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Re: Ketogenic Diet - Over 50 pounds in 81 Days
@AlexDeGruven said:
Why do I love keto? (not you, @keto, though I'm sure you're great and all)Scout camp weekend stopped at Tony's in Birch Run on the way home. If you're not familiar with Tony's, it's famous for mass quantities of food. The side-order of bacon is a pound of bacon.
I murdered an entire "Three Little Pigs" omelette, which as you might imagine has ham, bacon, and sausage, as well as cheese at lunch yesterday.
Got up this morning and I was still down 2lb from Friday morning. That puts me at 9lb down on the week.
Funny. I'm down almost 30 lbs (194-167 @ 6' tall) since Oct. 5 (CDN Thanksgiving) but it has nothing to do with Keto, just strictly calorie control.
keto
Re: Ketogenic Diet - Over 50 pounds in 81 Days
@Cliff_Forster said:
@RADA said:
I did a full ketogenic program last Feb to May.I lost 51.3 pounds during that time frame.!
After that, I kept to it on and off.
I gained about 14 pounds since then. I've jumped back on a full keto program again since Jan 2, and have already lost 5 pounds.
My next goal is 200 to 210 by my birthday in June.
What's a day of eating like for you? Do you do larger meals less often, smaller meals more? What are your typical protein sources? Caloric intake and such? I'm about 245 right now, and I really need to be more like 215. I can exercise but most of my progress is going to have to be done with diet due to a couple injuries I'm working through. I'm intrigued by your success.
Let me tell you that (almost, unless you're training for a marathon) no matter how much exercise you get, calorie control will give you much faster losses.
I eat a bowl of cereal (high fiber, mueslix or granola), 2 cups of coffee with milk in the morning. ONE SLICE of grain toast and peanut butter for lunch. A normal (meat, veggies, pasta, hell even the occasional fast food hamburger) but light/push my plate away when REASONABLY satisfied supper. An oatmeal bar OR beef jerky OR popcorn when dying for a snack. No soda or other beverages, no alcohol, just water. At 6' 167lbs I am still losing weight, while doing virtually no exercise and piloting a desk for a living, down from 194. I don't count calories or protein. I look skinny as hell (I'm 55. I didn't go past 150 lbs until I was late 30's/early 40's, so I've mostly always been pretty thin) but still have a bit of a belly and handfuls of love handles.
keto
Recipes: No-Knead Bread
Hey y'all
This is the easiest bread ever. Here's the famous, original recipe:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
But there's a billion other versions out there. The original writer also did a book on the bread.
The basics of the recipe boil down to this:
3 cups of flour
3/4 tsp instant yeast
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups water
Combine dry ingredients.
Add water.
Will form a shaggy, wet dough.
Cover dough, then let it sit for roughly 8-24 hours. Dough will rise and form bubbles.
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Stick dutch oven/ some sort of covered casserole dish into oven to get hot.
Cover hands/surface with flour. Turn dough over once or twice. Cover again and let sit for another half hour.
Once the half hour has passed/ the oven is hot, cover your hands in flour again, form the dough into a ball (if possible) and drop into the hot dish in the oven. Can cut slits in the top if you fancy.
Cook for 30 minutes with the lid on, then 15 minutes with the lid off.
Carefully remove from oven and when possible, tip the bread out. If it's done, will sound hollow when the bottom is tapped.
The neat thing about this recipe? You'll see a billion versions of it because it's super super forgiving. Less instant yeast? Sure! Oops, too much water? No problem!
You can also add more stuff to this. I've done:
Chocolate bread-- added 2 tbsps sugar, maybe a tbsp cocoa powder, and a cup of chocolate chips.
Wheat-- two cups wheat flour, one cup white flour, then I also threw in some chia seeds, sunflower seeds. etc.
Cheese-- I usually do a cup of shredded cheese, and then dial back the salt content. Also ends up needing more water. I think next time I'm gonna amp up the cheese, actually.
