if I'm a little deprived.... |
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| Analog6 |
I have heard of them but I don't think I've seen one. Here is a link to Perth Zoo's site (http://www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/index.html?wildlife_facts_au_woma.html) which says it is now thought there may be 2 types of Womas.
And there is a nice gallery of pythons here: http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/fauna...amecx.asp?d=Reptiles&f=Boidae |
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