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BLT Salad

October 15, 2008 – 6:04 pm

This is a rather low-carb meal, and depending on how bad pork fat really is (and depending on whether or not you are using bacon cured with nitrates/nitrites), possibly rather healthy. This is for a single portion. Ingredients: salad greens, tomatos, ground pepper, balsamic vinegar, bacon. (Optional: raw almonds, avocado.) Cut two big strips (or [...]

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Low carb

September 6, 2008 – 7:16 pm

For slightly over a month, I’ve been experimenting with a reduced carbohydrate intake. While I’ve never been a noticeably fat person, I’ve ranged from 15 to 35 pounds overweight for most of my adult life, ever since going off to college and gaining the “freshman fifteen”. And, at times, I’d been running a total of [...]

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