Hypocrite! Tales of a Low Carber who cooks high carb stuff.
I love food. I don’t think this could ever be argued. Especially after seeing almost 260 pound Elon it would be hard to really question. But now that I’ve been slimming down (The scale said 214 this morning. I’m not updating my weight on the sidebar there until I get a 2nd or 3rd day weigh in. I’d be too happy) I’m always asked what do I eat, how do I eat it, what do I cook?
This past weekend I gave everyone a taste
There was a bit of confusion from some. “Elon, can you eat anything you cooked here?” and the answer? Not really. Some of it I can, but things like the Vanilla Buttercream Expresso Brownie drizzled with a white chocolate ganache? Not so much. But I will cook it and serve it to others.
“BUT CARBS ARE EVIL! YOUR BLOG IS CALLED ALLERGIC TO CARBS!”
Yes. Yes it is called that, thank you for being so observant. But just because I feel I have issues with carbs doesn’t mean society does. Okay, perhaps a lot of society does, but not EVERYONE. My good friend Aaron ate 2 of those Expresso Brownies and he’s thin as a rail. He always has been. I have a tons of friends who keep a very healthy weight and lack health problems in general while enjoying a few cocktails along with some fries or other carb laden stuff. They’re fine.
I’m not.
I have various issues. Being diabetic and overweight is not a very carb friendly lifestyle. Gary Taubes, author of “Good Calories, Bad Calories” puts a lot of interesting ideas out there about obesity. One of which is that its a disorder (this is an idea that quite a few Obesity experts believe as well). I certainly believe it strictly on anecdotal evidence. I see friends who drink and eat and are perfectly fine. I have a friend who’s fat, and i mean WAAAY fatter than I was and yet he has no health issues. He’s not diabetic or ANYTHING.
There are a lot of roads traveled in this world when it comes to nutrition, diet, and health. The idea is to know your path. I didn’t have a few drinks with friends yesterday because for me, I know i’ll gain 10 pounds of water weight. It’ll drop in a day or 2, but who wants to go through all of that. But I would NOT stop someone from having a drink or giving them one of my stacks of beers i have in my house (bought a lot right before i started dropping the weight.) I’m on my own path to a better health and a happy life. I enjoy conversing with people who are on a similar path and iI have no problem sharing information with someone who may be suffering from the same crap I was . My mom, who IS overweight and diabetic gets an earful from me about this stuff. Aaron, the skinny dude eating 2 brownies? Not so much.
Low Carbers PICK YOUR BATTLES.
