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Absolutely complete failure. Not compatible with exercise, even a bit. Now, we did go on a harder than usual single-track, but my brain ran out of thinking juice three miles in and I crashed. Could have been worse, I landed in an Ocotillo instead of a Saguaro or jumping cactus. Or the other option, continuing off the cliff. It fucked the ride completely and we turned back. On the other hand, it was an off day for all of us. We don't know why. One of my usual riding partners kept getting stuck on hill climbs and she's usually just powering up everything, at 120 pounds. Another kept sticking on technical rocky shit he's good at. Dunno. Mars in retrograde? But I am WIPED the fuck out, feel terrible. Got dizzy and nauseous. One of the nutritionists I follow says that weight loss/calorie restriction are one thing, and exercise should never be mixed with it.

One easy option is simply canned low-salt beans and hot sauce. Also canned low salt corn, bagged microwave rice, and things like that are tools I rely on for travel. The really hard travel for me is with people, who often want to go out to eat, and it's usually junk. I think I ate more grease and salt during NeXXt than I do all year. Spice it up with a tortilla, guac/avocado, some beans, and some hot sauce. Quick nutrition, not terrible.

A bunch of anecdotal emails is not "over 1000 case studies" nor is it "data." This should not be used as medical advice or guidance. And the Vitaspace web site looks like it was made on Myspace in 1998. Also, a paper form you can mail or FAX --FAX-- to order? WTF. Credibility 0. I would urge caution.

But don't ride on a full moon.

Hahahaha, now she's proactively bringing me recipe ideas. There's nothing quite as motivating as making your body work better through real nutrition, and then having it taken away. This happens to me every time I travel, and reminds me to do better.

In October is all we have right now. Will probably nail down some dates in the next month or so. Also I learned that Southwest won't let you book or even view flights more than six months in advance. The place is actually in Hayesville, which I think is just a couple hours from you. Believe me, you'll get a PM and address when I know the details.

Pretty sure it would be one of those 0.01% tolerance kind of things. At some level of accuracy, absolutely everything needs to be accounted for including the phase of the moon, which would pull the belt in different directions. Entropy at its extremes is a real bitch.

This is going well and getting far easier. Yesterday for the family lunch, I had tofu noodles and a few bites of a poke bowl, then nothing for the rest of the day. I'm mildly hungry, not starving. I didn't expect to beat my brain and body into a new paradigm in just a few days. It will get fucked next week when I travel, but going to keep it up until then. It will be interesting on Saturday as I have a big MTB group ride planned and will be running it with zero body fuel.

This was really great, Moriah absolutely loved it. I ended up with a full large can of coconut after all, so editing it again with my "live" changes as I watched the consistency develop.

That's very similar to a lot of videos you already post, so you're right.

Only the bionic ones. Vegan Mime School for Robots

Breaking my 24 hour fast with this. I can't take credit for the recipe, it was on the WFPB subreddit. Everyone seems to love it. Basically butter chicken, minus butter and chicken. The coconut and tahini or other nut butter makes up for the creaminess. I will probably add a blob of coconut sour cream on top. I'm making lime rice with it (use the juice of two limes in place of equivalent broth, for two person serving). 1 onion and some garlic sautéed on their own, set aside. 1 can chickpeas added to sauce at the end Sauce: 1 TBSP curry powder or garam masala 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 1 can crushed tomatoes 1 can coconut milk 1/4 cup nut butter, such as tahini (I may use less) 1 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tbsp maple syrup 1 tablespoon low sodium tamari or soy sauce Simmer all of the above for a while, you could do a short time, but I'd shoot for over half an hour. Add the can of garbanzos and heat, probably 5-10 minutes. Serve on rice rice with cilantro. I made basmati rice with two limes substituting part of the broth, a bit of saffron, and potassium chloride. Adding potatoes to this would be great, and that will be added next time. It also would fix the fact that this is extra saucy; the potatoes will thicken it. Or add porcini powder.

