weight off and other blather.

[cornerofmadness]

Moving the weight off here since well does it really matter what day I use? No I've lost no weight but let's face it, I'm not trying. Tenure crap will be done by tuesday THEN I can think about it. I did, however, get my written permission and lab work and I'll fill out the paperwork on wed. I am at least making plans.

I DID find a few healthy things that I wanted to share (keep in mind I am very skeptical of so much of the nutrition health stuff because of small sample sizes etc and I haven't yet tried looking up the science behind the claims but these were easy enough, and sounded tasty)

Adding black pepper to a meal + green tea may in fact boost weight loss. I eat practically everything with pepper so maybe I'll bump up one of my tea times to just after dinner.

We do know chocolate is healthy. DARK chocolate. Milk, in fact, impairs the flavanoids. I did not even think of that (YES, that means all the benefits of tea go away if you put cream in it). They kept talking healthy chocolate drinks and I was thinking hot chocolate. Oh hell. I've tried making it with soy and disliked that intensely. I tried it tonight with coconut milk (which they're saying doesn't act like saturated fat, though it is, and acts in a healthy manner. This is one that I really want to research). So if dark chocolate makes you lose weight and coconut milk (and coconut, unsweetened, does too) then hot chocolate using it should be super good. At least it tasted okay. We shall see (btw for health benefits it's a min. of 60% cocoa and preferrably over 75%.)

however, I also just heard two other chocolate factoids: americans eat 100 pounds of chocolate a second collectively and this chocolate health craze has now spiraled so out of control it's causing environmental impact. Just something to keep in mind. Also the process of dutching decreases chocolate's flavanoids and sure enough even my dark chocolate powder is dutched.

Otherwise today was a bust. I NEED to start writing. I did crank out a little something for the fic contest but I'm cranky because there's been no time to write. I've ended up with almost TEN weeks missing from my big bang time. Sigh. There is good news though, my galleys are sent back for Haunted.

The dryer at the laundromat didn't heat and I HAD to get back to get working on tenure/class notes so my whole apt is draped with wet clothes drying. now it's damp and chilly in here.

I'm recording The Fades UK crew, any of you seen it? (or hell any of you guys streaming stuff from all over, what do you think?

got this from scratchingpost1

Your result for The MASH 4077 Test...

Commanding Officer

You scored 100

A true fan. You probably have seen every episode more times than you can count and still watch it in syndication or own it on vhs or dvd. Not much of anything slips by you. You are the boss with the brass.

Take The MASH 4077 Test at HelloQuizzy

I admit it. I've watched bits of it every day this week...

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

So, guess what I scored on the M*A*S*H quiz. No. Guess.

Eww to the heat thing.

I knew that chocolate milk was not as good as people like to say it is.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Radar?

i would say that full on chocolate milk is probably a nightmare of sugar and fat frankly.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Uh, huh. Go check my LJ.

Yeah, it was okay when I was a kid - I prefer hot chocolate now, though.

[raceulfson.livejournal.com]

What about mole sauce? dark chocolate and chilies over chicken?

What do you think about cinnamon? My partner takes cinnamon capsules from Penn Herb and she says it helps keep her sugar more level. I've taken to adding a lot more than I did before to my oatmeal and all I can say is... it smells better than plain oatmeal.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that was in the book as being pretty healthy. I've made my own. I was stunned to find a Mexican restaurant in Charleston WV that served it. I've never seen it served in the midwest/east coast

I've tried it with absolutely zero affect on my sugar (not to say that I don't keep adding it to everything). The research is suggestive that it would help b ut is by no means for sure (and the studies aren't the best). I DO know it makes your burps and farts smell nicer.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I dislike Dutch Process -- I always buy non-alkalized chocolate.

Americans are nuts about everything. "If this is healthy, I should eat a TON of it!"

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i don't think i ever liked chocolate milk mostly because it was MILK

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well...yes, that too.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sadly here, I have little choice unless i want to mail order it.

we are a land of excess aren't we?

[asil2012.livejournal.com]

I like chocolate,but i usually donot eat that, not good for me losing weight.(

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah sadly the milk chocolate is of no help

[asil2012.livejournal.com]

:(

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Check the calories on the coconut milk. I think they're pretty high.

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

that sounds yummy. I wonder if you like almond milk, adds protein, tasty, less fat.

