octoberfest diet, beer and sausages

11 pounds today, italian sausage and eggs for breakfast, bratts for lunch picking up my beer on the way home

down 13 in 18 days, some more food ideas, and if you choose this diet dont forgrt to drink the 6 beers a day, been mixing it up wit 2 cheap, 2 guinness, and two top shelf, and sometimes you have to work harder on your diet and drink more

yep, seems to be real atkins friendly as well but sausage and beer sounds better )

my grandfather died at 89 years and 11 months, his diet the last 50 or so years was boiled hotdogs, beer, and his pipe ) his only visit to the doctors office in his wole lifetime was for a gallstone pretty much my whole family made 90 going back 3 generations, pretty sure theres more to it than just what we are told is healthy. my great grandfather showed up at tryouts for the redsox drunk ) he didnt make the team, but he made 90. now we all know its unhealthy but the facts are the facts nobody does studies to prove lettuce is unhealthy for you so we all assume its  a heathy food, lettuce screws me up so bad that my doctor recommends that i not eat it

NDG said:

Of course you can reference many outliers (smoked 2 packs a day and lived to 102, etc. etc.) but our country has a health problem and silly to think we are powerless.  Genetics is HUGE, nothing is absolute and most everything is ok in moderation.   

Personally, I am not one to put my head in the sand and wish for the best and I think its ridiculous to say the fuel we put in our body has no impact on our health, mood, etc.  Having a basic understanding helps to serve as a guide when we make food/drink choices on a daily basis - and these choice add up.  

just so you understand, im on this diet to lose fat, maintain muscle, lower my blood pressure and cholesterol ) somehow i believe ill be healthier with a bmi under 25 and a descent blood pressure reading and thats the direction im heading right now. and if you look at the plates you can see im cheating with veggies and fruit

NDG said:

Hey it sounds good to me!  I just wanted to jump in because I read someone post "its all about calories" and most everyone on the planet believes this, but its not correct!

i believe in that too, when i read atkins book years ago one thing that always stuck was that if you do eat bread with a meal add extra butter to it as it changes the way your body processes it so its even how you mix those calories that counts

Coastalcooker said:

Did you forget to tell us you started running five miles every morning?

 that would be very difficult to do with the required beer drinking )

Canugghead said:

Nice, did you make those sausages from scratch?

not from scratch, ive got 3 butchers within a few miles of me that make a huge variety of different types.