Keto

Cooked like asparagus or beans, they suck.

 

Oh VERY important to cut them in half. Also love when you get some stray leaves that fall into the bottom of the pan and get all blackened and crispy.

 

I believe this. I’ve seen those steamer bags of Brussels sprouts like you see for peas, corn, etc. Does not sound appetizing in the least.

 

To me, that’s the real problem and major turn off. If that’s your first experience (and to me it was, at the Hopkins fucking cafeteria, run by ARA, who served the Brussels Sprouts right next to the Pinto Bean Loaf), anyway, you are very, very likely to say no fucking way am I eating that ever again. EVER.

Plus, I don’t like the smell of them prepared that way either - it’s a bit like little rotten cabbages. Fuck that.

But prepared like you described, making them crunchy, holy hell, they are very good.

You just have to open your mind and block out any prior experiences and be willing to try something new, as if you were in a bedroom...

... with pastrami.

Had to throw a little VB in there in what was a semi-intelligent discussion up to that point.

 

I think I shared this previously. First time I met my future in-laws, they served Brussels sprouts. I was trying to make a good impression. No dog around to ditch them to. I had to eat them. Roasted, seasoned. Delish.

 

Actually, I was setting up a Seinfeld reference with the pastrami. I don’t think about the other thing much at all.

 

So how goes the Keto diet, Moddy?

My wife an I have decided to start eating the Keto way. We bought books and one of those quick pressure cooker things, and we're starting next week. It's not really a New Year's resolution, just an acknowledgement that we're too damn heavy and it's time to get that shit in order before we get older than we already are. At 5'10" and a bit over 2 bills, that's just too much weight on my frame. Figure my fighting weight is somewhere in the 165-170 range, which is where I was for years and years — until my sedentary lifestyle and bad eating habits (chips, sweets) got the better of me.

From reading about it, the Keto plan has a lot of foods we like anyway, like fish and seafood, so it looks like it won't be as hard as other plans might be. At least I hope so. As it always is, the follow through will be key.

I'll update periodically to toot my own horn — or get shamed into getting back at it.

 

I need to take off about twenty pounds. My front porch has gotten rather firmly attached. I'm not going full bore on any particular diet. Higher prot and fresh veggies, less carbs - and lord do I love my bread and pasta. Exercise. Eat smaller portions.

Most of that isn't a huge change. Don't eat desserts or fast foods or drink sodas. That should do it. The biggest trick, as everyone says above, is to make the change in habits and lifestyle.


It's that or the knife diet - fix and eat what you usually do, except that when you serve your plate take a knife and scrape half of each portion back in the pan.