Low Carb Dave Blog is closed.

I have decided to close my blog.

What happenned? I've just received a big promotion at work which will require more responsibility, more hours and more stress. I simply won't have the energy or will to blog.

Am I still losing weight? Yes. It's a long journey but I'm getting there.

Like a lot of bloggers, I have lost interest in keeping this thing going.

Where do I spend my low carb chat time? Over at my forum: AUSLOWCARB.

It's a great little forum that is far from flamey. Anyone can join up, not just Aussies. There is a journals section which is only open to members. That is where I am tracking my journey.

Thank you to all the readers and other bloggers than have supported this blog.

It's time for me to move on to other things.

If you are interested in my future progress, it will be chronicaled over at AUSLOWCARB.

Thank you and Good Night!

Office Space Recut.

A recut preview that makes the cult geek movie 'Office space' look like a horror film!

Movie Previews.

It seems the Borat movie is doing quite well in the USA.

Back in September I posted the preview. Hey, do I ever lead you wrong!?

he he

For some reason I am a massive movie buff. I like them good and bad. I watch a lot. Wouldn't it be great to be a full time reviewer! LOL They don't make much money though.

The New Spiderman preview is out. You must check this one out!

Kiwi!

A great Animation by a Masters Student.

Hanker for a Hunk o Cheese.

We never had this in Australia. Umm yeah - what the heck??

The Mysterious Stall.

There was a thread on the ALC forum that really 'spoke' to me. It was by 'theCaveMan'. I thought I would share it:-

War Zone, indeed. Check out my sig and you'll see that you've hit upon my two biggest peeves: calorie counting and sticking to the plan. Sometimes, these two frequent complaints make it very hard to come here and be helpful.

Failure to stick to the plan runs rampant here, as the stalling, cheese-eating paleos will tell you. It's obviously not helpful for me to simply repeat what the creators of the plan intended. They read the books, fail to follow the plan, stall, and then vigorously defend their failure to follow the plan and then pledge their allegiance to calorie counting. Anyone want to PayPal me a dime for every post I can find like this? Or how about ten dollars for every post like this in this thread alone?

When I started paleoing four years ago (DAMN!), I had every reason to believe I would fail completely, in hindsight. Hindsight yes, from where I sit now. Back in September of 2002, I was all over it and the thought of me cheating or going off plan was an impossibility.

But thinking about it now, I really wonder how it did it. I can count the number of times I've cheated on one hand. Bully for me, pompous jackass that I am, eh? I'm not here to show off, I'm here to wonder why it was so easy for me. Since I have no reason to believe that willpower exists (check the sig again), I can't give myself any of the credit.

(Since I'm going to talk about Atkins, here's a brief rundown of paleo, my chosen plan: Paleo is a diet of elimination of kinds of foods. No dairy, no grain are the two big ones. Tubers. Sugar in processed food is made from a grass, so that's out. Just these few simple things takes nearly all processed food off the table, and you are reduced to meat, vegetables, fruit and nuts. And that's the diet. There is no adding dairy when you reach goal, there is no change in the diet over time, with the exception of cutting back on the fruit to lose weight. Like most all of the plans discussed in these forums, the authors of this plan denounce calorie counting as unscientific and unnecessary.)

I credit my rejection of willpower as my key to staying on plan. I have a desire to stay on plan, and I know that if I stay on plan I will more often stay on plan. I didn't say it was easier to stay on plan if I stay on plan. I said that if I will stay on plan if I stay on plan.

Hormones and neurotransmitters and electricity collide in my brain and I do whatever those collisions require. I have no choice. The years I've spent figuring this out lent direct benefit to my weight-loss success. Success yes, I've lost the weight, but also success because sticking to plan was as easy as falling off a log. I don't choose to not eat the birthday cake, I just don't eat it. I have to credit passing up cake to the collisions.

Just as thinking that you have the choice to do something or not is a delusion, so is saying things on these forums about going off plan. The rationalizations we come up with to explain a cheat to others are, frankly, lame lies.

If you go off plan, your collisions made you go off plan. You did not choose to go off plan. If you make up some nonsense about why you cheated, your collisions made you make up some nonsense. You didn't choose the nonsense.

The urge to quote and reveal the nonsense in these forums (even in this thread) is sometimes strong. Stalling Atkinsers are the easiest to pick on, only because Atkins was so specific about what needed to be done to be successful on the diet. The few times that I've responded to a stall post telling the staller to lower the amount of carbohydrate that they eat, I got totally and completely ignored, with the original poster lamenting that she was going to have to go back to calorie counting if no one could think of anything that was stalling her. So repeating the exact same advice that Atkins gives is of no help, because the staller knows it already.

Modifying Atkins is just the collisions making you eat more carbohydrate. Around here, cutting calories is a great way to justify more carbohydrate.

If you're not cheating, and aren't losing, and want to talk about cutting calories, then let's talk. But you probably are cheating, so cut the cheating instead of the calories.

On the Edge of Blade Runner.

Documentary on the Sci-Fi movie, Blade Runner.

1960s commercial - Low Calorie Canned Fruit.

Came to this from Diet Blog. Umm yeah - wth??

http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/10/27/what_has_decades_of_dieting_accomplished.php

Halloween Sugar.

This cartoon comes from News Target which is a great health site.

Livin La Vida Low Carb Show.

Will anything stop this man? Jimmy Moore's enthusiasm for low carb seems unstoppable!

Even after coming through some personal storms lately, he still manages to pump out post after post on his blog!

I find it hard to keep up! LOL

Now Jimmy has his own Podcast show! I've listened to his first show and it's very inspirational. You get that personal passion from his voice, that you cannot get purely from his writing.

Is this guy the next Tony Robbins?

As an Aussie, I must say I found the intro jingle kinda corny! But I think that's part of Jimmy's charm.

When I first started on this journey, Jimmy's blog had only been in action for about two months. Could you imagine being a newbie now and having all these resources at your finger tips?

My advice: subscribe to the podcast. Big things are going to happen with this!

It's good timing too, as I have received an ipod for my anniversary gift! (Thanks honey! P.S. I will marry you one day!)

Jimmy has a competition going as well to celebrate the new show.


http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/