The surest road to failure in the first few days of low-carb dieting is to listen to your body. The whole notion of listening to your body is one of my major pet peeves. In fact, just hearing those words makes me want to puke. In my experience, they are usually uttered by females with moist, dreamy looks in their eyes, but not always. I just read a ton of comments in recent Paleo blog post in which vastly more males than females actually wrote this drivel.Moist, dreamy looks?? {{{{{shudder}}}}}} Very strange choice of words.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Creepy Eades?
Is it just me, or was anyone else kinda weirded out by this paragraph in Eades' recent post:
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totally creepy. I stopped reading it after females moist.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Reading the whole blog, I thought he almost had a point about not giving in to your body's cravings, but then he lost me with the militant attitude about going "cold turkey" off the carbs. Isn't a gradual transition much easier on the body?
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, my idea of "low carb" is not having a pop tart after a long run. :-)
Did you read til the end where he recommends eating meat dripping with fat? "Wallow in Mangalitsa lardo." Ewww, almost as creepy as the moist comment. I thought he had a clue about calories. Guess not.
ReplyDeleteYou can't use the word "moist" and then refer to ANY part of a woman's body without having folks' thoughts go looking for the gutter... LMAO!!! Keep in mind that this is the same guy that went off on a bunch of nurses. I can't remember exactly what he said, but Colpo mentioned it during the back and forth he had with Eades a while back.
ReplyDeleteCS, you crack me up ... LOL!
Yeah foodteacher ... I really had to go check the URL to make sure I hadn't been redirected to some spoof site or something. Nope, that was the official blog alright!
ReplyDeleteRight on Muata! Something folks learn about me eventually is that I possess many freakish qualities ;) One of which is my memory. My hubby is still paying for crap he did back when we first met in 1985! LOL I was not a big Eades reader, but I've picked up on enough little slips on his part as regards women over the past year or so to raise the hairs in my bunny ears. I do remember AC mentioning something too.
At least Eades doesn't have a thing for posting pics of obese women in their undies.
Yeah, MM, after the opening, that dive into the fat made me wonder if he doesn't harbor fantasies for obese women lardo wrestling or something.
Tom: Thanks for the chuckle :) He has a point in that for some, induction flu can be some sort of withdrawal. Never happened to me so I can't say. But when is it we should listen to our bodies then? I mean isn't it our body talking when we get the urge to eat?
CS: I think we should always listen to our bodies, not just when they're shouting "feed me". When you say "Urge to eat", that sounds psychological. Does it go away if you ignore it? Are you feeling energetic or fatigued? Thinking clearly or foggy headed? Any nagging pains? Things like this can give you clues to whether your hunger or craving is genuine or not.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it should be listen to your entire body, not just the parts that are shouting.
I think if you listen to your body you go to hell, or something. And if you are moist also, you go to a worse hell. And a worser one if you have a long run of pop tarts.
ReplyDeleteEades is worse than creepy, he's a total prick. When I was a low-carber I tried to excuse his language with the excuse that he was a loveable curmudgeon on a crusade against ignorance. Now I know that he's just a total prick.
ReplyDeleteIn that post he says: "Listening to your body is giving the elephant free rein. If you’re three days into your stop-smoking program, and you listen to your body, you’re screwed."
Ahem, I quit smoking successfully 28 years ago (age 28, after smoking heavily for 10 years) and he's DEAD WRONG. I distinctly remember what the process was like. I had tried to quit almost as soon as I got hooked and failed at least a dozen times. How I finally quit is a long story: but the important part of the process is:
I LISTENED TO MY BODY.
My body felt better every minute I wasn't smoking.
I could breathe deeper.
I could walk faster and longer.
I could smell things.
I could taste food....
It wasn't "listening to my body" that was the potential saboteur. It was "listening to my evil inclination to want to smoke whatever the hell that was." (Doctors: insert your favorite brain center du jour here.)
Michael Eades is the worst guy in the low-carb world, and that is saying a lot. He's a miserable creep. I hate him with a passion.
Now tell us how you really feel Diana ;-)
ReplyDeleteEven when making some good points, I've never much liked the way this guy "talks".
Steph you crack me up!
Good thoughts there Tom.
Well, I'll give Eades this: after several days (or weeks, I stopped checking), he approved my comment on this thread:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/the-big-lie/#comment-250177
Scroll down to "diana."
Eades ignored my comment and my question but (predictably) a deluded Taubes/Eades dittohead said something stupid about the Pima diet:
"Actually, the traditional Pima diet included quite a lot of meat and fish, which Taubes explained either in [i]Good Calories Bad Calories[/i] or in his lectures – I forget which."
This is a common response on the part of dogmatic low-carbers: deny that a population which demonstrably eats carbs, eats carbs. They are like the man caught in flagrante with his mistress: deny deny deny.
I have responded (perhaps futilely) to this person, and we will see whether Eades approves my comment. As I said, he didn't respond to my question about China and Japan, itself a form of denial. Perhaps he realizes how full of sh*t he is and no longer engages in active denial?
My response to the deluded fool, in case Eades doesn't approve, follows:
"Define “quite a lot.”
I know about the Pima; my relatives live in the Tucson area. I’m well acquainted with their history.
What percentage of their traditional diet was protein?
You are flat-out lying if you say that the majority of their diet was protein. It was carbohydrate. Taubes did NOT deal with their history honestly or logically. He claimed that they starved and got fat. This is false. They starved in the 1870s and got fat starting in the early 1900s, a not uncommon occurrence. People quite often re-feed after starvation and get fat. It happened in Holland after WWII.
Now please deal with the issue of how and why obesity rates in China and Japan are so low, and their diet is largely carbohydrate."
I wonder if Eades reads your blog, CS.
PS - check out the entire Eades post on which I commented. It's called "The Big Lie" and it compares people who disagree with Eades to Nazis. This is, in a nutshell, why I loathe Eades with such a passion. There is nothing lower on god's green earth than someone who compares an adversary to a Nazi. I'm just sick of it. There is no describing how much I despise Michael Eades.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel that way towards Mary Dan. I feel sorry for her. She seems to spend a lot of time and energy cooking....and a lot of her recipes are rather carby. I wonder if she sneaks carbs on the sly.