The Magic Bus Trip

wifezilla · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:

I am the owner. I am worried about the customers! LOL

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Erasmus · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

Dean · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

That grill looks so cool... makes me drool. Cool

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wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

Still on plan. I am seriously enjoying the mahi mahi. In order to be more in line with my original goals, I am mixing the butter with 1/2 coconut oil. It tastes really good :D

I am not the only one who "went native". A Canadian village in Alert Bay Canada returned to their native diet. There is a documentary out about it called "My Big Fat Diet". I blogged about the experiment (link in signature) and I posted links to some video clips and a radio interview with the doctor who started it. Their native diet was wild salmon and oolichan grease (a fish oil).

Oolichan kind of looks like a smelt. Of course, now I want to taste one...LOL
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jem51 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

zilla, look in the c cafe for a discussion on this 'native' diet.

wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

Will do :D

Opps..forgot to post some inspiration...

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wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

OK Jem,

I give up. I can't find the thread. Can you toss me a link?

NEVERMIND! I found it. Duh. I had even posted on it. LOL
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jem51 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

thanks for that blog zilla.

wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject:

You are welcome :D

One more thing I have to brag about...

I took my blood pressure last night. When I started low carb it was 149/95. Last night... 101/62 :D

I had taken it a few times during the carnivore challenge and it was 125/80ish.

The coconut and fish thing has taken it down to levels I have not seen since high school. INTERESTING!
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Dean · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

zilla, are you doing less salt and salty foods now than if February? What are the differences?
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wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

Dude....

I have 4 kinds of gourmet salt and use them all the time! LOL

So nope. No change in sodium intake.

I have having a LOT less "puffiness" in general over the past couple of weeks. Coincidence or due to coconuts and fish? Hard to tell at this point.

It could be a variety of things....
Lack of dairy?
Additives in beef and pork making me puff up?
Something in the coconut oil reducing overall inflammation?
Increase in omega 3's due to the fish?
Or total coincidence?

I will have to wait until the end of march and then experiment with adding things back in to really get a better idea.

One thing I can take out of the equation...my period. TOM stopped by today. He didn't make me puff up like usual. Too weird.
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Vesna · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Zilla, I keep several cans of sardines, herring, mackerel, etc. in my drawer at work. I never have to worry about a source of fat and protein at work.

I use to eat them at my desk. Then one of my co-workers got promoted to department manager. He'd never said a word about it -- then one of his first official actions was to instruct me to eat my sardines in the break room! Blush

Dean · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

jem51 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject:

on lc you'd have less arterial damage so plaques would diminish. arteries would also become more flexible, hence lowering BP.

wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

Naturally, but I have been low carbing since last May. I am having a noticeable change over the last 2 WEEKS. Something else is going on.
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Dean · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject:

Could it be the absence of cow pus? Dunno

I'll never get that restraining order rescinded. LOL

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Tracy · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:37 am Post subject:

It prolly is the lack of cow pus, much as I hate to admit it even to myself. Dammit!!!
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jem51 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

coconut in all it's forms does have some healing properties. maybe that's it.

wifezilla · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

I hate that thought too. I am from Wisconsin!!!!

Cheese is supposed to flow in my veins!

EAT CHEESE OR DIE!
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jem51 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

i love cheese. i have gone for long periods eating none. not even a cheat when i was vegan or macro. now, and especially the last two weeks, it has become my fast, grab-n-go food. i stopped eating vegies so had to replace w something as a snack....cheese it is!! if you really want a fatty cheese, you must try st andre brie. the fat lingers on your lips, so so good.

Heather L · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

Zilla- The increase in Omega 3s could be a big part of it too. Just think how much fish and Omega 3s the Inuit took in. We know their health was fabulous.

Dean · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject:

I think it's lack of dairy, and eating coconut and fish.

It's a good thing you're rich, zilla, cuz keeping up a diet of seafood and coconut products won't be cheap. Wink

I think, if one watched the amounts of CO (lots of cals), one could lose weight on this diet, since the fat is not as high. The healing of this diet is great, too. I still think eating fatty pork might be just as healing, once you have got to your ideal weight. Way cheaper to eat pork, too.
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wifezilla · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

I think it may turn out to be a combination of all of the above :D

I did learn something last night. Pork makes me swell up. Hubby cooked dinner and I had to work overtime. He made me a pork chop and my son had made some bacon. I was tired and at a pork chop and some fatty bacon bits. When I woke up this morning, my fingers felt all puffy and I felt like garbage.