I`m finding cinnamon tea kind of helpful..

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I do like almond milk but I didn't have any on hand last night to try this.

hmmm cinnamon tea, interesting. Points to Race's comments, cinnamon is also supposed to help with diabetes (I've tried it multiple times with no luck though)

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

I drink green tea every day. It is iced, from Turkey Hill, but it's green tea and is gooooood. Can't say I eat chocolate everyday. I do like dark chocolate best, though.

As to losing weight, I hear ya.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

not as high as you'd think (at least in the unsweetened version) and again the fat here isn't acting biologically as a saturated fat which makes a difference. The claim is (and this is the one I want to go find the studies for) that it's active in the way olive oil is which means it's a heart healthy oil which is a complete 180 from how we've been thinking about coconut milk but notice it is on health food shelves everywhere as it 'coconut water'

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have a lot of green tea I can make

i don't even have a lot of chocolate in the house mostly because the dark chocolate has been priced a tad high lately

it's hard

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty nuch avoiding all chocolate at the moment because of the extra insulin I'd require. So sad.

Glad to hear the tenure nightmare is almost over, at least your part of it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the dark chocolate shouldn't be too much of a problem. It has very little sugar in it . Milk chocolate on the other hand...

Yeah I just got my interview date. Right on a doctor's appt that i've rescheduled 3 times already!

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Do you have any stores that sell Nestle's cocoa? It's not the highest quality chocolate, but it's not alkalized. But yeah, it's HARD to find.

Yes, we are. Of course, having read about mass hysteria through the centuries, maybe it's not limited to Americans...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no i just looked today. it's all dutched and either hersheys or krogers or of course swiss miss

well yes that is also true. It's more likely a generalized human trait

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I only ever could find Nestle's at Albertson's, and since ours closed I've had to buy at specialty or gourmet stores (I think I got my last thing of cocoa at Trader Joe's; it's just plain high-quality cocoa, nothing else.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

If you have only one thing scheduled, it never fails that something else will be scheduled at the exact same time.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

especially since i've been trying to see this doc since nov

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i bought Trader Joe's cocoa for my mom and forgot to get it for myself because I'm just that smart

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I thought coconut water was different from coconut milk...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they are and I looked it up. 1 cup of the coconut milk I used has zero sugar, 5gs of fat and only 50 calories

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose it can be used as a substitute for milk in baking, but it would probably be yummy in soups.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Next time you're there.

I was just eating "Green & Black Organic Dark Chocolate" and it's just icky. So "high quality" chocolate doesn't always mean it's GOOD... :P

[rahirah]

I love coconut milk. I keep expecting to hear that it actually causes shingles or something, just because I like it.

[rahirah]

AFAIK coconut water is basically skim coconut milk. Only 60 calories per 11 oz serving, and no fat.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. Now i'm wondering if my coconut milk is in fact coconut water since it has only 50 calories though it does have fat (probably lower calorie because it's not sweetened...)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort. I know the feeling. The utterly rural area I live in has been slow to get this stuff but now we have tons of alternative milk choices which no one buys then I scoop up when they go on 'manager special' (i.e. nearly expired...)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i do have a doctor's appt in Columbus at some point

yes i had that thought about them too. In fact most of the chocolate in my local organic section

[rahirah]

Is it cloudy, or completely white? Coconut water is the liquid from the hollow interior of the coconut, and is a cloudy watery liquid. Coconut milk is the juice extracted from grated coconut flesh, and is white due to the coconut solids in it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it looked completely white to me and it does say 'milk' so I assumed it was from the spice

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I thought I had tried Green & Black before, but this stuff just tastes... funny.

I do like some of the "health food store" chocolate, like Dagoba, but on the whole, I'd rather get Lindt or any other good Swiss or German chocolate.

Or See's.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

could be old I suppose.

Dagoba isn't too bad but I'm with you

I was so disappointed when a gift to grandma from a friend who moved to CA did NOT have See's in it this time (we don't get that out here). It did have Torrone in it which I stole. Love that stuff

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I always send See's to my folks back East. I found an article in a Gourmet magazine written by some snobby foodie that said See's was probably the best chocolate in the world. Heh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

neat. I honestly didn't find it better than Sarris (a local one in my area) but I did think it was one of the better ones I've had in ages