Little Known Uni diet plan works!

[brian.slater]

Hmmmmm, let's see:
140 grams carbs for breakfast.
One or more quarts of ice cream (the good stuff, made with CREAM not ice milk) per week.
Medium sausage, mushroom, pepper, & garlic pizza is ALL MINE.
My salt shakers aren't used at all (well, I had to do something good).
Eat what I want, when I want, as much as I want.
Weight:
1968 127 pounds at 5 foot 6 inches.
Now 136 pounds still 5 foot 6. Ok, so it was 5 foot 5 & 3/4 inches, it's still the same, sheeesh, picky, picky.
Range 127 to 145 pounds (I was on vacation, see, and I ate all the time, see, and . . .)
Blood, red last time I looked, yes, definitely, red. Ok, cholesterol 180, with high HDL. Pressure, it leaks out if I poke a hole in me, so I guess there is some. Ok, always been acceptable to the doctor.
People think I'm 20 years younger than my age, maybe because I don't act my age. Ever.
Bought a tricycle (Windcheetah) because they were saying I was odd after starting Uni, now I've got an even number of wheels again, but they're still saying I'm odd. Odder.

[bugman]

Originally posted by brian.slater
People think I'm 20 years younger than my age, maybe because I don't act my age. Ever.

I get the same thing. I think it has to do with being short. I have a full beard with gray patches on each side. If I shave it off, I get carded at the movie theaters! Of course I don't look as beat down as some people, I tend to be pretty positive and don't hold a grudge.

In article <20030517034846.06326.00000155@mb-m10.aol.com>,
extremeunicycler@aol.com (Dylan Wallinger) wrote:

> Weren't the food groups invented by the dairy companies after world war
> 2?
>
> Dylan
>
If you say so, then yes. I had no idea before you told me, though.

Liam

I've been 225 lbs for a while now. At 5'9".

About three weeks ago I got on the high protein, low carb diet. The book
I've been following is titled Neanderthin. It says only eat those things
that you could harvest with a sharp stick standing naked on the Savannah. I
still feel a little strange showing up at the grocery store like that.

Although I haven't weighed since starting to diet, I've lost inches.

My breakfasts are quick and portable. I microwave sausage in a coffee cup,
smear the pattie around the cup to grease the sides, scramble in two eggs
and a quarter avocado.
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Yes, you guessed it, green eggs and ham!


Doug

[UniBrier]

Originally posted by Doug Massey
green eggs

My Arucana hens lay green eggs, does that count?

A few years back I lost 20 lbs eating whatever I desired but had to follow two simple rules but it was not as simple as you think. 1 - You can eat only when you feel physical hunger, if it aint growling you don't eat. And when you are hungry you eat, no going hungry for extended periods. 2 - Stop when you are comfortably full, that means leaving food on your plate. Better on your plate than on your hips.

And now, the green eggs:

[myocardial]

I too am on the Unicycle Weight Loss Program. I started unicycling in January (as well as cut back on the calories) and have lost lost over 30 lbs. I'm telling ya, pretty soon there will be Fitness Clubs with a bunch of people on Uni's just like Tai Bo.

matt

[treepotato]

eat, sleep, uni

[foolish]

with less meat, fat, cheese and more vegs?

Veganism works for me, with lots of uniing as well. I am now less than 10 stone for the first time in over 3 and a half years.

[joemarshall]

I gained about 9 pounds and stayed that weight once I started riding a lot. I'm convinced it's all muscle though, cos I seem to have lost fat. I didn't exactly start off large though.

I'd never go on one of those fad low protein diets having read enough about it to be worried. Have you seen http://www.atkinsdietalert.org/physician.html

Also, they make people smell which is pretty gross.

As for the "neanderthal/caveman" diet. If you read up about early hunter-gatherer societies, it's thought that they actually got most of their energy from plant sources which they found and ate a far smaller proportion of meat than people do nowadays, so all the kind of "it's natural because people did it ages ago" stuff is absolute rubbish.

Joe

[foolish]

so all the kind of "it's natural because people did it ages ago" stuff is absolute rubbish.

Exactly!

People ask why I'm a vegan, and isn't it better to eat meat because our ancestors ate it, but just becuase they spent hours and loads of energy skillfully creeping up behind a wooly mammoth and spearing it doesn't mean its natural for us to pop out to MaccyD's and eat some grease covered lump of God knows what. I appologise for my anti omnivorous views, but I can't see how people like eating dead animals.

[Memphis Mud]

Hard to argue with teeth. Have we been wrong these past millions of years?

The ones in the front are designed for chopping/cutting (i.e. through carrots). The ones in the back are designed for Grinding (lots of torque to bust the hull of a seed).

The ones we call canine (3rd from the front) are cylindrical and pointy. They are designed to poke through and tear meat.

Cows have 7 stomachs to digest grass. We only have the one.

Humans are carnivors by design.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...pork tenderloin with mustard sauce and a nice merlot.

My original points on this thread were:
1. Unicycling is fun, so its easy to keep in the schedule.
2. You can cut out some of the stuff some of the time, and enjoy your vices some of the time, and shed a few pounds. Frown on Bread, processed sugar, potatos just over half (57%) of the time.

I like my vices.

[harper]

Originally posted by foolish
I appologise for my anti omnivorous views, but I can't see how people like eating dead animals.

Mmmmm....animals. They're cute and nice to pet when they're alive and tasty to eat when they're dead. They squirm too much to eat when they're alive, anyway.

[wobbling bear]

Originally posted by Memphis Mud

Humans are carnivors by design.

wobbling bear facing a horde of hungry unicyclists:

[iunicycle]

I only eat vegetables and vegetarians. Yes it is true. Cows and chickens are vegetarians. But I guess fish are more like me, eating other animals, and I like eating fish also.

Rationalizations of what we eat based on other cultures and other times in history are usually just that. As long as what we eat allows us to live long enough to produce children, our eating tastes will not change.

One note about when eating animals and animal products makes perfect sense: in dry climates animals can serve to collect food (grasses, etc.) which would be impossible for humans to use. Once they have walked around acres and square miles of land, eating, we chop them up and eat the results, or maybe just harvest their milk and wool. I think this is called the food chain. Fortunately we are at the top.

[foolish]

Cows have 7 stomachs to digest grass. We only have the one.

I thought cows only had four. Either way I see your point.

Hard to argue with teeth. Have we been wrong these past millions of years?

So what about the first animals with teeth? Did they suddenly find they had teeth perfect for eating the prey around them? I'm no expert on prehistoric zoology, but surely they would evolve over millions of years and adapt to suit what they could find.

The ones we call canine (3rd from the front) are cylindrical and pointy. They are designed to poke through and tear meat.

Thats where your wrong. They are designed for opening packets of tofu.