Sodium or something else? Not sure. But it looks like I will be avoiding the pork for a while until I figure it out.

Back on track today.

Made another batch of the seafood chowder, so now I have instant meals on hand. That makes it much less likely I will do something stupid again. I also picked up some more coconut oil. I will make a batch of bark so I have that handy too.
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wifezilla · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject:

The seafood chowder really makes my life easy, and despite eating several batches, I am NOT sick of it. I can't afford to keep buying shrimp the way I go through it, so I may try to make chowder with some of the fish I have on hand.

The mahi mahi is disappearing rather quickly. DAMN that stuff is good.

Back when I lost my 35 pounds rather quickly, one thing I was doing that I stopped was eat coconut bark. With the tropical plan I am back on the bark...if I can hide it from my husband :D I think I was worried about calories going too high. But now that I am eating it again, I am losing. Go figure.

I want to try out some different recipes next week. I have some cod, a bunch of whiting (bleh) and some trout. Having a friend with a cabin on a trout pond sure is handy! I told my gf I was doing a fish experiment for March and she offered me a couple of trout. I gladly accepted, and when we got to her house and she told her hubby, he cleaned out the freezer and gave me about 7 HUGE trout. My gf turned to her hubby and said "You are giving her ALL the trout?"

I started laughing and said "Your hubby is using me as an excuse to go to the cabin and get NEW trout! I am so ON TO HIM!"

We all had a good laugh and now I have tasty fudz :D

My weight had gone back to 214, but it was monthly hormonal issues and I am back down to 213 already with several days of hormone issues to go. Bleh!
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wifezilla · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

Things are going well in the Tropical Wing of the metabolic ward. The sun is shining, the palm trees are swaying. and the coconuts are coconutty :D

I was beginning to worry about the price of this woe, but I finally figured out why things were getting so expensive. My HUSBAND! In the last couple of days, he ate a can of macadamia nuts, a can of almonds and a batch of coconut oil. Basically all of my emergency supplies.

Now mind you, I have still been cooking for this man even though I am eating fish and he is not, and he STILL can't stay out of my stuff! Grrr. A HUGE package of pork chops, corned beef and cabbage, his favorite sausages, etc.... and he still eats all my snacks.

Why is he still alive? He cooked breakfast for me this weekend. And he is kinda cute :D

Here is your inspirational image for the day...

I have made some headway on the new recipes. My whiting and artichoke stew came out rather well. I think it would be better with fresh fennel bulb, but ground fennel seeds work fine too. (recipe is on the blog)
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wifezilla · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

Down another 1/2 lb :D

I was hoping to lose 5 pounds by the end of the month and I might just make it.
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Heather L · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

Zilla- You may have to come up with a secret hiding place for your supplies. LOL

Congrats on losing, and hope you make it to your goal.

wifezilla · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

my son AND my husband are really good at finding all my hiding places :p

I have another batch of chowder going today...this time with brussel sprouts and cauliflower. Instead of shrimp, I may add perch since I have a couple of bags of that on hand.

I have a batch of coconut bark in the freezer I made this morning AFTER hubby went to work...so I may actually get some of it :D I added some almond butter since I have had a jar in the fridge for a couple of months. May as well use that up too.

Food is REALLY getting expensive...and not just the fish stuff....EVERYTHING! Ack!

Time to get creative...well...more so than usual.
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Tracy · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:55 am Post subject:

Congrats on your half pound!

I wonder if the bloating was from the bacon, or something about pork in general?
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wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:15 am Post subject:

I am not sure. I guess I will find out Easter...ham was on sale...so guess what we are having Happy

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wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

The scale gods are being VERY kind to me this morning.

211 :D

Maybe is it my magic brady-bunch tiki idol I have in the garden LOL

(it was tipped over the other day, so I cleaned up his area and righted the poor fellow)

No, I did not buy a tiki idol for this experiment, I bought it last year from a dollar store because it was so weird I just had to have it. My girl friend ALSO bough one. The areas in our gardens with our idols always do the best...LOL

Mine kind of looks like the small one on the left, but there are 2 "people" stacked on top of each other on mine...

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Heather L · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

Zilla- Congrats, tropical girl, you are doing excellent!! You can wear that grass skirt and do a little victory dance. hehe

wifezilla · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

After this experiment, I may have to pull out the silk lei and the clam shell bra. (Yes, I really do own a clam shell bra...we had a luau for a friend's 40th a couple years back and I wore one :D )

Kind of like this, but I sewed it to a regular bra. I needed extra support :p
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