Primal Journal (winencandy) page 225

[winencandy]

Wednesday
Food
Protein Shake (with whipping cream)
Creamed coconut/coconut oil/chocolate stuff
Pork Sausage, baked beans, hash browns, mixed veggies
(not very Primal, but it was made for me…)
Chai with whipping cream

Avoid Poisons & Stupid Mistakes
No wine.
Yesterday’s lunch had no fat, and I was hungry in the mall. Today I made sure I had some fat. It was MUCH better.
Yesterday “lunch” was at 11am, today it was at 2.

Move Slowly, Lift Heavy, Sprint
Nope
I don't think I'll be able to do a full Chin Up by New Years Day. I KNOW I won't be able to do a Pull Up

Sleep, Sun, Play, and Use Your Brain
11:15 – 8:15am

I had a supply job again today, but it didn’t start till 10:20 I’d just finished when I got the text from University Son. So I went home and checked it out. Then I went to my Home Instruction Student’s for 2 hours of math…Compound Interest…

After supper I made some shortbread cookies, some caramels (YUM) and then wrapped gifts.

I teach again tomorrow, so I think I’ll try to go to bed BEFORE 11…

Yeah, I know…

Stop laughing

eta: I ate a shortbread cookie and I "sampled" the caramels (several times) while I was cooking them.
(note: it is 11:35pm and I'm still up...)

[Jenny]

Pull up -- I'm going to start a 2012 Pull-Up Challenge Thread, you can always join that. I am totally missing the 2011 deadline, so here's for 2012!

Hope you eventually got some sleep! Compound interest would have had my brain spinning for hours even without the sugar!

[winencandy]

Pull up -- I'm going to start a 2012 Pull-Up Challenge Thread, you can always join that. I am totally missing the 2011 deadline, so here's for 2012!

Hope you eventually got some sleep! Compound interest would have had my brain spinning for hours even without the sugar!

Pull-Up 2012 it is!
I got to bed at midnight...

I am NOT a math person...I have to learn it just before I teach it

[winencandy]

I was just reading this article and this line jumped out at me:

Whether we are talking about plants or meat, eating cooked food provides more calories than eating the same food raw. And that means that the calorie counts we’ve grown so used to consulting are routinely wrong.

Hmmmmm

[NourishedEm]

Interesting about the raw vs cooked food. I guess cooking kinda begins the digestive process what with cell wall break down and the like huh?

Maybe I should read the article....

[Jenny]

Right, the idea is that digestion takes a certain amount of energy, so the easier the food is to digest, the fewer calories you spend on the digestion part. Also, cooking can free up some calories that we might not have been able to digest at all if it weren't cooked... starches for example. (but the latter set of calories should be accounted for in the calorie total already because of the way they do the calorie analysis...)

But there's yet another factor at play here. Cooked foods tend to be smaller so a cup of cooked carrots would also naturally have more calories than a cup of raw carrots, IF weighed after cooking. As in (using baby carrots as an example) let's say the cooked carrots, you could fit 40 in the cup, wheras raw you could fit maybe 30.

So that also means that to the degree that your hunger is sated by volume, you'd be likely to eat more of the cooked foods. Combine that with the idea that the cooked foods take less chewing than raw foods, and the overall perception of how much you've eaten is skewed.

Cooking also tends to up the glycemic index, for similar reasons -- easier to digest means it gets into your bloodstream that much faster.

Personally I have no issue with cooking some of my foods if they taste better cooked. I have a hard enough time eating meat as it is... I really _have_ to have my soup full of equally-cooked vegetables. But of course I also try to make sure to have a BAS every day to go with it.

[winencandy]

Interesting about the raw vs cooked food. I guess cooking kinda begins the digestive process what with cell wall break down and the like huh?

Maybe I should read the article....

Did you read it?
It was interesting.

Right, the idea is that digestion takes a certain amount of energy, so the easier the food is to digest, the fewer calories you spend on the digestion part. Also, cooking can free up some calories that we might not have been able to digest at all if it weren't cooked... starches for example. (but the latter set of calories should be accounted for in the calorie total already because of the way they do the calorie analysis...)

But there's yet another factor at play here. Cooked foods tend to be smaller so a cup of cooked carrots would also naturally have more calories than a cup of raw carrots, IF weighed after cooking. As in (using baby carrots as an example) let's say the cooked carrots, you could fit 40 in the cup, wheras raw you could fit maybe 30.

So that also means that to the degree that your hunger is sated by volume, you'd be likely to eat more of the cooked foods. Combine that with the idea that the cooked foods take less chewing than raw foods, and the overall perception of how much you've eaten is skewed.

Cooking also tends to up the glycemic index, for similar reasons -- easier to digest means it gets into your bloodstream that much faster.

Personally I have no issue with cooking some of my foods if they taste better cooked. I have a hard enough time eating meat as it is... I really _have_ to have my soup full of equally-cooked vegetables. But of course I also try to make sure to have a BAS every day to go with it.

You make some very good points Jenny, I hadn't thought of some of them

[winencandy]

Thursday
Food
Protein shake, Raspberries, Spaghetti meat sauce, a Turtle
Frozen Raspberries with whipping cream (1/2 cup of berries, just enough cream to coat and freeze over the berries
Red wine

Avoid Poisons & Stupid Mistakes
the Turtle

Move Slowly, Lift Heavy, Sprint
no

Sleep, Sun, Play, and Use Your Brain
12:00 – 6:15am

Supply teaching. Shopping. Wrapping. Wine while wrapping. Cleaning.

[winencandy]

Friday
Food
Protein shake, Red Wine, Shepherd’s Pie, Apple Upside Down Cake with Caramel Sauce, Red Wine

Avoid Poisons & Stupid Mistakes
the cake, it was good, but surprisingly, not as good as I’d “remembered” it…

Move Slowly, Lift Heavy, Sprint
no

Sleep, Sun, Play, and Use Your Brain
10:30 – 8:15am

Cleaning. Installing and Updating Snow Leopard, Microsoft Office 11 for Mac, and Photoshop Elements 9. Backing up with Time Machine. Wrapping. Wine while wrapping. Baking Apple Upside Down Cake with Caramel Sauce. Cleaning. More Wrapping. More Wine.

Eldest Son came home tonight
I have a full house again

Toe Nail Update: The nail is white. It doesn't lay tight against my toe. There's a gap... There is still a small red spot beside the nail. if I bang it, it hurts like hell. The nail is a little "loose". My Farmer thinks I'll lose it yet...

[winencandy]

I'm having 17 people here tomorrow...
Full Turkey dinner...
Another Turkey Dinner on Sunday.

I may not be back online until Boxing Day, so...

Merry Christmas!!!!