Cinnamon-- added 2 tbsps sugar, 1 tbsp cinnamon, and a cup of cinnamon chips. WAS CANDY BREAD.
Note: You can also use the instant pot to speed up the rising process! But I have only tried it with chocolate bread, which I do NOT recommend-- the heat melted the chocolate chips. Oops. Very very wet dough, made a very flat, dense bread. But you could probably do that with a normal white bread or a wheat bread no problem.
Show me your sexy bread pics!!
Re: Save The Date: Expo Icrontic 2019 is coming!
Our first new event idea has been submitted, and it was an insta-approve!
Linc
"The Dark Block" sealed deck: What the hell is that?
I made up a stupid Magic format, it was every bit as terrible as I'd hoped, and I want to tell you about it.
For most of its history, Magic: The Gathering sets were printed in "blocks" of 2-3 that were thematically related. This started in 1996 and continued until early 2018. Before blocks started*, there were 6 early expansion sets that were all extremely ad hoc (by today's standards) as they were put together very hastily. What's interesting about them is that while they are all extremely uneven power-wise, it's generally agreed the first 3 contained many truly powerful cards (especially for the time) and the latter 3 were a true low point for Magic set design.
Sealed packs of those first three sets (Arabian Nights, Antiquities, and Legends) are extremely rare and expensive. Sealed packs of those other three sets (The Dark, Fallen Empires, Homelands)... not so much.
[*Nerd note: I am glossing over the Ice Age retcon shenanigans by just calling that the first block.]
Anything from the first decade of Magic is gonna play really badly in limited (sealed or draft) formats because it wasn't really designed for that. Let alone trying it with the 3 worst consecutive sets in Magic history, that aren't even mechanically related.
So of course I really, really wanted to try it.
I decided to create a "The Dark Block" sealed deck game using The Dark, Fallen Empires, and Homelands. All three sets have a post-apocalyptic flavor to them. The Dark & Fallen Empires explore the after effects of a global war, while Homelands explores a community that's created a home in a wasteland. It's some epic on-point flavor for the worst sets and it ties the whole thing together almost poetically. It's "The Dark Block" in more ways than one.
A few more things to keep in mind about these sets:
- All of these sets came in 8-card boosters, which was the norm for expansions until Ice Age and Mirage changed it to 15. So to hit a similar card count as modern sealed (six 15-card boosters), we'll need 12 boosters a piece.
- There isn't a rare slot per se in these older sets, there's just different levels of uncommon. So we can't even count on these boosters having even rarity distribution.
- The rules system has been overhauled twice since these cards were printed.
- All of these sets are gravely underpowered across the board and have absolutely terrible mana fixing and removal options.
I decided to really go all-in and double up on Homelands, probably the worst-designed of these badly designed sets. It has a special nostalgic place in my heart, and it felt like throwing a little more gas on the fire. So we'd each get:
- 3 packs of The Dark
- 3 packs of Fallen Empires
- 6 pack of Homelands
Delightful.
Soon it would be time for a truly dark game of Magic.
Linc
Re: Icrontic 2018 Events & Accommodations
For 2019, I'm doing individual discussions per event and I'll split off the house info to an informational page.
Linc
Spider-Man: Far from home
Gahhhh the nice thing about not following movie news is that I was totally surprised by this one today. I had no idea they were doing another Spider-Man movie!
Re: Ketogenic Diet - Over 50 pounds in 81 Days
Why do I love keto? (not you, @keto, though I'm sure you're great and all)
Scout camp weekend stopped at Tony's in Birch Run on the way home. If you're not familiar with Tony's, it's famous for mass quantities of food. The side-order of bacon is a pound of bacon.
I murdered an entire "Three Little Pigs" omelette, which as you might imagine has ham, bacon, and sausage, as well as cheese at lunch yesterday.
Got up this morning and I was still down 2lb from Friday morning. That puts me at 9lb down on the week.
