Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 11/28/24 1:22 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/11/2024 10:04, D wrote:

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:12:47 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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   But it was writ in the Magic Crystal - and I lost it down the commode
   at a Stuckeys in 1978 ........

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It's a wonder I didn't lose more than pascal down the commode. They were a
southern thing when I was a kid and could look at a pecan pie without
going into insulin shock. By the time they spread I was past sugar as an
essential food group.
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This is interesting! Have you, like me, become increasingly sensitive to sugar as you grew older?
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When I was young, I could drink enormous amounts of Coca Cola nad enjoy it. Today it is not longer possible. At most, I can drink 15-20 cl on a hot summer day, and that's about it.
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Same with chocolate. I can eat 3-4 small pieces, and then I'm full.

 Sadly with age I have had to abandon nearly all starch, as well as nearly all vegetables. I have more than one condition kept in check my diets so strict they make life increasingly miserable...it's now more a question of what I can eat, rather than what I can't.
 Life's a bitch
And then you die.

   Well ... you can drag that last bit out quite a bit
   by not eating 5000 cals of sugar/equivs every day  :-)
   Let's see ... today ... egg sandwich without the bread,
   turkey sub contents (sans bread), ONE peanut-butter cup
   (GOTTA have a LITTLE fix), HALF the contents of small
   "American Sub" - bird/salami/ham, a small quantity of
   nuts and a couple drinks to kill the pain ... and that's
   it. Mostly skip the salami stuff but the stores don't
   always have what I want - more turkey. Prob most all
   vitamins from the egg. This has been it for almost 10
   years now. Sugar levels "holding" around 90.
   ONCE a week either a 4-piece KFC, stripped of greasy
   skin, or two beef hot-dogs. Even a trace of those
   11 herbs & spices are STILL tasty. Tonight, one
   can of albacore tuna (spend a tiny bit xtra on
   the higher-quality stuff).
   But a Horrible Truth. Early this year a small town
   in the US heartland (Tennessee/W.VA ?) was in the
   news because a landslide had largely cut off the
   roads. The News went to the city council meeting
   where many of the residents were complaining about
   the lack of supplies. ALMOST TO THE PERSON they
   were SO fat that you could have literally rolled
   them down a hill - not kidding - I mean REALLY fat -
   like 9999 cal/day of junk carbs & beer fat. Men,
   women, the kids - all of them.
   They were in a panic at the thought of cutting back
   to just maybe 7000 cals for a week or two .......
   Even in my high-cal youth it was NOT like this and
   we DID suck down a LOT of "junk" - ALWAYS huge bags
   of chips and chocolate cookies and cheeze puffs and
   greasy salted bits. NOT sure what the hell has happened.
   You'd almost think some secret bio-warfare ingredient
   was introduced like 25 years ago ......
   Maybe RFK can sort it out. Not so hopeful though ...
   Ah, "Buffy" is over ... time to go to bed. Clearly
   I'm bio-fixed on a "night shift" cycle. Screw the
   fuckin' self-superior dawn-2-dusk farmers, too 1700s :-)