'The Messiah Complex'

 
    Albert Einstein said that "you can't blame gravity for falling in love". You can, however, blame it for running badly. Let me expand on this: running is essentially just controlled falling. The sole reason for not crashing magnificently into the dirt is the jumping action you perform that propels you upwards and onwards. Now, if you weigh more than you should, the jumping bit gets harder, if you weigh less, it gets easier and if you weigh too little (relatively), it also becomes more difficult.

 With these thoughts rattling around in my head, it's conspicuously apparent I'm carrying 'a little post holiday, holiday weight'. In the months of January and February I have been nothing if not Bacchanal but not in the good, glitter-ending-up-in-every-orifice-kind-of-way. I'm carrying 'a little post holiday, holiday weight'. So, taking on board this obvious cosmic message, I'm shifting the weight. Here's how...

'The Tale of the Cuban Peasant'

On the whole, I eat meat as frequently as if I were a Cuban. The average working salary, daily, is $30. The cost beef/lb is around $3. That's 10% of my daily income. If you had to spend 10% of your daily income, how often would you buy beef? Not very often. So, I tend to live off vegetables, eggs, pulses and rice and bean combos so that I nail all the right amino acids. They're also light in the stomach, easily digested and taste like Fidel Castro...in a nice way.

An example:

Mix kidney beans, wholegrain rice, coriander (or basil or parsley), halved baby tomatoes, broccoli (I microwave it), cubed beetroot (you can buy it already cooked), olive oil and a shit load of lemon juice (I avoid onions for obvious social reasons). To jazz the dish up, add toasted pine nuts, some feta cheese and maybe some toasted cumin seeds. Pomegranate seeds are always a good shout as well but you do run the risk of communicating only in vowel sounds and using words like 'yummy'. Having said that, as Deliciously Ella once wrote, "Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown and be sweet inside."  But, as I say, "Be an electric toothbrush in a Catholic girls school".

I should add, briefly, that eating meat on a daily basis is as good for our planet as driving around in tank that's only fuel is baby orangutans and rhino horn.

2. 'The Messiah Complex'

In an increasingly secular world, we naturally look for a higher being and purpose. The idea that we might be left to our own devices is too much, hence bootcamp was created, and strip clubs. Anyway, brushing that aside reluctantly, I'm using fasting to help speed up weight loss. Fasting works for some but not for others, requires a degree of will power and is not the right or wrong way by any means.

I wrote a blog post explaining about fasting but to summarise: I don't eat for 16-17 hours (from 8pm to 12 to 1pm, this drops my insulin levels and by the morning I'm in a zone called 'ketosis' that signifies I'm now burning fat as my main fuel source. I only drink water and have one cup of coffee with a tablespoon of MCT oil (pure coconut oil - 100% saturated fat), I also take my omega 3 tablets with my coffee as research suggest this not only boosts the metabolism but also helps ward off Alzheimer's as the combination of MCT's (medium-chain triglycerides) and omegas is rocket fuel for your brain.

*NB I will be soon trialling a powder called 'Keto OS' that one takes with water and that places your body into an instant state of ketosis WITHOUT HAVING TO FAST OVERNIGHT, so can be taken at any time of the day. Apparently it's not unlike the film 'Limitless'. The powers that be tell me, "Ketosis grants a world where 'slumps' don't exist, you just freebase along a perfect river, without the turbulence energy spikes create." We shall see... .


I'm afraid time allows only two points to be shared. More will follow. Besides, there is plenty to get stuck into.