Food Log: April 25–May 1

Here is a weekly report on food consumed for the period given in the posting title. I did drink a few cups of coffee every morning and may have forgotten to include them on a couple days. Since I drink them with nothing added, they have nearly zero calories so any difference would be insignificant.

Food Diary Report - Detailed - From FatSecret.com

Nutrient Breakdown:
71% of my calories came from fat.
24% of my calories came from protein.
5% of my calories came from carbohydrates.

Red Wine

I purchased an inexpensive bottle of red table wine a couple days ago on the theory that the supposed heart benefits (and feelings of well being) would outweigh any slight increase to my absurdly low carb intake. I am allowing myself four ounces per day, which is 3g of alcohol carbs (7 calories per gram). I don’t quite understand how 3g of carbohydrates, even as alcohol, can equal 100 calories, but that’s how the FatSecret site rates it. I am flying with that for now.

Keto Test
I sipped four ounces of wine while cooking lunch today and did a Ketostix test just after eating the finished meal. Interestingly enough, the four ounces of wine pushed me nearly out of ketosis. My results were second from lightest, which is two to three colors away from where I normally sit. I am sure I will return to normal in a few hours.

Reading Between the Lines

This article was just published on the web by an M.D. Notice the very careful non-commital wording, phrasing and qualifiers employed. Note also the incredible claim in the title that eating fruit does not make you gain weight. Since you can gain weight if you eat enough of anything, including foods that are healthy for you, the title is clearly false. A more accurate title would have been “Fruits: The Naturally Sweet Treat That Doesn’t Cause Weight Gain When Eaten Sparingly” but that would be boring, right?

This is obviously a retort to the article published in the New York Times about the evils of sugar. I highly recommend that you watch the YouTube video linked at the beginning of the article.

The context for this whole debate is the increased intake of cheap corn sugars as a flavor replacement in low fat foods, all thanks to the low fat health craze promoted so heavily for the last 35 years. As proof, go to your local grocery store and examine 100 pre-packaged items at random. You will be hard-pressed to find more than 20 which do not contain some type of unnecessarily-added sugar, especially when focusing on pre-packaged “low fat” foods. The USDA has been kind enough to compile a list of the common names given to those “added” sugars.

(202.4 pounds this morning.)