My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

I don't have a photo from today but I made and ate this again except with smoked bacon, Morrisons delivered smoked back bacon instead of normal bacon, prefer normal to be honest.



14 stone 12 pounds this morning, 65 lbs of weight gotten rid of since 4th of January this year or 29.48 kilogram eating that kind of breakfast.


Your wife clearly burns a lot of energy but you said she works in the NHS so her job will burn energy.

I take it from the sauce that you are in French Canada

I also tried something different last night using riced broccoli as the base for one of my curries, this was a very nice Beef Saag curry with broccoli rice, the broccoli actually works better with this than cauliflower rice.

Have you had any lingering long term symptoms from Covid Jim?

Really rapid weight loss through illness will probably have cost you muscle mass, exercise and a good bit of protein would probably help you.

I had plateaued a bit was stuck at 15 st 5 lbs, basically I had let the carb content of my intake creep up and that was getting stored as glycogen that's why there is a big drop from the 5th Nov to the 12th as I got back into keto territory I was depleting the glycogen which gets excreted as water in the end, just need to keep it up again, the carbs were coming from consuming too many nuts mostly peanuts but I really need the nuts in my diet for the fibre, I've dropped the peanuts but still have some mixed nuts.

Morrisons are doing a 2 packs for £4 deal on these just now normally over £3 per pack


This is about 25 grams I have that much twice a day to get fibre.


I think I will be happy when I reach about 80 kg, I don't mind having some fat reserves.

I will be buying a lot of kimchi next time I get over

Good that you got over Covid, I still worry about it as I am still pretty overweight, but at least my booster should be at full effect by next Sunday, I would feel a lot better if case rates in the UK were substantially lower but we basically have an R0 rate of 1 in this country and the pandemic will never end unless the R0 is lower than 1 for a very extended period of time, we need to exit this winter with low case numbers so next summer sees an end to it through the vaccination programme.

It is nice bacon Jim, sorry I missed your reply as it was embedded in the quote, this was either Morrisons or Lidl can't remember which, this one is Lidl, although this looks like it is supposed to be a local farm this is actually a fake farm and the meat comes from one of the giant producers still very nice though.

Yeah I've rarely had really nice bacon in the Phils and I know what you mean about the streaky bacon over there, it is hard to get good bacon there even for breakfast in a hotel plus hard to get good bacon there without some strange cure flavour.



I grill it in my table top oven, the main benefit being that this takes 7 minutes 30 seconds and I can guarantee repeatability on that time with my standard grill settings.

An update on the belt story.

As I mentioned before I had two belts I bought 16 years ago and I love them both they were over 40 quid each really well crafted with a 24" concealed money pouch in both of them, well I have reached the limit of the smaller belt and it was time to do something and I can't find anything equivalent to these belts or at least I can only find one which is similar but also costs over 40 quid.

So bought this, it is brilliant and only £10.99:



Original holes with position of first new hole marked


First new hole punched.


Two more added, my craft skills are not perfect alignment is a tiny tiny bit out but it is not bad.


My 40 inch 16 year old jeans are now starting to be too large for me but are still comfortable for me and my T-shirts are getting baggy.

It's a shame about the 40" jeans being too big as they are the last smallest size I have from ages ago other than a pair of 34" jeans that are in mint condition but are nearly 32 years old going to order some cheap 38" ones from M&S maybe 2 pairs to last 4 months maybe.

This is comfortable on the second new hole so 2 inches tighter.



To compare back in April I was at position 2 on this belt I adjusted tonight.



The leather punch tool is really well built very solid and really effective got it on Amazon.

Leather Hole Punch, [Upgraded Version][Perfect Full Set] Diyife Belt Puncher, Heavy Duty Revolving Plier Tool with 2 Extra Plates and Ruler, Multi Sized for Crafts, Card, Rubber, etc, Blue : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools

For comparison this is both my belts together.

On the 1st of January 2021 I was on the furthest hole on the longer belt compared to second last new hole now on the shorter belt. And that furthest hole was a tight stretch back then looks like 9 or 10 inches off my waist.

That's some very interesting theorising that is going on there in that study even though it is not peer reviewed yet.

An old school friend of mine is a now retired Senior Vice President at Astra Zeneca he was a biochemist/microbiologist, he commented on a kaplan-meier survivability graph that another pal of mine posted recently which showed that round about 50% of people with serious Covid are dead within 12 months of recovery, his comment was "We knew this disease was a bad one. The inflammatory cascade which is stimulated in the severely ill was always going to lead to longer term problems".

The whole problem with Covid has always been the inflammatory response hence this article makes a lot of good points.

One problem with fat cells is that once you have them they don't really die off when you lose weight, they just release the fat stores to be burned but you still possess more fat cells as a result of the time in the past when you were putting on weight compared to someone who had always been thin.

Saying that my understanding of fat cells is pretty old these days this is stuff I read decades ago but I think what I am saying is still considered to be current thinking.

I just made a panful of Cullen Skink. Is that healthy??

It tastes absolutely divine.