I would totally understand that, and would just eat. I'm talking about going to a restaurant. A great thing to ask ourselves, for sure. I need to work on this, a lot. I'm not sure where I'm going to start. Or, where I will start after all previous failures. 3:30 and I'm feeling alright. Maybe I'll just turn this into a fast until tomorrow's lunch.

Challenging but still holding out today. Aside from starting to get hungry by 11, there's just the habit of a break and making lunch. Just realized tomorrow I have a family lunch tomorrow. I can just not eat, but people are so amazingly weird about that. I don't care, except I care for how they feel. Why do people act like there's something wrong if you choose not to eat? This is something I run into all the time as I choose not to eat on a schedule or eat junk.

I'm trying to do single-meal days right now, let's see how it goes. One down (yesterday); had dinner on Sunday about 6, nothing until 6:30 last night. That was composed of a kilo of Brussels Sprouts and close to a pound of potatoes, with a bit of coconut sour cream and onion. The sprouts were marinated in balsamic and Za'Atar seasoning. I should be shitting like a pet monkey today.

LOL, fucking vegans. There's an argument about wether honey is vegan or not. The bees are not damaged, but, they are forced into slavery to make it. And supposedly when you "steal" the honey they work harder to make more. Hahahaha, and if you think I'm making that up, google it, no, they are that retarded. I love using the term "mostly vegan" because it draws out the nutty gatekeepers. "YOU CAN'T BE MOSTLY VEGAN." Mmmmm...fish on, let's go.

Highly processed, low nutrition, high in sodium. Mac & Cheese boxes and similar, frozen dinners (though I've really pushed those to 50% healthier options), ramen, chips, Club crackers, chocolate, basic processed snack foods. She'll eat chocolate chips and marshmallows, too lazy to turn them into a s'more. The compromises have been sweetened nuts, trisquits more than the junkier options, medium-nutrition rice snacks, higher value frozen things, etc. But even then, she's noticing when the grease/sodium are up and fiber is down. There's no replacement for real green things and real food-based fiber. Her bowels confirm this.

I was told in no uncertain terms that I was cooking real food tonight.

I just ran into a great "excuse" for one. Looking at flying into ATL and going out to a friend's cabin in the North GA woods (do I hear banjos?) in October. There will be several of us flying in. Two per Slingshot/Spyder is far more rational than trying to get two-wheelers, but the GA weather should be fine for riding.

We could find out. But yeah, I wonder the same thing. https://www.eagleshare.com/polaris-rentals/slingshot/whittier-california-united-states/14452?pickup_date=2023-05-10&dropoff_date=2023-05-11

This should be as accurate as tuning guitar strings, which can be super accurate. But like Oscar says, you'd have to have specifics for your belt in your application.

Oscar was first in, he gets them.

This is neat. (From the owners manual for Zero motorcycles).

One of the reasons we have limited data on how nutrition affects people is that it would be unethical to purposely put people on a shitty diet to see how they do. Most Americans are on a shitty diet by their own choice, so we do have some data, but it's hard to get people to simply change their diet and keep it up for a long time, thus building comparative data. Left to her own choices, Moriah mostly eats trash, maybe even more than most people. I carefully did a couple months of very regularly providing real food for us, no dairy, mostly no salt or oil, etc. She commented that she thought she felt better, and certainly had less bowel issues. Ok, so then I took it away. I didn't really cook much for a while, and/or I cooked trashier stuff. A couple days ago she asked if we had any Purple Carrot deliveries coming soon (I paused them, they are healthy pre-portion ingredients for specific meals). I said no and she was disappointed. Most Fridays, I cook a good healthy dinner for a group of friends and neighbors. I'd also skipped this last week and had been traveling the Fridays before. Today I told her we were doing our usual, and she said, "Thank god, I need real food again. Why haven't you been cooking? I've been eating trash, and I feel shitty." I hope to get published and peer reviewed soon. Or tried for violating the Geneva Convention on human experiments. Or both.

Well, some humans more than others, LOL. But you make a great point, I prefer human trials for real decisions, and animal trials as a hint or possible suggestion.